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Somehow you just knew Farrow & Ball wouldn’t do full fat. Last year, for example, it added another 16 colours in collaboration with the Natural History Museum, inspired by shades in a book used by the famous naturalist Charles Darwin. Meanwhile, it’s continued to expand its range of wacky hues. Clearly he wasn’t alone in his reaction - in 2017 the firm had to add more pigment to its paints to improve their opacity. (It was a very small room, and I’d sold a kidney.) Indeed, I once saw a painter’s shoulders slump when I told him my partner had ordered some Farrow & Ball for a job we were having done. This became even more of an issue in 2010, when the company moved to water-based rather than oil-based formulations, on the grounds of eco-friendliness. Many find Farrow & Ball difficult to work with, as it’s thinner than other paints and so requires more coats.ĭavid Cameron sitting on the steps of a cabin installed in his Cotswolds garden, which was decorated by his wife in Farrow & Ball’s Mouse’s Back, a ‘quiet grey brown’ Your decorator might well prefer the cheaper version. If you want to follow his lead, but haven’t recently trousered an £800,000 deal for your autobiography, you can still enjoy the Farrow & Ball lifestyle on a Dulux income - simply buy a £4.95 tester pot of your desired shade, take it to a DIY store and let them make you up a colour-matched pot. The £25,000 structure, where the former prime minister wrote his memoirs, was decorated by his wife in Farrow & Ball’s Mouse’s Back, a ‘quiet grey brown’ named after the ‘fawny colour of the British field mouse’. But the extra expense does provide you with the warm and comforting knowledge that your walls are graced by the same tones as David Cameron’s. A 2.5 litre tin of white gloss will set you back £62 - £48 more than a comparable tin of Dulux. None of these achingly stylish tones come cheap. Meanwhile the ‘cheerful’ yellow known as Babouche got its title from ‘the distinctive colour of the leather slippers worn by men in Morocco’. Many find Farrow & Ball difficult to work with, as it’s thinner than other paints and so requires more coats. Meanwhile, it’s continued to expand its range of wacky hues (file photo)īut according to Farrow & Ball, it’s an ‘uplifting mid grey’ with a ‘hint of magenta’ which can ‘become almost lilac in the cooler light of west-facing rooms’.