The Lounge

After learning that there is an enormous amount of grey paint on the market, I decided to take a break from the house.  I was over grey!! This was until the decorator was ready to start painting our lounge.  Something occured to me.  The big pot of paint that I had mixed looked fabulous in the tester pot, but I hadn't tested the 5 litre pot on the real wall.

Dulux Dove was the chosen shade. This is what it looked like when I tested it on a patch of actual wall.

Dulux Dove mixed paint

Dove grey - is grey. Right? Well this looks lilac to me.  Despite wanting to use lilac as my accent in the grey room, I certainly didn't want lilac walls for this room.  Afterall, I hadn't tested 20+ shades of grey to end up with lilac.

There was one grey that I kept looking at but didn't try.  It had to be it - Farrow and Ball Pavilion Grey.

This is how we found the lounge and take a look at the journey so far...

Our decorator advised us to have the room lined with lining paper before it was painted - even with the lining paper, the lounge started to look better.  Before the grey was applied, we had the room coated with white emulsion so the lining paper didn't absorb the grey paint. 

Finally it was time to see the chosen GREY.  

Seeing the sharp white against the grey looked striking - so for now, we've decided to leave the white as our feature wall around the fireplace...

More lounge updates soon. Hope you like so far.