We are finally sorting out our downstairs bedroom. The front wall and wall to the left of the window will be lime rendered / pointed as they need to breathe. The other 2 are made from breezeblock (not us!). We originally did the initial coat of lime render but to get them flat and not see the breezeblocks was going to be a nightmare so we took the decision to plasterboard them. I think.it will be warmer too by the bed.
My issue is paint colour. My default is white paint as I’m so bad at decision making and like the wood and white combo. I don’t however feel that white will work with the warm cream colour of the lime render. Has anyone got any ideas for me?? @Susannah 
This is the lime render outside the room in the hall to give you an idea of the tone.
From the door, it is glass and gives onto the east facing French doors and the window is west facing (ish).
All and any ideas welcome!!
Magnolia!
I’m not sure I agree about rejecting white, because it would nicely draw attention to the stones. I’ve seen a bold grey used in this sort of room, though it might make it too dark. Mid-grey? Or have I been watching too much Stéphane Plaza?
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I hope you are keeping the beautiful limestone wall?
I would paint the other walls, and the ceiling in the same colour, as here using a creamy F&B Pointing/White Tie dupe
What is your bedroom floor? That, although mostly covered by a bed, may suggest another possible wall tone.
What colour tones do you both love? Should make you feel calm, safe and happy. And maybe sexy (without obligation!)
If the fixed verticals are neutral you can have fun with the soft furnishings, even having a summer set and a winter set.
Just a few ideas for your enjoyment 
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Yes just pointing it with lime. Then the wall running from door to window will be lime as well but rendered.
I have ordered the F and B colour chart so will go and look!
Currently concrete! It had some awful cheap carpet that was meant to be there for 1 summer… 9 years later it is now killing some weeds for a new veg bed I always swore I wouldn’t but I’ve bought some click clack in a warm oak sort of colour, no yellow at all in it.
It’s not our room, is the guest bedroom! Ours is white of course as all I can ever decide on!!
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No worries.
I also like as @Porridge, the pale grey idea
Looks super cool with bright white bed linen and a white curtain.
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What would that be, a Dimpse?
Farrow and ball old white. It’s white but not too white and works really well in older properties !
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F&B Old White
Dimpse is a beautiful delicate grey but a little too cool against the limestone.
It isn’t on the chart! Have they changed it’s name?? 
So of we did go with grey which would be the right colour? I will need to take the chart with me to find or fave a dupe mixed! Sadly budget doesn’t actually stretch to their paint
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It’s fine to replicate paint here from a sample but a bigger one than the fingernail sized one on F&B colour chart would help.
If you do decide to run with a grey, I suggest the F&B Ammonite. Warm and delicate and appropriate next to limestone because it is named after the treasured fossils often found on the Dorset coast.
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I may have got increasingly resentful of paying heading towards 200€ a pot for the large size when all 16 or however many rooms I have are done in F&B, I ended up trying Tollens and they actually had codes for the entire F&B range which meant it was as near to indistinguishable from the original as I’ve ever seen. This was a few years back, so I can’t say for certain if they still do the same now, but it was far closer than using the charts, existing samples etc. For all intents and purposes my Arsenic is Arsenic and my Rangwali is Rangwali 
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Looks promising, the trick, as you’ve spotted, is integrating old and new so that the latter doesn’t leap out.
A lot of French people paint directly on top of the plasterboard, which, at risk of offending someone, somewhere, I think looks really cheap! Skim the plasterboard and then use a good quality paint, not in modern brilliant white emulsion, but in a traditional less brilliant, subtler and ‘chalkier’ white as suggested by many above.
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‘shade’ not ‘colour’ but don’t know enough French to know if they’ve the same distinction - not being pedantic just trying to help! Sure someone will be along soon to advise.
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I think Tory means what colour name of the grey shades in the F&B chart. Nuances et couleurs!
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