The Little Greene Blog

The kitchen is a big selling point of every home, and it’s the area of daily activity.
To make the most of a compact kitchen, you may want to use paint colours that give the illusion of space and light. Pale walls and floors give this illusion, but use accent colours so that your finished look isn’t bland or clinical.

These room setups are available on the UKTV website in the Homes section.
For this Kitchen, you will need White Lead floor paint and Chemise (or Joanna for a more subtle dusky effect).

Chemise

Joanna

White Lead

This room uses some strong accent greens, white and lots of natural wood. To recreate this look, use Aquamarine, Clockface and Slaked Lime.

Aquamarine

Clockface

Slaked Lime

We’d be interested to hear from you if you’ve decorated your kitchen with Little Greene paints, because we’d love to feature your work.

France is a growing market for Little Greene and we’re delighted with the way our new(ish) Showroom has been received since opening in the 15th district last year.

This week we gathered there to present lots of nice new stuff to our network of French stockists.

"Peintures et papier-peints tres joli"

Merci to everyone who came, and especially to Alice et Vincent who put lots of work into organising le day.

Next time you’re in the area do call in for a coffee and a consultation with colour expert Vincent, at 197 rue de Vaugirard in the 15th district (nearest metro is Pasteur, on both the green lines).

And who would disagree?

Our resident technical expert donned a different hat yesterday, having been invited to speak to students at St Wilfrid’s Primary School near our head office in Manchester.

Colin said, of the 50 or so Year 1 and Year 2 budding chemists “Despite being younger than our conventional audience, their questions were incisive and displayed an encouraging thirst for knowledge.”

Thanks to the staff and students at St Winfred’s, and to Colin for taking some time out of his schedule to inspire the next generation of scientists (and artists!).

The bedroom is one of the most important areas of your house. It should be a peaceful area where you can relax, and get ready for sleep.

It can be tricky picking your paint colours for this room, so we’ve used some example bedroom settings and listed the paint colours you would need to re-create the look.

Ikea have some great bedroom furniture, and this example will appeal to both men and women with a mix of masculine strong colours, pale accessories and soft dusky lilac.

Ikea Bedroom Furniture : black glossy wardrobe

The paint colours you would need to recreate this look are Juniper Ash, Chemise and Hollyhock. They have accessorised this room with white bed linen and a strong yellow/green accent colour.

Juniper Ash

Chemise

Hollyhock

Feather & Black have a couple of nice room setups for 2009. This room uses a neutral green/grey for the main colour, accessorised with a soft brown, and the floor has been varnished in a striking dark wood brown.

Recreate this look by using either Dark Lead Colour or Lead Colour, French Grey and Portland Stone.

You can get the bed from Feather & Blacks.

Lead Colour

Dark Lead

Portland Stone

French Grey

This bedroom, also from Feather & Blacks. You can recreate this look by using Bone Chine Blue or for a slightly stronger effect, James, and Slaked Lime for the woodwork.

This has been accessorised with strong black items, and the bed can be bought here.

Bone Chine

James

Slaked Lime

Channel 4 have put together details of the popular paint colours in 2009; the key idea they had was that this year we will see understated room schemes inspired by nature. So at Little Greene, we’ve put together a selection of our neutral shades, and wallpapers with elements of the natural world.

“Inspired by nature needn’t mean no colour in a living room – choose between anything from deep dark browns to rich ochres, mustard yellows, pale greens and blues.”

We have many traditional wallpapers which have influences from nature for example China Rose in Sage, Camellia in Calico from the oriental wallpapers range, and Broadwick Street in Apple, which is influenced by botanical diagrams.

China Rose

Pale Ivory

Stone and Charcoal

In our paint range, we have some very soft neutral shades:

Lead White

French Stone

Jersey Cream

Along with some striking naturally inspired paint colours:

Lead Colour

Aquamarine

Ashes of Roses

Light Gold

Echo

Dark Bronze Green

Visit the choosing paint colours page, or the home wallpaper section of the site to view the full range.

Here’s our latest advert which hits the shelves today

“VOC’s – from minimal to zero”.

On a technical level; whilst ‘zero VOCs’ is a scientific impossibility (there are traces of VOCs in the air we breath), Little Greene waterbased paints now contain less than 0.1% ‘volatile organic compound’, which is three times better than the industry’s lowest eco rating.

On a user level; there are no harmful solvents in Little Greene waterbased paints so using them won’t contribute to atmospheric pollution. Not one little bit…

This makes our range of Water Based paints as close to ‘Zero VOC’ as you can get, meaning they are excellent for painting Children’s rooms, for asthma sufferers, or if like us you value the environment.

Our lowest VOC water based paint is Waterbased Limewash Paint, which is great for traditional exterior walls, and Acrylic Satin Emulsion Paint, which gives a lovely finish on walls, ceilings and painting over wallpaper.