I hadn't really heard of Little Greene before my "I'm sick of the mustard yellow lounge" event.
They, however, rock.
I've only used their services online (I don't even know if they have a shop/paint outlets), however, they get four stars because:
They have a lovely range of colours
They send a paint brush with the paint sample pots (incredibly helpful)
They send sample pots in screw-top jars (incredibly helpful)
Their customer service and fulfilment is so efficient and friendly
Their paint is good quality
Their website is well-organised, from their products and services to their ordering process and their comparison function.
They lose one star only because their website makes it a little difficult to really compare the colours; not all of the colurs have a photograph that lets you see what the colour is truly like in a room or on a wall etc. They do have a warning saying to order a sample pot rather than judge from the colour square, which is very sound advice (simply because the colour squares vary even on different monitors and different printers).
But their paint is good quality and, on a perhaps slightly weird note, it smells nice. I don't mean I was sniffing paint all day - having painted the hall, sitting in the loungeroom something smelled a bit like delicious berry yoghurt. And I realised it was the paint. Which was a nice change from the smell of paint in the living room, which had had a similar treatment but with a different brand of paint....which just smelled quite heavily of, well, paint.
So now the hall is a paler shade that leads into my loungeroom, which is no longer mustard yellow. read more
