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Each year we review best selling colours across the Wood Paint and Peelable Glass Paint Colours.
It’s a great guide for trends and an aid for inspiration and colour selection.
There’s stiff competition with thousands of colours to choose from and each year it produces fascinating yet often unsurprising results!
Translucent wood paints behave differently than opaques, and are more like wood stains. So the painting technique has to be amended accordingly.
We have put together a short video showing how to apply by either roller or paint brush.
The demonstration shows painting Hazel Wood Paint on softwood shelves, and overpainting an old floor coating with Hazel Wood Paint.
Using these techniques means you also use less paint so your pounds spread further!
Timber planters can last a lifetime if they’re looked after well.
Winter and spring can be the perfect time to carry out maintenance on planters as plants are dormant and often cut back over winter.
We have put together a project page to show you some simple tips on maintenance from cleaning to painting. There’s also a couple of tutorial videos taking you through simple maintenance and another on how to save an old planter without much effort.
As most planters can be painted or maintained with just a wood paint 150ml sample tin, it’s also a nice cheap, quick and easy job to do.
Just because it’s winter it doesn’t mean that you can’t paint exterior wood. It can be the best opportunity to paint garden timber whilst plants are dormant and cut back, making access to fences, trellises, arbours and planters a lot easier.
You often get some lovely sunny dry spells in winter with a soft breeze blowing – the perfect conditions for painting outside and enjoying the winter sun!
We’ve put together some simple tips and advice for you to follow to make painting in winter easy. The key is in the planning so follow this link for advice and an easy checklist.
Or just paint your interior wood as you can use Thorndown Wood Paint on any wood, anywhere – skirting boards, doors, window frames, furniture and kitchen cupboards. There’s plenty of inspiration and advice in our Projects section to help you along with painting projects.
For Peelable Glass Paint the winter is not the best time to paint externally as drying/curing time is longer than the wood paint. However, I did paint some Christmas stencil decorations on the external glass of a french door when it had just started to snow and three years later, they were still there. They looked too pretty to remove but finally I did, providing a fresh blank canvas for a new project.
There are plenty of interior painting and arts & crafts projects that you can carry out with Peelable Glass Paint and our Projects section has lots of ideas for you.
Happy painting!
If you’ve got some leftover Wood Paint then a great way to use it is to paint your own Christmas tree decorations.
It’s a fun crafting activity for kids, families and all ages. You can get wooden tree decorations fairly cheaply from craft stores and online, and they come in a great variety of shapes and designs.
We got a selection of baubles, Christmas trees, reindeer, snowflakes, snowmen and stars, then painted them with Golden Somer, Rowan Berry Red, Swan White and Yew Green.
Baubles were turned into Christmas puddings and reindeers decorated with a shiny red nose for Rudolph.
You can let your imagination run wild and blend paint colours together for decorative effect.
We hung them on our outdoors Christmas tree that sits outside our kitchen window, bringing festive cheer to meals and the garden. As Thorndown Wood Paint is engineered for exterior use, the wooden decorations won’t suffer from being left outside in wintry wet weather.
We even used Thorndown Peelable Glass Paint and the Christmas stencils to decorate the red bucket, making it even more fun and festive! ????
For more ideas on painting your own decorations, follow this link to our Projects area.
Paint advent and Christmas windows with Thorndown’s Peelable Glass Paint Stencil Craft Pack, and get a fabulous £5 off with discount code ‘angel’. Just enter the code in the coupon box in your basket at the online shop and get the pack for only £15.00.
The craft pack contains 6 Christmas themed stencils (angel, Christmas tree, Santa, snowflake, snowman and star) made with a durable 190gsm plastic material that can be used over and over again, 4 x 40ml craft tins of Peelable Glass Paint in Dragon Red, Goblin Green, Griffin Gold and Swan White, and an art brush.
Peelable Glass Paint goes a long way so you can get a lot painted with a small craft tin. You can also create many beautiful gifts such as treat jars, tea light holders and bottle lights using old glass or plastic bottles and jars.
Let your creativity flow and paint yourself a merry little Christmas! Follow links to see how to paint a Christmas window and ideas for arts & crafts.
Rather than buying an advent calendar every year, why not make your own that you can use again and again.
We made our own Advent Calendar with plastic fillable baubles bought online from a craft shop, and painted them with Peelable Glass Paint. Each family member decorated 6 each, painting the number of the month on one side and decorating the other with a festive design.
When the paint was dry we filled each bauble with a chocolate, popped the sides together then strung them together and hung them across the kitchen window.
Peelable Glass Paint is made with a 100% recycled plastic resin, is water-based, non-toxic, low in odour and has virtually no VOC. It goes a long way so you can buy 40ml craft tins in every colour from the online shop.
If you make a mistake you can wipe the paint off while it’s wet and when it’s dry you can peel it off, so if you want to change the design you can create a brand new Advent calendar each year!
Follow this link for more ideas on Making Your Own Christmas Decorations or Painting a Christmas Window and festive decorations and gifts.
ORDER DATES
Last date for Christmas delivery – Monday 20th December with orders placed by 12.30pm. This will allow additional delivery time in case courier or postal networks are struggling with demand and to allow for any issues with deliveries.
Last Orders – orders placed on Wednesday 22nd December by 12.30pm will still be processed as normal and should be delivered the next day, although it must be remembered that Christmas is a high-volume time for couriers and the post so packages may get stuck.
FACTORY DATES
The factory and office will be manned up to 12.30pm on Thursday 23rd December and we will still be processing orders. Our courier APC are still delivering on Christmas Eve morning so some deliveries may be made.
The factory and office will be closed from 12.30pm on Thursday 23rd December and will reopen on Tuesday 4th January 2022.
We will all be taking a well-earnt break so phones will not be answered, and emails will only be checked intermittently during the Christmas holidays.
Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year to all!
Whether you’re looking for a garden retreat, an extra outside room, or somewhere to holiday in, a Shepherds Hut is a fabulously practical and attractive option. Traditionally built from timber, these huts create wonderful spaces to escape to.
We supply a number of companies that design and build shepherd huts as our Wood Paint offers the perfect protection for exterior timber, with great eco credentials. There are also over 70 colours to choose from in our colour charts, along with all of the RAL Classic and Design colours, so customers are spoilt for choice.
Follow this link to find out more about the wonderful Shepherd Hut options available.
With winter approaching, birds will need some help and if you’re not already feeding your garden visitors, it’s a great time to start, offering extra food as natural sources become more scarce.
TV Carpenter Wayne Perrey, joined the Love Your Weekend team to show show to build your own bird table and bird feeder from scratch.
He used gravel boards for both jobs as it is a durable exterior timber that is pre-treated with preservative chemicals so it lasts outside.
The bird feeder was quite a simple construction using just 3 pieces of wood cut at easy angles and with 3 old metal food tins. Wayne gave the tins a thorough clean then painted them with Thorndown Wood Paint in Grey Heron, Bishop Blue and Avalon Blue. He trimmed the top with a copper tape that is commonly used in the garden as a barrier to slugs, but also looks quite decorative!
You can also paint the wood sections with wood paint for extra external protection and to make them look pretty, or if you like the natural timber look you can paint on UV Clear which will protect the timber and stop the greying process for a couple of years.
If you’re feeling up to the challenge then how about making a bird table? Wayne made it look quite achievable and the end result would look gorgeous in the garden.
Follow this link to see what else Wayne has made on Love Your Weekend, You can also subscribe to his worksheets for step-by-step instructions for all of his builds.
Ben and I have been working with and supplying Love Your Garden from the very start of the hit ITV1 series, so when we started Thorndown we were delighted to be able to continue our relationship with the team and supply the programme with our Wood Paints.
In series 11 the team travelled to the home county of Thorndown to makeover two gardens in Taunton, Somerset.
Taking inspiration from stately homes, the team designed and built a new garden for Dunkirk Memorial House and one for the home manager. They commissioned local artist Jon Minshull (who painted the Avalon Marshes mural with Thorndown Wood Paint for the Glastonbury Mural Trail), Â to paint a Capability Brown landscape as a boundary focal point at the end of a pergola. A run-down part of the garden was transformed into an incredible place to sit and relax with a unique and stunning painting to admire.
Jon used Thorndown Wood Paints for the mural and the team painted the pergola and garden furniture with Launcherley Blue Wood Paint, an elegant and stately blue.
Mel’s garden was transformed into the most beautiful space with traditional planting, a borrowed landscape seen through a new natural hedge boundary, and new fencing painted in heritage tone Goddess Green.
Paint your timber summerhouse with Thorndown Wood Paint for long-lasting and beautiful protection.
Our friends at Forest did a series of makeovers on their Oakley Summerhouse range, selecting different colour combinations to create amazing spaces.
