What colour are the walls in your victorian property?

[hippipotami]

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???

Well I like the old black ceramic ones if you can find them and tehy suit your decor and tehy come in white too.Otherwise shiny chunky silver always looks lovely.

Thanks wheely Wipeably is a must with a messy 5 year old and an even messier cocker spaniel

I like the white ceramic noddy, but not on white doors. Have not seen black ceramic, will have a look for them.

Re the solar tubes - depends on whether or not your whole loft is converted - as the name suggests it is a tube going from the roof to the ceiling which has mirrors etc inside to reflect the light down.... usually only works for the uppermost floor unless you are happy for a pipe to be running through the room above...

Most of my walls are Farrow and Ball Dimity, which is a really nice, warm cream.

Definately can't have a pipe running through the room above. Due to limited head height in certain areas it is not a big room as it is.
And the only area of the landing which is a bit gloomy and could benefit from this light tube is directly underneath ds's room. So will rule that one out.

Argh, decisions decisions, I feel as if the work is never ending in this house.....

White all the way. Our house is the other way round (south facing at the front, north at the back) and it is white throughout with stripped floors and woodwork.