F&B emergency

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So it seems Farrow and ball are having issues with their modern emulsion and have run out of a chemical for their bulk production and have therefore sold out everywhere of light blue. I am in desperate need of this paint or a colour similar for this week. Can anyone recommend a gorgeous light grey/blue similar to F&B light blue that i could check out. Thank you!!!!

Can you not get b&q to colour match?

Johnstones will colour match with the f&b number code. We have the light blue from there in our bedroom and it's really nice

That’s an emergency, is it?

@Warmduscher

That’s an emergency, is it?

Och get a sense of humour!!

We had Dulux professional range paint that was colour matched to F&B borrowed light. The painters told us they preferred the formula as it went on more evenly anyway.

@Warmduscher

That’s an emergency, is it?

I'd say so!

Bahhh ha ha ha yes it is an F&B emergency. They have none left anywhere in the U.k. and I need it urgently. I haven't called 999 though, I've posted on mumsnet.

They could name a new colour Emergency... It sounds good!

Get it made and Johnstone’s and it’ll be better paint anyway.

I would go to Johnstone’s and get them to colour match. My decorator also says it’s better quality paint as well as being cheaper.

I have a Johnson's near by, I'm going to venture there tomorrow the second they open. Thank you everyone.

I had a tin of F&B light blue delivered last week and it exploded in the fedex van on delivery. Covered the poor guy! Called F&B and they said that was the very last one in stock.

Such a F&B nightmare!

Definitely Johnstone’s. We use the acrylic durable matt

Decorating centre online make great F&B colour match paint, good luck!

Such a F&B nightmare!

I'm loving a F&B nightmare, brilliant!

Don’t colour match. Light blue is my favourite F and B colour. I’ve had three rooms done in it. Decorator persuaded me to colour match and I had to redo it as it was nowhere near as good. How about the estate emulsion instead? Or Mylands volutes if London have some similar blues.

I’ve just painted our bedroom in modern emulsion Green Smoke. Not sure why people insist on saying other brands are a better quality. The pigmentation in the F&B gives it much more depth and looks terrific in the different lighting as the day goes on. It’s not something colour matching can give you.

Funnily enough my decorator loved the F&B paint that I got for one our rooms that he chose it for his own home.

(Sorry that doesn’t help with getting Light Blue.)

Try Vintro - they have beautiful vintage shades

This is my fear @musmeriman I have obsessed about this colour for YEARS! I finally get the chance to decorate my new house and it is NOWHERE. I am pained! I think if I colour match and it's not exact I would be so sad.

I have no alternative than to venture to Johnson's tomorrow to get a version of my beloved light blue.

I would go for Estate emulsion but it's for my new en-suite and kitchen so need the modern. Urghhhhhhhhh

@Ulysses

I’ve just painted our bedroom in modern emulsion Green Smoke. Not sure why people insist on saying other brands are a better quality. The pigmentation in the F&B gives it much more depth and looks terrific in the different lighting as the day goes on. It’s not something colour matching can give you.

Funnily enough my decorator loved the F&B paint that I got for one our rooms that he chose it for his own home.

(Sorry that doesn’t help with getting Light Blue.)

It really is. As I have both, colour matched and the actual paint and I can assure you to thr naked eye there is no difference

@JulesM73

I would go to Johnstone’s and get them to colour match. My decorator also says it’s better quality paint as well as being cheaper.

Mine too.

He says F&B is shit paint and outrageously expensive. He colour matches all mine in Johnstone’s.

Apart from being outrageously expensive, I find F&an doesn't apply or wear as well as Dulux so I always colour match. They do it at Homebase.

The pigmentation in the F&B gives it much more depth and looks terrific in the different lighting as the day goes on. It’s not something colour matching can give you

I would defend to the death someone's right to be F&B purists but the pigmentation thing is a myth. We did DD's room in colour matched Peignoir and it changes with the light. It's beautiful.

Remember that poster, LeQueen/LaQueen, who used to pounce on about F&B?

That’s an emergency, is it?

The thread title does specify that it's an F and B emergency. F and B emergencies are totally different to normal emergencies. I know because I've had a few myself

We colour matched F&B Hague blue with valspar and I think it looks brilliant, colour and quality looks great. Can't really compare it as I don't have the F&B paint but I'm happy with the match so it really doesn't matter!