Help with F&B paint for north facing room!

[PaintAmateur]

Help needed! My 5 year old son really wants either a blue or green bedroom but his bedroom will be north facing so the general advise from what I read online is to stay away from blue/green colours as they are too cool and to use a warm colour instead.... has anyone got any recommendations for F&B paint for north facing bedroom.

How does Cromarty/Mizzle look in north facing bedrooms?

Thanks for any advise I can get!

Does it have to be F&B paint?

COAT paint is very high quality too and they have a list of paints for north facing rooms. https://coatpaints.com/products/north-facing-colours-sample-pack

Those colours will see the more grey tones in a cold grey/blue north light. Could you go dark green? The trick with a north facing room is to either go against the cold blue light and go warm or go darker than the light. So for example we have railings in our north front room and it's warm and cosy whereas if we had say pale green it would look grey and cold. Could you try green smoke or card room green? You could even just do half way up the wall then out a warmer white on top

Do you have any colour recommendation's? How would Joa white or skimming stones look? Do they have pink/ beige undertones?

Warm whites would be dimity, joas white, pointing, Winbourne white, slipper satin.
There's some good farrow and ball face book pages which are great for advice on colours

F&B shop recommended White Tie for our north facing bedroom - still thinking about it! It’s a big room and bright so I don’t want to go dark. I’ve seen Little Greene Celestial Blue suggested online but haven’t tracked down a sample yet - I love F&B Oval Room Blue but it’s too dark for the room.

Oh paint it blue or green! Imo children's rooms aren't about being tasteful and refined. He's told you what he wants.

Personally, I'd go for a bold green/blue and just paint the bottom half of the wall, with a warm white above, like pp suggested. Sounds fun for a child and not overbearing to grown up tastes.

Also I'd probably pick a paint that's more durable than f&b, preferably something wipeable!

Honestly, some of my best memories are being able to pick my room colours (even if it was blue, lime green and sunshine yellow once!!)

Which book? Can you share details

https://www.farrow-ball.com/paint/kakelugn

We have just painted a north facing room in this colour blue - it’s warm and LUSH! We absolutely love it! I think it’s a fairly new F&B colour x

Agree with butterfly. Once you’ve chosen your f and b colour, get it colour match and use something tougher / more wipeable.

Facebook group op not a book
Farrow and ball lovers group you can join on face book etc

F&B modern emulsion is wipeable, it's their estate emulsion that's less durable.

I have a north facing bedroom painted entirely in Little Greene's Ambleside, which is a warm, dark green.

We have a north facing bedroom. It’s painted in borrow light. It’s lovely

https://www.farrow-ball.com/paint/green-blue

dd has this in her bedroom which is small and doesn’t get a lot of light. It’s a lovely colour and looks good with pops of mustard

Look like a great colour choice. Did you have any photos?

Could you share any photos? I am worried blue in north facing room will look cold!!

Light Blue is lovely and not cold, or Borrowed Light. If you want a mid blue, then my daughter's room in our last place (north facing) was colour drenched in Lulworth Blue. But then the critical bit is what else is in the room. If all the furniture and accessories are neutral it will all go a bit dreary - but a rust red wardrobe, for example, would look amazing against blue and really zing the place up. I think you can absolutely go with blue, but think about the room as a whole.

We used mizzle in a north facing downstairs room in our old house and it was gorgeous. Cooler than it would have been in a south or west facing room but still felt warm and soft. We paired it with Dulux timeless.

Not F&B, but I love DH Drab from Dulux in my East facing bedroom which gets sun in the morning.
feels very cosy and warm.

DS's room is a LG blue but we warmed it up with a cork wall, baskets, warm wood and red in the soft furnishings. I love and he loves it.