White paint in a north facing room

[Dillydreamer]

Has anyone used a pure white paint in a north facing room ? Problem is that kitchen units are a warm pale cream and most of the ‘warm whites’ recommended are too similar. I’m wondering about F and B All White, Dulux Heritage True White or any other that isn’t too blue-ish pure brilliant white.

We’ve used Chaste (Paint & Paper library) in a north facing hallway. It looks creamy in a south facing room but just warm white in north facing. Lovely colour IMHO.

I think I’d go the other way and have the units as the paler colour, when do something like Old white or Joas white from F and B.

We have gloss cream units, matching cream tiles, dark browny grey worktops and pale cream kitchen tiles.

We actually went with a perfect match cream paint - there isn’t that much wall space in our kitchen and the sameness of the colour looks fabulous if I do say so myself. Far better than compromising on a dingy white!

By chance I also found some cream leather bar stools that also match perfectly so it fees quite high end (well to me, though I grew up poor so a nice kitchen is still a huge luxury )

We have then put pops of style and colour in with some pretty small appliances and decorative “objets” and some artwork.

And we spent time and energy and cash on good lighting at different height levels which makes a massive difference (they are smart lights so we can adjust the warmth and brightness on a schedule at different times of year and times of day.)

I absolutely love our kitchen - that warm colour does cancel out the grey flat northern light and I would not change a thing.

This. My gloss units (inherited, not chosen) are pretty much the same colour as School House White, which I have used elsewhere. SHW looks hideous next to plain white. However, it looks fabulous next to Drop Cloth (which is several shades darker) and also next to Light Blue, which I have used on the ceiling.

Will be a bit more adventurous and hit the colour samples again, bit of a wimp with colour, although ‘ Chaste’ does look lovely. We look out on to a lot of sky, dark grey days followed by bright blue or golden sunsets from the west. Quite fancy Dimity now as a bit lighter than Joa’s white, thanks for getting me to look at that