Recommendations for white paint

[Pinkjenny]

We have just completed our kitchen. Units are ivory, tiles and worktops are white, and the floor is limestone. I want a white paint that has no cream to it, but isn't stark or unforgiving.

No Farrow and Ball, please, dh is recovering from the cost of the kitchen.

NOT Crown Brilliant white - needs about 4 coats to get decent coverage. Dulux Trade White is fine and I've used Dulux Sail White (if they still do that?) which is soft and chalky ish but definitely white

Homebase Sanctuary eggshell paint is great.

I paint lots of furniture with it.

Dulux Trade White if you want a genuine white that isn't brilliant white.

Dulux Egyptian Cotton or Timeless if you want more of an off white/greige. They are not creamy but not what I'd call white either.

Dulux porcelain is perfect. It has real warmth and depth. You've to have it mixed, so you can get it in flat matt which is even better.

Yes, I'm currently staring at match pots of Timeless and Jasmine White.

Just to confuse Dulux Jabot is also nice - it's a trade colour recommended to me by an architect friend. I'm not totally convinced that it's all that different to trade white, a bit softer perhaps.

Do I not need actual kitchen paint? Is that just a ploy to get more money?

Depends how much your kitchen steams up. Kitchen & bathroom paint is designed to cope with steamy environments, and also be very easily wiped/cleaned.

In any case Dulux can make up any colour in their Kitchen & bathroom paint if you want that - so you don't have to stick to the colours they offer pre made in kitchen & bathroom paint.

Jasmine white can look quite yellow IME. Bathroom paint def worth it for moisture resist qualities, not as necessary in kitchen but nice to be able to wipe walls down.

Have a look at Dulux Bleached Lichen. Very pretty non cream 'calm' colour.

Dulux Timeless or Crown Milk White.

Deffo use kitchen paint

Maples I think that illustrates perfectly that paints look different in different houses and light conditions!

Am using Jasmine White and am very pleased with the results thus far. Thanks for all the recommendations. Am so glad I have bought red accessories, the kitchen is so white it looks like the walls should be padded!

My 'go to' white-but-not-quite is Dulux white cotton; it always looks good. Gives a lovely non brilliant non stark white. I've used it throughout the house for the woodwork.

Wobbling about the ivory units and the white paint...

If the ivory units go ok with white tiles/white worktops then I'd have thought white walls would also go fine?

I'd have described Jasmine White as more of an ivory than a white anyway...

Dulux stone white is lovely