Little Greene · Inspiration

Dining Room

Drawn for candlelight rather than daylight, which is when the room is actually used. A red this deep looks heavy at eleven in the morning and comes into its own at eight at night.

Bonaparte in Red Gold wallpaper by Little Greene

Bonaparte in Red Gold Little Greene · 7 colourways in this collection →

Walls
Woodwork
Accent

Roughly the proportions we’d use: most of the room in one colour, a third of it in the woodwork, and about a tenth of it brave.

Walls

Preference Red

Farrow & Ball · No. 297

Woodwork

Joanna

Little Greene · No. 130

Accent

Babouche

Farrow & Ball · No. 223

Ask us about it

These were put together by us rather than worked out from a photograph, but a screen is still a screen: the paper and the paint will both look different in your own light. Bring the paper and a sample pot together in the room, in daylight, before you commit.

See It In Person

Photographs never do a paper justice

The sample book for Bonaparte is on the shelf, and the Brush Boards are on the wall. Come and hold them together at 41 Bridge Street, Godalming.

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