Painting sitting room

[Ash19]

Hi all I got interior designer in but unfortunately we didn't have same taste. Painted sitting room but hate it. Im looking at colours now myself and am going to get it repainted. The room is south facing. Looking at navy or colours like Hague blue or stikley blue or colourtrend blue peacock or heath cliff. What do people think. I love Hague blue but not sure if too dark to do whole room in it and if I did feature wall what colour would I match it with. Would grey go. Or if you are going with dark colour should you just do the whole room. Anyone any inspiration. Have wasted 300 already so trying to do bit of research this time. We have a light walnut wooden floor. Getting all new furniture Thanks

Can you post a pic maybe?

Did your interior designer pick the colours first? (I've never had an interior designer, dont know if they just recommend or if they actually pick everything)

There's a good dulux app where you take a photo of the room and then can try out different colours to see how it looks?

We've also used navy blue as a colour in some of our rooms recently and really liked it! Not used it for a whole wall tho. But we just went for it, thinking if the worst came to the worst, we'd just paint over it again!

Designer picked the colours. Looked OK on paper but I find it really commercial when we put it on walls. It's normal size room with 2 big windows and fireplace in center of wall opposite double doors. We have a gas fire built into wall. Kinda like a TV.

Can I ask what navys blues you used.

I spent ages on Pinterest searching for things I liked. I have a Victorian house and decided to paint my living room in a dark blue called Night’s Blue Arch. It’s darker than Hague blue. I did the entire room. I left the ceiling white which has an original rose pattern above the light and did a white dado rail around the middle of the room to break up the solid dark walls. I left the bay window white as well. I love it. It’s not finished yet and I need to decide how to furnish it but it suits me. Put some lamps and candles on and I live to snuggle on the sofa! It is very dark though so you’d need to think about if that would feel cosy or oppressive for you.

No idea about your colours, but would a feature wall in a darker blue work? Likely the wall around the fireplace?

I agree with previous poster re:using dark blue for feature wall (generally the same wall as fireplace).
Pinterest is a great place for inspiration, after we purchased our house I spent many hours trawling through pins, checking rooms similar to ours with my chosen colours to get an idea.

I have Stiffkey Blue on all walls in my sitting room. I absolutely love it!

It feels really dark and cosy in the evenings, but just calm and striking in the day.

It's a Georgian house with square rooms. The ceilings are high, but not excessively so.

I started off thinking I would just use the dark blue as a feature wall, but loved it so much that I did the whole room.

I have Hague blue on one wall, up to the picture rail with white above. The other walls are dulux swansdown. I love it and intend to do the other walls after Christmas, even though it's in a dark room it doesn't feel overpowering.

What was the colour you didn’t like?

I have Hague Blue in my study but didn't like the sample in my sitting room. Went with Inchyra Blue instead, it has green tones and slightly more 'subtle' so I was able to take it around all the walls.

When I had planned to do a feature wall, the lady in F&B advised pairing the dark blues with Purbeck Stone or Cornforth White.

Thanks for all tips. Have decided to do all walls in the dark colour and narrowed down to farrow and ball stikley blue and blue Hague and colourtrend peackcock blue or heathcliff. Will get tester. We bough a brown couch only last year do yee think this will go. Vwad going to buy maybe armchair or one of them cudiler armchairs then in different colour to funk up the room. What you guys think