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sean
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 06 12:31 pm Post subject: Eco-friendly paint
Those of us with an older house/delusions of grandeur/both may like to investigate the Farrow & Ball website. I'm not sure how eco-friendly their definition of eco-friendly is, but they're cracking paints to use and they do a really nice range of colours. Can't comment on their wallpaper because I loathe the stuff in all shapes and forms.

Northern_Lad

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 06 12:41 pm Post subject:
Arg! Why is that no-one makes colours any more? Most ranges vary between off-white and light beige.

sean
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 06 12:48 pm Post subject:
Umm, they do loads of colours. Are you using a black and white monitor on your PC?

Northern_Lad

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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 06 12:51 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

Umm, they do loads of colours. Are you using a black and white monitor on your PC?

Yes, I can that there's loads of colours, but their all so bland. It's not just them though, it took me 3 months of seaching before I find a decent green for my living room. My house is 200 years old, so light colours don't really work.

Gervase

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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 06 1:52 pm Post subject:

Sadly, nice as Farrow & Ball's colours are, few of them are eco-friendly; other than their limited range of distempers and limewashes, they use the same alkyd base used in most modern paints.
There are many better paints on the market; have a look a the Naturual Building Technologies site, or do a Google search and you'll come up with quite a few. Many are made in Germany and Scandinavia, but there are a number of British manufacturers now making more environmentally-friendly paints.
You could always make your own, of course - limewashes, distempers and linseed oil paints are fairly simple to prepare and extremely green (even if you want them in shades of red, blue or whatever!).

dpack

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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 06 3:36 pm Post subject:
liseed oil based are ace .limewashes are good for walls inside or out and they are breathable which reduces damp problems .i dont know much about distempers .

gil
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 06 5:43 pm Post subject:

My experience of F&B's paints is that they are much more colourful on the wall than in the catalogue, and much much more so than on the website. I got pissed off trying out tester pots that turned out completely differently - far too dark / lurid in most cases. But the one I did use was good to work with, went on very nicely, good coverage / depth of colour ['String', on light-starved stairs and hallways].

Nothing to do with how eco-friendly they might or might not be, though...

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