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The received wisdom says small rooms should be white. In practice, a deep, saturated colour applied with the right finish can make a cramped box room feel calmer, deeper and strangely larger. Here is when going dark genuinely works — and when it really doesn't.
Decorating a period home well isn't about recreating a museum piece. It's about working with ceiling heights, mouldings and original features to choose colours and finishes that suit both the architecture and modern life.
The same white can look crisp in a sunlit hallway and distinctly grey in a north-facing living room. Here is how natural light direction, undertones and sheen levels affect white and neutral paint in British homes, and how to choose room by room.