Farrow and Ball 'Great White' 2006 Colour Match

mackerf

Hi,

Has anyone found or used a colour match with Dulux etc for the above shade? The F&B website describes the shade as "A bright white but one which is neither 'yellow' nor 'cold'" - exactly the kind of shade I'm looking for. Would love to use it but way over budget.

Thanks!

fussyonion

Go to Fleetwood and tell them what you're after and they'll make it up for you.

antiskeptic

fussyonion wrote: »

Go to Fleetwood and tell them what you're after and they'll make it up for you.

..although it must be said that if you paint an F&B copy beside the real thing the colours (not to speak of the subtle qualities) won't match.

For the purposes of an approximate match when after a distinctive F&B colour it'd be close enough. But for a shade of white, you'd probably be disappointed. F&B will achieve those characteristics through complexity of paint construction, not something likely to be achieved with plain old mixing.

I used to think F&B were outside the budget until a) I tried out a small room (stretching a can out) b) realised that the area being covered rendered the paint a fraction of what I was willing to pay for floor coverings. Why spend 1000's on covering a floor and baulk at a hundred or two on painting a rooms wall/ceiling/woodwork - especially since the visible area of those are many times more than the floor? Doesn't make sense.

Johnnsmith

Yeah going to Fleetwood is helpful