Which white(ish) paint shall I use to paint my walls?

[AnnOnymity]

I want to paint the walls of my dining room off white, something more interesting than PBW but not as creamy as magnolia/calico/hessian.

It is a big room with very high ceilings and is south-facing but is very cold and doesn't get much sun (except for the afternoons) because of trees and walls blocking the light.

I've put 3 coats of diluted Dulux PBW super at followed by 2 coats of undiluted (as per PJ's advice). It looks much better than the buff-coloured wallpaper that was there before and much lighter but still not quite right.

I've tried Dulux Timeless but it looks no different to PBW in situ (patches in the walls and stuck on pieces of paper painted. You can't actually see where the painted patches are.

Any recommendations would be very welcome. My head is exploding from hours spent looking at near identical shades of white! I would prefer Dulux because it is cheaper (I'm going to need to buy lots) and I found F&B to be largely rubbish when using it in our last house.

It is a very old house and the walls aren't perfectly flat so something very matt, I think.

Pictures attached including the curtains it has to match. I'm going to paint the section below the picture rail and the dado rail but the top bit will be staying white.

It's a shame you don't like F and B because Pointing would be an ideal shade. I cannot see what can go wrong with F and B. I have a whole house of it. I love their shades and the flat colours are great on less than perfect walls.

We had F&B pointing in a bedroom in our last house. I loved the colour but the paint scratched if I so much as brushed against it, or so it seemed. I can't justify F&B prices tbh (prob need 4 tins). I want a Dulux or Crown equivalent of Pointing!

How about having Dulux paint match F&B? It won't have the same F&B finish but the colour will match well.

We did this with our hall where we wanted the Dulux diamond hard, washable stuff but in an F&B colour.

I was hoping to get something in a tin so that I can make us of the 2 for £35 deal at B&Q!

Yes. It's a pity the paint match is never on offer.

I have Timeless in the kitchen and I thought it was too white when it went on. I kept squinting at it and thinking 'it's very white' but it actually looked much creamier once everything was back in the room.

I think lack of furniture, curtains, art work etc will make all the whites look very white.

Total about turn on budget

Now thinking of Little Greene - Whitening or White Lead. Have ordered testers. They're supposed to be authentic Georgian colours or something and it is a Georgian house.

Has anyone used these colours?

We went for dulux golden jasmine 3 in our living room - the photos are it at its darkest (it gets the sun later on) it's a lovely shade.
The ceiling & woodwork are brilliant white.
I love the little Greene colours but I have a fab dulux decorator who guarantees dulux work & I've too much house to justify the extra cost.
To be fair my interior decorator friend didn't realise our dining room wasn't a more expensive paint.

That is lovely. That's the kind of look I'm hoping to achieve in this house once I've stripped off 98 layers of hideous wallpaper

wonkylegs, slightly off topic! but could I ask you about your radiator covers. We have exactly the same in a few rooms, and I love them, but dh is convinced that they stop the heat radiating and we should get rid and have bare radiators.

Ours came with the house. It does stop the radiator heat quite a bit but ours covers up a particularly special radiator (a double panel, with a single panel welded badly to the front) which we found when we went to remove it so it will be staying for the foreseeable future.

Ours required much much stripping & filling & lining. The dining room was the worst with lots of shades of orange including the ceiling & carpet. I swear stripping off the 'lovely' textured wallpaper (on top of many other papers) gave us an extra inch all the way round the room!

Try Fired Earth paint. Cheaper than F and B and has the same qualities as it. Less 'grey' too, whilst still being complex.

Arrgghhh. Back to square one. I took a poll of builders working in my house (not decorators, mind you). All said Dulux Endurance (although couldn't be pressed to commit on shades of off white ).

Where can I get golden jasmine dulux paint from??