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), but it’s true that there are certain colours that just work better than others in north facing rooms.Let’s be clear!

However, using warm, earthy greens like Just because you are decorating your north facing room doesn’t mean you can’t go for grey here too.

Earthborn Claypaint in For something other than white, but still light in tone, choose warm neutral paint colours like You may find that many whites and off-whites look strangely dingy in your north facing room. Rich, luxurious colours like Hobby Wood (right) help to create an intimate atmosphere in north facing rooms and allow other colours to pop.Have you used any of our recommended paint colours, or do you have other suggestions for painting dark rooms? The difference will be that if there are some big windows and no obstructions, it’s possible to have quite a bright north facing room. Whites, off-whites and creamy neutrals come in so many different shades, and there’s one for every type of room, whatever direction it’s facing.Any room can be made to feel lighter simply by painting the ceiling white, so it reflects light instead of absorbing it. You could try using a fresh green colour such as eau de Nil for the majority of the space and then paint one wall in rich teal, for example.

Alabaster Sherwin-Williams paint is a warm white with neutral undertones that will not turn cold and blue in a north-facing room. One of the best ways to brighten up a kitchen is with pale - preferably white - high-gloss unit doors, as these bounce light around the room. Generally speaking, a north facing room, is going to have more of a cool, gray tinged light. We repainted one wall a deep orange/red and the rest in good old Navajo white. Our colour Peddar’s Way is a beautifully warm colour with a touch of sandstone. More realistic is changing the window treatment - swap fussy curtains for sleek roller blinds, for example, and you’ll instantly let in more light.Another radical solution is to remove a wall. The problem with some pure brilliant white emulsions is that they’re really creamy off-white, which is not what you expect, or want, from a product called ‘pure brilliant white’. Warm it up. Registered Address: 37 Chequer Street, St Albans, Hertfordshire , AL1 3YJBy submitting this form, you agree that we may contact you about your enquiry using the details you have provided. The incoming natural light is cool with blue undertones -- not a warm… And the reason for this is mainly to do with light. If you value what this story gives you, please consider supporting the Ham&High. but knowing if it will actually work in your room is another matter entirely.In this post we’ll focus on choosing the best paint colours for dark, north facing rooms, which, in the UK, are notoriously difficult rooms to decorate.

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Last week a client asked what could be done to make a north-facing living room more appealing to potential buyers? A mix of these will create a soft, warm light in your room.” PA Photo/Handout.For this reason, it’s best to avoid cold colours like grey and stick to warm ones; go for yellows and creamy neutrals to make the room feel lighter and brighter.

North-facing rooms are always a challenge to decorate, because they get little or no direct sunlight, and any little natural light they do get is cold. One of the easiest ways of all to keep your room warmer is to use the sun, mother nature's original space heater. This room direction is typically low light and doesn’t have the bright yellow direct sunlight that a south and west-facing room has. Crisp and light, yet warm at the same time, which helps balance the fact that a north-facing room tends to be dark. You can also see the sunlight pouring into my south-facing sitting room.In the past 15 years it’s safe to say our family only used the living room as a place to pass through.

)Here's how my north-facing living room looks during the day with no lights on despite the red/orange colors. Our favourites are Flower Pot (left) is a warm terracotta colour taken from natural clay. But still it was nagging on me because I couldn’t name the reason  why during the day the living room still didn’t feel “warm” to me.Then I read an article by Maria Killam who writes about design and color on her blog, Colour Me Happy, entitled A light colour will never come to life in a dark room but a rich, deep colour can make a dim, somber space feel warm and luminous – even though it receives no natural light.This probably sounds silly but those words finally gave me permission to drop the idea that someway, somehow that room could be something it is not.Time to go find something else silly to obsesses about.This photo of my living room was taken minutes after the photo at the top of the post. Whichever north-facing room you’re decorating, it’s important that you consider the furniture in it.
Contrary to popular belief, painting a dark room in a white paint colour won’t necessarily make it feel any lighter, especially if the room has a cold light anyway and the white in question has a cool or grey undertone. Even a north facing room with big windows can still appear quite dark.


Earthborn Rocky Horse (left) may be dark but it’s warm and inviting too.