LadyLucy
Posts: 29
10th May 2011 20:34
Has anyone ever painted any walls in their house a duck egg blue colour? If so, what paint did you use? I want to paint one wall in our bedroom this colour but I can't find anything I really like, except for something in the 'Kitchens' range from Dulux. Can this range be used in bedrooms?! The other blues are more of a sky/baby blue rather than duck egg.
vinoqueeno
Posts: 3511
10th May 2011 20:52
Hi,
Not sure if it's what you're looking for but when we were doing up our bedroom we wanted to go with a duck-egg blue theme & I'd terrible trouble finding a proper colour. In the end I went with one from Colortrend called "old blue". We lasted about a year with it & gave in and bought a beautiful wallpaper from Laura Ashley in a lovely duck egg colour instead and just did a feature wall and then added accessories in duck egg instead.
One word of warning - I bought the B&Q "duck egg" colour thinking "sure that'll be perfect".....it looked like a horrible mint green up on the wall
yippeeme
Posts: 2139
10th May 2011 20:57
Our sitting room is a duck egg blue colour either side of the chimney breast. Found it really hard to get a nice duck egg blue colour, but in the end we went for Colour Trend Historic Collection in Greengauge. it was the best duck egg colour by far that i could find! HTH
Dollydel
Posts: 1726
10th May 2011 21:09
We painted our spare bedroom Little Blue, very similar to Duck Egg Blue from the My Space dulex range.
Done one wall silver can't remember the name of the exact colour.
The room turned out really well we put a white bed and locker in also.
atina
Posts: 2240
11th May 2011 03:45
Home base do their own brand duck egg...its lovely and cheaper then others
bettyandclive
Posts: 233
11th May 2011 07:16
I just painted a room with Laura Ashley duck egg and it's gorgeous. I tried sample after sample of
other brands but nothing compared. There are two shades don't pick the pale one. There was a sale on recently I think I got it for around 50.
betty draper
Posts: 728
11th May 2011 12:15
my kitchen is a duck egg colour.
Got a dulux one made up its highland falls 3 or 4 - whichever is darker.
turned out fantastic!
Twirl
Posts: 5598
11th May 2011 12:27
I have my spare room painted purple and i am mad to change it to Duck Egg i just love the colour, it is so rich and inviting looking.
It does mean however that i will have to get new curtains and get rid of my fab julian macdonald cushion but other than that have the white bed, white linen and ready to go.
BallerinaBride09
Posts: 610
11th May 2011 12:32
We painted our nursery in duck egg. We bought a good few samples and found that Laura Ashley 'Pale Duck Egg' was almost identical to Homebase Sanctuary 'Escape'. Now the quality of the Laura Ashley paint was probably better but we went for Homebase as it was literally half the price. Really happy with the colour, it's so calm.
If you really want to blow the budget Farrow and Ball paints are gorgeous and have really rich undertones - they would definitely have a good duck egg.
mrs bmw
Posts: 6447
11th May 2011 13:24
Yeah my sitting room is duck egg blue with cream, can't for the life of me remember the name of the paint, it was Dulux I think. Got matching curtains and cushions in Argos.