Johnstones paint

[Pucarbuile]

Building work is getting close to painting quicker than I expected (yay!) so I have to work out what paint and colours I want. The painter says he can provide Dulux or Johnstones and that Johnstones can colour match pretty much anything we want. I've never used Johnstones before so just wondering what others who have used it think of it?

It's good stuff. Colour matched ours for Farrow & Ball colours.

It's fine. But then my house is a mixture of Johnstone's, Crown, Dulux, Wilson and Homebase and I can't tell a difference in quality between any of them.

I usually use Dulux Trade, but Johnstones trade has been fine when I've used it. Dulux will also match to paint samples, IIRC even fabrics if you go to the right outlet.

Nothing wrong with Johnstones.

I’ve been impressed with it! Used their Masonry to freshen up the front of our house and it’s lovely. Just finishing up using their tile paint to sort out our hideous kitchen tiles. Plan to use them for walls and cupboards too

Excellent, thanks everyone.

We use Johnstone's all the time. Excellent paint but make sure he used the "trade" or "professional" version which I'm sure he will if a decorator.

Also....I have found they so a soft sheen version which doesn't shine but is really robust for wiping marks compared to normal Matt emulsion.

I have always tended though to use Dulux for eggshell/gloss for some reason. We don't used water based though as a,though they dry quickly they do tend to chip if bashed by kids

I've used both Johnstones as a F&B match and actual F&B and I'd struggle to tell the difference.

The only one I'd avoid the B&Q Valspar stuff. Used that in the dining room and it was an utter pig to apply. Never again.

@Sunflowergirl1

We use Johnstone's all the time. Excellent paint but make sure he used the "trade" or "professional" version which I'm sure he will if a decorator.

Also....I have found they so a soft sheen version which doesn't shine but is really robust for wiping marks compared to normal Matt emulsion.

I have always tended though to use Dulux for eggshell/gloss for some reason. We don't used water based though as a,though they dry quickly they do tend to chip if bashed by kids

They have different versions of their trade paint - my decorator used Johnstones Covaplus vinyl matt and it's absolutely terrible! Looks great but marks if you so much as breathe near it I think they favoured that one because it was cheaper and recoat time was less. I insisted on the acrylic durable matt for another room and that's much better - cost extra but worth it for the durability.

The more expensive "washable" johnstones is great. Be wary with colour matching though (for all brands). Lighter colours match really well, I've got Little Greene on one wall & johnstones colour match on the other & there is no difference. Darker colours match poorly. F&B Hague blue vs Johnstones version, chalk & cheese.

Johnstone’s great and have some colours similar to F&B

I’ve found it rather thin.

I'm with @FreeBritnee - Johnstone's seemed quite thin and not good to apply the couple of times I've used it.

I was a huge fan of F&B, but it's Little Greene all the way for me now 😉

@Twillow same here. Very happy with final result.

I'm no expert, but the decorator I use has completely switched to Johnstones because he says it's such good stuff. Have to say the woodwork he did for us years ago has stayed white much longer than the bits I did more recently using Dulux.

I use Johnstones paint mixing too, the standard emulsion for a lighter colour and their trade one for darker shades. The decorators I know use it too.

Contrary to others, I gave up after one wall with Johnstones and went back to Dulux.

We used Johnstone's in a number of our rooms earlier this year, it worked really well and it was cost effective against other brands which helped as we redecorated the whole house top to bottom.
It it helps with picking colours and brands we used paintsquared.co.uk, they sell stick on paint samples for a number of different brands, much easier than painting endless amoounts of samples on the walls!

Trying to compare "Johnstone's paint" with e.g. " Dulux is meaningless unless people are talking about the same product.

It's like trying to compare yogurt from Tesco and Sainsbury's. One person might prefer Tesco because they loved the Finest yogurt and hated Sainsbury's Basics. Another can't understand how anyone wouldn't prefer Sainsbury's because they loved their Taste the Difference yogurt and hated the Tesco Everyday Value stuff they tried....