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We renovated our last house and used china white ( which had the slightest palest green in the white if that makes sense) our furniture sounds like yours and people used to compliment us on the wall colours lol. We used beige royal in the kitchen just to change things a bit. It's so hard as the sample you paint changes when you do a whole wall!
DH is a builder and all they use on all houses is Whisper White. Good luck choosing - so tricky!
We used beige royal on the door trims/skirting boards I think in the half and to slice it up we have painted a feature wall in the lounge and our bedroom with sheer passion it's a nice red/brown which goes well with the furniture. I think the white you have will go well as long as you dress it up whether you use painting or something similar.
G, we have only ever used Solver paints on our house and Dulux is too expensive for what it is, considering that it is just paint. We can't fault the colour of the quality of the paint at all.
dh went to bunnings this morning and they said he could take the antique white in there and add some other colour to it, which is good. now, just to pick the colour.....
I'm actually liking the look of pastry half.
Pastry is an orange based paint, is that ok for you? Just though you mentioned you didn't like peachy before.
Is your antique white the dulux antique white USA? I do think that looks good in a full strength. Other options are
Chalk USA
White swan
Off white
i think pastry is too orange too, but dh likes it.
yes it is dulux antique white usa.
what is the difference between the antique white and the whites you mentioned?
i am really looking for a rich creamy colour.
thanks for all your help by the way! i really appreciate it.
White swan is a more like antique white, off white and chalk are a little more creamy.
I don't think you'll go wrong with antique white, maybe warm it up with a warm creamy brown based paint as a feature wall?
How'd you go ginger?
no further yet!
still trying to get dh to paint a sample of the antique white on the wall so i can see what it looks like.
also have samples here of magnolia and hogs breath half here that i want to see on the wall. must get on dh's back about it tonight! lol
We have done a couple of renovations. The colour we choose was Dulux Fair Bianca. It's a soft creamy white. If you want a stronger cream colour, Lamarque is the same tint at double the strength of Fair Bianca. We have used that too. I found both colours go really nicely with our mainly wood furniture & brown couches. We found out later that my brother had also painted his house in Fair Bianca. My parents have since painted their house in the same colour.
Fair Bianca is nice :):
I live in a very old 100 plus farm house. Huge ceilings etc. When my MIL did up the lounge she used Dulux Pale Tendril on the walls and antique white fir the trims. It is a green colour. She went full strength but i really like it half or quarter.
Good luck picking colours is so hard. My Dh doesn't help as he's colour blind
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that sounds lovely megs. i will check that green out.
rowellen- i have actually thought of getting a sample pot of lamarque. might add it to my list
Deluxe - Hogs Bristle 3/4.
You can always add coded or taupe feature walls later if you wants too.... Hogs Bristle is a very popular base colour for many current new homes - tends to work with everything.
Good luck.
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Ginger, we've got Solver all through our house, it's really good, durable paint. Trying to find the colour chip to remember the name, ours is a very very light cream, doesn't hang out at all, with the doors all done in a half-tint.
Dh is loving the solver intermezzo so I think that's what we'll end up doing
Just to be annoying.....
Have you checked out grey pebble? We have it 1/4 strength on wall and 1/2 on arcs and doors in a gloss. Our house is only 4 months old.... the decorator chose it because it is a grey tone (whats "in" atm) instead of a yellow one. Our house is a cold one but we find the colour nice and warm and inviting. It also goes really well with dark furniture :)