We have four bedrooms and – for now – we’re ignoring the smallest one that is a bit of a dumping ground/study. So there’s three that have had the full makeover.
I realised we hadn’t yet shared our chosen paint colours, so thought I’d do that now as I still haven’t taken photos of the finished rooms. (Sorry! I keep meaning to but need to get some shots in daylight but as we’re at work throughout the week and busy at weekends I never seem to get round to it.)
So, for now, you’ll just have to make do with the colours.
Back bedroom
I really didn’t want to love Elephants Breath – it seems to be the shade that everyone associates with Farrow&Ball – but, oh, one little tester pot and I was hooked. It’s such a lovely soft neutral with surprising hints of purple. Calming, elegant and serene. It had to happen. Our chosen woodwork colour, Dimity, doesn’t seem to be chosen often for woodwork but it’s a lovely pairing due to it’s very slightest hint of pink – in some lights. Oly is smug because he picked this one out.
Elephant’s Breath on the walls
Dimity on woodwork
Slipper Satin on the ceiling
All White for the cornicing and ceiling rose
Music room
We knew we had a few bright accents for this room so wanted to keep it a fairly neutral backdrop. Plus, as Oly has insisted on calling it HIS room we wanted to keep it a little masculine. So, we turned to the delicious grey palette.
Lamp Room Gray below the picture rail
Pavilion Gray above the rail
Cornforth White on the ceiling
All White for the woodwork, picture rail and cornicing
Master bedroom
This one was the most contentious and Oly needed a fair bit of persuading – what would I do without Pinterest? But, in the end, we opted for full-on drama with the utterly fabulous Hague Blue. Perfect white woodwork was the obvious choice but – as with the rest of the house – we didn’t want to use white on the ceiling (and lose the focus on the cornicing) so we went for the softest of blues in Cabbage White.
Hague Blue on the walls. Yes, that’s right on the walls!
Cabbage White on the ceiling
All White for the woodwork, cornicing and ceiling rose
So, there you go, that’s our bedroom paint colours. Each room is deliberately quite different, but they don’t fight with each other as you cross into them.
What do you think of our choices?
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You have such interesting colors in your house, and they all seem to blend so nicely. I can tell the rooms just flow and complement each other. I have seen some fabulous dark bedrooms recently (mostly in pictures). So dramatic! Can’t wait to see yours!
I love that you’ve gone for greys and continued it through a number of rooms.
It’ll help them flow together so well and I think grey is so lovely and calming and a great alternative to the overdone manilla! x
Ooo we are paint twins! Just done son’s London bedroom in Hague blue! With Dimnity on ceiling! And have Pavillion Gray in bathroom and hallways! Love it!!
Looking forward to seeing the blue bedroom the most, I’m thinking dark blue for my front room. Maybe the Stifkey or Hague, just at thinking stage though..
Will do pics soon, promise! Hague is stunning, we love it. It’s a kind of petrol blue. I would’ve been tempted by Stifkey also though that looks more of a true navy.
Look forward to the photos. Katie
Got a wee tester of the Stifkey yesterday, very exciting, sad, me, no no no.
Hey, I’d get excited too!!
Really nice colors for Master Bedroom – a good inspiration…