The perfect white paint - Little Greene worth it? What shade/alternative?

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We have a loft room, hall, stairs and landing (two flights of stairs) to paint - it's all newly built. Need a paint that is not going to give us snow blindness - but want white. Also needs to be heard wearing. Is little Greene intelligent paint worth the money? Current hall looks terrible with handprints/mud/all sorts of kid and dog marks. Loft room needs to have same colour ceiling and walls as walls come celing comes down very low. No yellow tones either!

Thank you so much for any advice - have lost the plot after three months of living on a building site. Thought this would be the fun bit!

We put Little Greene Shirting (ie plain white) in our hall and stairs. Wish we'd used a more bog standard scrubbable white paint. Shirting is the same colour as Trade White as far as I can tell and the surface seems to mark easily (I think we used Ultimatt).

I'm glad we used little greene elsewhere in the house (decorator said it was best paint ever) but not for the hall and stairs and not in plain white!

I worked in a posh paint shop so know all the good quality paints. I am a big fan of Little Greene, however I never used them or any of the other good brands for the white areas of my own home.

When it comes to white I always use a good quality trade matt emulsion, I'm currently using a Crown one that comes in 10L tubs as it was on offer at Brewers. I have also used Dulux in the past.

Don't use pure brilliant white as it has a blue (cold) edge to it as they put a brightener in the paint.

Do you put brilliant white on ceilings at all? Thanks for saving me some money on little Greene paint - will pop into Brewers tomorrow!

No I would do the ceiling the same as the walls, gives the whole room a more continuos look and helps to make rooms feel bigger as you are not defining the edges.

We used Dulux Timeless on the ceilings and walls of our new extension - it's a lovely white/cream.

I use Dulux trade white on walls and ceilings in white rooms and Farrow & ball in coloured rooms.

I think we used brilliant white on one ceiling where the room is pretty dark. Otherwise, trade white (Dulux I think).

Certainly don't use brilliant white on the ceiling if you are putting trade white on the walls - it will just make the trade white look a bit grubby.