Noddyholder (and other colour experts) your favourite white paint please?

[VerityBrulee]

We are repainting the whole house after flooding and I have finally decided on paint for the two trickiest, darkest rooms. For the rest of the house I want a milky white, not brilliant, not cream, a pale ivory. There mustn't be any grey in it because of the light we get (permanently grey Irish sky).

I am dementing myself looking at samples, so thought I'd ask an expert

Painter wants dulux trade but we can pay extra for F&B, little green etc if it's worth it.

I'm in Glasgow so similar grey light here. I've used Dulux Timeless which is the palest cream they do. It's like a warm white. It works well in our house.

Swedish white is dulux trade and is very nice. White cotton is lovely too really clean looking but not cold. Not sure if its available in trade you can def get it in ultra matt though.

Ochre white is a nice warm one without being even faintly magnolia-ish.

Thanks v much for those recommendations. I have stripes painted all over the walls but haven't hit on the right one yet. Back to the paint shop tomorrow.

Any opinions on whether it's worth the extra for F&B with white? Dd's old room was in dimity which was beautiful, so I can see the point of going to them for colour, but not convinced for white.

We have just painted the living room in f&b New white, its lovely, really lovely.

Hi Verity. Yes to F&B.

We have pointing eggshell on wood work, Wimborne white on ceiling and some wood work and tallow in kitchen. All very nice with varying degrees of warmth.

I second F&B's New White. We have it in our living room, it's lovely. pricey but worth it IMO. Cool but welcoming at the same time.

We have used Crown Milk White all over the house. Nice, gentle off-white and about half the price of F&B

I have lost the will to live, I have white stripes all over the walls, I feel ill looking at white. Still haven't found 'the one'

Joa's white (F&B)?

It's diffcult to recommend a white as it will look completely different in different rooms...it's a pita.

I think the stripes of colour doesn't really work unless its a very deep unusual colour and you have it up to get a feel for looking at it. BUt light colours look very different when the whole room is done ime.

The only way we could decide was by going into an F&B showroom and putting each room's colour on small panels side by side.

F&B guy was really helpful.

Farrow and Ball does have a tendency to fade. Paint without sixty years of scientific innovation!

Well I came home and had dinner and then went back to look at it and have made a decision I'm 90% happy with. I had an idea we could have the same shade in most of the rooms, but of course the one colour looks totally different on every wall let alone every room.

So it's a mixture of f&b and dulux and I never want to see another tester pot. I must say the discrepancy between the shade cards, the paint in the tin and the paint on the walls is huge. Can you tell it's a long time since we decorated?!

Thanks for all the suggestions