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    Best alternatives to Farrow & Ball paint that are stylish but budget-friendly

    by Abha Shah Apr 18, 2024 5 minutes

    Farrow & Ball is a name known to anyone with even a passing interest in interiors.

    The paint brand, founded in 1946, is the Grand Dame of emulsion, as much of a status symbol as a KitchenAid on the counter, a Burberry-packed wardrobe, and a Rolls parked on the drive. To have your home painted in Farrow & Ball is to paint your walls with success, no matter which of the 132 colours you wind up plumping for. 

    The brand inspires visions of elegance; terrifically tasteful, upper-crust English, National Trust-esque elegance (and it did indeed begin life supplying paint to NT properties for restoration after the war). Despite the outlandish names - Arsenic in the bedroom, anyone? - you can picture palaces and stately homes coloured in the stuff. 

    Indeed, Farrow & Ball’s signature paints have been part of the National Portrait Gallery’s recent revamp, providing the backdrop

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