LG Colour Scales - should walls be lighter or darker than cupboards?

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Most of our 70s house is in Little Greene slaked lime which I love, and it’s easy to carry through, but I wanted to use their colour scales by using the deep and mid, maybe even dark shades.

We have a narrow hallway with built in wardrobes, and a small north facing bedroom with built in wardrobes. The bedroom wardrobes are currently in f&b moles breath which is too dark.

Is it better to have the wardrobe doors in the darker colour and the walls lighter, or the reverse? Window frames and skirting are standard white.

I think it depends on which is the bigger surface area. If there's more wall than wardrobe paint the walls lighter. Although, given you've said the current colour on the doors is too dark, I'd probably repaint them a lighter shade too, just not as light as the walls.

thank you! Ah sorry, I need to paint both the walls and the wardrobes. renovations have left the room patchy and battered!

In both cases the wardrobes take up almost the entire wall (but there’s a bit of wall on show at the side, top).

It’s either slaked lime walls + deep or dark on wood OR slaked lime deep walls with mid on wood. So darker on the woodwork?

At the moment the walls are all slaked lime normal which is lovely (if a bit boring?) But I know the colour works well with the orientation of the room which makes things easier.