Choosing Paint

Kevin McCloud has become a real household name with his excellent series Grand Designs. Many will be familiar with his easy manner and this website continues the good work, when it comes to choosing colour for your home. The website has been launched so that it ties in with the publication of Kevin McCloud's Choosing Colours. This most useful of books contains over 600 colour swatches arranged into 66 palettes. This information has been distilled into the website in that every colour in the book is matched to a branded colour, which you can buy online.

Although, purchase of his book, Choosing Colours, is not a prerequisite to using this site, as it is perfectly possible to just browse. Choose paint by going straight for the exact match of something you like from the book or look through the colour ranges of leading manufacturers, such as Fired Earth (who make Kevin's own paints), Zoffany, Sanderson, Paint Library, Farrow & Ball and Albany. Buy the paint online through Kevin's partnership with DesignerPaint and have it delivered, hassle free, to your door. The site is continually updated with news of changes in brands' ranges.

The site doesn't only limit itself to the buying of paint. Read about Kevin McCloud's hugely successful television series, Grand Designs. You can read extracts from Choosing Colours, finding out what drove Kevin to write the book in the first place and then take advantage of his colour wisdom. Kevin lectures occassionally and dates of these are found here too.