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.

[Freddiecat]

agree with all this. love the way the F&B paint in our bedroom looks different colours at different times of day. we had to get a crown paint matched in the johnsons place (dp had used up a tin a year ago but not got round to the cutting in so as they'd discontinued the paint he had to get it mixed)

quality was 10 times better and the depth of colour better too so he had to repaint the whole wall anyway!

[noddy5]

If you are just looking for a colour match this is fine but to get the effect of shadowing etc it is the actual paint base and pigments used that creates this