Which F&B white do I need for my beams/ceiling?

[kitsmummy]

Our front room is pretty big, mainly with stone walls (so greys and browns), but a little bit of plastered walls. I'm planning on Elephants Breath for the plastered bits but now I need to paint the beams on the ceilings too. They're currently black and too dark and overwhelming. I've tried stripping them but they're knackered under the paint so that's not an option. So I need a F&B off white that doesn't stand out too much. Main colours in the room are the stone walls, grey velvet sofas and mustard velvet curtains. Any ideas on the right white for the ceiling? Am wondering about Great White or James White?
By the way, if anyone else has any great alternative ideas for the ceilings/beams, please feel free to suggest. I'm not enamoured with the idea of painting them white, but am at a loss of what else to do

What did you decide to do in the end? I'm currently facing the same dilemma - in one room, the beams are in such bad repair and covered in such a mess of varnish and paint to cover up the previous repairs that I feel they're going to need to be painted.

Sister who's a conservation officer is tutting slightly, but I don't think that painting them white could be described as any worse than the current situation, and it can always be stripped off.

I've read that you should do a very dilute white paint on beams.

I was recommended Crown's Milk White on here for white in old houses, and it was pretty much spot on.

Call F&B advice line they have been very helpful in the past

I have F&B Pointing on the ceiling with F&B Charleston Grey (grey/stone colour) on the walls in one room here and it looks good.