We've been Farrow & Balling

Now some of you may be familiar with the posh paint that is Farrow & Ball and some of you may not be. Let's just say that it's amazing and about twice or so the price of boring old Dulux and Sherman Williams. The best part about this stuff is that the colors are all historic. So that means we'll be using something that is sympathetic to the age of the house...or that's the idea at least.

As with all paint selection it was a case of try try try again. We got loads of tester pots (to see the tester pot pyramid see below) to try and pick two colors for the dining room and hall and two colors for the front room. The idea being that in each room the fireplace would have an "accent color". Aren't we fancy hehe.

So after much trial and tribulation we ended up going a lot bolder in the living room then we thought and we settled on Green Smoke and Pigeon for the dining room and Hardwick white and Shaded white for the front room. I can assure you that I'm not planning on painting my room with a skyrat nor have I ever seen one this shade of green so I'll just take it that the creatives at F&B were being a taking a bit of creative license with the name. Here's the some small test patches on the walls and fully painted walls to come!
               Shaded White & Hardwick White (little strip)   Pigeon & Green Smoke (little strip)