Looking for a soft, warm Dulux grey for living room walls - need to decide today!

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Can anyone help? All the greys I've tried seem to look either too green or blue - or too cold. Something light and subtle and warm but grey!

Cheers

did you find one??

need to know because I've got the same problem

except mine's more need-to-find-a-purply-grey-that's-not-nearly-lilac

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The 'Just Walnut' mentioned above is a great pale purpley grey, I found. Mostly grey, with just a hint of purpley brown - however dh wanted not a hint at all so I repainted with another pale grey that I can't remember, Soft Feather or something else Feather from Homebase that most of the house is now done in - we love pale grey!

SpringHeeledJack I like F&Bs Blackened which is a very pure grey but imo is so opposite the beige end of the spectrum as to be quite purple but not at all purple at the same time! iyswim

I'm sure there is a non purply purple non white but white on the F&B chart but I'm stuck to my computer on the end of my sofa and nothing will make me move to look it up for you. soz .

christ go with Roughs suggestion. I'm talking utter shite clearly [tired].

thanks Agnes and Rough I shall add those to the Grey Tester Pot Army am currently assembling

...they will be engaged in battle with my other armies- the Green-but-not-too-green-but-not-sludgy-army, and the off-white-but-not-beige-or-magnolia-maybe-stone-sort-of-chalky-army

naaaaargh

ahem, is there something wrong with my celestial grey? Even supplied a link and everything.

nice- but I need a sortof more pinker one, Jax (though not too pink, of course)

will check out Sanderson, though. Their colour range is better- plus the paint is great for lazy peeps. Two coats only and no patches ime

more pink... ok, you're on your own!

Have to say the paint went on brilliantly (so says my decorator) and there was loads left. I got the soft sheen one and it looks so nice.

Sounds like you want F&B's Skimming Stone, Spring.

I am also looking for grey and have ended up in "tester hell". Some of these suggestions have been really helpful. I have an open stairway which links an upstairs in Fand Ball Theresa's Green and a downstairs which I rather impulsively did a feature wall in a fifties paper in mustard, grey and red, (got lots of fifites stuff). Can't have a dark grey - it looks like a prison cell. Am stuck! Like the look of Linnet white and also Cornforth White but the light's so bad I'll have to look at the colour charts in the morning.

Have just checked the Celestial Gret - thanks Jax - as the wallpaper is Sanderson it might just work. You say it seems warm?

Am about to paint a new house without the time for testers between picking up keys and decorators going in. I really like both elephants breath and skimming stone from F&B but I read such terrible reviews of the paint quality on another forum that I've desperately been trying to work out the Dulux equivalents ever since. Anyway just want to say thank you to the people that suggested Egyptian cotton and just walnut. I'd narrowed it down to these two but was feeling very nervous till I read this thread, so Thank you. I feel much better heading off to hombase this a.m!

Do you know that you can take the F&B paint chart to b&Q or home base, and most big stores do a colour match service? Either crown or dulux paints, but they can match pretty much whatever colour you bring in. My DH is a painter and decorator and won't use f&B as he finds them horrible quality. we have crown versions of the F&B colours.

We just used Dulux's 'Misty Mountain' when searching for a warmer grey.
My Dsis is an interior designer and reccommended it.

Really pleased with it.

DM has F&B Elephant's Breath whiich is also lovely.

NOt sure if too late but we have Dulux Engraved Locket in our bedroom - really lovely peaceful grey. We have mustard yellow or mink coloured bedlinen, and it's lovely and cosy, especially with the yellow sheets

Wheatgrass, so far it has worked in lounge and bathroom and looks fab in both.

Crown-Eglise Grey. I'd definitely call it a 'warm grey'.

It's part of their 'le petite palais' colours. I actually struggled to find it in the giant B&Q near us, but they had it in homebase.

I have swatches of it and others painted on a wall in my hall way. It's the least blue and has a very slight pinky tinge to it.