After much agonising I have decided to paint our Ikea Linnarp cupboard in a purply brown Manganese sort of colour.
Farrow & Ball's Brinjal is perfect but not available here. Of course I can have the colour matched by Ace or even choose from the
Jotun range, which is not bad at all, but I just can't stand the high level of fumes, I hate paint odour at the best of times and in particular when painting in high gloss as this will be. So I resort to my least favourite range
Dulux with Maraschino Mocha 2 and considerable lower odour. It looks good in the tin and on paper but who knows.. A little less red than Brinjal but that could be the print matter of the colour card as Dulux colours tend to have more red/pink hues in them anyway. Back home my all time favourite paint colours are
Sanderson, the best off whites, neutrals and light colours, followed by
Papers and Paints, grumpy staff but they really know their stuff,
Farrow and Ball, the colours are spot on and decisions can be made very quickly as they are true to sample and always come out beautifully. I have sometimes used
Paint Library but not often, the colours look very good but somehow not my first choice, can't quite understand why; I do however love their papers.
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