North facing room colour, help!!!

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Really need some help as I am drowning in tester pots.

I really like f+b strong white, but it looks drab and rubbish in my north facing sitting room.

Can anyone suggest something similar, maybe a little lighter but with some warmth?

I saw an interior designer at Grand Designs Live a few months back (it was a free session) and she suggested something like a dusky pink for my north-facing bedroom. I am yet to decorate and unconvinced.

If you look on line, the advise is that white can look grey in north facing rooms.

I'm watching this thread as I would love some other ideas.

Try F&Bs Cornforth White. It's a pinky/purple grey and looks fab in my East facing kitchen.

Thanks for the responses. I did try cornforth White, but it was too dark. Honestly am at a loss!

Every paint seems to have a really strong colour in my sitting room, just want something a bit more subtle and warn but not yellowy. I have spent a fortune on testers

DH thinks I'm mad and has no interest whatsoever, so if it looks crap it's all on me.

I have timeless in my North nw facing sitting room. Looks lovely, not yellowy, just a richer white.

I have Dulux Timeless in my north facing living room too (in fact I have t all over the house). I love it!

We have Timeless in the north facing lounge. Jasmine White in the north facing bedroom.

www.farrow-ball.com/light-affects-colour/content/fcp-content

We've got f and b skimming stone in our north facing lounge. Not yellow-y at all but lovely and warm, and not too heavy. In our other north facing reception we have dulux polished pebble which is a bit more grey. Love both of them.

A very, very pale baby pink. The room will add a beautiful grey tone and you'll end up with a pale, almost unnoticeable soft old rose shade. this is the closet F&B do to the shade I mean, well as far as it's possible on a screen.

Faced with having to paint my entire house, I went with the Mumsnet recommendation of Timeless for my north facing back kitchen-diner and I don't regret it. It's perfect, and never looks dingy even on the darkest of days.

Do not get the Dulux matt though - it marks at the slightest provocation. I will have to get this room repainted before the others. The paint I had mixed at Johnstones is much harder wearing.

My two north facing bedrooms got F&B pale powder (lovely in the daytime, but nothing special in artificial light/darker days) and F&B peignoir (a pink-grey which I really like.

We have f&b pointing, a warm creamy white in our north facing kitchen. It works very well and we also use it on the ceilings and on the woodwork in the rest of our house in combination with other gorgeous f&b colours, very versatile.

We have Dulux Jasmine White, it was inherited with the house and we just freshened it up with another coat. I am toying with Timeless though

Dulux Timeless in some rooms, Natural Calico in others

Also have a valspar grey (very very pale, you only notice it when you look at the adjoining white) on one wall in a north facing room with just a velux for natural light (on North facing roof)

I found choosing the grey to be the trickiest!

I agree. F and B Pointing is a warm white or New White. How about a warm grey/beige like Elephants Breath? I've used Green Blue and Pale Powder in West facing and they look more green. In North facing they would look more blue (at a guess), perhaps without being cold looking.

My neighbours have mainly north facing windows and they have embraced it. Elephants Breath, Palma Grey, Cooks Blue.

F and B website have some advice on this

I have dark northwest facing rooms and had a Bugger of a time picking paint. I would echo the above.
I chose to embrace the dark and opted for deep colours - stone blue living room and dove tale kitchen which has a purpley undertone. Love it, so cosy!

we have tallow in our north facing sitting room - warm neutral

Bear in mind that the white background is changing the way you see the colour enormously. It will look lighter/less dingy when not offset by the white all around it. We painted my daughters room what I thought was clearly purple, when tested against a white background, but now we lost the true white, the purple just looks off white.

Dulux Egyptian cotton is more beige, but it is warm, light, and not yellow. Dulux Almost Oyster is pearly with an ever so slight hint of pinkish tone. I really like it and I loathe pink! But you may be after something greyer than both.

Daffodilbaby I have also had tallow in a room where there is low amounts of light - would recommend

Hiya, did you end up having a nice warm white that isn’t yellow? Did you try pointing in the end? I am facing the same problem!

Look for something with a red / yellow base. I'd personally go a terracotta-y colour in north facing, if it matches with the furniture/floor.

My current north facing is a bright green that would look too bright in any other room, but the dark north facing it looks lovely, moody and cosy! Was a bloody nightmare finding the right colour though.

For whites, could try any in the first two lists here:
https://www.littlegreene.com/paint/colour/white
They look super yellowy but that will be sucked up in a north facing room!
Also Little Greene paint is wonderful, great coverage.

I used Dulux Space and Light for my north-facing bedroom. It has light reflective particles in it. There were other things I did in that room, too, but it's a lot more pleasant than the dark room it was previously. I went for "morning light" as a neutral off-white with warmth to it.

I use the Dulux Light and Space a lot. Desert Wind is a creamy sort of white which works well in my S facing rooms, I have Coastal Glow in a N-facing hall/stairs/landing which looks like a warm pale cream in N light (though a good bit warmer in S-light). Might be worth a tester pot or two, OP? There are a good few colours, all light. I use L&S Absolute White on all my ceilings and covings, it's great at reflecting light but not to Persil-blue-y like Brilliant White is.

Thanks for the message! Weird thing is that I feel anything with yellow tone in it looks so yellow in our house! We have N facing living room but huge windows on the north side and a windows on the south side. We do have a lot of natural light.

Thanks for the message! Weird thing is that I feel anything with yellow tone in it looks so yellow in our house! We have N facing living room but huge windows on the north side and a windows on the south side. We do have a lot of natural light.