Black painted wood?

[marksx]

Hi all,

Quick question, the bar in this picture, is it likely to be black painted wood, or something more complicated?

If it is paint, what sort of paint could it be?

I have a combination of generic softwood and plywood to paint. Thank you!

[loughran]

Think it might be blue painted wood.

[marksx]

Hmm could be!

Another angle..

[loughran]

Blue/black no matter, it looks like an original Edwardian wooden bar which has been painted.

I don't suppose the the paint will be anything special, just reasonably hardwiring and not too expensive.

Try an oil based paint from Leyland.... maybe in an eggshell finish.

[wolfracesonic]

Doesn't look to be black if you compare it to the actual blackboards in the picture.

[Crumpet]

It looks very much like Farrow and Ball ‘Railings’. Nice colour.

[Woody3]

Crumpet said:

It looks very much like Farrow and Ball ‘Railings’. Nice colour.

Was just about to say the same thing - we've got our shop front painted in the same colour.

[anonymous-user]

Looks like a kind of dark blue grey colour, like anthracite Ral 7016. But yes, fancy people tend to go with Little Greene, Farrow & Ball and Zoffany paints don't they!

[loughran]

Yep, Little Green, Farrow and Ball, Zoffany... all favoured by those ladies that lunch... all terrible quality these days.

[Crumpet]

loughran said:

Yep, Little Green, Farrow and Ball, Zoffany... all favoured by those ladies that lunch... all terrible quality these days.

Nothing wrong with choosing an F&B colour and having it matched with something like Crown Clean Extreme, though. That being said, I still buy the F&B eggshell as I personally really like the finish - as long as you work fast and don’t let it drag.

[Woody3]

anonymous said:

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I thought the same initially, until we were sent samples of RAL 7016 and compared it to the F&B colour. Even to my mildly colourblind eyes there's quite a difference in shade/colour.

Like Crumpet says, for the external paint, we just went to the local Crown Decorators Centre and got it colour matched.