The last ‘PE with Joe’ took place on Wednesday this week and I am already having withdrawal symptoms! I fall into that huge category of people who became addicted to his PE workouts during lockdown, tuning in live from my living room every morning at 9am - even after the kids lost interest. I now have people asking me where I got my arm muscles from (my biceps that is - I had to Google that!) which does make me giggle.
PE with Joe - studio lights on. Source: Evening Standard
Anyway, this evening I received a comment on my Facebook page from someone who had seen my social media post back in March, asking people to guess what colour Joe Wicks living room walls are painted. She was asking if I ever found out. There were some guesses on my Instagram post at the time, but no, I never did find out the answer.
This person on Facebook has just brought to my attention that this is now a burning question - perhaps the hottest interior design unanswered question of 2020 she is informing me… I’ve just googled it and there are some interesting discussions and debates going on. But I cannot find the answer. The most talked about colours it might be are either Farrow & Ball Conforth White or Farrow & Ball Ammonite.
As I pointed out in my Facebook reply to her tonight, we are used to looking at this paint colour with full studio lights and only recently did I see it without studio lights when Joe Wicks appologised in some of his recent Saturday morning sessions that he had left the lights at the studio where he had been filming. So without the bright studio lights, the paint colour looks darker, which brings me to my next point.
PE with Joe - studio lights off. Source: Woman & Home
Like many of you, I am still dying to know what the exact paint colour is, but whatever it is, is going to look different in different rooms and at different times of day, depending on a few things:
How much daylight you have entering the room
Whether it’s a sunny day or a dull day
Whether its daytime or night time with artificial light
What other colours you have in the room, eg flooring / sofa / curtains / kitchen units etc as these will influence how your wall colour appears
Joe Wicks Living Room with colourful furniture. Source: @thebodycoach
So in the meantime, while we are on this mission to find out what Joe’s living room colour actually is - I am going to give you a few paint colours I would suggest to a client if he or she showed me a picture of Joe Wicks living room and said ‘I would like to achieve this look - what paint colour should I use?’
With all of these paint colour suggestions below, I would suggest buying a tester pot to try it out before you commit (You can read my blog post on tester pots here). Just like the mystery Joe Wicks colour, these colours will vary too depending on the criteria of the room you are using them in. Try them out in a few places in the room - paint a large patch in the brightest part and the dullest part and somewhere in between. Don’t make a decision straight away. Look at the colour options in daylight and again with your lights on in the evening.
These colours are listed in no particular order, but if you try 2 or 3 of them, I’m hoping you will love at least one (another word of warning - paint colours never look the same in real life as they do on screen. I am choosing these colours based on the actual shade - not the screen version of the colour, hence the importance of tester pots):
Dulux Khaki Mists 6 (I’m pretty sure this is lighter than Joe’s but I couldn’t resist including it as a paler option)
Little Greene Portland Stone 77
Little Greene Slaked Lime - Deep 150
*this is actually my living room colour - painted before I’d ever heard of Joe Wicks by the way! (I must admit I also have floating shelves in the alcoves either side of the chimneybreast, but not as sparsely kitted out as Joe’s!)
Good luck in your search for a colour you love. And if you do find out the answer to what Joe Wicks paint colour is please let me know so I can update this blog post and spread the word! You can email me, or find me on Instagram and Facebook and Twitter.