Experience with Farrow and Ball in home paint consult?
Ali C
2 years ago
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jck910
2 years agoPatricia Colwell Consulting
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What's so Great About Farrow &Ball or other high-end paints
Comments (13)I have never used Farrow & Ball but I do like the colors I see online. Two paints I have used in the past that are very poor quality (to me) is Glidden and Valspar although I have heard that Gliddens high gloss is nice. We have had five different houses during the time the kids grew up over a twenty four year span and I can find absolutely no difference in wear time or hardiness between Behr paints and BM. My youngest son used to put his hands on side of halls and walk down hall walls with his feet. He was constantly jumping up and hanging off painted ledges...same amount life span and easy clean off between BM and Behr and same painting coverage. Recently my husband and I used SW in master bath and I do love the feel of that paint for cutting in, it's pleasurable to paint with and you can't beat the great sales they often have. I do not have enough experience with long term use with SW to compare though. The reason I normally switch back and forth between BM and Behr is due to a color I may like....See MoreFarrow and Ball paint suggestions for walls
Comments (93)I get what you're saying about needing some oomph on the walls in your breakfast area. I would prime over the copper brown with white to give yourself a clean slate to begin with. Any white-ish colour is going to get lost when you have such a dominant colour that a) you're used to and b) drowns out any sample board you put up. Speaking of BM, I saw a LR on Remodelista about a year ago that had walls in Overcast and trim in White Chocolate. I'm not sure how it'll play with your floors but I think it's a sensational combination for your wainscoting and walls. It has a presence while still light and ethereal. Is the strip of wall above your cabs the only painted surface in your kitchen?...See MoreFarrow & Ball Hague Blue or Similar Exterior Paint ?
Comments (19)@wacokid I'm looking at Gauntlet Gray. Will look at Storm also. @Joy I searched far and wide for exteriors in Hague Blue and found minimal. Some come up and then when you find the house it's either the door or another color. so frustrating. But maybe it's not a good choice for exterior lol. Plus, that's a lot of $$ to paint the whole house in F&B. @shead I found I can buy samples @ Anthropologie. But it's $16 after shipping so I'll see if there are other colors I like first. And that SNL skit cracked me up. I'm not wanting to do white because bugs and dirt.and every farmhouse right now is white...but fear that super dark gray is also becoming too trendy....so that's why I thought maybe that color would be a good compromise. It's dark not gray not blue. Also, my current home is a medium gray/green victorian with white trim. so want it to not be green. Thanks for all the ideas. Off to the paint store. LOL....See MoreFarrow&Ball paint question
Comments (11)That's flashing. (Google for more and better info) But basically the swatched spot absorbed the additional coats of paint and gloss differently. In other words, the swatch made the substrate (wall) uneven and so your final coats of paint look uneven and splotchy. Only way to fix it is to sand it down and clean it up really well. I'd do the entire square inside the trim. And then repaint two even coats. Let the first coat dry out well. To avoid the same thing from happening in the future, never test paint colors directly on the wall. Use the large paint chips from paint brands or paint peel and stick color sample decals. There are products like Samplize that will send you pre painted tester decals but we've found color accuracy discrepancies so I can't recommend them. But Samplize is better than using paper or poster board to make your own sample; just check the Sampleize color carefully. Because anything that's a paper product absorbs paint - the colorant and gloss possibly at different rates of absorption (because it's paper) giving you a distorted view of the color....See Morejck910
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