We are building a home office and I love the use of grey/white combos - like this:

Home Office Photo

I realise this grey is closer to charcoal in some lights and perhaps I'd go something a bit lighter but Im aware that greys can look cold if they have too blue a tint/base.

Any recommendations?

Thanks.

I'll have to dig out my samples, I've got a buttload of greys, but two from memory you could have a look at to start with is Dulux 'Timeless Grey' and 'Simone Weil' (or maybe Guild Grey for a darker colour). Simone Weil and Guild Grey have more blue in them but they aren't totally cold, there is still warmth in them.

Some of the 'purer' greys actually look a little muddy and almost greenish sometimes, a tiny bit of red can help warm a grey up, even if it has some blue in it too (not enough to turn it purpley though).

There were a couple in the Wattyl range I think? I've got sample pots of so I'll dig around and find them.

It's not a bad thing to go with a dark paint if the room gets a decent amount of natural light during the day. Especially for something like a study/home office, creating a cosy 'warm' atmosphere with dark paints can work quite well.

I have Taubmann's Char Gray in my bedroom, which looks similar to the colour in your sample pic.

Thanks guys. That's a great start!

The room is quite big and has one long window taking up almost an entire wall (although south facing) so I'm confident there would be enough natural light to pull off a darker colour if complimented with light furniture.

Do you think a dark carpet would be OK too? I was looking at grey/charcoal but the pic I linked to actually has a light coloured flooring.

I like that colour grey in the photo. I think it's awesome. Any paintings or artwork you put on the wall will go with it. The white sets it off nicely.

Yeah it can work well, even with quite dark walls. You can always use furniture and rugs to break it up a bit anyway.

I'm preparing my home office with similar colours OP.

I've just brought a little test bottle of the Dulux GR12 Silkwort. It's in their Raw range if you go to their website. Yet to put some on the walls though.

I had Dulux "limed white" (P13B1) on the walls in my last home, and white trim. The colour is very soft and warm. Grey and white is a lovely combination, especially with warm accents (red, orange).

I used that pic as inspiration too OP!

Love it!

The grey and white work really well together

tinkster23 - how cool! Which grey did you end up using on your walls?

Picked up some colour swatches on the weekend thanks to all your suggestions. Now need to narrow down for sample pots!

OP that color is awesome. We're planning to do a feature wall in our home office and are looking at chocolatey brown colors but i might show that to DH and see what he thinks.


Not meaning to hijack your thread OP...but does anyone have any suggestions on what color might work in a cinema room? We currenly have a color which is called Milkweed throughout the house except of a couple of feature walls we've already painted. Looking to do the cinema room but having real trouble deciding on the color.

Dulux Linseed is a taupe which I classify as warm grey - looks fab with white.

I've only seen quite dark, warm colours in cinema rooms.

We ended up with taubmans Illawarra which is no where near the original color we're going to do better in this house.

We did just do a feature in our theatre of beaver creek and it's a lovely dark grey.

Have no idea what it's called but we have mid brown colour in our cinema / lounge room.
(Not much help, I know.. sorry!)

LURVE the pic of the study. Going to save it as we're about to re-do ours.
(Did find it quite interesting that in the pic there is that beautiful huge desk... and no computer at all?!)

Good luck OP. The Grey and white really do look beautiful together.

I love that office! Im a huge grey fan!

Funny isn't it although I did see a keyboard?!

Thanks for the additional replies. I'm getting some sample pots this weekend and will update for those who are interested.

Buy a piece of 3mm MDF or similar and use that to paint out the sample pots on. It will give you a better idea of the colours in the room itself. Also, don't paint the samples next to each other otherwise they will all impact how they look and you won't get an accurate representation of each of the samples. Try and view the samples in as natural light as possible, but also in the room too so it gives you an idea of how it will look with the light that comes in.

Although I'm probably already telling you stuff you already know. I had a look through what I thought was the box of grey sample pots but they have been mixed with the beiges, there was two quite dark greys though, 'Ticking' and 'Western Myall' which are nice, Ticking with a bit more blue in it (but not heaps, it's still quite deep and warm).

Thanks Amanda. Great advice and appreciate the colour suggestions too.

Hi Guys

Thought I'd come in and let you know what we ended up going with:

Haymes "Sense"

We tried a few others but they were too brown toned. This worked perfectly.

Thanks for all your input!

Looks gorgeous, would love to see it on the walls.

I just repainted the whole internal of my house based on that photo. We used dulux Doe. In smaller rooms we did 50% strength. It looks great with white and dark timber also. It doesnt have that pink or purple tinge that some greys have.

I agree!

I'll wait for carpet and furniture so I can give you the overall look (and also, I have no idea how to load photos in the forum!).