Dark grey feature wall?

Hi everyone and thanks for the input! update time!

Well, after much deliberations we went with a color called "wild dove" which, despite our best efforts, we reasoned to be a nice grey from the color card in the paint shop. Anyway, and I am not totally sure of how exactly this happened, but once the paint was up and the lights were on it for some reason turned out to be purple!

On closer inspection Wild Dove really is a kinda purply-grey but when you see the color tab sitting there, amongst all the other normal colors, all you see is grey. The problem is compounded by the fact that we chose a semi-gloss paint which, under strong light, bounces out any component colors much stronger and brighter than would otherwise be seen in a mat finish.

I get the impression, after a little more research, that most conventional wall paints dont actually come in neutral grey, but are all varied blends of blue, green or purple greys. After all... who in their right mind would willingly paint a wall solid grey?

Anyway, the deliberations continue. We are going to repaint the wall... it wasn't hard, only took about 15 mins per coat and cost under $20 so its not the end of the world. As for the quest for the perfect grey... wish me luck haha.

Hello again everybody, long time no post but finally there has been some progress!

Thank you JUSTIMAGINE design, by your name it sounds like you are into design professionally which would account for your somewhat detailed knowledge of pain colors. Unfortunately for me, your expertise came a little to late as I had to find out the hard way that it can be rather difficult to source vogue pain colors off the dulux colorboard in bunnings warehouse!! Smile

Anyway just so you all know, I did repaint. I went with something from the Taubmans range, it was a grey called "tree bark". The toss-up was between that and another, very similar grey called "birch bark". As you can derive from their names, tree bark had a hint of green in it, and birch bark a hint of red/brown. Neither were as color influenced as the Wild Dove however.

Anyway, now the paint is up and its as close to perfect in my eyes as I could ever have imagined. The color itself is significantly darker than the Wild Dove grey but for some reason it actually doesn’t seem to "cave in" nearly as much as the old color did. Strange, maybe its because it actually looks quite nice now, so you don’t get that effect of confinement.

I am now in the process of putting up some pictures, as was the original intention with the grey feature wall concept. As soon as they are up I will post some pictures Cool

keep tuned!