When I was a child, my mother worked in a chocolate biscuit factory. Every week she would bring home a paper grocery bag full of broken biscuits. Delicious, discarded seconds. To a child , a chipped Tim Tam is still a Tim Tam  (Kiwi bikkies – but you are missing out).

Good paint is still good paint, but like the making of biscuits, sometimes our tin loses its perfectness. A tired forklift driver, or a bumpy road turns up a handful of tins that are just a bit odd looking. What’s inside is still our beautifully breathable paint, but we can’t sell it as normal – and we don’t want to put it in the waste system.

And sometimes here in the studio we make a little “mistake”…….  so we have a handful of tins where we selected the wrong tin or the wrong pigment. Still lovely colours though...

So here  you will find our Re-Home section of paint. The good news is that they are all 50% off our normal retail price. The not so good news is that they are only available for pick-up from our studio (a damaged tin tends not to travel well, which defeats the point of reducing our waste).

So please order online, or let us know by email if you would like to visit to look at our accidental ‘bespoke’ colours.

And so to our new paint chart. We hand paint all of our charts and over the last year we have been thinking about how to make them better, more individual – and more exciting for you. Choosing colour should of course make you a bit giddy and I thought that the traditional rows of white, green, pink etc maybe didn’t do that enough.

So we changed it. Drawing on the Bauhaus teaching of colour – and my belief that how we choose colours for our own home should have a real emotional weight.

Johannes Itten  said  that colours must have a mystical capacity for spiritual expression and it’s true. Who and how we all live is unique and I hope that our new Paint Chart helps you find your own personal joy.

You can order one of these hand painted beauties here. We do charge £1.95 for them, but I hope that you can see why.