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14/4/2015

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I recently mentioned magnolia - the wall paint colour often dismissed as boring. I think because it is so often used as a fall-back and completely inoffensive make-over colour we have decided it is bland and uninteresting.

My own colour on all the walls in all my houses is Dulux Brilliant White Matt Emulsion. The white cube gallery. Reflecting all available light. It lifts my spirits, always. It's as exciting as a newly primed canvas. Love it.

That's not to say i am not seduced by Farrow and Ball, Fired Earth and Annie Sloan wonderful (no preparation required) subtle chalky interestingly named paints. Germolene! Mouse Back! Timidity! (Timidity?) Pure, Paris Grey, Dove, Graceful Graphite.....I bought lots of little sample pots and had fun painting picture frames, door frames, skirting boards and small pieces of furniture and I 'colourwashed' natural wood kitchen worktops which had become a little too orangey for my liking with a lovely Fired Earth colour called Malm.

Pinterest have pages devoted to paint colours including The Twenty Best Shades of White, The Best Greys and Twelve Paint Colours for Candlelight.

How do you choose from the thousands of available colours?

Are you influenced by the name?

Do you have a favourite?
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elaine link
15/4/2015 01:40:08 am

I am in full agreement about white - I once had a house where every room was painted white and I loved it - very often paint colours with funny names are a disappointment - and finding the right colours is downright difficult - with white you know where you stand.

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Freda
23/4/2015 05:17:22 am

You do know where you are with white!

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cath
15/4/2015 02:02:15 am

Our colour is white too. We tried a nightblue wall once but that was our only - shortlived- experiment.

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Freda
23/4/2015 05:18:16 am

I once tried - would you believe it - orange! Awful!

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Sarah link
17/4/2015 05:54:10 am

We too have brillant white walls on our new home. We had farrow and ball paints in our old home and I keep looking at the paint charts but the white colours all seem to have quitw a strong tint of other colours that it put me off buying any! Sarah x

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Freda
23/4/2015 05:19:29 am

Your new home must feel very fresh with its white walls Sarah.

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