Farrow and Ball paint

pupsicola

Metranil_Vavin wrote: »

Another F&B fan here! We painted our hallway and baby's nursery in F&B paints, we have a period maisonette and the colours are just fab.

The coverage is brilliant too and you only need one coat.

Pricey but worth it!

Absolutely agree, the colours are fantastic for period homes.

katsclaws

Thanks Metranil Vavin and pupsicola, pupsicola I am in West Yorkshire so will have to see if there are any stockists locally. I also visit Cardiff every five weeks so I could look there aswell.

katsclaws

pupsicola

Someone earlier mentioned the soft, chalky finish. I haven't been able to get that effect with any other paint. My bedroom is done in their Parma Gray, a soft slate blue. I worried it may look cold but because of the finish it just looks really fresh and adds a fab softness to the room.

katsclaws

I can't wait to get started. We had the interior painted five and a half years ago when we had an extension built so the walls are looking a bit tired. I will look at Parma Gray, pupsicola, it sounds just like my sort of colour. I wonder how much it will be to paint the entire house in Farrow and Ball colours.

katsclaws

lostinrates

pupsicola wrote: »

Someone earlier mentioned the soft, chalky finish. I haven't been able to get that effect with any other paint. My bedroom is done in their Parma Gray, a soft slate blue. I worried it may look cold but because of the finish it just looks really fresh and adds a fab softness to the room.

I've used that in a bathroom.

You've got me all looking at the paint charts again (we're a long way from more painting, we're at the very beginning of a big renovation in our old, listed but falling down house )

I love all the greens and greys. Looking at bricks here again today I think our exterior yard colour will be matched on Red earth (it a courtyard garden but also doubles as a farmyard AND a stables yard...and much as I like F &B I won't be putting it out there). We need a darker colour too and I want to go for down pipe, but think a dark brown like Mahogany might be better


re cost...personally I don't use their undercoats. It saves a lot and I still get the colour and finish I want.

We're like a little F&B fan club.

Foggster

Have never used it as it is always out of my price range when I am decorating. I know people who have it in their homes and it does indeed look good but only as good as the person putting it on the walls.

I will say that because I have to use the cheaper mainstream brands it does come down to how well you prepare the walls and apply the paint. I always water down the paint to ensure a better consistency to put on the wall and will always put 3 coats on as a matter of course and not because it doesnt cover well.

I do an "indulgent" area of the house that I am planning at the moment and because it isnt the biggest space in the house I am tempted to indulge in some F&B and then hide the tin before the DH sees it!!

katsclaws

Hello lostinrates, I hope your house renovation goes well. It sounds like a big project.
Foggster, I think I will probably start with a feature wall in our living room and do the rest slowly. I don't think my other half has heard of F&B. He used to work for ICI so we have always used Dulux.

katsclaws

daveyjp

If you want something which isn't as expensive, but excellent quality (and why decorators use it) find your local Johnstone's Leyland paint trade centre.

rachbc

katsclaws wrote: »

Thanks Metranil Vavin and pupsicola, pupsicola I am in West Yorkshire so will have to see if there are any stockists locally. I also visit Cardiff every five weeks so I could look there aswell.

katsclaws

There is a F&B shop in Harrogate if thats any good? I once had a very embarrassing phone convo with my hubby in there - I was buying a colour called 'buff' but he insisted in calling it something ruder!

Poly,put_the_kettle_on

daveyjp wrote: »

If you want something which isn't as expensive, but excellent quality (and why decorators use it) find your local Johnstone's Leyland paint trade centre.

I'm in the middle of decorating a house entirely in that stuff at the moment- and I'm hugely unimpressed. Tomorrow will see coat three on the ceilings. Meh.