Help, paint ideas wanted

Doozergirl

Hopeful_5 wrote: »

Doozergirl, in your pic the Slipper Satin looks almost white but on the Farrow & Ball link it is slightly pinky - and just the colour I want for my bedroom, and which reminds me of sugar almonds. Which shade is right? Thanks.

I think it's supposed to be the colour of a satin ballet slipper, but the creamy colour, not the pink. You are right, it looks very pink on my screen as well.

You can get a free colour card on the website, which I'd recommend as they do some lovely posh pinks like Calamine and Setting Plaster which look a much brighter pink on the screen than they are IRL, I think you'll find that one of them does look more like the Slipper Satin swatch on the screen.

casterweb

I've been looking at the Farrow and Ball website and I've just ordered the colour card. I like their colours, classy and chic.

The nearest F&B stockist to me is Homebase. I've just been looking at the costs of their paint and it's approximately £30 per 2.5 litres. I need a minimum of 30 litres so it's going to be quite costly (for me anyway!) if I decide to go with a F&B paint.

So....looking at this from a moneysaving aspect........can I find a cheap way of buying an F&B shade without shelling out the big bucks?

I read somewhere that if you take a colour card with you to a paint mixer you can get any shade of paint copied. Is this the way to go?

As I'm looking at a light neutral flat shade (possibly slipper satin as per recommendation by Doozergirl (thx)) I wouldn't have thought this would have been much of a problem for a paint mixer? Is this idea a goer or do I just have to bite the bullet and pay the going price fo F&B paint?

Doozergirl

A lot of people say that you can mix it on a Dulux machine.

I'm particularly fussy because what I love about F&B is the texture; plus they use a lot of traditional, natural pigments etc which gives it quite a different look to to the purely chemical mixes of Dulux.

I did try to match a colour a few years ago and I regretted it when it was on the wall because it was much too 'clean' and bright and there's a real chalky, flat, dirtiness about F&B, but it was a blue colour that I was trying to match. I think Dulux do a flat matt now, not sure? It might not be so noticeable with an off white.

Might as well get a tester pot of F&B from Homebase and try a colour match on the Dulux machine and get them both on the wall? Sometimes you can't get a colour match in which case you need to go to Brewers or suchlike who have three of four different machines! I couldn't get a match off the grey wallpaper I linked to on a Dulux machine but Brewers managed it on one of their machines.

Brewers do bigger pots of paint as well, so whilst it's still expensive you do save on the 5 litre pots (£45ish per 5 litres?). And it does go on the wall really well. I painted Slipper Satin over Dulux Red Stallion (very deep red) and it took just two coats. Also the darkness of the Downpipe was just two coats painted over white paint; it barely needed that second coat. (It is just as hard to cover white with dark paint as it is to cover a dark paint with white!)

casterweb

Doozergirl wrote: »

A lot of people say that you can mix it on a Dulux machine.

I'm particularly fussy because what I love about F&B is the texture; plus they use a lot of traditional, natural pigments etc which gives it quite a different look to to the purely chemical mixes of Dulux.

I did try to match a colour a few years ago and I regretted it when it was on the wall because it was much too 'clean' and bright and there's a real chalky, flat, dirtiness about F&B, but it was a blue colour that I was trying to match. I think Dulux do a flat matt now, not sure? It might not be so noticeable with an off white.

Might as well get a tester pot of F&B from Homebase and try a colour match on the Dulux machine and get them both on the wall? Sometimes you can't get a colour match in which case you need to go to Brewers or suchlike who have three of four different machines! I couldn't get a match off the grey wallpaper I linked to on a Dulux machine but Brewers managed it on one of their machines.

Brewers do bigger pots of paint as well, so whilst it's still expensive you do save on the 5 litre pots (£45ish per 5 litres?). And it does go on the wall really well. I painted Slipper Satin over Dulux Red Stallion (very deep red) and it took just two coats. Also the darkness of the Downpipe was just two coats painted over white paint; it barely needed that second coat. (It is just as hard to cover white with dark paint as it is to cover a dark paint with white!)

Thank you for your very informative and knowlegeable posts.