Painting walls and ceilings

Walls and ceilings are the largest surface in any room: it is where colour works hardest and where the light plays. For them we recommend first of all our Marble Matt Emulsion, enriched with crushed marble: a deep matt (3% sheen), breathable and washable, that forgives small flaws in the plaster and gives every shade a velvety density, from the pure white of Pure White to soft stones such as Cadogan Stone or Temple Bar. To drench walls and woodwork in one colour, Multi-Surface Dead Matt (5%) is the other top choice for walls. Underneath, our micro-porous Wall Primer prepares the plaster without stopping it breathing; on lime plaster only the breathable Marble Matt will do, over our Stabilising Primer once the plaster is fully dry.

To make a room feel bigger, paint the ceiling in the same tone as the walls or half a tone lighter; to make it cosier, try a coloured ceiling in Morning Blue or Palmerston Pink. The colours below are the ones we recommend most often for large surfaces: light, luminous and easy to live with.