Replicating premium brand paint colours

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Has anyone had any success replicating premium brand paint colours eg Farrow and Ball, Benjamin Moore etc?

5 liters of Farrow and Ball shaded white for example is nearly £100 but 5 liters of Dulux paint is about £40.
 
danlightbulb said:
Has anyone had any success replicating premium brand paint colours eg Farrow and Ball, Benjamin Moore etc?

5 liters of Farrow and Ball shaded white for example is nearly £100 but 5 liters of Dulux paint is about £40.
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Farrow & Ball is a sister company of Crown, apart from eggshell paints, any Crown supplier will be able to mix for you i'd say and it'll be cheaper.
 
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Crown Decorating Centres are very good for this. Much higher quality than the retail paints and they will mix up any paint colour for you. We have used them to replicate F&B paints in the past.
 
I always use the paint shed, they’ve been able to match any colour I’ve given them over the years (they’ve matched f&b, lick) competitive pricing and the johnstones stuff has always been decent.

The last f&b legit school house white I bought was nice but it’s so thin. The matte match I got the next time around I preferred painting with and the match was decent.

Take a look at this site (https://www.e-paint.co.uk/colour-al...and+Ball&cRef=No.+2011&cDescription=Blackened). It’s great at giving you all the different manufacturers and how close a match they’re to the OG.
 
Most people seem to agree that F&B paint is **** as well. Nice colours but doesn't go on as well as other paints.
 
fez said:
Most people seem to agree that F&B paint is **** as well. Nice colours but doesn't go on as well as other paints.
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My experience with F&B and Crown hasn't been inspiring, I got much better results with Johnstones and Dulux Endurance paints (don't rate Dulux's regular paints).

One of the Crown paints changed colour significantly after drying (more so than you'd normally get) and in both applications it didn't go on well despite careful preparation and was easily skimmed off by touch :( repainting with the Johnstones equivalent and it was perfect.
 
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Rroff said:
My experience with F&B and Crown hasn't been inspiring, I got much better results with Johnstones and Dulux Endurance paints (don't rate Dulux's regular paints).

One of the Crown paints changed colour significantly after drying (more so than you'd normally get) and in both applications it didn't go on well despite careful preparation and was easily skimmed off by touch :( repainting with the Johnstones equivalent and it was perfect.
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Yeah, we forked out for Johnstones paint for all our colour matches and it seems to be good paint.
 
I have a crown decorating centre near me which I have used before and the paint seemed decent but it was a crown own colour I asked for. I don't want to scan in a 3rd party colour card because it won't have all the nuance on a printed colour card, do they have the original recipes so they can recreate the colour quality exactly?
 
danlightbulb said:
I have a crown decorating centre near me which I have used before and the paint seemed decent but it was a crown own colour I asked for. I don't want to scan in a 3rd party colour card because it won't have all the nuance on a printed colour card, do they have the original recipes so they can recreate the colour quality exactly?
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Without using the same base & pigments, it will never have exactly the same colour "quality". While the actual colour itself may be close to perfect, as @Mercenary Keyboard Warrior says, there's still the texture/sheen/opacity etc. to consider as well
 
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fez said:
Yeah, we forked out for Johnstones paint for all our colour matches and it seems to be good paint.
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Johnstones have been by far the best for me in terms of colour matching, our local place has all the F&B shades saved so it's quick and easy. Avoid B&Q's matching like the plague they copied a black for us and it dried light grey!

The Johnstones matching is good but it looses a lot of the tonal changes and subtlety of the F&B, F&B changes colour loads with lighting where the Johnstones seems less vibrant. If you never paint the two side by side and are happy with close enough go with the Johnstones match it is pretty close, loads cheaper and for my money easier to apply. We are totally refurbishing our house and have painted a lot of it with the real stuff it seems crazy to scrimp £50 on a tin of paint when I've paid thousands for plastering etc.
 
Just to echo the above, I always go with Johnstones trade paint mixed to a colour choice. My ex though always swore this was worse than the real stuff, having your own place makes this easier :D
 
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