Painting your interior walls is one of the most popular choices for wall coverings, and with so many beautiful and bespoke colour mixing choices available from paint suppliers it is no wonder.

Some of the biggest brand names in paint manufacture will mix up virtually any colour you can think of to match your decor and heritage paints have sprung up as we all try and capture that special essence in our home colours. Gone are the days when painting a room has simply been a case of picking up a magnolia or other fairly dreary neutral colour and splashing it about, today’s home owners are apothecaries with colour matching and mixing. This is fantastic when you think that we can also get our window coverings such as shutters painted to match our choice in wall colour.

Eco paints are growing ever more popular in the environmental interiors world, with lead, once being the de facto ingredient almost entirely abolished as the term sick building syndrome becomes more than a passing terminology and eco ethics become accepted practice.

Statement walls, eggshell and cutting in are common language today and the interiors world loves every drop of paint which the manufacturers can supply. Today we buy paints for any number of different reasons, not just the price. Paint with heritage colours, paint matching, durability, application of paints in wet rooms or moisture resistant qualities, paint for hard wearing walls and scuffs, or simple emulsions which we can slip slap away. For the leading paint manufacturers look no further and please check out taster pots before filling all your walls with entirely the wrong colour.

Use dark paint sparingly, we admire the notion that walls can be black or dark blue to match your new 48” plasma, however in reality your interior will become dark and gloomy and the new TV will simply disappear into the ether.