Help choosing a F&B green for the living room
I'm trying to choose a F&B green for my new living room. I've got samples of Breakfast Room Green and Calke Green. Sometimes I lean towards one and sometimes the other, and sometimes think neither will work!
I like the richness of Calke Green but I'm worried it will overpower the room and may clash a bit with the honey tones of the floorboards.
The room has big windows and is NW facing, so it's not dark but doesn't get much direct sunlight. It's a small/medium size room with big sized ceilings.
I'm planning to do the bookshelves, mantle, windows etc in white - I've seen a lot of pictures of people doing the woodwork green too but I find that too heavy and flat.
I find it really hard to visualise things - I'm sure I could pick what I like if it was fully painted but impossible to tell from even a large sample. Does anyone have any advice or preference???
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3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoPersonally I’m fond of Hardwick White with warm wood floors.
Although it may not appear so here on screen by comparison to Calke and Breakfast Room Green, it can in many spaces read as a more earthy, greyed green.
Hardwick White is actually lighter than either of the others but can appear darker with shifting light. It has approximately only half the Chroma of Calke and Breakfast Room Green, so it is more neutral by comparison.
It sits in the Yellow Hue Family, closer to the wooden floors in the Yellow-Red Hue Family, so the contrast between them isn’t quite so magnified as in the other combinations.
Calke and Breakfast Room Green are in the Green-Yellow Hue Family, a little more clockwise on the Color Strategist Wheel below.
They all work with your flooring. The Calke reminds me more of a formal Victorian study, library or smoking room.
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Sonia
3 years agoFarrow & Ball do some lovely greens. I’ve used Cromarty which is a pale grey-green and looks lovely with white woodwork and a red rug. Mizzle is similar but a little darker. Obviously if you are looking for a bold green then they wouldn’t do. The last pic is Card Room Green.
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Juliet Docherty
3 years agoIt looks good but it does look quite 'stimulating' if that's what you are after. If you want it to look calmer then a warm dirtier neutral that reads as green may be worth considering. Light Grey 17 can look warm and calming on the walls and would complement the earthy browns well.
Just a different look perhaps.
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3 years agoKatherine L
3 years agoI struggled with greens too but bought a tester pot of Wilko's Urban Jungle because it was very cheap so nothing to lose and it turned out to be the best of the lot for my east-facing room. Two years later I still like it and my decorator found it satisfactory, too
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3 years agominnie101
3 years agoOr if you’re wanting something darker you could also try mouses back, the light should bring the green out
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Laura
3 years agoWe painted our north facing lounge Card Room Green 7 years ago but it had started to look dull. Our other rooms are more bold and it looked more neutral. We tried chalke green but we didn’t like the tone. We went for duck green in the end with white windows and furniture, but green shelving. We love it and embraced orange tones too
HU-332680634 thanked Lauravictoriaburvill
3 years agoWe used Calke green in our NW facing study. with white (Dulux almond white) to be a bit uplifting for work. Not finished moving back in yet but we like it. We used a grey colour for woodwork (I’ll look it up if you’re interested)
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3 years agoJez Phillips
3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoAileen Madlin
3 years agoWe've used breakfast room green on one wall in purple living room and absolutely love it
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