Lots of dado rails, shutters, dark corridors. Am thinking of various shades of light warm putty, picked out with clean lines of white woodwork but it might end up a bit hospitally. Any experience or good sources for ideas?
Hlp pls Rof.
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paint it grey for that gastro pub look
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Polished pebble.
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Isn’t everyone skimming stone and elephants breath now?
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Make it look even darker with grey paint and then stick a gentrification green front door on it . Job done.
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I think Magnolia is due a come back?
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Houzz although annoying is actually pretty good for these sorts of things
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fazz and bazz suck - they want you to go grey with accents of black and a dark ceiling.
Little Greene and Paint & Paper library much better for neutrals which it sounds like you want. Or Dulux heritage actually.
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What's the aspect? It influences the colour of the light.
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White...except timber...which should be whitewashed
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I would recommend Changing Rooms circa 1990 for inspiration. Use MDF to make it look like a gothic castle.
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One good tip is to pain some sheets of white paper with your samples, pop them on the walls and have a look at how they appear at different times of day and in different places in the room.
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Orwell, you ask the right question. The house is 90 degrees wrong. Front door faces south, windows are straight north and south. It gets about the same amount of light as a passage grave. I would not have chosen it but [boring reasons] I now have the opportunity to try to make the best of it.
The conventional recommendations for Victorian houses are to go dark secondary colours - government office green, school uniform magenta and hospital blue - but I think all of those are going to disimprove the existing problem.
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Get light reflecting paint.
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https://www.dulux.co.uk/en/products/dulux-light-space-matt/cccId_1915023
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Ronald - same here
the hall and landings - Little Greene - hollyhock
top floor landing - Little Greene - tusk
holkyhock is sort of like what magnolia used to be but is lighter.
More of a sandy/ putty colour we have in the dining room, paint & paper library, Sand IV
we face east (rear)/west(front) and with a long dark hall. There is a big plane tree right outside, blocks light.
to make everything warmer, I recommend having lining paper hung on the walls and then painted - “warmer” than painting plaster
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What Orwell said.
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All subjective really, but my Victorian place is all white, blinds left natural wood, cast iron fire surrounds also left as is. Original floorboards or stone in the kitchen. Graphite plain carpets upstairs. All a neutral canvas.
Colour comes from furniture, pictures, plants, bookshelves and various bits and bobs, all of which can be moved around. And good lighting, very important.
No wallpaper, I dislike it and I wouldn't let some trendy interior designer anywhere near the place.
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Tbf I think OB did an excellent interiors job on something similar…
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pics or she lives in a bungalow.
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Hm. For a Victorian place, I think I'd go for some of the paler Morris &Co papers. Well, for some rooms anyway.
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Tartan
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Opposite of mine (my front door is north) but similar issues.
North-facing light is blue so any attempt to brighten it needs to counteract that. We chose not to fight it and went dark green for our living room, but with a dash of orange in the undercoat to neutralise the cold. With lots of books and pictures, it feels really cosy, whereas the modern neutrals it was when we bought it always felt cold and grey.
South facing light has strong yellow undertones and can bleach out colours in summer. We went with a pale green (Almond Flower No. 89 Paint | Designers Guild) with a slightly cooler white. I didn't bother tinting the undercoat as it would be a losing battle in high summer. With several mirrors and large light paintings, it brightens it considerably without looking too warm. The pale green was designed to tone in with the Morris & Co paper we have in the bedrooms (Birds and Pomegranate in the turquoise metallic colourway, which reflects light), so you may be tempted towards a different hue but the principle would work for other colours.
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This is a bit pointless without photos.
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My personal view would be what Chambers said. White and colour from curtains, furniture, pictured and lighting. I like sage green for exterior as goes well with brickwork and plants. If very dark a pale matt yellow.
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