Moody Blue Feature Wall: Porter's Paints

Being a housepainter's daughter - not to mention signwriter's sister - I grew up surrounded by paint. Little wonder, then, how soothed and at home I feel with a brush in hand and a tin of luscious, creamy emulsion by my side. Ooooh - paint! It's such sensuous stuff. And best not to start me on colour. Put a colour chart in my hands and I'll be dreamily occupied for hours. Maybe days.
Over the years of my amateur housepainting career, I think I've busted a few popular colour myths - most notably:
Myth 1. Dark colours make a room look smaller: Piffle. Quite the opposite really - a small white room can feel boringly boxy, whereas a deep, rich hue gives depth.
Myth 2: Go for a lighter colour, as it always looks darker on the wall. Pfffff. Be brave. Go darker and earthier. Once the colour's on the wall and the light comes (hopefully) flooding in, you'll be left with rich and/or vibrant, rather than insipid or garish.

Which is how we ran with the studio, and we're pretty darned happy with the result.

Above: Feature wall (against which Grace is so stylishly poised) in Porter's Ultra Flat in Gun Metal Grey - a moody, slate grey-blue. If it's a colour hit you're after, I highly recommend Porter's Ultra Flat. Loaded with pigment, it dries to the most intense, velvety, colour-saturated finish. The photo really doesn't do it justice.
For the remaining walls, we used Porter's Eggshell Acrylic in Marble. The colour looks bright white in the photo, but in real life dries out off a rich off-white with an almost greenish - well, marble-like tinge. And Porter's Eggshell Acrylic gives an easy care finish with the lustre and texture of - well, eggshell!
I'm a big fan of Porter's. I figure I say thousands as a DIY painter, so why not use the best, most luxurious paint? Porter's is a hand-crafted, proudly Austrlian product. They produce they most stunning, intensely pigmented colours imagineable. The paint slides on like buttermilk. And it smells fresh as a field of daisies when you're done. Take a big, healthy breath - it's VOV free!