Interior painting

The day we went to the house to see the wall painting finished was so scary, because we'd had such trouble trying to confirm our colour.

We wanted a warm grey without any odd undertones like blue, green, pink or purple and it was the HARDEST thing to find - near impossible actually!  The perfect grey seemed to be non-existent.  We went through so many sample pots (no one, not even Murray, will ever know how many!!).  What I thought was the right colour, never looked quite right on the walls.  It was a painful and expensive process!

In the end, we decided to stop looking at Dulux colours and chose a Solver colour instead, because the painter only uses Solver (no doubt because it's cheaper!) and we wanted to avoid any variation in the colour base.

We went with 'Solver Slightly' - at 50% for the majority of walls and 'slightly' darker at 100% for our main bedroom and entertainment room.  The laundry and kids bathroom, plus the doors, ceilings, cornices and skirtings etc are all plain 'Vivid White'.

The end result is exactly what we'd wanted.  It's a 'nothing' colour that is warm and grey - and is not purple, pink or blue!  It probably has a 'slightly' greeny tinge to it, but it's so 'slight' and only shows in some lights, that it's not a problem in the slightest.  Ha ha.

WE LOVE IT!

Also, we are really glad we went with a low sheen paint.  Our builder and painter hadn't wanted us to, and tried so hard to convince us to go with a matt finish - because it apparently looks so much better, hides any imperfections and can be easily touched up if there any marks from final trades and moving in etc.

But we felt it was more important for the paint to be washable - to get kids' grotty handprints and marks off walls.  We felt this outweighed the argument to have a matt finish, so requested that the painter use low sheen.  And it looks good, well at least for the moment.

The photos don't show the colour very accurately, but should give an idea...

And if anyone ever needs any neutral-colour sample pots, you know where to come!  :)

Entry Hallway

Main area showing TV recess

One of the kids' bedrooms

Main bedroom - this and the TV / entertainment room (below), are where the colour is at full strength - though it doesn't look that different in the photos.

 TV / entertainment room

 

 Kids' bathroom - in Vivid White.  Pic also shows their rail shower, now installed.