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BigJohn · 2023-08-09T08:24:04Z

We've got a hand-made painted wood kitchen in the house we recently bought. It's one of the features that attracted us to the house. I'm making a few alterations and a few new pieces but in order to match the doors I've asked the local company who made it to make me a cupboard door. he uses a decent pine as a base. The paint used is Farrow & Ball Estate Eggshell. I've not used it before. So when I asked the carpenter if that's what I should use (I've got half a tin left me by the previous owner) he went into a minor rage: "horrible stuff, look at this (pressing thumb onto a piece he painted yesterday and leaving a mark) - takes forever to dry, you're supposed to use their own primer - and that makes it worse - we get Johnstones, and our place matches Farrow & Balls colours" So, please enlighten me. I'll have quite a few pieces of raw pine to paint plus a bit of touching up of the existing. And some of the cupboards will need knots sanding down and treated with knotting then re-painting. I was planning to go to my local Dulux shop and get them to match a piece. Or should I ignore the carpenter and cough up the Farrow & Ball tax? And use their primer too? And knotting compound - does F&B not like that?

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bigh

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Johnstones Aqua guard is currently considered a top quality satin water based paint and can be mixed to any colour, I can confirm it's excellent to use, Also Benjamin Moore scuff x , but that's blimmin expensive. To be fair there's a lot of choice, and most are better than estate eggshell.

Posted : 09/08/2023 5:45 pm

redthunder

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Get this guy to sort your colours out:-)

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Posted : 09/08/2023 8:15 pm

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