Help needed with colour palette

9 years ago

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:

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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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9 years ago

I've overlayed those colours above on to the picture here for you so that you can see how they sit. I think that lamp room grey is probably closes for the wall, although the one on the wall looks a shade darker. It's impossible to tell on screens and paint cards, the paint is invariably different when put on a wall. If you have narrowed it down to those colours then get the tester pots. Don't paint the walls, paint sheets of A4 several times to build up the paint, allowing them to dry fully, then walk around with the sheets of paper.

If you don't like them for whatever reason, then stay away from the smaller pre-mixed ranges of the 'designer paints' and go for dulux or valspar that offer huge ranges of colours which would enable you better to go for shades that are just right.

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Jamie Frater
Original Author
9 years ago
Thanks Man About the House. Interesting you say that the wall color is slightly darker than Lamp Room Gray . . . for the purposes of making my color swatches I used the colors picked from professional photos of open pots of the appropriate paint color rather than the F&B swatch colors (which don't correspond at all to the photos of the painted walls that accompany them). Presumably the paint will dry down a little darker which may be just enough to get that close match. I am also presuming that the photo is of a room facing the same direction as mine - and if it isn't that will completely alter things!

I will get all the testers and use those ultimately. In fact I can't get F&B paint here but I can get Dulux to replicate the colors (they have formulas for all the competitors products) in their own paints which will also allow me to modify the tints if necessary.
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Claire Nicholson
9 years ago
Hi 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 Nicholson
Jamie Frater
Original Author
9 years ago
Thanks Claire! That helps me quite a bit. What a great choice of color for your room which is going to be outstanding when you are done. The wall with the light hanging off already looks a million bucks. Can't wait to see the end product! What color are you doing your floors?
minnie101
9 years ago
Hi Jamie. It's hard to tell as so many factors etc will obviously effect the colour. I personally prefer purbeck though with the rest of your colour palette. Have you considered Hague blue for the library?! Cornforth white would also work for your hall
Claire Nicholson
9 years ago
Hi 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
Original Author
9 years ago
Wow! Those floors are going to be incredible once they are steamed! Beautiful grain. Thanks for the extra pictures - all the colors I am considering! Going grey (in interiors!) is not easy!