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This thread is 3 years old, I expect OP has decided on a colour by now!

The difference between farrow and ball old white and bone, is that bone is cold and flat and old white is warm and holds light. Old white eggshell is perfect to paint oppressive black beams in a cottage.

I have old white in my porch and bone on my kitchen doors and there is practically no difference between them. Lovely colours though.

MP, F&B now do a washable emulsion that is child-freindly (or should that be parent-friendly). It's not as beautifully matt as the regular emulsion, but it's not as shiny as a silk finish either.

i have had every paint colour under the sun but my favourite is Dulux Trade brilliant White in emulsion and high gloss ...lovely

Old White is a really strange one - we have it in living room on walls and woodwork, radiators etc, and it does look different in all lights. My parents have it in their hallway, it looks much greener than ours which seems more grey.

Mind you, whichever way you look at it, it's categorically not anything resembling white

One of the reasons I like F&B is that the paint chart is a manageable size - I just pick one or two I like, do a couple of samples and make a decision. Whereas those Dulux colour libraries, with their Warm/Cool blah blah seem to stretch on for miles and confound the hell out of me. Too much like hard work...

course it is. i just wash the marks off the wall.

Seriously is F&B compatible with children, or should one just stick to Dulux vinyl silk and enjoy a less stressful existence?

It was very good and especially nice to look at.The fridge was my baby but the people who bought from us wanted it left exactly as it was and they paid for the pleasure so I left it.

Great to hear that F&P is good. Am not liking the Rangemaster I have had delivered (purely on an aesthetical basis). Am thinking of seeing if IC an exchange for an F&P.

I had all the fisher and p stuff in my old house.Fab!

am hijacking my own thread here - Noddy do I recall correctly that you have a Fisher and Paykel range cooker?

I think its fab Have it in bedroom and F&B everywhere else and it really is good.

NODDY - I have ricecake in my kitchen it is v nice and I have been asked quite a few times what it is.

Ah. See I've never seen any of them, but it's obviously seeped into my brain. Thank you.

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The coverage on F&B paints is just so much better than any of the others. I keep trying to buy cheaper stuff when I'm painting a room, get the match pots and the F&B always comes up looking best. Fired Earth also good (but equally expensive ).

MillenniumFalcon, where does your talk name come from? It's bothering me (in that it sounds really familiar, but I don't know why. Please put me out of my misery).

i first discovered them because my folks had a very old house and needed something that breathed properly or the plaster would fall off f&b was the only choice in those days. ditto for colours, f&b were the only place that did really muted colours (before colour matching widely available think?). so i have a long time loyalty to them, along with my experience that i've never once regretted the f&b paints i've used, but whenever i've got something else it's been not quite right and (sadly, i'm aware it's twattish but i can't help it) it bothers me.

There is a b and q colours everywhere paint called rice cake which is v farrow and ball half the price washable and lovely!I can't reccomend it enough it looks great in all lights too.

i suppose i just dont see that choosing a certain colour doesnt mean you are trying to look like you live in a french chateau - just that you like the colour.

agree that everyone having the same styled houses is sheep like and silly, but i'm not clear that it is pretension, unless people think its makes them better or something. me - i just like the colours.

No, I admit I am prejudiced. I ahve just had a look. The colours are beautiful and I am pleased they are eco friendly.

Sorry.
I tend to rebel against anything that becomes 'the' fashion accessory, really, because suddenly everyone is having the same colour on their walls and it gets so competitive.

I have been dwelling too much on this and decided the reason it is pretentious is that it is trying to be something it isn't.

yes you may have an antiquated texture on your walls but that doesn't mean you don't live on a new build in Swindon. And you probably don't have heaps of enamelled kitchenware, to boot.

In fact in order to create the desired effect you would need to be resident in one of those living museums. Complete with several cotton petticoats and a snood.

I guess in the right kind of house it probably looks really nice, but there again you create an elite, tis a little naff really especially when all the colours are variations of 'string'.

I'm probably just not gettign it though.

They do look similar on the colour card, but there is a difference.
A F & B stockist will have bigger colour boards for you to look at, but the best way to see is to buy a sample pot of both.
Don't put a big square of paint on the wall..... paint onto a big piece of card or paper, 2 coats at least.

Then you can see the colours next to each other and on their own, you can move then to the light areas of the room and to the dark areas. (you should see the colour in daylight and evening light to be sure you like the colour) and you then don't ruin your existing room with big blotches of paint that you have to paint over.

millenium - that's the colour card I have, and I swear they are identical. Maybe they put the wrng colour against one of them, and stuck the same colour on twice?

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