Decorate your Home for Halloween

Although there won’t be much Trick or Treating going on this year you can still celebrate at home. Using a Peelable Glass Paint Halloween Stencil Craft Pack is the perfect way to decorate your home and re-use or upcycle old items.

Thorndown’s Peelable Glass Paint is made from a 100% recycled plastic resin, is low in odour, has virtually no VOCs and is non-toxic making it perfect for kids. Being water-based it’s also really easy to clean up with just water but don’t let your brushes dry out as that makes it a lot harder to remove and don’t wear your Sunday best as paint likes to stay on clothes. The best part is that when Halloween is over you just peel the paint off your windows and mirrors to remove it!

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Make a spooky scene on windows and glass doors, or create scary tea lights and Halloween treat jars using old jam jars and plastic pots. Thorndown Peelable Glass Paint Halloween Stencil Craft Packs include 4 x 40ml pots of paint in Bat Black, Goblin Green, Ogre Orange and White Witch, reusable stencils made with a durable 190gsm acetate sheet, and an art brush.

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Paint old glass jars and plastic pots then fill them with spooky treats for the kids. Rather than going out with a Trick or Treat bucket you could do a treasure hunt at home for the kids to fill their buckets with. Glass lanterns are perfect for decorating with spooky stencils and you can even pour Peelable Glass Paint out to let it dry and cut out Halloween shapes to create window clings that stick on windows and mirrors. Visit the Window Clings project page for tips on how to do this.

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Use discount code HalloweenCP for 25% off at our online store. Just enter the code in the voucher box in your basket and save £5!

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Wood&Space

A great name for a great company that specialises in creating wooden buildings perfect for your space.

Sat in the beautiful county of Devon is this very posh shed company that specialises in designing and building the most stunning bespoke sheds and timber buildings.

Wood&Space can make whatever your imagination comes up with as long as it’s physically possible and not too large! These elegant sheds are designed to enhance the garden and built to last. And of course painted with Thorndown Wood Paint helps to protect the timber so it looks fabulous and can last a lifetime.

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They are installed with such care that they look as if the garden has been designed around them. This shed painted in Thorndown Yew Green Wood Paint has many attractive design features from the cedar shingle tiled roof to a stable door and sash windows painted in Thorndown Tor Stone. Painting the main body in a dark colour helps it to disappear into the planting and sit with the boundary fencing, whilst the contrasting lighter wood paint colour on the door and windows accentuates the design features and brightens the building drawing your eye to it.

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This shed painted in Bishop Blue Wood Paint perfectly compliments the surroundings and takes you into the open landscape beyond. The building also has many attractive design features from the star cutout to the gable detailing above the door and attractive landscape picture windows along the side wall. For the natural look you can leave timber unpainted but paint it with a couple of coats of our UV Clear Wood Paint to seal it with a water-repellent coating and protect the wood from the weather. The UV blockers will also prevent fading of the timber colour from the sun’s rays.

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Quality of service is high and design and build is carried out to offer the best value for money, with sheds being installed from Devon to London and up in Edinburgh. Steven sees using Thorndown Wood Paints as part of his high-quality package and said that he’s “exclusively using your paints from now on, they are so much nicer to apply than others, it almost makes painting a pleasure, almost mind!”. For more information and images of builds please visit their website woodandspace.co.uk.

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Customer Reviews and Project Pics

These last few months people have been busy working non-stop or making use of time at home by attacking DIY jobs in the home and garden.

We’ve been delighted by the many lovely messages that have been sent to us along with lots of pictures showing what you’ve been up to.

In the Reviews section of Thorndown on the website you will find many of these messages and comments.

Thank you to everyone for taking the time to send in your feedback and to those who have left such fab Google Reviews.

Please do keep sending them in and if you get a chance, please do write a Google review or leave a review on our website.

Keeeeep painting!

Factory Closed for August Bank Holiday

Please note that the Thorndown paint factory will be closed on Bank Holiday Monday 31st August 2020. We’ll all be putting our feet up so the office will be closed and no orders will be going out.

Couriers will also be having a well deserved rest so no deliveries will be made on Bank Holiday Monday.

If you’d like some paint for the Bank Holiday weekend, please place your order at the start of the week or as early as possible. Although our couriers have worked really hard to return to the normal next day delivery service, sometimes the volume of packages to process for delivery exceeds the staff they have in their sorting hubs, due to social distancing restrictions in place because of Covid-19. At these times it can take a couple of days for packages to be delivered so please plan with delays in mind.

In some areas Royal Mail are still really struggling with staff shortages and although we send all small packages out 1st class, sometimes samples and craft packs can be greatly delayed getting through the postal system.

Have a lovely long weekend and hope the sun shines wherever you are!

Timber Planter Garden Extensions

I’ve been growing my own veg for a few years with varying degrees of success. This year many seeds germinated and grew on to be healthy young plants, which was great but I ran out of space very quickly in my veg beds.

As a solution I used some timber planters to extend my plot and at the same time created a nice border between the veg beds and my drive.

To protect timber planters you do need to paint them with Wood Paint which will seal them against the weather and rain ingress, which leads to rot and deterioration or damage to the planter. It also gives you the opportunity to use colour to create garden design features that compliment the planting and look lovely in the garden.

Magazine Coverage this Season

This season has been one of the busiest and strangest to date, but amidst the craziness we have been spreading the word about Thorndown Paints in some of our favourite gardening magazines.

From spring to summer we have appeared in The English Garden, Garden Answers, Garden News, Grow Your Own, and Kitchen Garden magazines. Great publications to read, brimming with interesting articles, tips, and beautiful photos of gardens and plants to dream of!

The perfect antidote to a busy day or a great way to escape without leaving the house.

Thorndown Partners with Design Havens for Heroes

We are delighted to announce that we are partnering with the fantastic cause, ‘Design Havens for Heroes‘.

This charity was created and launched by Interior Designer, Francesca Rowan Plowden, to give frontline NHS staff a haven to relax and rebuild in once the pandemic crisis has passed. The campaign has built rapidly with numerous leading designers, tradespeople and companies all offering their services.

NHS staff have been working around the clock in extremely challenging and emotionally exhausting and deeply upsetting conditions. We all know how nice it is to come home after a hard days work and relax surrounded by your home comforts. Under the conditions NHS staff have been working in it’s been a challenge just to keep on top of the shopping, cooking and cleaning, with no time for DIY. Coming home to a room that hasn’t been decorated for decades with dodgy furniture, old ripped wallpaper or faded paintwork can be thoroughly depressing, and when you’re facing a crisis at work, the need for a calm and pleasant space to relax in is incredibly important.

And this is where Design Havens for Heroes step in. You can nominate NHS staff via the Design Havens for Heroes website or Instagram account, and as soon as the pandemic allows, an army of volunteers will carry out room makeovers in the homes of those that have been healing and keeping us alive.

You can also donate to the campaign and say thank you to our NHS heroes!