What colour would you paint this hallway?

[bringonyourwreckingball]

Need to redecorate basically the whole house but having particular disagreements with DH about the hallway. What colour would you paint this hallway? Current colour was a huge mistake, supposed to be a soft brown but turned out purplish. Carpet is staying. We don’t get a vast amount of natural light. Would love some suggestions from people who have a better eye for this stuff than me (so basically anyone!)

[PigletJohn]

panelled doors are very easy to straighten. If you are reasonably tall you can do it yourself without even taking them off.

The paint will crack a bit.

[MovingOnUpMovingOnOut]

Wow I app that app!

[Tigerlilly17]

Try the dulux app out on your phone. You can pick any colour dulux make and point camera at said area and it puts that colour in your walls. It’s fab and helps you to play around.

[Memememeandyou]

Similar age house.

[Memememeandyou]

We fireproofed our doors using intumescent strips and door panels and fire proof paint

[ShangriLaLaLa]

I love it as it is. I’m just about to paint our upstairs hallway and aspire to have it looking just like yours!

[Ttbb]

I would just go for a very very light blue toned grey. Cool colours make spaces look larger and brown doors look a bit wrong with warned toned walls.

[MeT00]

Oh don't change the doors. There are ways around that (as TeeBee alluded to)

[shushpenfold]

We’ve just done ours and it’s darker than we’d like too. We hadn’t realised that the previous owners had gone for a ‘warm’ tone (presumably to brighten it up) until we had testers out. Everything looked sludgy on the wall as it was dark. We went for white in the end with the door panels painted a mushroom grey/Brown. Haven’t regretted the white for a second and it’s definitely better.

[Brunhildafair]

Craig and Rose..Moonstone Grey. Fabulous colour that changes with the light. Goes with virtually everything.

[7to25]

Coming on to say Egyptian Cotton.

[TeeBee]

You only need to have fire doors for sign off

[Ruhrpott]

We have dulux natural hessian in the hall which I think would work well in yours too.

[bringonyourwreckingball]

Doors can’t be saved as in addition to not being fire resistant (which we could fix albeit at great expense) they are warped and don’t shut properly. We are replacing with period repro fire doors not standard - they are more expensive but will look more in keeping with the house. We will also keep all the handles etc.
We’re tending towards neutral for the paint now, currently looking at dulux chalky downs which is similar to natural hessian.

[80sMum]

OP, have you looked at Fireface, by Sealmaster, as a possible means of upgrading your period doors to meet fire regulations? Sealmaster also make surface-mounted smoke/intumescent door seals, so that the door can be made into a 30-minute fire door.

I have used Sealmaster products at work and they're very good. We upgraded some doors that we cannot remove, due to the building being listed.

[ToadTheVampireThreadKiller]

No-one seems to have suggested Dulux Timeless yet...

[JW13]

@bringonyourwreckingball we had a similar problem when we converted our loft. We could keep some because we had a linked fire alarm system installed. The ones that weren’t salvageable we replaced with doors from a company called period projects (maybe near Southampton although we are in London) who make fire doors from reclaimed wood in period styles. They don’t perfectly match the original ones and they were more expensive but better than standard fire doors.

[ohhelpohnoitsa]

Dulux Natural Hessian is neutral but classic. It would also work with your carpet.
Ok said F&B Skylight which is beautiful if you are a blue person. We had it in all our bathrooms at our old house. Loved it.

[Furball]

Dulux Pebble Shore - we have this with a browny carpet and it looks fab

[Almostthere15]

I think id go with dulux Egyptian cotton. It's neutral, and can take the brown carpet. Excuse my ignorance but why does the loft conversion affect your doors, presumably that's the front door?

I think anything that tends to grey will clash with the carpet. Almost all new homes now use almond white (dulux again) it's the new magnolia so if you want to play it safe that would work and it does bounce the light around.

[JemimaLovesHamble]

With a brown carpet, I'd stay away from greys. I've just moved into a house that has grey walls throughout alongside brown wood doors and stairs and laminate flooring. I'm currently trying to decide which way to jump!

[bringonyourwreckingball]

Fire regs as we’re doing a loft extension. We spent a long time trying to figure out how to keep them but can’t make it work.

[MovingOnUpMovingOnOut]

I thought it was a shame about the doors too. Why do you need fire doors unless it's a HMO?

I'd keep the period doors.

[lalalonglegs]

Don't get rid of the doors - they're gorgeous. See if you can modify them to meet fire regs.

[lalalonglegs]

I honestly think it looks very nice as it is - just stick some pictures up to break up the wall a bit. I'm a big fan of F&B Elephant's Breath which is a soft beige/grey and might blend with the carpet. To me, it's the carpet which is problematic, brown carpet tends to suck all the light up and it doesn't sit well with an awful lot of colours.