Replacing grey with beige/browns?

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When we bought our house in 2018 it already had grey (goose down) walls and a grey carpet so I just went with it and fell for the 2020 trap of EVERYTHING GREY. I am now fully over the misery.
I want to go for a mid beige/brown walls and I’ve just bought dulux malt chocolate but I’m not sure - what do you think?

If you just put a "warm and bright" carpet/rug on top of the grey one everything will improve. IKEA do nice patterned kilims.
And a warm coloured (mustard?teal?orangey pink) throw on the sofa.

Then it won't matter about the grey carpet or curtains, or even the walls.
Grey carpet is what looks wrong

The grey carpet is chewed up and ruined thanks to the dog near both doors so as soon as we’ve painted it’s going. I think we’re likely to get a chocolate coloured sofa in the next year or so too

When we're trying to decide on new paint colours, I always get some large rectangles of paper (lining paper, thick white drawing paper or even the reverse of patterned, but flat, wallpaper) and cover these completely in the sample colour(s). I then pop them on the first wall and move them around to each wall in turn, seeing how they look at different times of day. Putting loads of smallish samples on the wall on top of the existing colour (unless it's white), side by side is never the best way to decide, imo.

I do the same. It works for me.

Ive just bought a house after living in grey rented houses for 8 years, and I've gone colour mad! Might not be to everyone's taste but we love it...and yes, I'm sure the acoustic board will date but I love it!

I would go for a beige that has a hint of pink in it.

Like a cashmere perhaps with pink undertones.

Disagree, we've had this palette in some parts of our house for 20+ years. Just go with what you like.
Grey has been the worst trend in years.

@Lovelynames123 Your living room looks lovely but your kids' faces are clearly visible - I would get that photo taken down.

This!

The problem with the grey trend is that it's very unforgiving. We have a bright hall and have F&B Blackened which looks lovely, not depressing or cold. But get the wrong grey for your light level and direction at your peril, it can be awful.

OP, a brown with everything else you've got going in that living room will just be overload I think. If you don't want colour, how about something at the cream end of things, rather than brown?

Agree with a warm neutral eg F&B Skimming Stone (get a colour match at Johnstons) over the grey elsewhere.
I’d try a deep colour in the living room, maybe navy blue, to work with the grey furnishings if you keep them for longer. Swap out the sofa throws/cushions for something with jewel colours. That will soften the grey and look good against the wood.

Dulux Egyptian cotton and natural hessian are nice warm neutrals; pale earthy tones with a hint of pink.

This is skimming stone against similar wood stain (excuse the grubby marks!).

I would choose your new carpet first, even if you don't buy it now.

There are fewer carpet shades available than paint colours, and "beige" is definately not just "beige".

Get hold of a carpet sample and test out a palate of paint colours that will work together, also including your wood trim if you're not going to paint it.

Have you tried Dulux Egyptian cotton? It’s a great beige neutral with a brown undertone that works with grey and brown.

F&B ammonite and moles breath are lovely, as is Purbeck stone, and Brewers will mix the colour with their paint. Moles breath is a very browny grey and in my dark living room looks brown.

We have that,it's a beautiful colour.

A lot of new build housing estates are currently using browns and pinks in their interior design so maybe have a look at those for inspiration. It should be easy to find them on Rightmove.

And that was a quarter of a century ago.

i'd def go cream, and use furniture and accents to add colour in earthy tones.

Natural hessian looked lovely in my SIL’s house but terrible in ours. All shades of white/pale neutral depend massively on the room’s aspect/type of light, eg whether the room gets flatter northern light or warm afternoon light etc. what direction does the room face OP?

Greige is a neutral colour that combines grey and beige and would go well with a chocolate accent wall. I would also add hessian, as suggested above. Difficult to decide, I know.

I spent a ridiculous amount of time choosing a beige for my office . A lot of the lovely colours - like Malt Chocolate - looked a bit too greyn in a north facing room. The slightly warmer Caramel Latte worked better. I matched it with accents of black.and white ceiling/skirting board.

Much prefer beige over grey any day! We have caramel latte coloured walls downstairs - dulux don't do that colour anymore though!

I think you’re swapping everything grey for everything brown, you need to add accents, for example a beige wall and an olive green sofa, that sort of thing. I’d also not paint until you can replace the sofa as it will look awful till you can. And it gives you more leeway on the sofa. You can pick it, then paint.