To ask if you know a cheaper version of Farrow & Ball shaded white?!

[montepulcianos]

We need to redecorate a room that was originally painted shaded white (Farrow & Ball) but wondered if anyone knows a cheaper version that's a similar shade as we like the colour but not the price/durability of F&B!

Go to a place that does colour matching. Will be more durable and a lot cheaper. Dulux decorating centres do paint matching.

Can you use a paint matching service? Pretty sure B&Q scan a small sample and make the paint in store.

Means you'd need to cut a little out from somewhere discreet though

Johnson's paint are the best at matching. If you go to one of their stockists you just need the farrow and ball number and the paint will be mixed. Better quality, cheaper price and good match.

Just currently taken the Farrow and Ball to Leylands colour matching. Well, the builders did. And it's perfect!

Crown colour matches farrow and ball as does Johnson's.

We got them to scan F&B wedgewood lilac at b&q and it came out really nice.

Second Johnstones. They even have a list behind the counter with all the F&B formula codes for the machines.

Another recommendation for Johnstone's - perfect colour match, excellent quality paint and very affordable.

They can match the colour, but it's much harder to match the finish - farrow and ball has a distinctive flat, dense pigment and a really even finish.

So it won't look exactly the same - you'll probably get away with it if you're repainting the whole room but it will be very noticible if you just do some walls/ touch ups.

B&Q nearly white.

how on earth can you tell the difference?

Thanks all. It doesn't need to be an exact match, just something similar. It's quite hard to describe the colour of shaded white and I'd say it's more of a grey than a white! I wondered if anyone had found something similar themselves they could suggest. Planning to paint the whole room as it needs a spruce up so will be fine if it's not a perfect match.

Dulux centres have the actual codes to make up F&B colours without even scanning them.

We use Leyland as they were recommended by various decorators. They've always been fine and absolutely a good enough match, as far as I am concerned.

We used Johnstone’s, we went to a decorator and she said it was better than Dulux. It was that or mylands in her opinion.

I went to Johnson’s today. They have the codes already, no scanning. It was an EXACT match.

Be careful of Valspar at B&Q a lot of issues with paint odours - cats pee. Google and read up!

Dulux Egyptian Cotton is perhaps a bit warmer/creamier but somewhat similar.

There's no point doing colour matching. You may very well end up with the same shade but it won't have the same depth of pigmentation.

I’ve just had some F&B Downpipe colour matched with Dulux and it was perfect. I’ve got it elsewhere in the house and I honestly can’t tell the difference.

Dulux professional paint at the decorating centres is far better than most paint, our painters said it goes further too

Decoratingcentreonline.co.uk

Helen will colour match anything and the paint is amazing.

Laura Ashley paints are v good. Try cotton white.

Be careful of Valspar at B&Q a lot of issues with paint odours - cats pee. Google and read up!

I've used that and it doesnt smell like cats pee. It goes on really shit if you use a brush though despite mixing and it needed 4 twatting coats to get an even finish with a roller. Never, ever again. I've had better results with value paint.

gamer I read that it starts to smell in the summer not when it first goes on the walls. Might be sorted now though but I didn’t want to take a chance

community.screwfix.com/threads/valspar-emulsion-left-house-smelling-of-cat-urine.199994/

Hopefully it's been sorted since then. Thankfully my house doesnt respond to summer, it's always like a fridge so I might get away with it

Still, I wouldn't use it again because it's shit paint to use. Ty for the heads up so the cat doesnt get the blame.