What colour shall I paint my hallway?

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• 08-Sep-2008 10:48

  What colour shall I paint my hallway?

  HeidiHole Joined on 22-Feb-2003 United Kingdom Posts 34,267

  Contact We've just decorated our sitting room and next weekend Mr Hole wants to do the hallway.  I am all out of inspiration, looking at all the colour charts online has made me colour blind. It's quite a big job as we have wide stairs and the paint has to follow through to the whole upstairs and loft conversion.  Also, our stairs turn after the first 4 steps so there's a big piece of wall where a very big grey and black painting is going, so it has to fit that too. I'm thinking a cappuccino colour, but am all paint coloured out.  Please heyulp me. Fankoo

• 08-Sep-2008 10:51

  Re: What colour shall I paint my hallway?

  Kegsey Joined on 18-Nov-2005 United Kingdom Posts 6,421	Contact What colours do you have in the rest of the house (that aren't going  to get decorated in the foreseeable)?  What colours do you like - neutrals, brights, rich?  Do you want the hall to tie the rest of the house together?  What colour carpet/floor do you have (assuming that isn't going to change)?

• 08-Sep-2008 10:53

  Re: What colour shall I paint my hallway?

  Kekepania Joined on 18-Apr-2006 United Kingdom Posts 999

  Contact Dulux Egyptian Cotton.  Kind of a grey-ish colour.  We've just painted our hallway, upstairs and living room with it and its lovely.  We have a big hallway and it works really well.  The other one I love is Dulux Gentle Fawn - a very soft grey-purple colour.  Our bedrooms are this colour.  MrK is not very colour adventurous so I was quite impressed to get him away from Magnolia.  We've also used the silk version which has already proved very useful when it comes to wiping off grubby finger marks!

• 08-Sep-2008 10:53

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  Sparkley Joined on 29-Oct-2002 United Kingdom Posts 23,023	Contact Yellow, I love yellow hallways A day without sequins is hardly worth living!

• 08-Sep-2008 10:53

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  HeidiHole Joined on 22-Feb-2003 United Kingdom Posts 34,267	Contact Oh yes, I meant to mention the carpet, sorry It's a beigy biscuity colour and runs throughout the downstairs/stairs and landings.  The sitting room is a steely grey colour with black and pewter.  The hallway doesn't necessarily have to match that though.

• 08-Sep-2008 10:54

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  Sunset21 Joined on 19-May-2005 United Kingdom Posts 30,932	Contact I can tell you what not to go for.  Don't pick warm beige, it looks like plaster.

• 08-Sep-2008 10:56

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  HeidiHole Joined on 22-Feb-2003 United Kingdom Posts 34,267	Contact Sparkley: Yellow, I love yellow hallways It's a pale yellow at the moment, Sparks, I hate it Kekapania, will looks those colours up too!

• 08-Sep-2008 10:56

  Re: What colour shall I paint my hallway?

  HeidiHole Joined on 22-Feb-2003 United Kingdom Posts 34,267	Contact Sunset21: I can tell you what not to go for.  Don't pick warm beige, it looks like plaster.

• 08-Sep-2008 10:57

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  Sunset21 Joined on 19-May-2005 United Kingdom Posts 30,932	Contact http://www.dulux.co.uk/inspiration/latest_trends/nurture.jsp  this might give you some inspiration.  I found the Dulux a great help when we picked our 'overtly olive' living room.

• 08-Sep-2008 10:58

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  MD Joined on 05-Nov-2006 The Cold North Posts 4,716	Contact Our was recently re-plastered and is now sparkly white (you get snow blind in it!).  We are going to paint it a warm grey/purple colour. try the crown paint website - you can select 5(?) colours from their charts and they will send you an A5 size piece of card painted the colours for free. Its great!  But do pick them from a paint chart as the website colours are very skewed.

• 08-Sep-2008 11:06

  Re: What colour shall I paint my hallway?

  HeidiHole Joined on 22-Feb-2003 United Kingdom Posts 34,267	Contact Thanks everyone, will check them all out.

• 08-Sep-2008 11:07

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  pink alien Joined on 21-Jan-2007 United Kingdom Posts 3,813	Contact Natural Hessian is nice if you like neutrals, we have it in our kitchen http://www.dulux.co.uk/servlet/GetTheLookHandler?folder=bedroom030 Ours is apple white which is bright but soothing http://www.dulux.co.uk/servlet/ColourSchemeHandler?name=apple_white I'm so into green at the moment!

• 08-Sep-2008 11:12

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  Sunset21 Joined on 19-May-2005 United Kingdom Posts 30,932	Contact Isn't natural hessian more of a cream?  My SIL has it in her living room.

• 08-Sep-2008 11:24

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  Chicken Joined on 13-May-2002 United Kingdom Posts 24,272	Contact Blue and white Hooooooopsaaaaaah. I'm painting my whole house white.

• 08-Sep-2008 11:28

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  POD Joined on 25-Apr-2003 United Kingdom Posts 9,485

  Contact Are you pleased with the living room? Can't believe they got it all done in a weekend, send them my direction please. Obviously Chook's blue and white suggestion is the best but if you struggle with the stripes this colour is lovely on walls http://www.farrow-ball.com/productdetails.aspx?pid=0201SW&cid=PC&language=en-GB If you have a trade paints near you they'll mix and it's much better value and better paint.