Favourite Farrow & Ball colour?

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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?

Lovely not an Otter. Is it Plain English?

Also love your house - looks very Gothic, and imposing - like the Adams family's house! I think your vicar must have been richer than mine!

Sorry don't know why I types your name like that - it was pants.

NAO that is lovely esp baby in the sink!We always were bathed like that as babies and so was ds!Lovely kitchen

Not only a lovely linen cupboard but a lovely house and baby too!

I am thinking of shaded white or cornforth for my new loft bedroom.

I have done some horse trading with DH and am allowed free rein in two rooms and a bit of hall in exchange for white over the rest of hall/stairs.

Anyone else used Dulux RAL 9010 white for woodwork? Is a tiny, tiny, bit green/grey but otherwise totally white. will be using on most doors/wood.

Thankyou all - not really the best photos as I always mean to take good ones and never get round to it

Fellatio you are my hero as I based my kitchen on Plain English but my daughter who is good at technical drawing actually drew the cabinet to my specifications. I am very pleased with it - made by a local cabinet maker

My Roger Oates samples arrived today

I did exactly the same! Went into my local bespoke cabinetmaker armed with a load of Plain English drawings scribbled over with my own amendments to the design.

I am very pleased with mine a year on - i cant imagine being any more pleased with a PE one and although mine was not cheap - i dread to think what price tag PE would have put on it..

I almost painted mine a pavillion blue colour like one of the PE pics actually

I feel the same NAO. The trouble with the very high profile companies is they have to recoup their horrendous advertising budget somehow...

I feel a bit bad about the rip-off tactics, but not badly enough not to do it!

I remember once seeing a very state of the art lamp in a swanky desinger furniture shop in the West End. We paid (what at the time was for us) an arm and a leg for this lamp -it was a statement piece - it was art.

About a year later we saw an exact rip-off of it in Ikea for about 10% of what we paid. The thing is, it's all very well having the moral high ground but no-one else noticed but us, so what was the point?

I am doing the same! love PE and had one once but my carpenter comes v close and is about a third of the price.Am a chicken though and am having white

Dayroom yellow - cheery and bright but not too bright.
Agree with all pointing lovers.
Lots of ideas here!
Teresa's Green and green blue both very nice too for bedrooms.

No, not chicken, very sensible. I love the colour of mine, but I have a very low boredom threshold, so it's only a matter of time....plus but I have so many bits and bobs (like my overly colourful/motley collection of Le Creuset pans) that clash with the green of the units, that I have to keep them a bit hidden, when I'd rather have a plain backdrop and a raggle-taggle of hip and impressive accessories. When I'm ready to repaint it will definitely be timeless off-white.

That makes me feel better I agree having a lot of stuff somewhat prevents too much choice when it comes to colour! Have oak worktops and a stunning old french sink although the room is still a plastered box atm with penetrating damp waiting to be treated!

First post here:
I'm in a modest, modern house and just discovered F&B paints so using this house as an experiment before using knowledge in a better location when we move (on cards).

Done so far:
Hall and Landing - Green Ground walls, Lime White ceilings, Pointing woodwork.

Kitchen/Dining - Wimborne White ceiling, Shaded White walls, woodwork in progress but Pointing planned.

Living Room (open plan into kitchen/dining via arch) Wimborne White ceiling, Slipper Satin walls (LOVE this, didn't go streaky and suits small space), Pointing woodwork.

Now moving into mudroom which leads off Kitchen/Dining and thinking of having fun by doing walls and ceiling in same pale shade with woodwork darker. Have units with oak carcasses and powder blue doors close to borrowed light colour.

Got testers today and only tested in unnatural light (room south facing but only has small window, used mostly during day) but so far... Dix Blue (thinking too green), Parma Gray (touch too blue and light??), James White (went horrid green on my walls too like someone said early on in this thread), Dimity (standard, uninspiring neutral).

Input from seasoned Farrow and Ball fans is appreciated. Will need the stronger colour to be eggshell and it will colour three doors and frames off a room with a washer, dryer and set of coat hooks in it. Significant is a wooden shoe/bag rack that will be same darker colour.

Ideas welcomed...
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If you like 'greenish' but don't want too green, or too dark, try Old White. I've got it on my skirtings and dado and front door in the hall, with Slipper satin doors and staircase, and White Tie on the walls. (look on pics on my profile)

The White Tie is very pale, but you could go with any of the green or grey tinged-off whites I'm sure. Slipper satin on the walls would be nice with it.

If you go onto the F&B website and click 'product advice' (I think) there is an interactive bit where you can click on a colour and it will recommend others that work well with it.

Not thought about old white. I thought I had a tester but it's off white (so many whites! :0)). Will try this as a tester.

Saw James White in the light of day and with nearby colours it looks quite fresh and dreamy blue so I haven't ruled that out yet.

Thanks for the input.

I've just used Shaded White in our lobby - I love it.

Help!! Need to choose for lounge and Hallway
For lounge (has darkishwooden floor) - thinking Skimming stone for walls and womborne white for wood work.

For Hall (has pinkish tiles on floor)- no idea for walls - maybe clunch? - keeping Wimborne white for the wood work?

Any thoughts gratefully received - I shoul add that the lounge is northfacing and quite dark - is skimming stone too dull/cold?

Shaded White was lovely in our hall in london, which was quite narrow with only natural light coming from the fanlight above the front door and from the windows in the sitting room, but it looked fab and seemed to change as the sun moved round the house.

has anyone used the reds? Im thinking of eating room red or radicchio in our living room at one end

Used Pigeon in a dingy hallway/stairway which looked lovely.

Elephant's Breath in a low ceiling bedroom - again lovely and subdued.

Pavillion looked like mint green on a bright room, so a mistake as was hoping for blue/white tones.

Lichen in a period bathroom - best room yet!

I would get a dulux match for woodwork to save money as difference is negligible and use fb for walls. It is a hard paint to touch up marks as it shows and you must touch up from the original pot you used if you have any left as colour is not constant across pots.

All their paints are green based so can look very green especially in darker rooms.

I have a palette of charleston gray, cornforth white, skimming stone, elephants breath, blackened, light blue and Parma grey which gives quite a Nordic or provencal feel. Not sure you can be French and swedish at the same time but i am trying.

Only disappointment was DHs study in smoked trout. Looked just like the plastered walls i had been staring at for 6 months !

Notanotter - I am new to mumsnet. How would I view pictures of your lovely kitchen? Thanks.

Scubagoose:
has anyone used the reds? Im thinking of eating room red or radicchio in our living room at one end

I am thinking of doing exactly the same - I have my living room in Pale Powder at the moment, but I fancy having one feature wall in red. Have you done anything about yours?

Anyone got ideas on which white to use with Light Blue in a north facing bedroom? Ideally a warm white that I can use above the picture rail and on a small area of sloping ceiling. White Tie, Pointing? Or Chalk White from Fired Earth? I also need another colour to use on the woodwork - skirtings, picture rail, doors and one beam.
FellatioNelson and Kristina M, we have just moved into a similar old vicarage type house, this is for a back bedroom.
In other rooms (haven't got around to most of them yet, am waiting to co-ordinate with curtains!) we have String (drawing rooms and one bedroom), French Gray (lovely greeny grey), Farrows Cream (clotted cream colour) in kitchen and an existing F&B blue in our bedroom which I haven't identified yet but which is tooo bluuue - even for a south facing room it just feels cold.
Most of the house is white at the moment so I want to go a bit mad with colour -- considering a dirty yellow like Babouche in the wide hall/upstairs main landing and maybe even a really dark blue or green in the back upstairs landing. All Georgian colours basically.
My mother is now in the coach house next door and has gone for colour matched F&B rather than the real thing... I am not being a colour snob, but they just don't have the same depth! Even the p&d agreed... after he did the job.
Any advice v gratefully received!