Farron and Ball paint

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AIBU to be confused by Farron and Ball paints?

Are they any good? And if they are good, are they better enough to be worth the extra cost versus say Dulux or Homebase own brand.

It seems to be a real status symbol to say that all your paintwork is F&B, which is the sort of thing that would put me off. But if there is a good technical reason, they happy to give it a try.

Farron and Ball sounds like a new political alliance!

I don't know if Farrow & Ball paints are any good as they are out of my price range to try, but I have heard people say they are good quality....

They look different to Dulux. The finish is chalky/velvety, the colours are largely subtle drab shades, great if you don't want white or magnolia.
I love the way they look for I wouldn't go around telling people my house is done up in F&B ffs, that would sound a bit Hyacinth Bucket.

The colours/finish are very good but so are the Dulux classics range (just more limited).

My painter and decorator moans about it and says it's utter shit.

I'd think uou were weird if you went around telling someone what brand your paint was, somim not sure how it's s status symbol, but to answer your question they are highly pigmented and go on better than other cheaper brands and give better coverage.

The finish is chalky and the colours are very rich, but the selection is limited. I think to go around bragging your paint was marginally more expensive than Dulux (but still purchased from Homebase, it's not gold leaf) would make someone a colossal dickhead.

But as far as paint goes, I've used it in rooms where we have wanted that matte chalky finish and rate it.

We moved into a house with F&B. It's got a lovely matt/ chalky finish and the colours are lovely. However, it's so awful if you have kids on anyone who likes to scuff and mark your wall. E.g. Kids. Can't wipe off marks - the paint just comes off with it. So we are about to redecorate in either Little Green matt washable or Dulux washable paint. When we can agree on our colours....

In my experience own brand paints are crap.

I have never been disappointed with a F&B colour whereas I have been many times with cheaper paint.

You can get their colours mixed at paint shops for half the price by the way. But I like the thickness and finish of F&B.

Colours are better, finish is also nice.

I never understand that painter & decorator moaning re f&b (see it a lot on property board pain threads) - I do most of my own painting and have painted at least six different houses and find f&b easiest to use and best finish. I don't think the woodwork paint is good anymore and about to jump ship to little greene. A fancy decorator did say that it's the natural pigments rather than synthetic ones that give more expensive paints the depth but that could be utter bolleaux and happy to be corrected. She did say that if you have many coats to do, do the first ones in trade colour-matched and just do last coat with little greene or f&b.

I LOVE paint.

PAINT thread not pain thread

I had some decorating done a couple of years ago and the guy who did it specifically asked me not to get Farrow and Ball paint. It's hard to work with and doesn't go on well, apparently.

It's rubbish, you're paying for a name

Yes, they are beautiful and worth the very small bit extra. For something on your walls for years, an extra £15 per tin (x2 for a normal sized room) is really not a big deal, compared to say £500 for a carpet or whatever.

Painters HATE it as it's a bastard to paint on the wall and takes them longer. In my experience they will always try to talk you out of using it. But the end result is much more beautiful. I've dulux in a few rooms and f&b in others. A few years later I still notice and love the soft chalky finish and depth of colour to the f&b walls.

Farron and Ball sounds like a new political alliance! 😂

I get the F&B pigments mixed into Johnson's scrubbable. That way, you get the F&B colours, in a paint that is child-proof. I'm not convinced that the paint shop is supposed to do it, though.

The Farrow & Ball paint colours annoy me so much, I'd never buy them - mouse breath? duck back? cloud? shite?? really??

Dulux for me every time ;-)

I've been sceptical and resisted it for years but we'd Duluxed our new lounge and the colour was too blue so we Farrow and Balled. It goes on differently to other types of paint - it seems thicker - but the finish is really really lovely and despite sounding a bit a lot wankerish I do think that there is a depth of colour that changes in different lights that you don't get with other paints. I'm a convert and tbh it's not that much more expensive.

I do my own decorating and have used Farrow and Ball, Dulux, Crown and others. Farrow and Ball is thinner going on, so more splatter and it definitely takes 2 or even 3 coats. But we have it in some rooms, because we were looking for a certain colour - greeny/bluey/grey and that's what they do best. It seems to change colour in different lights and is very subtle and lovely

But for rooms where it's white or off white I don't see the point in the extra cost and harder decorating

My children realised we are a Joe Average family after they read the F&B catalogue. It recommended that you paint your 'boot room' in 'Pigeon' and we only have a space under the stairs for boots, which I refused to paint in bloody Pigeon.

Take your colour chart to an independent paint shop and they'll match it even in the chalky paint if you wish and it will far cheaper.

I find dog slobber and associated animal/child scuffs wipe off it rather well.

I like the colours and lack of sheen and have always found the coverage really good.

I much prefer Johnstones Trade paints. They go on easily, last well, wash well.

I did f&b radiccio a few years ago and had to do 5 coats to get the depth of color required.