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.

With Thorndown Wood Paint

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),  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.

Read more about Love Your Garden

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.

Read more . . . 

If you’ve got kids or grandchildren then the 31st October will be a date to look forward to, or dread.

In our house we love decorating for Halloween, carving pumpkins, and playing silly games.

The Halloween Stencil Craft Pack makes decorating easy and we’re offering our customers a huge 25% off with discount code ‘scream’.

Enter the code in your basket at the online shop for £5 off.

Get inspired by exploring makes on our Arts & Crafts page »

And the Winner is . . .

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Win a Dog Kennel and 2.5l tin of Wood Paint – COMPETITION CLOSED

In the last of the series of giveaway competitions with Hutton Garden Products this year, you can win this gorgeous Dog Kennel.

This Hutton Dog Kennel is made of high quality pressure-treated timber in a very attractive design. Your dog will be the envy of the neighbourhood in this stylish and attractive dog house!

We’ll also give you a free 2.5 litre tin of Wood Paint to paint it in with a choice of 70 colours and a UV Clear from our colour charts, or 1800 RAL Classic and Design colours!

Although all of Hutton’s products are made from pressure-treated timber (which protects it against rot for many years), you will still need to paint it to protect it against the elements.

Two coats of our wood paint gives you full exterior protection and will keep it looking fabulous for years.

Thorndown Wood Paint is low in odour and VOC, and safe to use around animals, plants and insects. Once it’s dry it won’t leach and with very little odour, your animals or insects can move back into their home as soon as the paint is dry.

COMPETITION DETAILS

COMPETITION DATES:

The competition opens on Wednesday 22nd September and runs to Tuesday 5th October 2021.

How to Enter:

1. Follow @ThorndownPaints on Instagram, Facebook or both. If you already do then skip to steps 2 & 3
2. Like the competition post
3. Tag a friend in comments and say what colour from the Thorndown colour charts or RAL options on the website shop you’d choose to paint your Hutton Dog Kennel

Competition Terms:

• Competition run by Thorndown Ltd.
• The competition runs from Wednesday 22nd September to Tuesday 5th October 2021
• Competition closes at midnight on Tuesday 5th October 2021
• You must be 18 years old or above and live in the UK
• Winner will be chosen at random and announced on Wednesday 6th October 2021 with delivery arranged for after that date
• Prizes will be delivered FREE to 1 UK mainland address
• This competition is not affiliated with Instagram or Facebook

Hutton Garden Products manufacture a wonderful range of timber garden products. They are available from garden centres and timber merchants in the south west of England. You can view their full range on their website and call them on 01452 760994 to find out where your nearest stockist is.

We have an abundance of great shed shots and stories to share with you for inspiration for your project.

Thorndown Wood Paint is a popular choice for painting external timber buildings and products as it’s specifically engineered for exterior use. The acrylic resin used is one of the best on the market for water-based paints and creates a hard-wearing water-repellent coating in just 2 coats.

We use exterior grade VOC colour pigments that perform at the highest levels in weather-resistance and lightfast tests, so they don’t crash and fade but stay strong and true for years and years.

Emma Bailey (Instagrammer and YouTuber) shares her shed construction and painting in an entertaining video, so get inspired and plan your makeover or maintenance before winter comes.

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Artist Frank Harwood has painted another mural for the Glastonbury Mural Trail with Thorndown Wood Paint.

This stunning new addition to the mural trail can be found on St Benedicts Close on the end wall of a row of terraced houses.

The detailing in the mural is amazing and it’s not surprising it took Frank a lot longer to paint than he’d thought, but he did also have the weather to content with!

Find out more information about Frank’s murals by following this link. Head to The Glastonbury Mural Trail website for more information and maps.

Artist and designer Lucy Tiffney has created this amazing mural on the window of Levi’s Soho shop with Thorndown Peelable Glass Paint.

The mural was commissioned to promote the sustainability campaign that Levi’s UK are running in collaboration with Haines Collection. The aim of the campaign is to promote a more sustainable approach to clothes and fashion, re-using and re-purposing old clothes rather than wearing for a season then throwing away.

They have joined forces with 6 designers so you can create bespoke pieces of up-cycled Levi’s clothing, running in-store until 16th August.

Find out more by visiting the web page for full details.

The annual trade exhibition for the garden and home leisure industry is back and so are we. Glee takes place from Tuesday 14th to Thursday 16th September at the NEC in Birmingham.

If you’re attending then come and visit us at stand 6F21 where you can see new wood paint colours and POS display board options.

New Colours for Somerset Heritage Colour Collection

6 new wood paint colours are being added to the Somerset Heritage Colour Collection with 4 pre-released to Garden Answers magazine for their July colour special issue. These 4 new colours are beautiful and subtle heritage tones, from the smokey grey/blue Axe Blue to the silvery grey/green of Tree Lichen. Whey White adds a creamy contrast with Whortleberry bringing a deep and richly intense purple.

Although all 6 colours are being officially launched at the Garden Press Event in 2022, these 4 pre-released colours will be at the show.

New Display Boards for Stockists

Stockists and manufacturers can now display the full range of Thorndown Wood Paint colours to their customers with a choice of two attractive display boards. Both of them display blocks of wood painted with 2 coats of Thorndown wood paint so customers can see exactly what the colours look like. There are two options to choose from with a wall-mounted or counter-top option as shown below.

H&S and Exhibition Info

The organisers of Glee and the NEC have been working very hard to put in place practices for a covid safe visit. For more information on the event please visit the Glee website.

The factory will be closed on Bank Holiday Monday 30th August while we all go to the beach to make sand castles.

There won’t be anyone in the factory or office and no courier deliveries will be made on this day.

If you’d like paint for the long weekend then please allow plenty of time for it to arrive.

We would recommend deadlines for placing orders as below;

Tuesday 24th August, midday – deadline for placing postal orders (sample tins and craft packs)

Wednesday 25th August, midday – deadline for placing courier orders (paint tin orders)

Happy Holiday!

*WEBSITE NEWS*

Over the last couple of months we’ve been busy working with our web agency to design and develop a new website that will offer a faster and more streamlined platform, but still with the same great content.

The new website and online shop has now gone live but as with all things technical, there are some teething problems so please bear with us.

If you encounter any problems or if you need any help please email us on studio@thorndown.co.uk or call the office on 01458 258588.