Favourite Farrow & Ball colour?

[saltyseadog]

We're just about to start re-decorating and being faced with the massivvvve choice on the F&B colour card I'm wondering what other people have plumped for (and for which room)?

Any colours that have proved disappointing once on the wall?

For all you fans of my stair runner I gift you this

Ooh. DH will kill me!!!

I also love your tiles. Were they already there?

Fellatio - lovely runner. Can I ask, do you have sisal on the landing too, or some other sort of carpet? I've had sisal before and wouldn't have it again, but would love a striped sisal runner, but fear it would need to lead onto a sisal landing to look any good?

Do you mean the hall floor tiles? Yes they are original Victorian. If you mean the kitchen tiles they are Fired Earth and I put them in.

Yes we have sisal (plain) upstairs, through the landing and into my bedroom, though the landing is on two levels, with turn in the stairs, so the first bit of landing is varnished floorboards, then moe runner, then the sisal at the top. I love it, but it is an absolute bugger for any wet stains or mud, and I don;t like shoes on it, so I would not EVER have it downstairs. Mind you I don't have any carpets downstairs, only rugs. The more of my house that can be hosed down the better!

I didn't put it in the kids' rooms because they can't be trusted not to spill sticky drinks on it.

Sorry - wasn't clear! Yes the hall floor tiles. I would love something similar although house is Edwardian.

Apparently there is parquet under the carpet that is currently in the hall in our house. DH mentioned to previous owner that we were planning on lifting the carpet to see what the parquet was like and the guy said "if it was any good there wouldn't be carpet on it!" So am not hoping for much under there. Have my heart set on tiles anyway.

Not necessarily. All those lovely original floors became deeply unfashionable after the war, and wall to wall carpet was put everywhere. Maybe no-ones noticed it much over the years or just can't be bothered with a painful restoration process! It's probably full of nail holes and paint splashes but it may not be beyond redemption if you've got the stomach/budget for it!

Maybe! Stomach one thing - budget quite another!

when we bought our house we lifted several carpets. hall and public rooms had beautiful ( undamaged) oak flooring with mahogany inlay. they were dark with many layers of wax and just needed sanded and varnished

a smaller public room had douglas fir ( very hard pine with no knots) which was in excellent condition with no wax. i suspect it had always been covered

so ignore previous owner and check it out for yourselves

its not very expensive to have it done ( compared with fitted carpet), is low maintenance and will look good for years

Public rooms? What do you live in? A town hall?

its what people here call rooms like the sitting room/ living room / dining room etc

rooms that are not bedrooms or kichen / bathroom

LOL at 'public rooms'!

Well we are hopeful. There are definitely floorboards under carpet in living and dining room but not sure of condition as yet. Fingers crossed.

There is a lot of woodchip wallpaper that I am determined will go and DH is worried about condition of walls underneath. Just having to sand and varnish floors would be fab.

i think you call them reception rooms in your country? still

woodchip is a bugger nuisance to remove

Where do you live Kristina?

Re: woodchip - I know! Am dreading it. But am still in shock at DH thinking it would stay!!!! In my nice new house??!!!

NotAnOtter Sorry - I missed your last post somehow. Is yours The Old Vicarage as well then?

When I phone plumbers or delivery people and give them my address the often assume I am the Vicar's wife. Which is hilarious really. I don't think I'd even get an E grade in whatever qualification it is you need to be a Vicar's wife. The gin and the swearing and the cheeky cleavage all blot my copy book somewhat.

Is it possible to get a stair runner to go up a curved staircase ? If so I want one.

We've plumped for Ringwold Ground with Pointing woodwork. I'm nervous as to how it's going to turn out. FIL (a P&D) arrives tomorrow to make a start.

Loving all of the property photos. Keep them coming :o Unfortunately our house is in dire of need of renovation, and anything you touch falls off in your hand, so nothing to see here!

Half my house is lovely and the other half does indeed fall off in my hand! I dare not touch the walls in the utility room at all for fear of what might happen.

I have Dimity everywhere. Have French Grey in Bathroom and Downpipe on front door.

i love being the old vicarage- seems so quaint

re those hall tiles - a DO love them but the colours of them are far from what i would choose - terracotta green sort of dorset cream... it's hard to coordinate the rest of the decor round it... bloody cold too but pretty

i must say - I 'did ours up' a bit myself - cleaned the paint off them cleaned them with lots of unmentionable chemicals - stick a few loose ones down and then re grouted and oiled them . it looks fine and no great expense...

obsessing about stair runner but just think sisal or flatweave wool just too dangerous with a lot of children ( mud and stains) so will have to be a twist

I tried a tester of brinjal but didn't like it!So am having dulux cinnibar2 instead!F and B ev erywhere else though!

'I have Dimity everywhere'

I think you can get a cream from the Chemist for that.

Tell me about the French Gray please. I'm thinking of changing my F&B Cream drawing room to that colour. It's a room that is mostly used in the evening and in winter, and all of the furniture is quite dark and heavy looking, but there are lots of cream/pale neutral accents in rugs, cushions, coffee table etc. The floor is slate, with lots of olivey green and amber and grey in it. I love French Gray but I'm worried it will be a bit dark and drab for a whole room, in artificial light. I wondered about doing just the chimney breast wall in it, and the others in one of the light neutrals.

Not sure about it for a whole room. Our bathroom has lots of wood work which is all french grey but the rest of the room is still the virus dimity

Althoug isn't Elephhant's Breath the colour?

I like it but I find it a bit modern for my house. that sounds silly, I know it's not modern exactly.