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Warm white/beige colour paint in the uk?

7 years ago

Can anyone recommend a warm white/beige colour paint in the UK please? I want something warm and not too stark. I thought I wanted grey but I've tried 'Flint' from Laura Ashley and it doesn't seem very warm in my room and maybe a bit dark. Thanks

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Jessica Taylor
7 years ago
A friend of mine has an amazing eye for these things and just repainted an area in her house three times because she did not feel comfortable with the off-white. She now swears by 'shaded white' farrow and ball. It works really well in her house and she has gone for slightly different shades for nearly every room. However, personally I have heard bad things about F&B - builders hate using it and it lives on its reputation despite being bought out. For our renovation we have been using the Valspar premium - you take a colour sample you want in and they match it to your sample, I think they only claim to get within 95% accuracy but it has always been spot on when we've used them. Make sure you request that they save the colour on file so you can go back and get an exact match if you need to (an for some reason they cant transfer this information between stores so have to go back to same location, which i think is archaic!). But we were really happy with the service.I used conforth white from little greene for one very small room and its okay.

Good luck,

Jess
alisonmb7
7 years ago
For 15 years we have painted every house in homebase putty. Lovely light beige, not too pink or yellow, lighter than shaded white, haven't found a colour it doesn't go with. Sometimes I have it colour matched by the dulux decorator centre for a slightly better opacity. Have recently found that dulux bleached lichen is exactly the colour putty goes when in shadow if you want some accent.
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