Annie Sloan Chateau Grey is a very much maligned colour. Sometimes it is referred to as a “sludgy “green. It is a very popular colouir in France and is very common in many houses. It is in Fact an elegant grey green, which is the colour found on French woodwork.
Try putting a coat of Primer red underneath it. Looks fantastic!
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Annie Sloan Chalk Paint is an incredibly versatile paint. Most people know it can be used on furniture but do you know it can be used on walls, ceilings and floors too? Yes, in deed it can most certainly be used on floors. If you want to complete the look it is so easy to do. It is ideal for wooden floors but can be used to great effect on concrete ones too.
The photo above is what we started out with. A rather boring concrete floor very much in need of covering up.
The first stage was to apply a coat of watered down Annie Sloan Chalk Paint™. We chose to add water as the concrete soaks up some of the paint. In this particular case it was a 50:50 mix. The colour chosen was Paris Grey.
The next stage was to divide the floor up to look like tiles. Here we used Annie Sloan Graphite. You can either do this free hand or use a piece of wood to act as a guide line.
The last and final stage is to seal the paint using Annie Sloan Lacquer.The Lacquer dries to a soft matt finish and is ideal to protect the paint. We applied this using a mini roller and a brush for the edges.Handy tip – make sure you shake the bottle well before using as all the good stuff sinks to the bottom. We left it over night to dry.The end result is a floor. For those that have visited our shop you will have seen the painted floor there.For those that haven’t here it is..
Annie Sloan aubusson blue is a colour which is named and designed after the beautiful deep grey blue found on the classic 18th and 19th century rugs originating from Aubusson in France. It is an elegant colour that works well with many colours as it is a dark neutral but in particular it works really well with Paris Grey . It is also a colour found in Scandinavian painted furniture.
If you were to add 8 parts of Old White to 1 part of Aubusson Blue you would create a colour called Stockholm, a sophisticated deep grey blue found in traditional Swedish decoration.
The picture at the top of the page is a kitchen table finished in Aubusson Blue.The top has been given a lime wash effect finish using Old White
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Annie Sloan Arles Chalk Paint is a rich yellow
ochre with a hint of orange. When using Arles
on furniture, Annie recommends pairing it with
a cool, quiet color like Chateau Grey, Old
Ochre, Country Grey, Paris Grey. I have tried
it with Old Ochre and paris Grey and really
like it.This is possibly another candidate for
dark wax treatment.
The inspiration for this colour, which is a rich
glowing yellow, is the colour associated with
the town of Arles in the South of France. It is
a rich yellow ochre with a hint of orange juice
and with Old White added the colour is warm and
gentle. It is in our opinion a warm and
sophisticated yellow.
If you look closely at the floor in the photo
above you will notice that we also chose to
use Arles on the shop floor.
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Annie Sloan Antoinette Chalk Paint.
“Old fashioned roses and the colour of old plaster. This is a soft pale pink with a hint of brown in it so the pink is not too sweet.” Like most men I am not a pink person, so I was a little hesitant about trying this colour.Subtle is how I would describe it.Certainly not an in your face true pink.Girly ? Well apparently it is a girls paint! We did some bedroom chairs with it and they looked good.We have also used it to distress back to and the subtlety of the colour shines through.It is a colour that you might just get hooked on!!
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Most people seem to cringe when we open the tin of Annie Sloàan Antibes Green Chalk Paint at our workshops.Yes it is an in your face colour. We have nicknamed Kermit Green for obvious reasons.However as with a lot of the brighter colours once you start adding dark wax they take on a whole new life.
Don’t forget that adding old white to a colour produces some wonderful alternative colours. We were a little more adventurous and added French linen to Antibes to produce an incredible mint green colour !
Antibes comes to the Annie Sloan palette from two sources – the neo-classical palaces, such as the Fontainebleau Palace and in Schloss Charlottenburg in Potsdam, and from the villages around Provence where countless artists have been inspired by the colours of painted furniture, shutters and doors .
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