Help needed with colour palette
Hi all.
I have finally got the bulk of my color palette together but I am having a dilemma over one color. Here is the palette so far . . . all colors are Farrow and Ball and the gold and blue are accent colors for furniture, cushions, accessories, etc.
My plan for using these colors are:
Library (North): Mole's breath
Dining Room (East): Worsted
Kitchen (West): Hardwick white cabinets (All White walls)
Drawing Room + Morning Room (South): Lamp Room Gray
Hallways, Stairwell, etc. (N-S): Lamp Room Gray
I really want the hallways and morning and drawing rooms to have the following look in terms of grey. This is to be the dominant color:
All rooms will have All White for the woodwork and ceilings.
As you move through the house from sunny South to dark North I plan to increase the gold accents and decrease the blue - so the warmer rooms have more blue and the darker rooms more gold. This will be also true in the rugs.
Here's my quandry: what color of grey will give me the closest result to the photograph above? I think I have it narrowed down to Lamp Room Gray (as seen in the palette), Purbeck Stone, and Pavilion Gray.
The rooms that will be dominated by this color are the ones receiving the most sunlight - so they are warm and bright rooms.
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Jamie Frater
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Claire Nicholson
7 years agoHi Jamie,
I'm not sure if this is helpful but we're just renovating and have painted our living room in Purbeck Stone- I've attached a couple of pics for you (please excuse the state of the room!)
The room is double aspect and has north and south facing large windows.
We are also going for Worsted in the hall and I have to say it seems quite a lot darker than your 'ideal' picture that you've posted. Clearly very hard to comment though as the colours change so much with the light and rooms.
Hope this helps!
Jamie Frater thanked Claire NicholsonJamie Frater
7 years ago
minnie101
7 years agoClaire Nicholson
7 years agoHi Jamie,
Thank you! The horrible lights are just waiting for the electrician to change them but we do love the wall colour.
The floors have been laid with reclaimed floorboards and stained in Antique brown- they are currently filthy due to all the prep of the woodwork and paint but once steam cleaned come up beautifully. The brown of the sofas and floor will be broken up by a large cream / grey rug and we've got built in seating going along the back wall with lots of cushions / fabrics to soften it all
Here's a couple of pics.
I also managed to find a pic of the Worsted for you- it's only behind the radiator at the moment as the plumber was coming so needed to be done (!!) but gives you an idea of how it looks on the wall.
Taken in evening light in the first pic and daylight in the second.
The other sample colour in the first pic (top left) is Manor House Grey.
Definitely worth pointing out that none of this was my doing and we have an amazing designer (Gina from Create Perfect) who has pulled our entire colour pallet together.
These are a couple the 3D renders she did for us to help us visualise everything!
Hope this helps!
Jamie Frater
7 years ago
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