Every Paint Colour in My House Pt. 2

why I chose them and what I think now

In my last post, I shared all the colours I used on the first floor of our Victorian terrace in London. I wrote so much I had to split it into two posts. So here we are! Let’s head upstairs, shall we?

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Stairwell

Brilliant White by Dulux

Here’s a colour that I really, truly love. Is it even a colour? An absence of colour? Who knows. I’ve used Brilliant White - which is the bog standard white available, also called “builder’s white” - in our long stairwell and I have no regrets. It goes with everything (obviously) and doesn’t interfere with our stripped woodwork throughout and our bright stained glass window on one of the landings. I recently used it in a project that required enormous amounts of paint for cathedral ceilings and I can’t tell you how many times I (and the homeowner) have been asked to share which white we used. (Now you know!)

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Office

Tea & Toast by Atelier Ellis

Our rarely-pictured home office is a really nice room. We opened up the ceiling to expose the pitch and original rafters, which we left untouched. It’s also a dark and freezing cold room (being exposed on three sides and north facing with one window) that no one but Eric (a Scandinavian who loves the cold) spends any meaningful amount of time in. Tea & Toast is a dirty, masculine (can we even say that anymore?) brown that I would probably not be inclined to use in any room but this kind - one with lots of dark wood, painted brick, BDE. All this to say, I’m still very into it and I hear that occasionally whomever Eric is chatting to on Zoom says they like it, too.

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Laundry