Vaulted ceilings

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Hi All,

Would love some thoughts please before I lose my mind.

Our upstairs bedrooms (baby's room & guest room) have vaulted ceilings. The point at which the slopes ceiling starts is quite low (maybe waist height!)

We're getting the two rooms repainted. I'm looking at:

Farrow & Ball
• Dead Salmon
• Setting Plaster
• Jitney
• Templeton Pink

Yet to try them all on sample cards but the rooms are quite dark too. The both have a window each - one east facing, the other west facing so one gets light in the early morning, the other as the sunsets.

The slanted sections are the biggest part of the walls on the room and there is a tiny strip of horizontal "ceiling" at the very top with halogen lights inbuilt.

Do you:
• Take the paint from the walls up the slants and leave the horizontal strip and skirting white?
• Colour drench the entire room? Leave the skirting only white.

Should we:
• Go for a richer, darker colour? I've heard doing this in dark rooms can actually work and make them cosier.
• Go light! Since they're dark already, you want the light to reflect more.

Someone please help! The painter / decorator has recommend keeping the paint colour to the bottom walls and the "ends" and leaving the ceilings white but to me it breaks the flow and makes the room seem smaller?!

Haha who'd have thought vaulted ceilings would be so tricky 🙈 Have attached photos too!

I really like the colour pallette in the first photo! I like the way the light colours reflect the light and open up the space and allows the furniture to be the focus. Colour drenching the room enables the walls to fade into background instead of photo no 2, where the colour transition draws the eye from the rest of the room.

I would colour drench personally.
And I’d go a light colour - I think if the room was normal shaped then going dark could work, but with the slanted walls the dark colour may feel a bit too imposing / claustrophobic.
I’d go for a light colour drench, and potentially could do an accent wall in a fun patterned wallpaper in the nursery on one of the end walls.

Thank you! I agree - I think keeping everything one colour makes the room look bigger and helps to blur the lines a little. Appreciate the help. Will also choose a lighter colour.

We want to paint both rooms the same colour (for consistency) and I've been looking at a muted pink for my daughters bedroom but maybe a neutral (like a light beige / white) is better!

I really don't think the painters suggestion of painting the below walls and "ends" in colour and then leaving the ceiling white will look good! He kept saying it'll be more work to change it down the line but I think it breaks up the room too much doing this and looks far better in one colour.

I'm a big fan of Dulux Light & Space, which is a range of pale neutrals with tiny light-reflecting particles in it. It claims to make rooms look airier and brighter. I have it through most of the home. Also, it's currently 20% off at Homebase...

Dulux do a nice range of heritage colours now too. We did a room on potters pink including the ceiling and it is lovely. https://www.duluxheritage.co.uk/en/colours

Colour drench. It will de-emphasise the sloping walls. I'd go as light as possible - though I have seen stunning very dark blueberry/grey in a couple bedrooms, the actual dimensions of the rooms were large. Your rooms are cosy enough, don't turn them into caves!

Thank you so much! Really helpful :-) Yes caves is what I'm trying to avoid!! My style is also usually very minimal, timeless and neutral so colour scares me a little haha

I've now grabbed testers of:

COAT Paints
Pudding coatpaints.com/products/pudding-flat-matt - this may well be too dark!
Duvet Day coatpaints.com/products/duvet-day-flat-matt - again, could look too dark.. we'll see

Lick Paints
White 06 www.lick.com/uk/product/white-06-matt-paint
Taupe 02 www.lick.com/uk/product/taupe-02-matt-paint

It'd be nice to have a hint of colour in an off-white but nothing too dark. The F&B testers all look far too dark for these rooms now!

Colour drenching is def the way to go!! Appreciate the help :-)

Definitely same colour for ceiling and walls, the ceiling is too small to have a different colour.

I think I’d do the below walls, skirting, slopes and strip where the lights are in one colour. And the end walls, window frame and the door in another colour. I wouldn’t use brilliant white at all, I’d go for something with a sympathetic tone.

I’d also do the East facing room in green tones and the West facing room in the pink tones you’ve planned.

I would recommend colour drenching. We recently did it in our bedroom in dead salmon and it’s worked so well. It’s very calming. Going to do the same in our living room which has vaulted ceilings but with a neutral colour. I realised that the contrast of white ceilings and skirting board really bothers me - especially if there are any little mistakes as I can spot them a mile off!! X

Thank you everyone!

We're going with a colour drench in Pink Ground. I ended up having a Colour Consultation with F&B which was super helpful!! They recommended drenching amongst other things (ie whether to paint radiators and eaves doors).

We then have Dimity in the hallways and landings which is slightly warmer than School House White and pairs beautifully with Pink Ground. I absolutely adored Setting Plaster but for the vaulted rooms, F&B recommended not going darker than Pink Ground purely because those rooms are already so dark.

Nervous to see what it looks like but also super excited for something a little more bold! We have Stiffkey Blue in the bathroom between the two rooms and this also works really nicely with the pink. I'll likely bring in navy throws / blue pattern cushions into the guest room to tie in with the blue in the bathroom.

Really appreciate everyone's thoughts!