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Farrow & Ball colour scheme advice please! Pointing with Off White / Clunch / Slipper Satin?

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woozlebear · 11/07/2013 17:53

Soon moving to new house which has all woodwork painted in Pointing, which I would like to keep if poss (liked the look if it and want to save the money/hassle). We want to change the wall colours and also ceiling.

Ceilings are currently painted something paler than pointing which, given there are picture rails, means there is a 3-tone effect round the picture rail. I want to do the ceiling same colour as woodwork so there's more continuity.

Current colour scheme plan after carrying F&B colour fan with me wherever I go for the last month and spending a fortune on tester pots is:

Dining Room & Sitting Room: Off White
Kitchen: Slipper Satin walls, French Gray cabinets
Bathroom: Slipper Satin walls, Hardwick White bath panel, basin unit etc
Lobby, stairs & Bedrooms: Clunch walls

Will Pointing on woodwork and ceilings work with this? Worried it's not really light enough against Slipper Satin, and my tester has come out looking more yellowy-milky-cream than I expected. When I've seen it in situ it looked a lot more greigy toned. I've also heard it can look yellow against Slipper Satin. Wondering if I should try Wimborne White as well, although the idea of totally repainting all the doors and windows puts me off too much.

Most of our furniture is antique pine so scheme needs to keep a certain amount of warmth (anything colder/greyer, like Shaded White etc, doesn't seem to work with it), so in that sense I suppose Pointing is pretty good. I just don't want any actual yellow tones. The overall sort of feel I'm going for (although sadly new house is nowhere near as gorgeous or rustic) is close to this.

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staverton · 11/07/2013 21:18

I think pointing is pretty yellow. I did one coat in our hall and had to redo it with strong white.

glorious · 11/07/2013 21:45

Yes it's quite yellow, kinda lemon off white. We have it in our bathroom.

Mrsdp123 · 11/07/2013 22:12

I think I have shares in F&B tester pots. Everyone raves about how they change colour depending on the light/north facing/south facing/position of the moon etc. Well I wish they bloody wouldn't because I slap it on, think "ooh that shade of off white which isn't actually anything like a white" looks lovely, then put it 2 feet away and think "gah another bloody colour with a yellow undertone". I really wanted grey undertones (unlike blackened which couldn't have been a more pale blue had it of tried) but having failed to find anything we have now plumped for a beigey fleck carpet on the stairs and landing so I need something neutral, that isn't bright white so it looks like I have only painted an undercoat, but similarly doesn't look like magnolia, or an off white with green undertones.
Sorry no help at all but I am going a bit FB potty...
How did Off White look? I want to do that in my hallway with a darker contrasting wall? I am going Slipper Satin in my sitting room along with navy dulux......

moondog · 11/07/2013 23:23

I have just had my house painted and hAvd used slipper sati. I kitchen and halls. It is so lovely. I think of it as a very modern sort of bone colour

woozlebear · 11/07/2013 23:51

Mrsdp Off white is a weird colour kind of warm and cool at the same time, neutral but not yellowy or cream, not grey, too interesting to be called beige. There's a faint green undertone I think but I'm not sure if I'm only picking up on it because I've been told it does. DH resolutely refuses to see any green undertones in F&B, even though everyone else says they have them. I love it, but at the moment I've only got it on a few feet of lining paper. May be entirely different in a whole room!!

Did shaded white not work for you?

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