Would you pair F&B Pointing with a greyish ceiling?

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I have two room to paint an off white, yet to choose which one. It's not easy, and to add to a difficulty, my builder defied me and instead of painting corniced ceilings All White, he chose a supposed colour match from a building supermarket which turned out grey. I saw it after it was painted and it was too late. For now it contrasts harshly with the white primer on the walls, and with the adjoining room, which is painted white (unknown brand and colour).

Which shade of white should I choose? The rooms are east facing with big windows, one has a double door to this white, west facing room. I wanted a cream shade but they look yellow... Pointing seems to look a bit better than Wimborne White. We have WW on the woodwork and it looks fine though!

Pointing is meant to be red based. Why does it look slightly yellow on my samples?
And will it work with this ceiling?

Or maybe I'm altogether wrong and should choose a greyish white? Or just paint it All White, thought I wanted something softer? I also thought about Slipper Satin, which looks lovely on a paper sample I made, but less on the wall (seems really dark).

Just to note, I'm not in the UK and the choice of paint here is terrible. None of the known brands except for F&B. I got an off white mixed from the NCS chart for the kids' rooms and it's ok but it's a cool beige not white...

Our last house was Pointing throughout it worked well, a warm white with a red base. I actually quite like contrasting whites in rooms like yours, and the different aspect will make even the same paint colour look quite different, anyway. Plus your room looks a bit like our current house 1860s, 13-foot ceilings, cornicing and shutters? It's a pretty forgiving type of space, imo.

Sorry, unintentional strikethrough.

Thank you, @HarridansOfUsAll !

The house is from 1908, but yes, high ceilings, cornicing and all. Good to know Pointing worked well for you!

I am also wondering about Wevet, as an opposite. I wonder which option is better if I leave the west room bright white for the time being (can't repaint the rooms that are fine because it costs a fortune).

What else will be in the rooms? What kinds/colours of furniture, rugs etc do you have? What will be on the walls?

No rugs, old waxed pine floorboards. The room with the grey ceiling will have wardrobes at some point, to determine what type and colour (so I can choose it later based on the walls). Walls have original picture frame panelling under the chair rail. The fireplace is light grey marble. I want a wonderful, William Morris curtain in the window, preferably with blue. Otherwise, it's a blank canvas!

The adjoining white room is a bedroom, I have an old brown wood wardrobe to put there and the headboard will probably be brown too. Curtains are light grey linen.

We have Pointing (a colour match dupe, at least) in our kitchen and it definitely has a yellow tone to it. I wouldn't describe it as white, in normal light it's more cream and the yellow gets more pronounced in evening sun.

I think it would look a bit odd with a greyish ceiling, but like someone else said if it's a room with a lot of light and high ceilings people might not notice.

Ps. And a second room with grey ceiling has the same panelling, big door, no fireplace. It is small but tall ceiling too. It will be an office/guest room, and I have no furniture in mind yet.

I want them all look cohesive, because they have doors leading from one to another.

Thanks @ClonedSquare! Yes I can't quite visualise the effect. I wanted Pointing it Wimborne White, because a WW dupe has been used with good effect by the previous owner in the living area - however, there it looks cream, and my samples upstairs look yellow (including a sample of a dupe).

Ceilings should just be white imo.

I know F&B do this thing now where they try to upsell by making you feel like you ought to buy a particular shade of white from their range to “match” the walls but our decorator uses a basic white paint she supplies ( think it’s Dulux but it’s just white no other tone) on all our rooms and it goes just fine with many different F& B colours 🤷🏼‍♀️

I wanted them white, @Twiglets1 and it was my mistake to say All White, but we had half a can leftover from another room. If my builder bought a basic no name white, I'd be happy. He decided to colour match, though, for no reason, and it very clearly didn't work. I told him it's grey and it's a problem, but didn't ask him to repaint, because first, I have to pick my battles, and second, I don't think another layer of paint is a good idea on detailed moulding there.

Anyway, I chose a WW colour match that has been used by the previous owner downstairs, because it looked cream and not yellow. I am still deciding about the smaller room with the same features and ceiling. I'd like F&B there because it's just much nicer as a finish than the dupe, but it depends if I manage to choose a right shade.

By nicer finish I mean that when I looked at the samples on the wall at an angle, on the FB ones I could always see the colour, while the dupe ones are flat and you only see a shaded rectangle.

I agree F&B is a really nice paint, hope you manage to sort it out

Ok, so I had a look today. The room is not yet fully painted but the paint near the ceiling looks yellow, while it is cream at the bottom. I think it will not work, and I will have to ask them to repaint the ceiling. Leaving aside that I'm dreading a confrontation, I am wondering if painting it again won't clog this moulding? The painter said he'd need to use two layers again. He uses a brush and seems to know how to do it but I just don't know anymore what's best.