Warmer alternative to Slipper Satin for kitchen-diner wall colour?

pannacotta

8 years ago

last modified: 8 years ago

I have painted wooden kitchen units like this in green-grey (I think the colour is a match to F&B French Grey)

http://www.benchmarxkitchens.co.uk/Kitchens/Kitchen-Ranges/Borrowdale

and oak worktops, with a fairly tile effect floor.

The kitchen is quite large and light, it faces South. I chose Slipper Satin, which in theory should look great.

But it doesn't. It looks cold and rather unfriendly. I don't have many wall units (too many windows/doors etc) so there is quite a lot of empty wall space and the colour looks a bit clinical and insipid in that space (I have used it elsewhere with the same aspect and it looks great).

We use the room a lot and I'd like it to feel like a welcoming family space. I think the wall colour needs to be a little darker and muddier if that makes sense....

I don't have time to get loads of testers so any recommendations would be great.

So far I am pondering Old White or Bone by F&B or Welcome or any of the French Greys by Little Greene but I haven't used any of them before....

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Warmer alternative to Slipper Satin for kitchen-diner wall colour?

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