Pale grey for hallway and landing (any recommendations pls)

[Mrsdp123]

I've just chucked 2 F&B colours on from tester pots, Cornforth White and Blackened and both are a bit dark for what I need. I have tried a dulux pot as well and that was practically slate grey. Can anyone recommend anything that is a very pale grey. It is a Victorian house and the landing is very dark and gloomy so I can't go very dark and don't want white as the windows/blinds and shutters are all brilliant white. Thanks.

I've just done mine in Dulux cornflower white. It's definitely a very pale grey but with a blue base. Against the white of the bannisters and skirting it looks fantastic.

We've just done our sitting room in Perfectly Taupe by Dulux. It's a beautiful warm, pale grey that kind of changes colour as the light goes around it making it calm and restful in the day then cosy at night. My best friend chose the same colour for her bathroom purely by coincidence and it looks brilliant there too against white tongue and groove panelling.

We've just done our sitting room in Perfectly Taupe by Dulux. It's a beautiful warm, pale grey that kind of changes colour as the light goes around it making it calm and restful in the day then cosy at night. My best friend chose the same colour for her bathroom purely by coincidence and it looks brilliant there too against white tongue and groove panelling.

We used dulux chalk blush 3. Very pale grey, with the slightest hint of greige. It works well in our not very bright stairwell.

Blackened is very pale and is beautiful in our halls :)

You could try Crown period range Lady Jayne - we have it in our living room and I love it.

Maybe F & B Pavillion Gray, it is quite pale.

Right off to look st these other suggestions. We have Cornforth white in the bedroom which I like but it is def too dark for the hall and also makes blackened look v pale blue next to it, which is a shame as on it's own it looked great. Have looked at pebble and taupe one by dulux but they looked a bit greigy for what I wanted. Most greys seem to have either a blue undertone which I def don't want or a taupe undertone. I have just looked at strong white online so might get a tester pot for that as it is supposed to be a v pale grey. Am really looking for something that looks like a darker shade of white (it will probably end up looking like white that has gone grubby) but that against white banisters/windows etc you will be ble to see that the wall paint is in fact grey?

TBH we bought the Perfectly Taupe because we thought it would be greigy - not a hint of it - just pure grey once it went up. Good luck.

You might want to also have a look at F & B Shaded White, it's nice.

We have dulux portland grey in our hallway - its lovely

We used Dulux Polished Pebble (matt) and its a lovely pale grey. Almost white in some lights, definitely grey in other lights. We have it with brilliant white eggshell Georgian sash windows/stair spindles/doors etc. I love it :)

Thanks for asking this, I'm on my 3rd tester and no joy so far! I felt like goldilocks
"Too dark, too light"

Little Greene French grey pale 161. Cleans better than f&b (which I also had in a hallway)

We have polished pebble in our (Edwardian, high ceilinged) house. I love it. Nice and cool and clean.

farrow and ball pavillion gray is very nice and silvery

Right am going to try polished pebble again in some different parts of the hallway and see how I get on!

I do wish paint would look the same on everyone's wall and at least look like it does online or on the bloody tin. Rather than making me fork out money for tester pots that resemble nothing like they do on the tin...perhaps I should be painting with ronseal if I want something that does what it says.....

Are your walls plastered or wallpapered? Old Victorian house had wallpapered and it does soak up colour more and doesn't reflect light as much so everything looked flatter and darker on walls than in the pot (even when pot was next to wall in same lighting conditions lol.). Why can't you mix white into the tester pot you want until you get the shade you're after, paint it on paper, attach to wall, if it looks good in day and night time, take your mixed paper sample to brewers and they will match it - they do little Greene, f&b, sanderson and bunch of other poncey paints :-). They will find you a match.

With farrow and ball colours you really have to use their undercoat to get the colour you expected.
I only discovered when I started buying the paint from a Farrow and Ball shop instead of a regular painter/decorator.

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