Help, am having a colour crisis...
We live in a Victorian halls-adjoining semi. The front of the house (with the bay window) is North facing, thus the back is South facing. Some areas (particularly the hall and landing have (imo) a lack of natural light. We do have frosted (etched) glazed panels in our front door, and when we converted the loft we had a small velux placed above the loft stairs to shed some light onto the landing. But when the bathroom door and the bedroom doors are closed it is still quite gloomy.
Currently most of the house is pained in a caramel cream shade. Our bedroom and dd's bedroom are pained antique white, and ds's room (the loft) is painted white.
I want to repaint the whole house (bedrooms excluded) in one shade to make it look and feel more open and spacious. But what colour???
We have exposed stripped floorboards throughout the house except the kitchen which has cream tiles. All our woodwork (doors, doorframes, stair spindles etc) is white.
The ceilings are white.
I have a dream of a white house, but I think it would look grey in those areas where there is not enough natural light. Also, it may be too modern in an older house?
I am fed up with the caramel cream as I find it a bit too dark in those rooms where there is not enough natural light and am fed up of living inside a custard slice.
So, what is most sympathetic in our house? I am normally pretty good with this sort of thing, but right now can't see the wood for the trees.
Oh, most our furniture is wood, with the exception of a cream painted side board. Our sofa's are red but we are hoping to replace them soon, not sure for what yet.
Our kitchen units and kitchen tiles are duck egg blue.
Any suggestions???