Paint my hall

[beancurd]

If there is anyone more aesthetically sensitive and decisive than me give me your best shot. I have a hallway and two lots of up the stairs and landings to paint. We are darkish at the bottom and light at the top, have picked up A little Greene paint sheet and am thoroughly indecisive...

Will paint walls, probably floor boards, woodwork, spindles - everything! But what damned colours? I need ideas sob sob sob.

Anyone care to share a colour scheme that will leave us delighted and newly stylish!

Sounds like our place! I painted it Perfectly Taupe by Dulux.. A light grey... As lush as it was, it made the hallway downstairs super douper dark.
So, I went out and bought 10 litres of cheap white paint, and 3 coats later... It looks AMAZING! Wooden floor downstairs, light beige carpet upstairs, and loads of black frames with bright colourful family photos. Love it! Wish we did it the first time!

I agree with vickles I think a hallways needs to be as light as possible. We just used Dulux eggshell on our stair case and an antique white on the walls to set off oak flooring and brown carpet on the stairs.

It's very simple but effective.

sigh, I reckon you are probably both right... We had just decided on light walls and darker wood. Dh got very excited and wanted really dark, there is panelling under the stairs and he was looking at dark grey, browny colours. We think we have decided to paint the bit of the stairs you stand on the same colour but actually it might all just be the hall of gloom.

I like these pink stairs!

www.curbly.com/m/9272-5-painted-staircases-that-will-blow-your-mind

White is such better value tooooooo

I like these black ones too but we aren't that grand!

pinterest.com/designnotations/painted-staircases/

Thanks for your ideas:)

Sigh, sigh. I don't want to be right. I want the pink stairs too but they only look good in the pictures where they've brought in massive light reflectors to hide the dinge!

Oh you vicious killjoy:)

But yeah right...

We had a pale chalky green, white stairs and dark wood floors. It was lovely, but we had a big window at the top of the stairs, so it was very light. I am seriously considering rainbow stairs for our next house. Though stairs are noisy without any carpet or runner. I think you can pull off pink stairs if you do the rest white and it is a reasonably light hall. Are you after something quirky or neutral, what is the rest of the house like?

The rest of the house is mostly bare plaster although the parts done are oddly grown up. I like heavy weight fabrics, flowers and birds type stuff. The front room wouldn't really go with a bright white hall...it is pretty old fashioned really especially with my old lady furniture. Woodwork is some oddly attractive sludgy neutral and we are now thinking we might do all hall woodwork the same and keep walls cream rather than bright white. I think having been quirky in the past I am edging into something more respectable.

I love the funky rainbow stairs, my last house had similar but maybe I should be more sensible now! Hmmm still think i could have a stronger colour on the handrail and parts of the stairs you stand on. But which one...

Yours sound lovely, I love green. I don't mind the noise off the stairs as have never had carpets in any house so am used to it. Hve had White stairs in the past and found them oddly hard to keep clean (blardy dog hairs...) we do have some potentially dingy parts as although there is a window its a small side one until you hit the veluxes on the next level.

Am ridiculously indecisive about it all.

Pale greige? If your wood is lightish you may be able to pull it off and it is a more grown up colour. Could add punchy colour (painted stair runner?) to liven it up. Good luck - at least with paint it is easy to change if it doesn't look right the first time!

yup I like the sound of that too...am going to break out the taster pots today. Think the angst is displacement activity as am horribly put off at the thought of all the prep!