Has anyone found a perfect Duck Egg Blue paint?

[pecka]

Im searching for a duck egg blue paint but I now have 8 testers on the walls and none are right.

Has anyone else got this type of colour and can tell me what paint it is?

[Enid]

it is a very hard colour to get right

when we bought our cottage the sitting room was a gorgeous duck egg blue colour, the previous owner left some of the paint behind and it was from Sandersons.

Farrow and Ball don't have one and as that is the only paint we buy (not for ponce reasons, dh gets a discount!) I can't help you.

The Paint Library is also another great place for beautifully coloured paint.

[pecka]

My eyes are now so defuzzled from looking and comparing adn searching that Ive now lost from my minds eye what colour Im actually looking for!

[Enid]

ah yes

but I presume you mean a proper 1930's colour

there is a fine line between duck egg blue/pale blue/eau de nil

also most of the pikey paint manufacturers call something duck egg blue when they clearly no idea of the true colour [sniffy emoticon]

[glitterfairy]

Firde earth have some wonderful colours. The one they call duck egg blue is not though imo but they have some that are more like duck egg blue to me.

[pecka]

Its SO annoying

[pecka]

This is Fired Earth version

this is not what im thinking

[Piffle]

laura ashley although I found it too sky blue so I used their eau de nil and it is what I would call duck egg blue...

[Enid]

where do you livre?>

[pecka]

I have a brown leather sofa that I cant afford to replace so the colour needs to go really well with that (the colour in my head does)

[pecka]

I live in Newcastle upon Tyne

I think homebase stock laura ashley paints dont they?

I swear to god I could have built a new house the money I have spent on tester pots!

[glitterfairy]

Yes the fired earth one is too dark but they have others which as I said are more like the one in my head!Greeny blue and not so dark.

[Enid]

the Sea Beet colour looks good on here

[glitterfairy]

Also if you could get a sample of the colour in a pen of a duck egg Dulux could match it for you allegedly!

[pecka]

Cant find sea beet on there enid?

If I put my head in dulux special machine will they extract the correct colour!

[Legacy]

We have what I consider to be a 'real' Duck Egg Blue in our downstairs loo.... and it WAS from one of those "pikey paint manufacturers" - Dulux
BUT
it was one where it was mixed specially in one of those Dulux colour mixers they have in B&Q etc - so not on the general paint card/ booklet, but chosen from the millions of little strips on display.

[Enid]

sorry click on SHOP then paints

[Enid]

lol @ head
lol @ legacy

[pecka]

hmmmmmm not much chance of being able to buy the same one then - I dont suppose you remember which strip it was on!!!

[Legacy]

No, sorry ...

But if you can get to one of those Dulux mixing places all the colour strips are on display. All I would say, is, take it home and look at it in the light of the room you're talking about. Or take something the right colour with you to 'match'.

We were looking for a colour to match John Lewis 'Isodora' fabric...see this example on eBay: Isadora

[Enid]

ooh thats the runner we have on our dining table

[Legacy]

aha! so not so pikey now then.....

We have a blind in our downstairs loo made from it!

[Enid]

John Lewis just creeps in over the pikey barrier in my mind

[Legacy]

Mocha and Duck Egg are my absolutely FAVOURITE colours this year...

[Enid]

I think you will find PINK and mocha very hot soon

[pecka]

I cant even find anything at home that is the right colour

The colour Im thinking is plae but not wishy washy has a very slight slight hint of green but not much is powdery but not lilacy

ohhhh i just dont know!!