Anyone using Farrow & Ball paints - I can save you a fortune!

[CountessDracula]

Amazing, I just went to my local paint shop (which shall be nameless) and discovered that they mix farrow and ball colours in johnson's paint It is £17.99 for 5 litres as opposed to about £40+ from F&B, plus their emulsion is much harder wearing than F&B

I asked and apparantly lots of Johnson's suppliers do it. Johnson's got told off for replicating the colours but F&B can't do anything about the shops that already have the codes using them.

I was about to buy a lot of it, so will save a small fortune and thought I should share it with you lot.

well i was very excited anyway

Thank you for letting us know, I'll find out if we have a supplier near us. The colours are just so nice but you are right - so expensive.

Oh that's wonderful news!!!!! Yippppppppppeeeeeeee.
no idea what you're talking about but didn't want you to feel sad!!!!

CD our local hardware shop sells Johnsons paint for about 15.99 a tin. It is really good stuff! didnt know they were ripping off F&B though

Ahhh thank you both for humouring me with my sad decorating fantasies!!!! I do realise that just because I am currently obsessed, the rest of the world isn't necessarily.

And TC fyi they do very nice traditional paints in shades that have been around a long time. here

I agree Fio is great paint, much harder wearing than F&B.

and i dont have to get in the car to fetch johnsons paint/emulsion

nor me

why are you thinking of some F&B colours for your new house?

If i ever decide to decorate i shall speak to yu before doing so CD, and I'm serious. Last time D and i painted the walls was the 1st time either of us had ever done anything like it and we glossed the wall!!!!!!!!! We then broke every glass we owned, broke the blind and got gloss paint all over us, the sink and the cutlery that was in the sink! It was SO funny but I can only say that now looking back!!

no CD I have been using johnsons! LOL but I love farrow and ball paints but just couldnt justify buying them

(well when I say I, I mean someone else of course TC I personally hate decorating and am v bad, have been known to gloss walls too )

YES YES BUT NOW YOU CAN HAVE THOSE COLOURS FOR THE PRICE OF JOHNSONS!!!

rofl you have glossed walls?!! didnt you start going loopy?

My eyes puffed up like a pig! It was about 14 years ago I hasten to add. I thought I needed undercoat for the walls, so I asked for undercoat.

That's exactly what i did CD, and we styarted painting at 11pm and got into such a pickle!

I stormed into the shop the next morning and shouted at the poor bloke who sold it to me, he looked really confused and said "you asked for undercoat" and I said "YES BUT FOR WALLS!!"

All v embarrasing in retrospect

Ah but you don't get the depth of pigment in cheaper paints, however well they try to match the colour...this means that Farrow and Ball paints look different as the light hits it, and the colour varies during the day (a very nice feature) whereas Johnsons will look the same solid colour in all lights (looks cheaper...)

ha hhaaaa, CD you were me and I was you. I went back the next day too!!!!!!! How funny!!!!

I agree Enid, and with the darker colour I am going with F&B as it is in a low traffic area. However I wasn't going to bother with my hall as their emulsion is SO easily marked, now I can (and it gets no direct sunlight so figure it won't matter!)

tc hope it wasn't the same shop! They must have been rolling their eyes at all these dozy women!

As an alternative try Rendona Paints They are a small company with some lovely paints competing against the big boys...well worth a visit.

ooh they look lovely

STOP IT I CAN'T TAKE ANY MORE DECISION MAKING!!

I've not read this but can't you take any colour in now and they make it up, never heard of Farrel and Ball, why are they differen?

they have nice colours for period houses ie ones that were used at the time IYKWIM. Their paint does have a lovely depth of colour etc.

i see