Help with paint colour.... desperate!

[barrenbrook]

Hello all, I'm hoping a genius on here might be able to help me out, I am struggling to find a colour paint like this (it's the nursery pic a little scroll down the page.) It's for our living room and it's driving me potty!

Does anyone have any suggestions before I bang my head too hard against my bare walls

If you can find something the right colour in maybe in a magazine, wrapping paper, even cloth (although it's not ideal) then you can have it scanned and mixed for you. Our local hardware shop do it so I'm pretty sure the big DIY chains will too.

Otherwise go to a DIY chain and grab a load of the colour spectrum paint mix paper things they have. There's bound to be something close enough there.

TBH there's little point in showing a colour via the internet and asking what it is / where to get it as there's enormous variation in the colour calibration of monitors. The chances are that everyone who clicks on this thread will see a slightly different shade...

Good luck. It looks like a lovely colour (on my screen).

Thanks Hetty, I'm off to B and Q tomorrow but thought I would ask anyway!

not dulux french grey. it is too blue

I mean the things in the background here. It'll be a trawl but you will find that colour, maybe not in the range you expect though IYSWIM. The perfect gray could just as likely be with the blues or pinks as in with the gray range. 'tis well worth picking up the full range.

Don't choose in the shop though, the light is all wrong and you will be disappointed. When you've got a selection of colours that are close to the one you want then pin them up in the room to help make a final choice. It's best to try hanging the selection on different walls in different lights before you choose. But then I am a perfectionist.

Try Farrow & Ball

There are a few colours there that might be good. We have a shop nearby, but they also are sold at Home Base.

It is a little bit like Farrow and Ball borrowed light.

I would agree with looking at Farrow and Ball. They have lots of bluey/grey shades. I would recommend getting tester pots though - the colours change when they are on the walls.

Gosh colours on screen are so difficult. The paint in that nursery pic looks light grey to me (not blue at all). It reminds me of Farrow and Ball 'Blackened' - which is a really nice pale true grey, but not especially blueish. It's a lovely colour which goes beautifully with white, we used to have it in the bathroom.

Here's the F&B link to 'Blackened' - but confusingly the colour swatch looks lilac on my screen, and it's DEFINITELY not lilacy. Have a look at their RL colour card if you can, it should give you a better idea.

F&B

In my link, look at the colour of the mantelpiece (?) rather than the wall, that looks more like the actual grey.

Ga! Of course the collours look different to all of you, it's to do with how the colour is calibrated on your screen...

Thanks all for your suggestions, I've just spent the last hour or so at B & Q getting samples and have settled for either Dulux Heritage Flint White, Tin White or Regency Grey! Husband has reached the end of his tether with the huge amount of sample pots I've collected!

Chalky downs is like that