It’s house decorating time again so we are immersed in the
vexed problem of choosing paint colours. Usually B&Q paints will do but
shock horror – the B&Q own brand paint range has been changed.
If you’re looking to refresh your living space with new season shades, on a budget, the new B&Q GoodHome paint range is an ideal place to start.
The extensive range offers 80 shades to choose from, for general walls and ceilings. Additional specialist kitchen, bathrooms and furniture paints are available in an edited colour palette of 25 shades.
Now the colours have names such as toulon, cleveland, santo
domingo and valdez. Place names which may or may not suggest a colour which may
or may not be the colour B&Q has chosen to go with the name. What the blue
menton blazes they were thinking of I don’t know.
A hint of cosmopolitan sophistication? No – in that case people
would surely go for paint produced by an outfit with a double-barrelled name so
they could leave the colour charts lying around.
I wonder if there is a colour called Jaywick?
5 comments:
Even when they had the old names they didn't mean very much. I remember a chemistry lesson at school where we had to mix some chemicals and them record the result.
"OK", said the Chemistry teacher, "If you have poured it in and stirred it, tell me what colour your solution has turned".
"I can't really say, sir - it's changed, but it's not a definite colour."
"Don't be daft, boy! If it's changed, you can describe it. Now, what colour would you call the solution in your flask?"
"Well, sir, I'd call it 'Autumn Dawn'.
Why Valdez? Not drip-free? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill
My preferred one would be a good strong coat of Torquemada.
Camber Sands, evokes memories of a lost youth....................... and a muddy wall
Sam - ah Autumn Dawn. Could be anything couldn't it? Or a lady of easy virtue.
Sackers - useful for painting seagulls?
Demetrius - a Torquemada coat sounds like a Halloween outfit.
Wiggia - I have memories of lost youth but I'm not sure I want to find it again.
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