The collection

Eight colours, mixed for this coast

Our own collection: low-VOC, effectively odourless, and formulated for humidity, harmattan dust and the way afternoon light comes through a louvre.

Order sample boards

The firm's swatch deck fanned open across a bench

The collection

Harmattan

N°2155

GHS 390 · 4L

Gulf of Guinea

N°0550

GHS 490 · 4L

Aburi Green

N°0510

GHS 420 · 4L

Volta Gold

N°2570

GHS 530 · 4L

Osu Blue

N°1040

GHS 600 · 4L

Laterite

N°5560

GHS 560 · 4L

Kakum

N°1000

GHS 450 · 4L

Weija Stone

N°0090

GHS 390 · 4L

Where each one belongs

Eight colours, and the rooms they were mixed for

Harmattan

A chalk beige that holds its warmth under Accra's afternoon light.

N°2155 · GHS 390

Gulf of Guinea

The grey-blue of the water off Labadi at four o'clock.

N°0550 · GHS 490

Aburi Green

A dusty sage mixed for the ridge light. Our own house colour.

N°0510 · GHS 420

Volta Gold

Ochre with real body — one coat over a sealed wall is usually enough.

N°2570 · GHS 530

Osu Blue

Deep and slightly grey, for a room you want to feel cooler than it is.

N°1040 · GHS 600

Laterite

The red earth of the Eastern Region, ground fine and made washable.

N°5560 · GHS 560

Kakum

Near-black forest green. Best on joinery, and superb on a front door.

N°1000 · GHS 450

Weija Stone

A cool pale grey that stays grey — no green cast as it dries.

N°0090 · GHS 390

Finishes

The colour is half of it. The finish is the other half

Every colour in the collection is mixed into any of these four, at no difference in price.

Matt emulsion

Ceilings and any wall you want to look flat and deep. Hides an imperfect surface better than anything else and does not like being scrubbed.

Vinyl eggshell

Hallways, kitchens, children's rooms. A slight sheen, wipes clean, and the finish we put in three quarters of the houses we do.

Satinwood

Doors, frames, skirtings and built-in joinery. Water-based, so it stays white instead of going the colour of tea after four years.

Textured masonry

Exterior render and block. Flexible enough to bridge a hairline crack and formulated for a coast that spends half the year wet.

Choosing

Four things our consultant says at every survey

01

Look at a sample board on the actual wall, at three in the afternoon and again at eight in the evening. A colour that works in a showroom is a colour chosen under a showroom's lights.

02

Paint the board, not the wall. A patch of the new colour surrounded by the old one always reads wrong, and half the colours we are asked to change were never actually seen.

03

Go one step lighter than you think for a room that faces north, and one step deeper for a room with a louvre and a lot of glare.

04

Match the joinery to the walls rather than to the floor. White frames against a deep wall date faster than anything else in a Ghanaian house.

Get started with your favourite colours

Tell us the rooms and roughly when. We measure on site, leave sample boards on the wall for a week, and send one written figure that covers preparation, paint and making good.