The naming process behind paint colours has long been a source of humour - and sometimes confusion. There are those – Papers and Paints' ‘Not totally white’ for example – which do exactly what they ...

Farrow & Ball’s Calke Green (No. 34) If you’re looking for a dramatic color, Jacobs has just the olive green hue for you (see a sneak peek in the room above).

Farrow & Ball’s Calke Green. Farrow & Ball’s Calke Green (No. 34) offers a slightly moodier take on sage green, making it better suited to more traditional-leaning spaces. It pairs beautifully with ...

A charming panelled bedroom is colour drenched in Farrow & Ball’s Calke Green № 34 Dead Flat, which can be used across walls, woodwork and metal. We couldn’t pick just one of this year’s strong colour ...

The cabinets were washed in Farrow & Ball’s Calke Green (No. 34), and she selected a ditzy floral print (Jouy by Thibaut) to cover the walls. She anchored the cooking space with a deep blue ILVE range ...

Paddington Bear, it turns out, is not the UK’s only notable lover of marmalade. Named after the Portuguese for quince, the fruit that inspired the British breakfast staple, ‘Marmelo’, one of the 12 ...

In addition to the tempting new Farrow & Ball colours, the brand is also reintroducing shades from its well-established paint ‘Archive’, which includes every paint colour the heritage brand has made ...

Alongside the new collection, three archive colours have been reinstated: ‘Broccoli Brown’, ‘Etruscan Red’ and ‘Sap Green’. ‘Etruscan Red’, Joa explains, holds a special place in her heart. ‘It was ...

The British paint company Farrow & Ball was founded in Dorset in 1947 by an industrial chemist and an engineer, its namesakes John Farrow and Richard Ball. For many years, it quietly chugged along ...

There’s a Farrow & Ball shop near me, which means my postcode is bursting with people unfazed by paying large amounts of money to coat their living rooms in shades of Mizzle and Churlish Green.