My absolute favourite Farrow & Ball paintcolour 
is one that is not easy to get hold of these days-
'Chartwell Green'. It's a colour from a range that F&B did about eight years ago and have since inexplicably discontinued-the 'National Trust Garden Range'. Does anyone else remember this range of historic garden exterior eggshell paint-colours that F&B produced in conjunction with the National Trust? I used to have the separate paintchart somewhere and I so wish I'd kept it!
In my first home, I had a tiny wooden lean-to conservatory built and it was clad inside and out in tongue-and-groove panelling painted in this colour. It was lovely!
Farrow & Ball will still mix this colour up for you (as will Leyland Paints who tap the code into their computer and match it for you) if you contact them, only it doesn't appear on their paintcharts anymore! I think this is peculiar as it was always a really popular colour and loads of double-glazed window companies cottoned onto this and now produce double glazed windows and conservatories ready sprayed in 'Chartwell Green'!!
(You can see a photo of a new 'Chartwell Green' conservatory in the second and second to last photo. If I were to buy a new double-glazed conservatory I would definitely buy one in this colour-it's a real classic English country garden colour!)
I know that F&B paints are quite popular in the States now-I wonder if you could also get this colour too? If anyone else has anything painted in this colour I would love to see photos!
Maybe I could petition F&B to reintroduce this colour!!! Who wants to join me? I'm only half-joking....
The conservatory photo is actually a very good colour match to this paintshade-because it's so miraculously sunny and bright here at the moment, the colour of it in my photos makes it look pale minty green which it definitely isn't! In a blogpost a little further down where we're respraying the fridge you can just see my Ikea Bekvam stool painted in this colour, and that is an accurate colour depiction! In fact, I have never found a similar colour to this shade anywhere and I am paintcolour obsessed! It's a sort of greyish, blueish green, and just looks really vintage! The colour gets its name from Winston Churchill's family home 'Chartwell House' and this is apparently the colour that all of his wooden garden furniture was painted in-you can see an actual photo of one of his chairs in the last photo!
Elsewhere, as you can see my garden is springing to life-the wisteria has gone crazy over the 'Miss Havisham-esque' iron pergola-I'm pleased because I only bought it last year. Likewise, my Lilac bush beside the shed has also flourished and smells gorgeous.
The French table and chairs were in desperate need of re-painting, so they were primed first and then painted in gloss. I'm going to get a piece of glass or perspex made to cover the top to keep it weatherproof all-year-round. I do think I might distress them a little bit before I varnish them though. The Lilac shed is next on the never-ending list to be re-painted, along with a million and one other jobs! We have been taking advantage of the lovely weather though and have been eating our evening meals out here...bet it doesn't last long though!!
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