Farrow & Ball apint, help?

[fairiesandcupcakes]

Hi everyone,

Would really love some advice. I wanted to paint my living room and was looking at the Farrow & Ball colours, had picked out Cats paw for the bottom and matchstick for the top, however after looking at reviews for the paint it seems to be not very good and was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on it?

Also after looking at the colours I am not too sure that they would go with my furniture. The room is square with a dado rail, brown leather seetees, darkish wooden flooring and dark furniture. Would anyone know what type of colours would go nice with this?

Many thanks

Catspaw is a bit catspoo coloured, IRL, IME - more yellowy than it looks on the website, certainly.

Bone is lovely

Hi, yes that looks nice as well, now really confused lol!!

Just want something that is going to look nice with brown furniture and also have darkish floor, preferably would like a darker colour on the bottom half of wall and a lighter colour on the top half.

Sorry, been out to bonfire
Fossil Green/Nat calico are Dulux colours not F&B, but that's only from a quick glance at the computer not any special knowledge.

Vert de terre is lovely with dark brown. It's a sort of matt greeney grey.

sorry - more green than grey.

that looks nice as well, what top colour would you use with that? also would you class this as a more colder colour? x

I have matchstick in my living room, with brown sofas and dark wood bookcase. It's a north facing room. I used to have a darkish wallpaper on one wall and I hated the colour then, thought it was really drab. I took the paper down and now I love it. It's really warm and works well with the furniture. Looks good when we do get a little sun, but also cosy with the lights on.

I would always use f&b paints in somewhere like a period living room as the depth of colour is so fantastic.

Hi, right ok thanks, Matchstick was one of my 1st choices but now need to think of a colour to go on the bottom half of the wall that will still go with my brown sofas and also matchstick? x

Well I have tallow next door, but they are separated by the wall so it's hard to see how well they would fit together in closer proximity.

I would get the chart out and look at colours in the same rows and columns, they are normally ordered like that to complement each other.

Btw I really like it as it's quite neutral with the furniture so I can play around with cushions and rugs when I fancy a change in the room. Would be harder to do this if the walls were say green.

We have very similar sounding floor, sofas etc to yours and our walls are a stone/mushroom colour.

ok many thanks.

All I seem to have done for the past 2 weeks is look at the chart lol!

So in the same column is:
String
savage ground
cord
cream
cats paw

I just cant choose and its driving me crazy!!x

You can drive yourself mad with it can't you? I still sit there ogling my chart and I don't have any more redecorating to do!

I would go with your first instinct then, so cats paw. If you don't like it you can always repaint!

Haha I know , I am driving everyone crazy in my family keep asking them what they think. I keep googling images for catspaw/string/matchstick and any other colour that pops up as well!!!

Was going to go for catspaw but then someone said that it looked like cats pooh and thats put me slightly off!!!

Well tallow is lovely but apparently it means a form of beef or mutton fat. Just what you want your walls to look like eh?

All the colours look different in different lights anyway. I tried a few tester pots beforehand, which may be worth doing.

Now I have just looked at cord and thats a nice colour.

I have a f&b chart and I have also been looking online at designerpaints where you can click on the paint and shows you all diff pics in the paint that you have selected. Prob is that when you do cats paw on there it looks nothing like the colour that is on the colour chart .