And I thought car paint names were "enthusiastic"

[Gandahar]

I bought a beige Morris Ital coloured Champagne.
I bought a beige 1600L Cavalier coloured Parchment.

But nothing can match the ludicrousness of home paint names still, car manufacturers still need to work harder.

http://www.farrow-ball.com/elephant's-breath/paint...


Elephant's breath .....

"Elephant's Breath reads as an uplifting mid grey with its hint of magenta, but can become almost lilac in the cooler light of west facing rooms"

Sadly my room is west by south west. Darn it!

The whole range for your enjoyment

http://www.farrow-ball.com/colours/paint/fcp-categ...

Sulking room pink just seems fit for my daugthers bedroom now she is 16 and is now a cross between a goth and a snowflake .

Gothflake white ... yeah. As long as she is facing south east of course so she does not get too many hints of violent, sorry violets.

Bring back Piss Yellow as in the good old days .....................................

Edited by Gandahar on Saturday 26th January 14:40

[grim_d]

My entranceway is elephants breath because that's what the Mrs picked.

Except it's a farrow and ball Swatch mixed by valspar at b&q.

Farrow and ball can sod off.

[rxtx]

"created by John Fowler, the notable English interior designer"

How can you create a colour? Every colour visible (and those not visible) to the human eye already exist. What utter bullst, and John Fowler is a pretentious tt.

[CypSIdders]

Ah, the F&B paint name game!
Been playing it for years, obviously the rudest "name" always wins!
Hours of endless fun!

[anonymous-user]

Ahh Farrow and Ball; our house is covered in that stuff,

Mouses back is my favourite name.

To be fair though, the paint itself whilst eve wateringly expensive is first class when it comes to usage in terms of batch consistency, coverage and finish.

[Roofless Toothless]

rxtx said:

"created by John Fowler, the notable English interior designer"

How can you create a colour? Every colour visible (and those not visible) to the human eye already exist. What utter bullst, and John Fowler is a pretentious tt.

My family's business was a rather large and successful wool shop. Some ranges of knitting yarns came in 50 or 60 different colours. They just don't 'already exist'. Colours have to be created and blended from primary colours by the mill's colour designer. This guy is pretty well god in these firms, the star striker or opening batsman of the team. A good 'colour man' can transform an otherwise hum drum product.

The experience of this has left me with a pretty good eye for colour, and I often look at colours and think that somebody has got one just right, or on the other hand, failed with a colour completely.

I think whoever designed the Fiat 500 colour range deserves a lot of praise. Most Japanese car marquees haven't got a clue.

[g3org3y]

lord trumpton said:

To be fair though, the paint itself whilst eve wateringly expensive is first class when it comes to usage in terms of batch consistency, coverage and finish.

I heard the opposite, that it's actually hard to paint with and most builders suggest colour matching with equivalent Dulux (or whatever)?

[PositronicRay]

g3org3y said:

lord trumpton said:

To be fair though, the paint itself whilst eve wateringly expensive is first class when it comes to usage in terms of batch consistency, coverage and finish.

I heard the opposite, that it's actually hard to paint with and most builders suggest colour matching with equivalent Dulux (or whatever)?

I've tried matching with other brands, you don't get quite the same sheen and texture.

[eltax91]

g3org3y said:

lord trumpton said:

To be fair though, the paint itself whilst eve wateringly expensive is first class when it comes to usage in terms of batch consistency, coverage and finish.

I heard the opposite, that it's actually hard to paint with and most builders suggest colour matching with equivalent Dulux (or whatever)?

Yup. I’m in the final stages of building my own house. When we met the paint man he told us he wouldn’t work with F & B, if we wanted it we were to go elsewhere, this could all be bluster but he’d happily give up the job because it take forever to ‘get right’.

The wife chose a couple of their colours (elephants breath being one) along with some dulux range and one from B and Q’s brand and they had it all mixed up in their own chosen trade supplier paint.

They are 2/3 way through now and I must say in the face of it the paint looks excellent

[eltax91]

Oh I should add, I shall take to my slumber each night surround by polished pebble.

Polished fking pebble. What the actual fk

[Blakeatron]

I like ‘dead cod’

[curlyks2]

Certain amount of understatement in their description of the Estate Emulsion finish... " suited to lower traffic areas" - should be zero traffic, since it scuffs if you look at it.

[thebraketester]

Taken from the mighty boosh....

Profound Muffin.

Angry Beige.

Aggressive Nutmeg.

[P5BNij]

Still looking for a pot of 'Mint Sunrise' or 'Misty Buff', no luck so far...

BMC tried their best to make the two shades of beige on the Mini Cooper range sound desirable, 'El Paso' and 'Sandy', neither of them worked!

[Spare tyre]

We have STD Ejaculate on our bedroom walls

[Red 4]

eltax91 said:

Oh I should add, I shall take to my slumber each night surround by polished pebble.

Polished fking pebble. What the actual fk

Ah. Polished fking pebble is a Dulux colour.

Strange that it's available in matt.

Because if something is polished it isn't usually matt - it's shiney.

Polished fking matt fking pebble. Or frigate grey to the initiated.

[crofty1984]

My bedroom is hinkypunk and plum. With some white.

[shikari83]

Our lounge used to have a feature wall painted in "Flight of the Sand Piper"....

After looking at some grey shades last year I did find "Harp Strings"...

Imagine coming up with a name for these colours as a job.

[motco]

Back, momentarily, to car colours, a cousin of mine had a Hillman Avenger in 'Desert Wind'. He said it was actually 'Arab's Fart'. This was 45 years ago so it's not new.

[Oakey]

PositronicRay said:

g3org3y said:

lord trumpton said:

To be fair though, the paint itself whilst eve wateringly expensive is first class when it comes to usage in terms of batch consistency, coverage and finish.

I heard the opposite, that it's actually hard to paint with and most builders suggest colour matching with equivalent Dulux (or whatever)?

I've tried matching with other brands, you don't get quite the same sheen and texture.

When I started a thread on this last year the consensus seemed to be along the lines of F&B is very nice paint and it looks great, especially the finish, but the moment you get one greasy fingerprint on it you're fked