Which of these two Farrow and Ball colours is best?

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I am need of some advice on the two colours we’re deciding between to decorate the downstairs of a Victorian terrace. My DH is holding up the carpet, cork tiling for the hallway and the wood the storage and shelving will be built with. I’m strongly in favour of one and he’s strongly in favour of the other, but don’t want to bias opinions!

We’re planning on having the area ‘drenched’ as in all walls, woodwork, cornicing and ceiling are to be painted the same colour and finish. The colour on the left is Shaded White and on the right is Skimming Stone.

This is causing a bit of consternation currently so I thought Mumsnet may be able to help.

I much prefer the warmer, darker one on the left, it looks cosier.

The lighter paint colour.

the greenish one clashes with the carpet colour - the armpit one is much better and will be flexible if you need to change the carpet in the meantime

The lighter one - armpit! It will feel considerably airy and 'lighter' than the other.

There's going to be an oak room divider and shelving plus floor to ceiling windows in the living room, and I think having white contrasting woodwork would look very 'busy'.

Armpit seems to be winning!!

I prefer the Shaded White, but I think white woodwork would look better with it.
As others have said I have found the Johnstones colour matching to not be a great match to F&B. If you're selling I would forget colour drenching and just choose an inexpensive neutral for the walls.

The left one goes better with the cork floor
The right one goes better with the carpet
The right one is just a nicer colour overall

I agree and your house sounds lovely! Drenching looks great in period properties.
Recently painted my first ceiling same colour as walls and love it, space feels calm and uncluttered and lets any feature furniture really stand out.

Under armpit

Think I can speak for all of us when I say we'd love to see some photos when it's finished 😁 please.

yes :)

Sure!

100% right one from me too, especially if colour drenching.

Go for the one on the right if it’s for selling.

though I feel so sad at all these neutrals… when will
colourful interiors come back in fashion?

Armpit but Little Greene paints are better than F&B in my opinion.

Shaded white.

I wouldn't vote for 'drenching' though as that's a passing trend which will be outdated very soon

The lighter stone one, especially if it’s to sell.

Aw thank you. I'll save the thread. Love Victorian houses.

Armpit!

The other has a khaki tone I don’t like.

@Gribbit987 That looks grey. Yikes! I was going to use skimming stone in my living room.

Really?!? What was the reason they gave you?

This is exactly what I'm going through right now! I colour drenched our hallway and powder room with F&B paint. Beautiful, but our guy has given us two quotes for the rest of the apartment now: one for F&B (need their primer and at least 3 coats) and one for Sherwin Williams or Benjamin Moore (basic primer fine, 2 quotes enough). Difference is THOUSANDS of dollars. I can afford the money, can't afford the extra week he's going to take with F&B.

I'm just using F&B for ideas, but will get tester pots from Benjamin Moore, using the Aura Matte finish. You have to see the paint in situ, on overcast and sunny days. This is for my home so I'm going to see it all the time. For a house I'm flipping, I'd go with the best quality neutral and not care too much about weather/seasons.

The pictures in my first post are of shaded white. Skimming stone is a lighter greige.

Under armpit one also.