Seeing Red

That was a narrow escape...

I chose the colours of our paint very carefully, especially the colour of the second (after the pierre apparentes) feature wall in the salon. Over the course of a couple of days I studied the colour swatches, compared them to the tiles, took spot colour samples from photos and ran them through colour matching programs, found the HEX value, matched that through encycolorpedia.com and came up with the paint reference number and name.

Except when paint met wall it was pretty obvious that the choice wasn't perfect. It was worryingly raspberry coloured, not the dark red edging towards brown that were we're hoping would match to the tiles.

We would have gone with it - we've reached that stage - but having an expert on the team that wasn't going to fly. So we spent 30 minutes of adding various amounts of ochre powder, doing test patches and drying them with a painter's hairdryer

In the end we managed to find the colour I thought we had chosen.

It's a colour I like to think of as "old velvet curtain red". It works really nicely with artificial light, as well.

Those tiles do need a clean, though.