Limewashing a brick chimney breast over a weekend, and the cloudy finish we chased.
Our living room had a red-brick chimney breast that fought every other colour in the room. Three thin coats of limewash, brushed on wet, tur…
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Testing a moody green in three lights before we painted the whole snug.
A deep green can read as forest, sludge or near-black depending on the light. We painted one tester across three walls of the snug and watch…
Testing four whites in real light — what we got wrong before.
We picked the wrong white twice and a third time was guaranteed to be expensive. Four tester pots and a weekend of light-watching saved us f…