Elephants Breath for a dark entrance hall?

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DH says white but I'd like a proper colour.
It's a 3x2m hall with doors on all 4 walls and very little natural light. Paleish limestone on the floor. Up lighters on pip.
I love blue grey but there's a lot elsewhere in the house.
I'm a bit concerned about it looking dingy.

I have just been sorting out a Farrow and Ball colour for my kitchen and my advice is Get a Sample Pot and give it a go. I was amazed that the grey I wanted looked quite quite different once painted on in the room. The Farrow and Ball grey experience is quite a journey - we tried 4 different colours before we found The One, and when it was The One, I knew within seconds of it coming out of the pot!

Ah yes, the journey. We've just finished the Palebluebutcouldbegrey experience. Im tempted to put all those testers into a paint pot & see what comes out.

Was ammonite your winner?

Yes our greys all turned into pastel blues when we put them on the cabinets, they were hideous. But weirdly they pointed us in the right direction as we decided to go with the flow instead of fighting the blueness: The One was a very unexpected Stone Blue! I was about to try Ammonite and Moles Breath when the lightning flash came to me.

if your doors and architraves are white - you will get light bouncing off them too -so dark walls with a well placed mirror and light bouncing off the doors and it could be fine ... but if your doors are dark then dark walks too might be too much ...

dark walls ( not walks !!)

Thanks OnePlan the doors aren't decided yet but I think we'll be reusing some old oak ones so quite dark. I'll think again.
Any colour ideas?

I've used elephants breath in my living room though south facing with stripped varnish pine floorboards and high victorian ceiling turned out great looks really grey love it!

I also have F&B Elephants Breath in the lounge. One thing I would say is that F&B is not hard wearing at all. We don't use the lounge all that often, the children are getting older now (youngest is 5) so not too much of an issue with sticky fingers etc and it has already scuffed. My sister (no children, pristine house) had her whole house interior designed and painted with F&B. Even she says she wouldn't have it again. I would definitely get it colour matched for hall & stairs. The colour is lovely though.

Just decorated our (dark)hall in Ammonite. I love it. It's very soft and calm.

I have been happy with F and B wearability. Not much different to anything else. Elephants Breath would look brilliant with Wimborne White woodwork. I think it would actually lighten up a darkish area and lots of colours go with it if you want accessories.

Thanks so much for the advice. I'm really dithering, I've got a whole house to redecorate.
Oddly enough Milly I made the decision that all the woodwork would be Wimborne White, with the ceilings trade white.
AndI Ammonite is going in the attic rooms.
If any of you have have absolute favourite colours for a very old stone house I'd love hear.

It looked dingy in my north facing living room.

Thanks Abominable what colour did you go for?

My living room is north facing gets little light and it defintiely brightened it.

I have it in the hall too but it has patio doors a glazed door on one landing but no windows

We went with Dulux Timeless. All the F&B we tried (and we tried a lot!) were wrong for our room.

Rhubarb you have excellent taste!