I’m emulsioning a shower room and my chosen colour is white. I was thinking back over my decorating career (purely amateur of course) and remembering how in first and second house, magnolia was the colour of choice. I’ve moved on since then and love dark colours from companies such as Farrrow and Ball, Stiffkey Blue, Card room green, Lamp room grey, to name a few. But white seems right for this windowless shower room How about you? Did you ever use magnolia and what are your favourite colours now?
Those deep blue kitchens look great, but I just couldn’t do it, I like pale grey too, I’ve been in a home with dark grey on the walls and it’s a bit too much for me.
I went through the magnolia era, and when we moved here, I decided a pale environment would suit us best, I don’t quite know how I got my way to this day, so our whole house is painted the same colour and it works, it’s a very pale cream.
I probably wouldn’t use magnolia but I have in the past. It got such a bad rap because it seemed to be everywhere. If you say pinky cream though it actually sounds quite nice.
My most recently painted room is the kitchen. The tiles are a petrol blue (very limited choice for tile paint) and the cupboards are lilac. It’s not the warmest colour palate but I like it.
I do like colours and like you I like the jewel colours as well. Hubs though is very conservative and if it was up to him we’d paint everything pale grey so anything we choose has to fall somewhere between the two extremes.
My walls are all white, I think art looks better on white. I do love the jewel colours but mainly the greens, blues, cerise, gold.
This is a small place, I have to be careful with wallpapers, so add splashes of colour with accessories instead
My house is excactly the same B. Pale grey every where, but more dark white really. I like Little Green Company. I have too many ornaments really so colours would make everywhere look too busy.
So saying I do paint furniture and like Stifkey Blue and Teales, French Grey.