Skirts & Fireplace - what colour?

[DoubleSix]

Just painting the fireplace and skirts having done the walls. I know the photos aren't great but, opinions very welcome.

Now should I press on with Pure White (eggshell) as I have begun on the fireplace or is it too contrasting/bright. Should I maybe switch to a Roman White or some kind of off white...

Can't decide if I like the bright white finish or not, what do you reckon?

Edited by DoubleSix on Wednesday 12th September 19:34

[DoubleSix]

hmm yeah off white can look a bit.... off.

You can see in the second picture the skirts are an off white.

[DoubleSix]

skintemma said:

I like the fireplace white, actually. The contrast is good. That's coming from someone who's always insisted on F&B new white for skirtings and ceilings (which is not actually white, but off white). Nice wall colours - what are they?

Thanks, spent a while choosing them and went through some 8 samples..

Walls are from the Dulux Heritage range; DH Pearl, and the feature wall is Dulux Urban Obsession

Thanks for your feedback, this now means I've got to do all the skirts white! I hate working with oil based paint... oh well

Edited by DoubleSix on Wednesday 12th September 22:38

[DoubleSix]

5potTurbo said:

Worst "look at my new fireplace" thread

Who me?, never...

Thanks for all the nice comments!

What you guys cant see is an original 6 paned window on the opposite wall to the fireplace, this has been moved (from where im standing) to create a glass wall through to the kitchen.

So lots of woodwork to do me thinks!!

[DoubleSix]

Interesting CY88 but to my knowledge emulsion over the top of oil based paint is a big no no...

[DoubleSix]

aberdeeneuan said:

Pure white for me - really zings out against the feature wall colour. I have a thing for pure white skirtings though, our whole house has that.

Lovely fireplace as well though - is the surround new? We were looking at replacing ours as it's a 60s relic with no mantle with a new surround and decide between a modern slim floating gas fed fire or a more traditional limestone one. But the wood you have there might swing my mind again!

Well, I ended up removing the fire surround today as I wasn't happy with the transition from brush to roller, so you can see the fire surround is actually a very simple construction put together using some good quality pieces of wood. Hope that helps.



And this is what I was trying to describe, bloody great wooden framed window in the middle of the house that will look silly if I don't do it white to match the skirts....