We have done all of the downstairs open plan area in Caspar white quarter. Skirts done in same colour in gloss with vivid white ceiling & cornice. We had a4 samples of 4 Dulux whites: Snowy Mountains 1/2, white exchange 1/2, white polar 1/4. Moved the samples to every room with hubby & wrote down which we preferred. Tried them in north and south rooms in day and night light. CW1/4 was hands down the favourite. It looks great - crisp & clean with no blue, we love it. Photos were taken at night. Hope this helps.

tysm. that's a great help. my kitchen will be in laminex chalk white with some laminex classic oak bits. A bit nervous about the chalk white as I cant find any examples of it online but will see how it looks when it is installed and match wall paint to that. s m half looks best match with the sample. my.

Okay so I disagree with the advice to go white. I'd go for a soft green that recedes and makes the framed view dominate. White tends to stand out and pull towards you iykwim? I think sages and soft greens do work well as a neutral with a hint of colour. any pastels like pink and blue that also have grey undertones are calming. Soft blues echo the sky an the soft greens the trees. I have found a great melbourne company recently called tint. tintpaint.com.au. They give great personalised customer service and someone can talk you through your purchase. They will give free colour consults and they send all orders by mail. They send samples as large size wall stickers. Their range has some similar colours to dulux, and are quite on-trend in my opinion, but I find it easier to choose with a smaller range. If you are unsure of colour, choose something you like but use it half-strength, or even quarter strength. With the cork echoing the earth. colours that talk of trees and skies would really be nice. You could even do a full strength feature wall with half or quarter strength on the other walls to tone it down. This is a picture of the samples I ordered and the full colour range.

Choosing the right white is hard - so many options and they look different in every home. We are renovating our home and have new Blackbutt floors with mainly oak and teak wood furniture. Dulux has large a4 swatches for $1 that you can move from room to room easily without lots of patches on the wall. We purchased these for the 4 whites we were considering. We then numbered them on the front to make things easy and put them in every room in morning and artificial/evening light. We wrote down our preference for each room. While different whites work better in different rooms, by the end of the process we had a clear winner - Caspar White Quarter. A beautiful fresh white without any blue tones in our space. We painted this throughout with same colour in satin on the skirting.