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Weirdly our decorator loves F&B. Only the modern emulsion though.
I reckon a lot of decorators got stung by the estate emulsion and eggshell, which is a total ballache.
Johnston's durable Matt and acrylic eggshell has great colour match and was a dream to paint with when I did our bedroom last week.
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Weirdly our decorator loves F&B. Only the modern emulsion though.
I reckon a lot of decorators got stung by the estate emulsion and eggshell, which is a total ballache.
Oddly we had the opposite experience. Hague blue estate emulsion has always gone on well (over Leyland Trade undercoat) and all the wood in that room is the eggshell, which also goes on great.
Hague Blue, incidentally, is one of the colours test won’t match well. You need the real F&B.
But the blue green modern emulsion was a nightmare. On every brushstroke more was dragged off than went on. Maybe it would work if you spray. We chose to fuck it off, write off the £70 it cost and buy some Crown, which gave us no problems at all
bq
I did... and the reply was "absolutely not Farrow & Ball, it's terrible... but if you have a colour you want from their range or Little Green, or anywhere else then we can colour match. Our recommendation is a specific Dulux Trade mix or a Johnsons depending on which surface and the amount of brushing against it or knocks it will take, but don't worry you're not limited to colours from them".
I'm happy with the Dulux Sage Green and Grey Steel 4 for the kitchen... despite first getting every other paint swatch you can imagine... so I just looked through their colours for the others.