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10 ways to use Little Greene's ‘Slaked Lime’
An enduringly popular and soft off-white, ‘Slaked Lime’ by Little Greene might just be the perfect neutral. Striking the balance between not too warm and not too cold, the colour is an easy backdrop if you want something with a little more personality than a stark, harsh, bog-standard white. It provides a wonderful grounding for either a cool, neutral scheme of grey, blue and brown, just as well as it will offset a tangy orange paint or dark wood furniture. As well as the original shade, ‘Slaked Lime’ comes in three other variations; ‘Slaked Lime - Mid’ a soft beige which is just slightly darker than the original, ‘Slaked Lime - Dark’, even darker, a little more grey and a touch cooler, and finally ‘Slaked Lime - Deep’, another deeper, earthier hue with a slightly warmer, cement-like tone. Interior designers love the versatile paint; ‘Slaked Lime’ from Little Greene is a lovely white…it’s particularly good when the fabric in the room has a yellow ground colour', says Nicole Salvesen. Below, discover the best uses of the paint in houses from our archive.
Paul Massey1/10Nicola Harding opted for ‘Slaked Lime - Mid’ on the varnished floorboards of this 17th century house. ‘It’s a very durable floor paint and it makes a quieter under story for the room. Besides, we wanted to use as much as we could of the existing materials,’ she says.
Owen Gale2/10In Georgina Cave of Cave Interior's London house, the walls, woodwork and ceiling are painted in 'Slaked Lime Mid' with 'Slaked Lime Dark' on the shelves.
Michael Sinclair3/10Walls painted in 'Slaked Lime' and floorboards in Farrow & Ball's 'Lamp Room Gray' bring a fresh feel to the ground floor of this Oxfordshire cottage designed by Sarah Delaney.
Owen Gale4/10A popular neutral white, Charlotte and Angus Buchanan of Buchanan Studio have opted for ‘Slaked Lime’ in their own home in north-west London. They say it ‘is the neutral we return to again and again in our projects at Buchanan Studio… Our own home is painted in it top to bottom.’
Michael Sinclair5/10Looby Crean chose ‘Slaked Lime Mid’ for this panelling in her house in Chiswick, with Zoffany's ‘Verdure’ wallpaper above. The radiators are ‘Princess’ antique radiators from The Old Radiator Company.
Ursula Armstrong6/10In Jennifer Pelzig's Georgian house in the Chilterns, the entrance hall on the side of the house has walls in 'Slaked Lime' and a door in Atelier Ellis' ‘Plume’. It appears that this is a darker variation of the colour, either ‘Slaked Lime - Deep’ 'or 'Slaked Lime Dark'.
Ursula Armstrong7/10In the same house, Jennifer's younger son's nursery is also painted in 'Slaked Lime'. This reuse of the colour around the house gives a sense of continuity and harmony between the rooms.
Ursula Armstrong8/10Finally, in the bathroom, 'Slaked Lime' appears again on the walls to create a calming, muted space. The tin bath came from Indigenous in Burford.
Dean Hearne9/10In Simon Hutchinson's studio, the walls are also painted in Little Greene's ‘Masquerade Mid’. It makes a perfect backdrop to the bright products and illustrations in the room. The woodwork is painted in ‘Slaked Lime’.
Dean Hearne10/10In the bedroom of the same house, the wall colour is ‘Caravan’ by Paint and Paper Library. Again, the woodwork is 'Slaked Lime', allowing the vibrant terracotta to really sing without standing out like a too-bright white would. The back of the door is a bespoke mix by Simon.
