I love the green tiles. Are you in England? Those old fireplaces are so cool.
If you have an Instagram account, peruse the Farrow & Ball account. Quite a few pictures with similar rooms.
Whatever color you choose, I’d do the built-ins, too, rather than chop it up — especially as you’ll be painting the other walls, too. So I’d either just keep it all that gray or choose an entirely different color.
Doing the entire room in Plummett:
Or Plummett for the entire fp side, the other three walls lighter (F & B Blackened, looking very purple in this room):
Just for fun, some other colors, because I love Farrow & Ball rooms. :)
Setting Plaster
Next two are Green Smoke
Smoked Trout
Duck Green
Next two are Sulking Room Pink
Card Room Green
Drop Cloth
Peignoir (I do like this with the off-white built-ins)
Hague Blue
Pigeon, a softer gray.
The Edward Bulmer account might have inspiration, too.
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