Colour notes
What fourteen years of walls taught us
Written for people about to spend real money on a room. No product placement — most of what is here would save you from hiring anybody at all.
Preparation · 6 min
Why your last paint job failed, and it was not the paint
Nine times in ten a wall that flaked inside two years was sound-looking and unsealed. Here is what a chalky render actually does to an emulsion, how to test for it with a strip of tape, and why the answer costs less than repainting.
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Exteriors · 4 min
Painting through harmattan, and painting through the rains
Two seasons, two sets of problems: dust that lands in a wet coat and lifts it, and humidity that stops a film curing at all. When to start an exterior in Accra, when to stop, and what to do with the four weeks in between.
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Colour · 5 min
Nobody can choose a colour from a 30mm chip
How our consultant runs a colour meeting: sample boards rather than patches, two viewings a day apart, and the one question that settles most of the arguments — what do you want to be doing in this room at nine in the evening?
Read the noteThe seasonal letter
One letter a season, and nothing else
What we have been mixing, what has held up on the coast, the two colours we have stopped recommending, and one job explained from survey to handover. No offers, and we have never sold the list.
Colours in these notes
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
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