What colour is your hallway?

[FrazzleRock]

There's too much choice and, after choosing the sample paint for the living room and painting the whole room, I'm now surrounded by pale pink - Dulux Soft Stone
It's growing on me but I don't want a colour with any hint of pink in.
I just want a nice neutral colour for a busy hallway with lots of sticky finger prints

I have a pale blue hallway, one of those bq 1829 paints. I thought about f & b Blackened but that's now my sitting room colour. I do think f&B do the nicest neutrals - string/matchstick/limewash and so on.

Cream. But I am trying to persuade dp to paint it in a sort of biscuit-type colour instead.

Almond White. Like the whole of my house.

Except the utility room and and the downstairs loo which are pure brilliant white.

I am unutterably boring, but it looks very nice

Mine is Farrow & Ball's Teresas Green (a sort of deep duck egg blue), I love it

oooh, lindsell....now I like a hint of green, I also adore F&B's colours.

Smilehigh - Matchstick is rather lovely

yes it is

I haven't used it yet myself but have it up my sleeve should I ever decide on a neutral with zero pinky or yellowy tones.

Bare, plasterboard coloured. It is meant to be cream, and the bare floor board coloured floor is meant to be red carpeted

f and b house/new white can never remember which

LOVE blackened have just done my bathroom in it smilehigh

Mine is burgundy/ dark red. I like deep colours though.

Wild Primrose is the name. Its a pale creamy yellow. I really like it.

I'd love a deep colour but the whole flat it teeny tiny so , ideally, we need to add volume.
I could change the feature wall in the living room to a nice deep colour

I'm looking again at my F&B chart, the whites would be asking for grubby little finger prints. My hallway leads on to every room so it gets a lot of wear and tear.

Their sample paints are quite expensive so don't want to buy a load which is why I'm asking you all

Pale Walnut from Dulux

Mine is Farrow and Ball's White Tie, with Old White woodwork. (which is darker.) I seem to be on a mission to use all of F&B off-whites and neutrals in my house. I'm up to about eight so far. Shaded White, Pointing, Cream, Slipper satin, Off-White,I've got them all.

I can't do too much colour. It hurts my brain.

And String, Lime White, and Matchstick.

It's an addiction.

Which one of those makes a room brighter, Fellatio? without attracting the sticky fingers

White Tie is a very clean fresh bright almost-white, with a hint of yellow. But not garish.

Off white is a BEEEAAUUTiful colour, like old limestone. Very subtle and changes character in the light - as all F&B colours do TBH. Depends on the aspect of the room, and the levels of natural light, and what time of day you most use it. Some of colours look better in artificial light, for example, so would be better for a room that gets used in the evening. You say you don't want a hint of pink, but a colour with a hint of green can look cold in a north facing room. String can be quite green. Slipper satin is very pale, and quite grey/beige.

I have recently used Dulux Bleached Lichen (needs to be mixed) in soft sheen for a high traffic area, and it is really lovely. Not obviously showing overtones of any one colour IYSWIM.

With F&B whatever you do, do not pick Estate Emulsion where sticky fingers may go! The modern emulsion is very forgiving and really quite washable, and has a much subtler sheen than than Dulux or Crown etc. soft sheen.

The hall is very dark and small. Every room leads off of it (two beds, living room, kitchen and bathroom)
The hall gets used all day as I work from home as a childminder.

littlemissindecisive - I like Pale Walnut, have just looked it up.

The wall that goes up the stairs and the bit with the cupboard underneath are both white.

The wall with the front door, down the side of the hall and the wall with the door into the living room are all black.

It has proved quite effective at hiding mucky fingerprints! Plus quite a dark wooden floor which hides the mucky footprints too.

All the paintwork is white. There is also quite a large window so plenty of light and lots of mirrors which reflect the light back into the hall.

One thing I would say is avoid the Dulux 'Diamond' finish, which sells itself on being tough and scrubbable. It is tough and scrubbable, in as much as the paint doesn't wash off the wall, but the marks don't wash off either! Just a soft sheen is best for wiping.

Just read that your hall is very dark so black not good even if it is an excellent mark disguiser.

Dulux do an illuminating range that is supposed to reflect light back into the room, they have quite a good range of colours too.

I don't have a hall