Farrow & Ball decorating feedback thread - find out how the MNers get on with their paint and at the colour talk - non testers: chance to win paint! NOW CLOSED

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This is the thread for the lucky MNers and bloggers who attended an event at a Farrow & Ball showroom to find out all about colour in the home and who have then been sent paint and product from Farrow & Ball to decorate a room at home.

Non testers - for a chance to win 10 litres of either Modern Emulsion or Estate Emulsion paint from Farrow & Ball (colour of your choosing) please share on this thread the room in your house you'd most like to decorate - what colour scheme you'd use and why you want to decorate it. Add your comment to this thread by Monday 26th January and you'll be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win 10 litres of either Modern Emulsion or Estate Emulsion paint from Farrow & Ball (worth up to c£144, depending on what's chosen).

At the event there was a special inspirational colour talk from their International Colour Consultant Joa Studholme - she also gave MNers and bloggers advice on schemes and colours.

Participants - please answer the following questions.

At the event:
a) How informative/inspirational did you find the initial colour talk with Joa and the rest of the F&B team?
b) Please share the most interesting piece of colour advice or decorating tip you learnt on the day?
c) What did you find the most interesting aspect of our colour talk?
d) How do you think we could improve our colour talk event? (Please consider the venue, refreshments, structure etc?)

Now on the colour advice / selecting a colour scheme
a) Where do you normally go to find inspiration when deciding on a colour scheme for your chosen room/s? (Please think about Farrow & Ball websites, social media, magazines, websites showroom staff etc?)
b) Which source do you normally find the most inspirational and which is no good! Would you like more places to get inspiration and what form would they take?

F&B products
Which room(s) did you decorate?
a) Please describe your experience of using Farrow & Ball paints to decorate your room from first opening the tin, to completing the project and seeing the results?
~ think about ease of application, product quality, depth of colour and finish etc...
b) After your experience would you consider using Farrow & Ball paint in your home again? If so, why? If not, why not?
c) Now that you?ve used Farrow & Ball paint, how likely would you be to recommend it to a friend? And why?

Any other comments?

Please do also share your photos on this thread!

Thanks
MNHQ
UPDATE:
Video all edited and beautiful here:

AND amazing comp here

id like to decorate the lounge.to be honest we have our whole house to do after having to have major re-wiring work done.it depresses my mum enormously so any room she chooses.may her own so she can feel better and that things are on track and being fixed up again.
colour schemes are soft.relaxing.calming.farrow and ball are brilliant with the homesly colours.they look amazing.

We moved into our house 9months ago but weren't able to paint as we found out we were pregnant 2 weeks after moving in, however 7 days ago we welcomed our son it our family and are now keen to put our stamp on the house! We most want to decorate our lounge which is currently salmon pink!?! We would like to paint the walls in a cool grey such as Lamp Room Gray and brilliant white woodwork and finish with a dark wooden floor.

I'm part way into my painting now.

Thought the primer went a long way. Now doing emulsion - finding it doesn't go very far, and definitely need more than one coat (I know it does say 2 coats). However, it is very easy to apply.

The F&B roller is good too!

We're being quite ambitious (I didn't expect to be picked by F&B) and are painting the passage, walls, and floors as well as woodwork. It's involved stripping the floors, taking down an internal door/wall and patching things up (badly). But its looking good so far. Another coat on the walls tonight and then woodwork tomorrow.

I'm using old white and cornforth white. Chickened out of putting molesbreath below the dado but I may do in the future.

I'll find my before pics and put them up.

I really want to decorate my living room, it has been a while as every time I get some money put away for it something crops up and I have to start saving again!

I would have ivory and warm peach tones, I like quite calming colour schemes which are quite neutral. I had this before in a previous home and really liked the ambience of it, this would be a wonderful way to start off 2015!

it might sound silly but I would desperately like to paint my utility room in F&B paint. I gained this room 7 years ago when I had new kitchen put in. It is quite big and holds cupboards and a sink but it is also quite dark and doesn't get much sun. it has been neglected and has got several brush strokes of paint on the walls but has never been completed. It would look so much nicer if finished off using F&B paint!

To enter the prize-draw please:
I'd like to decorate my bedroom. I'd like to have it in calming shades of coffee, cream, biscuit. I have had wilder colour schemes in the past, but found it harder to match up with bedding and curtains. I'd like it to be soothing, but not dull!

I'm just about to buy a house and the whole house needs decorating (badly!) but we will start with my daughter's room. She would like blues and has the idea of stripes of different blues but I am trying to persuade her of whole walls of different blues perhaps - stripes will give me a headache! I'm thinking Stone Blue, Lulworth Blue, Hague Blue and Pale Powder, and we will use the paint elsewhere in the house too (since it won't take 4 tins of paint for her bedroom).

Sadly I did not spot this great opportunity in time ... but my hall. landing and stairs are in well past their sell by date thanks to all the kiddies using the side wall of the stairs as a support , and when painting the walls at the beginning no one told me that beautiful magnolia matt " WAS NOT WASHABLE OR CHILD FRIENDLY" .... so the once lovely cream colour is now a varying shade of grey to black ... I would love a show home look to brighten the walls and would choose "Blackened 2011" and "Dimpse 277" and maybe highlighted by "Pavilion gray" 242, then with a few added lamp shades and pictures maybe just maybe my home would look like a home :-) especially the paint came delivered with a few man in white coats armed with paint brush poles and the know how to reach the places us shorties sadly cannot reach :-) ever the hopeful

Lamp room grey and maybe down pipe for our new open plan kitchen/lounge/dining room

My living room is in dire need of a makeover. The walls need to be repainted because my toddler has drawn with black permanent ink all over one corner and, even if he hadn't, I think the colour is a bit too cool-toned, particularly in winter. I think a warm colour, like yellow, would be the best colour scheme. It's a north/east facing room so it needs warming up in there. We all spend a lot of time in that room - it is living room/dining room/playroom all in one so it is a very hardworking room.

Specific colours I was thinking are either: String, Cream or Dorset Cream. Build in some white shelves around the fireplace, keep the white covers on my couches (easy to bleach when stained) and have my turquoise/teal/green pillows to add a bit of colour.

I would like to decorate my bedroom. It is the only room we haven't done in the house as we have priotitised the communal area (kitchen, sitting room and bathroom) and the children's bedrooms.

Non-tester here too. Most of our rooms could do with an update bit the one i'd most like to do first is the hallway/stairs/landing. It's a bit cold and clinical although light and reasonably spacious. I'd love to be brave enough to try out a fairly dark grey-blue scheme- perhaps with turquoise and yellow accents?

Non tester here. Would love to be decorate my teenage daughter's bedroom to show her how wonderful she is. She has not had an easy year and she would love to change her room for a peaceful, relaxing, pink haven.

I would love to paint our living room...I want fairly neutral colours, a mix of cool soft grey and warm buttermilk type colours with maybe a sage green for a feature wall.

Non-tester here. I've been dreaming for a while of 'doing up' my bedroom. I'd love to have my own little cosy haven to retreat to once my little one is all snuggled up in her bed. It's taken 2 and a half years to evict her from my bed, so I'd love to freshen my room up and make it a little more 'grown up', rather than having to stare at the boring old magnolia walls!

I think having a Hound Lemon feature wall and Wevet would be perfect to bring the room to life a little more, especially as I spend have to spend a lot of time in my bedroom in the evenings, due to my bed being specially adapted to help me be that little more comfortable when my Fibro flares up. Plus these colours would match my bed perfectly!

Good luck to everyone (and a HUGE congratulations in advance to the winner!) The testers rooms are looking amazing with their new licks of paint!x

I would love to decorate our hallway. I've just framed the first photo's taken of our baby DC and would love to hang them in a freshly painted hallway. I have been looking at Farrow and Ball colours because they are beautiful and I've been really impressed of the quality in the past, when we used F&B in our living room.

Non Tester but I would love to paint our bedroom because we haven't been in our house long and the previous owners started painting it but never finished so it looks awful and I would choose a purple colour scheme with white furniture.

The room I want to decorate is my daughters bedroom. She is 4.5 yrs. she has been sleeping in our room since we moved into our 60s property 6 months ago.

It's a large north facing room with a window 3m by 1.3m.

I like Houzz and Pinterest for ideas because it's so accessible, there is such an abundance of (easily searched) pics and even a child can use the apps/ websites. I used to like decorating magazines but I don't have the time any longer.

My daughter wants a rainbow of colours! We are looking at a base colour of warm grey and perhaps cream with wide stripe panels of some of the dusty brights like; Nancy's Blushes, St Giles blue, Dayroom Yellow, Blue Ground.

The pic (I'm trying to link) is one of the pictures from houzz that she loved; that got us thinking about wide painted panels/stripes...

My husband is an accomplished DIY decorator so I think he could manage it!

We are moving house over the weekend and would love to decorate our bedroom in a soothing colour like Lulworth Blue. We have a 3 year old and a 1 year old and rarely treat ourselves so it would feel so decadent to decorate our own room first!

Our current home is 1970s and we're buying a 1930s property. I think F&B paints have a lovely rich depth of colour which will work well with an older home.

My bedroom - the paint we chose for it (high street brand) turned out to be such poor quality that it was unusable, so it's still at lining paper/undercoat stage!

Non-tester here.

We are in the midst of renovating our Victorian house. We've done our hallway - breakfast room green (I'm thrilled it's a colour for 2015!) kitchen - units in French Grey and Walls in Lime White, second sitting room in pavilion grey and bathroom in drawing room blue.

Our next job is our huge living room. I've been scratching my head over colour choices (I think I have enough F&B sample pots to rival a paint showroom). Using your very helpful website, we are saving up for your lotus wallpaper (2041) and under a dado rail using green ground or ball green and Wimborne White. Given the size of the room it will take a while to save so being entered into the draw would really help.

Other projects include painting our stairwell in rectory red, and a bedroom in oval room blue. I've not decided on our other two bedrooms yet, but I will use your inspiration website to help me decide.

I love the quality and depth of your paints. The colours are amazing ( I'm a huge fan of the deeper colours which fit well in our period house).

Thank you.

Non-tester. The room I'd like to decorate is a bedroom my daughter has just moved out of. Her new room looks lovely, but I'm left with a 'little girls' bedroom that I would love to make-over into a sophisticaed guest bedroom. I've used F&B 'string' colour in the hallway, and think a colour like that might work in the bedroom.

Wow sounds like the event was amazing, sorry I missed that opportunity! I will be moving house though so I imagine there will be lots of rooms I want to get my hands on, but the priority I guess for us will be the new baby's nursery and our bedroom, but I'll go with nursery!

We don't know whether we will be having a boy or a girl so we'll be keeping things pretty neutral, though I think we would have done so anyway.

We're currently liking the idea of keeping things quite simple maybe with a wall of grey (Plummet from Farrow and Ball looks like a lovely shade) with warm white colour, perhaps with bursts of yellow (hound lemon by F&B). We have laminate flooring in there which is quite light so we'll probably want to make sure the furniture works with that! Not sure if dark wood would look good, or if we should stick to regular wooden or white? We'll see... Hoping to have pretty blinds to go with and love the idea of a cute pelmet too! I'm looking forward to accessorising it with lots of things for baby to be mesmerised by and mood lighting for any late night wake up calls...

Here's my second post, thanks for including me, it's brightened up a dark room no end!
www.autismmumma.com/2015/01/letting-the-light-in-with-farrow-and-ball-part-2/