Colortrend offer the customer an unrivalled choice of almost 2000 exclusive colours and provide colour cards using real paint samples, ensuring you get the colour on your walls you choose.

At Colortrend, they pride themselves on surpassing expectations every time in terms of both the quality of their paint and the choice of colours on offer.

They have been making paint at Celbridge in Ireland since 1953, so have learned a thing or two about colour over the years.

The Farrow & Ball colour card has 9 new colours and the whole flow of the card has been changed to accommodate them.

The famous colour families of neutrals, reds, yellows, greens and blues remain and much work has been done to improve the adjacencies of colours to show customers how our colours work together.

Details of the new colours and the colours which are to be withdrawn will follow shortly

Pensthorpe Nature Reserve & Gardens near Fakenham in North Norfolk, will be celebrating the festive season with the help of an extra special guest, as Father Christmas will be flying in on his sleigh to feed the birds at 4pm from Saturday 18^th December, Sunday 19^th and Monday 20^th December.

As part of Pensthorpe’s annual Floodlit Feeds, the Nature Reserve has invited Father Christmas to take part in the popular evening spectacle and he will arrive with his sledge laden with grain and bird food for his feathered friends. (more…)

Following the floods in Cumbria and a £4m refurbishment, things at the Swan are very different. Before the floods, the Swan was a curious combination of traditional English lakeside hotel with a contemporary, somewhat stark, bar and restaurant; perhaps the floods were a timely, if expensive, blessing in disguise. 

There’s now a reassuring air of calm amid the chic Designers Guild soft furnishings in reception.  All 52 rooms have been refurbished using Designers Guild, Ralph Lauren and Nina Campbell designs and accessories.

RAL COLOUR FAN DECK

In 1927 the German Reichsausschuß für Lieferbedingungen und Gütesicherung” (State Commission for Delivery Terms and Quality Assurance) invented a collection of 40 colors under the name of “RAL 840″. Prior to that date manufacturers and customers had to exchange samples to describe a tint, whereas from then on they would rely on numbers.

In the 1930s the numbers were changed uniformly to four digits and the collection was renamed to “RAL 840 R” (R for revised). With tints constantly added to the collection, it was revised again in 1961 and changed to (more…)

Earthborn paints are kinder by design…
kinder to the environment and kinder to your health.

Earthborn paints are high performance, designer paints…

equally suitable for DIY or commercial projects.

Earthborn paints utilise advanced formulations…

modern paints with a tradition. (more…)

Farrow & Ball has been making paint in Dorset, one batch at a time, since 1946 and remains one of only a few companies making a full range of traditional and modern paint finishes of the highest quality.

“The depth and beauty of our paint colours are unmatched by other paints. We use more high quality pigments and resins and no low quality ‘fillers’, which gives our colours visibly greater depth and purity often referred to as the ‘Farrow & Ball look’. Unlike many other manufacturers we use naturally occurring pigments, such as Umbers in their purest form, and we continue to use natural ingredients such as Chalk,

Our colour accuracy and quality is second to none (more…)

All Farrow & Ball paints are water based, eco friendly and comply with the latest EU environmental legislation regarding the VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds) content of paints. F&B finishes are all low in odour and classified as either low or minimal VOC. These water based paints can be applied to surfaces previously painted in an oil based finish.

However, surfaces painted in oil based paint require a minimum of two weeks drying time before water based paint is applied on top. Farrow & Ball oil based paint finishes are no longer available

While sustainability is increasingly important to interior design projects, there can be no compromise on aesthetics. The look and feel of an interior is paramount.

Fortunately, Earthborn shares that view. Our natural paints and varnishes have been developed to deliver superb finished effects while meeting the highest environmental standards.

Made using carefully selected natural ingredients and advanced manufacturing processes, Earthborn products are breathable, VOC free, toxin free and low odour, which makes them safer to use and to live with. (more…)

EU legislation sets limits on the amount of VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds) content allowed in paint. These limits were further reduced with effect from January 2010.

VOC’s are present in many household products. In paint VOC’s are solvents, such as white spirit, which evaporate while paint is drying. These VOC’s pollute the environment and could potentially have a detrimental effect on health.

With an ever increasing focus on the environment, it is likely that legislation will continue to require (more…)