Mylands - colour & paint

Mylands: Colour and Paint

2LG take you on a tour of the luxury paint and wood finishing company Mylands, helping you understand a bit more about the history of colour and encouraging you to follow your instincts.

Lesson Summary

• With colour, start with what you love, don't follow trends.
• Colour can be a starting point; you should put it at the forefront of a scheme.
• When choosing a colour, go with something you love.

Colour as Material

• Jordan and Russell use colour as an element, as it adds layers to space.
• Jordan and Russell like matching colours, trying to find fabrics that match their painted surfaces.
• They use pink as a neutral.
• Free yourself from gendered assumptions of colours.
• The colour won't look the same in every space.
• Jordan and Russell encourage you to sample different colours and different tones of colours you like in your home. Seeing how the colour changes throughout the day.
• Paint a sample in various spaces; on a window wall, opposite a window wall and in a dark corner. This enables you to see how the colour looks in different lighting throughout the day.
• You should try incorporating heritage colours into your home.

Have Confidence

• Give yourself the confidence to choose colours.
• Colour is a great unifier.
• Colour isn't a fad, it's here to stay.

Rose Theatre

• Rose Theatre serves as a great neutral and is a complex saturated colour.
• It is the through-line throughout the house. You can purchase Rose Theatre here from Mylands.

Paint Finishes

• 2LG often paint the wood finishes in the same colour as the walls, elongating lines.
• On ceilings, they opt for a gloss finish as it bounces light around.