help with colours - I thought decorators were coming next week but they are coming tomorrow!

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I need a warm olive/mossy green for an en suite and then wanted a warm deep creamy colour that will go with moss green curtains in the bedroom. Bathroom fittings are white.

Can anyone point me in the direction of the right paint colours. I don't want the cream room to look grey.

Floor is light oak.

I thought farrow and ball Olive but Ive just seen its a specialist colour rather than one you can get off the shelf.

Aaaah!

We’ve just painted our dark north facing dining room Beverley (F&B).
we tested Green smoke, Calke and another pale one, can’t remember.
the adjoining room is magnolia which now looks pleasingly yellow as in William Morris’s “greenery-yallery” concept
it looks ace, just what I wanted. The greyish floor tiles look ok with it too.

That looks lovely. I’m looking for something a bit more olive in tone but still a deep colour

I agree Calke Green is lovely - have you also looked at Bancha? That has the yellow undertones it sounds like you're after.

For the cream colour, maybe Tallow or Farrow's Cream?

Bancha is gorgeous in a room that gets a lot of sunlight but is a very dark olive. Little Greene do an olive paint called 'olive colour' that might be an option although you won't get it delivered by tomorrow. Better coverage than F&B as well.

I picked up a tester of Bancha a few weeks ago (can’t find it now of course) but I don’t know whether it’s too dark.

god I hate doing this in a rush

Bancha would definitely be a bold choice - I love a bathroom in a dark colour though, especially if it's a bit dark and poky anyway (like mine!). Ours used to be Hague Blue and it was fabulous - have just redone and it sadly won't go with the new tiles so I'll have to pick something else.

I clearly wasn't reading carefully enough, our bathroom is bancha including the ceiling. We have a large east facing and small south facing window so it's very bright. Suite is white, tiles a light beige and the blinds are a natural linen and we have wicker mirror frames. So we've balanced the dark green with a lot of very light natural texture. I do love it although it was partially chosen because of the preexisting tiles.

I’m wondering whether to switch and instead go for more muted ball green and string

I'd go for Dulux trade, you can get it from brewers or some other decorating centres open to the public.

I think one of the shades of Celtic moor or soft moss might do the trick.

https://www.dulux.co.uk/en/search-results?search=Celtic+moor

https://www.dulux.co.uk/en/search-results?search=Soft+moss

They can usually mix whatever you need at the centres so probably worth a try and they have really good levels of pigment etc.

I think we've had a room painted in "morning light" before which was nice but it's very light so I can see you might want a creamier cream than that!