Upcycling is a great way to breathe fresh life into old pieces of furniture, or transform items for new use. Searching for treasures in secondhand shops, boot fairs and at auctions is great fun and it’s hugely satisfying to see a find lovingly transformed in your home.
Thorndown Wood Paint makes upcycling easy with no need for an undercoat or primer, or a top coat. Processes are nice and simple and the results can be glorious.
On most items just two coats of wood paint is all you need to create something durable and beautiful.
Visit this article on Upcycling in our Projects area for tips and advice on how to upcycle wooden items and furniture.
A great project to take on and brush away those winter blues!
The Somerset Heritage Colour Collection is inspired by countryside colours and features additional greys, greens, blues and muted tones to reflect and compliment the beauty of nature.
It sits in addition to the Wood Paint core colour chart, greatly expanding the range of colours for your home and garden.
TV Carpenter Wayne Perrey, had a sneak preview and he and his wife fell in love with the new colour collection. They selected Avalon Blue to paint the hallway with and it looks very elegant.
The whole collection will add beauty and elegance to any exterior or interior space. You can’t beat the natural look and we hope you like these rich and lush colours as much as we do!
This year we have run some thoroughly inspiring and fun workshops from Peelable Glass Paint Workshops to a children’s Christmas Tree Decoration Painting Workshop at the Frost Fayre in Glastonbury.
It was put on as part of a series of Christmas themed sessions that local charity Children’s World put on for the Frost Fayre. We thoroughly loved seeing children (and the odd parent) getting stuck in with our Wood Paint and creating a bauble or star to hang on their tree or in their home. Biodegradable glitter was sprinkled onto wet paint to add that extra bit of sparkle at Christmas time.
We also partnered again with local community initiative Project Factory, to put on a Christmas Glass Bauble Painting Workshop with Peelable Glass Paint. It was another fantastic session with some very inspiring people creating pretty beautiful decorations.
Our world is full of colour and the world of paint is no exception. Trends come and go with fashion sometimes throwing up some pretty interesting colours and crazy combinations.
The Thorndown core colour charts were constructed combining traditional heritage tones with modern shades and colours to excite. The Translucent Arts & Crafts palette for Peelable Glass Paint is full of vibrant primary colours that provide the essential building blocks for creating works of art.
Each season trends change slightly with colours increasing or reducing their popularity but across the years, firm favourites remain constant.
We have reviewed the favourite colours in each pack size across both paint ranges for 2019 and compare the top 20 colours with 2018 when Thorndown was born.
All timber products need protecting from the elements, whether the wood has been pressure treated or not.
In this feature we carry out a makeover on a Hutton Small Trellis Planter and show you how best to paint and protect it. A good Wood Paint is also a great way of creating attractive and colourful features in your garden. The paint colour can compliment and enhance planting and provide much-needed colour on dark dull days.
After such a stormy and tumultuous weekend it’s great to have some good news to announce.
We would like to say a massive congratulations to brummiemummie who was selected at random as the winner of the Winter Giveaway bundle!!
Thank you to everyone who took part and made the competition so much fun. It was great to see what everyone’s favourite colours were from our Wood Paint colour chart. Sedge Green and UV Clear were the top selections with people also going for bright splashes of colour with Purple Divine and Purple Rain popping up as frequent choices.
We hope you enjoyed taking part in the competition and that it’s inspired you to get ready for the growing season. It’s definitely got me inspired to start sowing early vegetable seeds in the greenhouse and to start prepping the veg bed with lots of lovely homemade compost.
If you fell in love with the Raised Vegetable Planter then you can buy it from garden centres and timber merchants across the country. Call Hutton onย 01452 760994 to find out where your nearest stockist is.
As a massive thank you to everyone who took part we would like to offer you a discount code of 20% off all paint products in our online shop. Just enter WINTERCOMP20 in the ‘Apply Coupon’ box in the basket area. The voucher is valid until 30th April 2020 so there’s plenty of time to plan that project.
There will be more competitions throughout the year so look out for announcements in the newsletter and on our social media channels. Happy gardening!
Pantone’s Colour of the Year 2020 is ‘Classic Blue’, an appealing timeless shade of blue. I’ve always been drawn to blue and it has remained my favourite colour throughout my life. In modern times it is consistently recorded as the favourite colour for the majority of the population.
Such a versatile and soothing colour that can be elegantly sophisticated or have everyday appeal. Blue is the colour of everlasting life – water of the oceans and the colour of the sky.
Blue is often associated with divinity, spirituality and contemplation. No wonder it is such a calming and popular colour in fashion and design.
In season 1 of Wayne Perrey’s ‘TV Carpenter’ Podcast series, colour psychologist Anna Jacobs explains how colour can affect the mood and how to use it in design. She describes the effects of colours on people including how and why blues can be calming.
Our Bilberry Blue is a modern take on the traditional Royal Blue, and a good take on Pantone’s Classic Blue. It has been used often to help create stylish features and sophisticated structures. Below is a collection of some of the Bilberry Blue collection.
Thorndown Wood Paint makes this job nice and easy, requiring the minimum of prep and giving gorgeous results.
Being water-based, low in odour and with minimal VOC this wood paint is the perfect choice for interior wood. Painted on doors it creates a hard-wearing water-repellent coating that can be cleaned without damaging the coating.
We use architectural exterior-grade VOC colour pigments so the colour you paint on stays strong and true for up to 10 years. With over 1800 colours available you’re spoilt for choice!
Read more here and see our simple tips on painting and decorating interior wood doors.
This Taunton based husband and wife team create the most brilliant signs. Using Thorndown Wood Paint for the base coat Mandi then hand paints the lettering and details on using a specialist enamel paint.
Their signs adorn pubs, businesses and look great in the home and garden.
Thorndown Wood Paint is a brilliant exterior wood treatment that will colour and protect for years.
It’s the perfect choice for front doors creating a hard-wearing, highly water-repellent coating that will stand up to all types of weather.
We use architectural exterior-grade VOC free colour pigments that perform at the highest levels in lightfast and weather-resistance tests, so you know that the colour you paint on will be the colour you see for years and years.
It is with great delight that we announce the launch of our NEW Stencil Craft Packs.
The Christmas Stencil Craft Pack contains 6 seasonal stencils, 4x40ml pots of Peelable Glass Paint in Dragon Red, Goblin Green, Griffin Gold and Swan White.
Floral packs provide all you need for all year round decoration and crafting. The Golden Floral pack has 3 floral stencils based on warm colours including a daffodil, sunflower and floral sprig.
The Summer Floral Stencil Craft Pack is based on pretty country cottage flowers from a rose to an anemone and campanula with paint colours to suit.
Upcycling is a great way to breathe fresh life into old pieces of furniture, or transform items for new use. Searching for treasures in secondhand shops, boot fairs and at auctions is great fun and it’s hugely satisfying to see a find lovingly transformed in your home.
