Help choosing new colour for living room?

[Angelina08]

Hi Ladies

Its a pale yellow/cream at the moment, but I really want to jazz it up abit.

I also have a brick fireplace with an oak beam mantle which I need to tie, along with a chocolate brown leather couch.

I was thinking about some of these Farrow & Ball Colours...

String
London Stone
Citron
Cream

Anyone have any other recommendations as I don't really fancy spending £20 on testers before I have even bought the paint.

Thanks ladies

x

Go for cream and a stronger colour on the chimney breast wall.

Do your woodwork in a darker colour - it will make your wall colour look lighter and brighter.

We now have a String bedroom. i love it.

LovelyDear
Do you think String is more suited to a bedroom rather than a lounge? We have white woodwork and its a farily large light room?

Thanks :-)

Thanks CuppateaJanice - but the woodwork is a bright white and was only done about 6 months ago and the thought of painting it (3 doors, dado rail and skirting) again horrifies me - not sure what colour you would paint it too without stripping it all back to the natural wood and varnishing it?

Thanks for replying.

we have brilliant white woodwork and ceiling, white and wooden furniture, and the bedroom is very sunny. string looks good - we have mustard yellow/dark brown patterned curtains (nicer than they sound!). there's a kind of safari vibe going on. i don't think of it as a specifically bedroom colour - i might put it in my sitting room too. my view, having painted 5 rooms in 5 different colours now, is that pretty much anything (except really bonkers colours) looks good simply because it's new and fresh.

this would be nice on your chimney breast

Thanks LovelyDear and ggirl - I'm off ot buy some testers !

I think String could be a winner !

:-)