Best white for north facing room

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Hello

What would you choose that doesn't look too clinical or cold?

Thanks

It's definitely possible to overthink this. White is white and really the coldness will be more about soft furnishings.

Timeless by Dulux is good.

it's not going to have much furniture, soft furnishings in but I will look at your subvddfjkn. thank you

In a north facing room, any very light colour will always have a tendency to reflect a lot of blue tones. In our house, we have some N facing rooms, they have been a so-and-so to choose colours for, as pale creams end up looking greeny, etc. In one room we eventually went for a definite peach colour just to get a dusky pink effect, because pinks ended up looking a mucky mauve. In another room, a green ended up looking blue......This is mostly (but not only) with clay paints which have this problem even worse than bog standard emulsions.
Thank goodness for sample pots, they are your friend. But get a decent sized one. I reckon you need at least a sq m to see the effect.

unfortunately I have to do this from afar as I will be away, it's a relatives house.

We used a colour match for Farrow and Ball White Tie. It's nice and it warms the room on full days.

However in our other north facing bedroom I went nuts and used Lick Green 01 and it's wonderful. I always understood green to be a real no no in north facing rooms but this one is just lovely.

Dull days...it warms the room on dull days

Timeless here too

I use Timeless on woodwork. And it looks okay on the woodwork in the North facing rooms. But it's incredibly bland (my reason for using it, because it means it 'goes' with just about any wall colour).

Is this just one room? And what sort of room is it (bedroom, kitchen, living room)?

I painted the north facing room pale yellow

It was a bluish white when I moved in and it made the room feel very cold. It's amazing how much warmer and more inviting it feels just by changing the colour of the paint!

There are a gazillion white and I agree it's possible to overthink it.

F&B Shadow White, or the paler version School House White, is pretty forgiving without looking yellowy or blue. I'm not sure Shadow White is really white though, it's an off-white.

I got bored of Timeless and White Cotton is now my go-to Dulux white, It looks white without out-whiting old paint on skirtings. You might find it a bit cold though.

With whites especially, I think little tester rectangles next to each other on walls can really play tricks on you. Your brain zooms in on microscopic differences in the exact colours they've added to the white, and it thinks it discerns all sorts of different shades which are often not apparent when you have whole walls of one colour. So just pick one that's not too yellow and too blue, or whatever shades you feel strongest about, and go for it.

Watching with interest. I’m tempted to try F&B Dimity (Johnston’s colour-matched) as it is a red-based neutral, which I hope will counteract the blue light.

i keep seeing Timeless mentioned on here - is it the new magnolia?

We had our north-facing kitchen redone and the builders did the base coat in Leyland Trade Matte White. We returned our expensive unopened paint because it looks great! Very slightly warm - you wouldn't even realise until you see it against a brilliant white. And cheap as chips! :D

I can really recommend Farrow & Ball pointing. It's basically a very light cream, a very warm pleasant white.

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There are a gazillion white and I agree it's possible to overthink it.

F&B Shadow White, or the paler version School House White, is pretty forgiving without looking yellowy or blue. I'm not sure Shadow White is really white though, it's an off-white.

I got bored of Timeless and White Cotton is now my go-to Dulux white, It looks white without out-whiting old paint on skirtings. You might find it a bit cold though.

With whites especially, I think little tester rectangles next to each other on walls can really play tricks on you. Your brain zooms in on microscopic differences in the exact colours they've added to the white, and it thinks it discerns all sorts of different shades which are often not apparent when you have whole walls of one colour. So just pick one that's not too yellow and too blue, or whatever shades you feel strongest about, and go for it.

Good point about colour patches there. Also, a colour gets stronger if all the walls are painted that colour. So a small patch my understate the effect of a stronger colour by quite a lot. With darker/stronger colours I usually use a lighter and/or less assertive colour on at least one wall. Sometimes a lighter tone of a very similar colour, so it looks like the wall is the same colour but in different light. Makes it more interesting. With whites, the eye will tend to assume a very-nearly-white is white unless there is some real white somewhere as well. So a yellowy white may come across as a white wall in warm light. But in North-facing rooms, beware of the effect of the bluer light turning yellows greeny.

Egyptian Cotton is a warm very pale grey that reads as not quite white. In sun, it's quite white and light. I've used it a lot in our south facing house.

If they still do it, Jasmine White by Dulux. The faintest possible hint of yellow - you’d never notice it but it has a sunny, brightening effect. I was v pleased with it.

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If they still do it, Jasmine White by Dulux. The faintest possible hint of yellow - you’d never notice it but it has a sunny, brightening effect. I was v pleased with it.

They definitely still do it. If I was forced to choose without being able to see a sample on the wall, I think I'd go for that one too. I'm doing our outer render with it, and I like it a lot on all the outer walls, whichever way they face, N,S E or W. Seems to take the light well from all directions. Looks bright white in full sun without having the Persil white coldness that Brilliant White has, looks fresh and clean on a dull day, and positively gorgeous in a red sunset!