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Should I Style my Home with Greige this 2019?

Although grey and beige by themselves may not seem like the most exciting colours to decorate your home with, when combined, they can make a wonderfully light and airy space which allows certain accent pieces of furniture, home accessories and other unique and individual components in your home to stand out in your spaces.

Greige is a colour which has been steadily increasing in popularity for a couple of years and is now a very prominent colour combination in the world of home décor. 

It is as a result of greige’s perfect combination of warm and neutral tones which makes it the perfect colour for painting walls with, as well as accessorising with too.



Becky Shea, an interior designer in the paint world suggests that Greige is now the chamelelon of the paint world as ‘Unlike other colours that may cast pinker or bluer, greige never sways further than a deeper grey or beige on the spectrum, so you know exactly what you're working with.’

However, there are a few rules which you should follow in order to achieve the best finish and final overall look from your Greige colour scheme which will be listed below!

If you need any more help or advice when decorating with your Greige colour scheme, read this article and then don’t hesitate to DM, Email or Call us for some help.

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Firstly, check the lighting in your new Greige space

Before you commit to anything, you must firstly assess the light in the space which you are deciding to change into your brand new greige space.

As a result of the combination colour which greige is, the light in your room can affect how the colour looks in your space- very much like many other colours too.

However, as a result of the typically light and pastel tones in greige, different shading can make your greige look either more grey or more beige in different areas.

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The colour of your greige can also be affected quite largely by either the artificial or natural lighting in your home.


If your greige tone has warmer colours within it, the artificial lighting can bring out more warm tones in your colour scheme, however if it is natural light, it can sometimes make the greige look colder than it is too. 

This can also add pink tones, brown tones, grey tones and even white tones to your greige colour scheme too.



Try to match your Greige shade to your flooring and cabinets

If there are any individual pieces of furniture, cabinets, tables, or even room accessories which you don’t want to remove from your home, you may want to find a specific greige tone which will match these already existing pieces of furniture.

This can be easily done by creating a mood board in order to place together a variety of greige tones and see if they work with your existing pieces in your space.

However, you also have the option of ‘upcyling’ your existing pieces of furniture too! You can use a grey, white or grey colour and re-paint the furniture in order for them to work with your new Greige colour scheme.

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Choosing your perfect Greige Shade

Although many of the most popular shades of greige can be lighter, the bolder and darker tones of greige can work brilliantly in your home too!

Whether they are a feature wall with the other walls being a lighter greige colour, or whether you are covering the entire room in a darker greige shade, lighting can determine how the colours will look in your spaces.

Although many individuals believe that darker greige shades can make your spaces feel smaller and compact, if your space receives quite a but of light, it can make the spaces seem large and airy, even with a darker tone too.

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Always sample, sample sample!

If you’ve decided on the perfect shade of Greige for you, great! You can order straight away, however it is always recommended to buy a couple of tester pots in order for you to gauge what colour is best for your space!

As detailed above, different shades of Greige can look very different depending on the lighting of the colour, as well as the space it is occupied in. 

This means that purchasing a few different Greige shades will be the best way to determine whether it will work in your given spaces!

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Make sure that you test the pot on a large space of your wall, preferably on different walls too, as testing the colour on paper can make the colour of your paint look very different than it looks on the wall!

Using a larger space to test your Greige shade will also allow you to have an accurate visual representation of what the greige colour will end up looking like on your walls. 

We recommend at least doing a 12 by 12 inch square on a couple of walls in your space.

We usually recommend testing at least three different Greige shades in order to determine which will be the best for you- that’s why we have a 3 for £10.99 offer on your tester pots- however, you can always try more tester pots if you are unsure of the shade which you want in your chosen space!

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Give a couple of different accessories a good go!

The best thing about Greige is that it is the perfect base colour for many different shades! 

You perhaps would like to accessorise with a darker shade of greige, or even choose a grey or beige which you think will work with your painted walls, however you can also go bold with a wide variety of different brighter and bolder colours too!

As it is a neutral shade, it gives a great background to any accent colours which you are wanting to accessorise with, such as pink, navy blue and even yellow (depending on the shade of greige which you have chosen for your space!).


This particular colour also works perfectly no matter what type of décor style you have! 

Greige can work with a minimal style- and is even often said to compliment a minimalist style- however it can also work with a maximalist style too!

Greige is considered a very changeable colour, so it is the perfect shade if you like to change your décor quite frequently as you will not be fully restricted to a specific colour scheme, or even very specific room accessories as a result of the colour of the walls.



Which Greige Shades can I choose from?

There are so many different shades of Greige to choose from, it really depends on the space you are wanting to decorate, as well as the amount of light that your space receives!

However, some of my personal favourite shades of Greige are below:

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There are so many more you can choose from too!

If you have any more questions or issues, just DM us on either Twitter, Instagram or Facebook for some individual consultation advice.

OR Check out our OTHER Blog Posts for more information as well as handy Tips & Tricks!



Take a look at the video below for some more Greige inspiration!


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  1. Beautiful Colours. These Grey Shades are gaining popularity among the new designers.
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