Paint for stairs

[Badleg87]

We're moving soon, whole house needs repainting. Anyway, the stairs and small hall way at the bottom has no natural light. I think we'll put a dark wood type laminate floor down.

Dh wants to paint the walls white/cream but we've young kids and I'm certain they'll put their hands all over the walls on the way up the stairs.

I hate grey. What other colours look nice on stair ways?

Any light colour will get grubby with kids hands, just make sure it's washable paint. I have a stonewashed denim blue.

We have a white house! It was like this even when the now grown up children were small. Back then pretty much only Dulux did a wipeable paint but now everyone has it in their range. Go for a silk finish as it reflects the light better too.

I recently discovered 'skimming stone' by Farrow & Ball. I absolutely love it, and we're doing our hall way this colour too. We'll probably get it colour matched by Decorating centre online in a trade paint so it's hard wearing. I love the colour so much I think I'll have it in more than one room!!

You could put wooden panelling or simply a handrail on the wall and paint that in eggshell, which is not only wipe able but you can pretty much scrubb it. Natural colours, like lime whites, stone colours or grayish blues won't show up marks too easily/or slight marks and scuffs evenenhance their traditional shabby chic look. Or a dramatic dark cour.

Use a scrubbable paint?

We’ve used Brown Bunny by Valspar in our hall, stairs and landing. We got the premium one that’s scrubbable. I thought it was going to be too dark when we opened the tin but it’s not, it looks really nice.