When it comes to choosing paint colours I have a foolproof system. I walk up and down the paint aisles for what seems like hours picking tins up and putting them back again while the kids run around causing havoc and attempting to escape to the power tools aisle. Every 10 minutes Hubs says ‘what about cream?’ and in the end I usually go home with the first one I picked up anyway before deciding it’s not quite right and doing the whole thing again the next weekend. No wait…that’s not actually a very good approach, is it?
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So next time you’re decorating make sure you check out their Home of Colour paint range with 97 colours including 9 new for this season. As well as emulsion there is also kitchen & bathroom, one coat, garden and duracoat paint so there’s something for every job. To give you a helping hand with your makeover the kind folk at Homebase are giving away £150 of vouchers to spend in store. To enter just leave me a comment sharing what name you would give a paint colour you designed and record your entry in the rafflecopter widget below along with any additional entries you would like to make by sharing, tweeting etc. The giveaway will run until Monday 26th May 2014 and is open to UK residents aged 18 or over. Winners will be contacted via email or twitter depending on the details they leave and will have 1 week to respond or they will forfeit the prize and another winner will be drawn. a Rafflecopter giveaway
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Sparkling Peach, which would be a peach colour with a sheen to it
Saffron Sunshine – a lush mix of pale yellow and pale orange to give a sunrise feeling
Madnificent…
Misty moonlight – a subdued greyish blue
Perilous Purple – I love purple ;o)
i would be totally estatic it i won this giveaway my whole house needs decorating
i would design a purple and cerise petrol on water effect and call it purpley pink passion x
Lavish Lemon – a nice cheery bright yellow
I’ve just asked my partner as she does any decorating, and she’s not being very helpful. Delightful suggestions like monthly red, snot green, ectoplasm. Think they are probably tattoo ink colours. Okay, how about clematis white. Could have a whole range…
Melting pot – a lush creamy chocolate colour!
Sailing Blue
Angel delight – a lovely pink !
green delight sounds interesting
sticky cream
Candy Floss, a shimmery pink
Sticky toffee pudding
Lottie lemon, a nice pale lemon for use in the nursery
I would do a really really really bright fluorescent red and call it ‘ Are you really sure, Red ‘
Azure blue, the colour of my holiday memories
I think it would have to be Bailey’s Blue and it would be quite light – just enough to give a hint of something more hidden in the depths.
probably “Sludge” as despite being a crafter I’m not very good at mixing colours
Pink Fantasy!
Peacock Tail – an iridescent mixture of blues, grens and mauves like the name suggests.
candyfloss pink 🙂
they beat me to it haha poppy red would be another colour
Lemon fizz
Hint of mint green
For a pale pink with yellow tones I’d call it Summer Dawn
Autumn Bronze
pretty pink
Blueberry Sorbet, pale blue with little flecks of white
Lipstick red
Mesmerising Mauve
what fun !!!
sultry banana
Lazy days
sandy beach
Peacock blue in honour of the escaped peacock we had running around local rooftops recently
tropical delight
Lime and soda, a pale lime green.
Potty purple, a pale purple colour but as light as lilac
Sunny afternoon (after the Kinks’ song) for a vintage-y pale mustard colour.
Gentle Tiger!
Candy floss blush
Parma Violet – a lovely soft lavender.
purpelicious
purple party
Purple Fizz
Dragon fire orange – an intense orange colour
Purple Lush
chameleon
Mudpie! because i love chocolate 😛
schmoogle pie. it’s purpley.
Saffron sunshine is lovely
Cream Carnation – a nice shade of cream
Pink in the Afternoon – Bubblegum Pink
Spindrift for a sea spray type of restful colour
Frozen ice blue, if youve seen the film you will know what i mean!, 🙂
Copper beech – just like the tree!
Spring meadow – winters finally over!
Midnight Black
Im opting for ” Bayleys n Cream”…. Im a Bailey and by using a diff spelling we wouldnt get copyrights 😉 The colour would be just like the drink a milky coffee colour
Serene Survival
Cosmic Cherry
A warm white called Angel Wings
Something to cover up all the smudgy marks that appear mysteriously on our walls and would call it Smith Screen!
Gravelly Grey
I’d create a sunny yellow and call it Marigold Moment
summer dreams (bright blue)
Love – a new shade of purple
Blossom, a pale shade of pink x
strawberry steeple
Perilous Purple, i love purple lots xxx
Sunny Days
Lipstick pink
Passionate Puple
Mango Orange
Lascivious Lime !
Deathly Blue
Narcissus White
Woodland green
Neopolitan! Stripey 🙂 x
Dusty Blackboard – a dark grey colour with a matte finish 🙂
Being a patriotic Scot I think I would go for Purple Thistle, a deep dark shade of puple
autumn auburn – a glistening vibrant orange 🙂
Happy Aura
Sailing blue
fandabidozy
Brilliant Blue
Mexican sunset -a lovely shade of deep orange
Moonlight Madness … a deep shade of purple with a silver sheen
Ruby Tuesday after one of my favourite songs!
sparkleicious, it would be hot pink with glitter!!!
Genially ginger
Seafood Sauce Pink 🙂
Cream carnation…creamy and dreamy!
‘Moaks’ – Looks good in your bedroom.
Meadow green
Rainbowlicious- would be a mix of every colour in the rainbow 😀
magnolia…not again:-)
My perfect paint
Trolleybus blue
Sunset red because it is dramatic
Mystic Mint
sophisticated spice
Mirabelle
What name would you give a paint colour you designed?
Dazzling Dream Daze (Similiar to Peacock Blue / Teal Pearlescent Like Paint)
SciFi Silver
Mystic Tide – Blue/green
Tranquil Dusk
Diddley Days – Mint Green
Diddley Days – Pastel Green
Snot green
vanilla blush
longing lilac
Parrot feather – for a lovely tropical green!
Imagination
Peju. Still working on what colour it would be
lemon drizzle
Azure ceramic glaze.
Planet RED
strawberry kiss
Purple Ronnie
St Clements.
A really pale orange
What about, Mint Julep?
Comedy Blue
Butterfly Blue
warm moleskin
In the buff
Pale & Interesting (Grey)
turquoise treat
Beach hut blue! A pastel blue colour 🙂
Slime green
Ravishing Rouge.
Sunset (deep yellowy orange)
rosy posy
Sheffield Wednesday blue!
Peach Melba , love the color of Peach and cream perfect match
Eva Diva
Red passion
Piranha Sunset
Properly Purple
Bella blue after my daughter
Aurora
Night-time haze
Icelandic white
Fabulous!
Skyline dawn
keyboard black
Blue lagoon.
Water splash
Sunset Bliss- lovely sky at sunset orange
Minion Yellow 🙂
I absolutely love the northern lights so I could do a whole collection based on this. Pink is my fave colour so would call it “aurora”- also reminds me of sleeping beauty!
cloudburst
Green with envy
Ripe Banana
Out there yellow
I would call a nice purple paint “Purple Passion”!
Sunshine – a lovely bright creamy yellow (not acid yellow!!)
Strawberry BonBon
Celebration, named after the delightful pale peach flowers on my runner beans!
Clotted Cream …a beautiful neutral colour 🙂
Clotted Cream …a beautiful neutral colour 🙂
Blood Heart
Strawberry compote a medium dark pink in satin sheen.
Strawberry Red
Happy Paint
loopy lemon which would be a sherbet lemon kind of colour with glitter type flecks in it.
Peach Fizz. It would be a subtle peach with a shimmer to it x
Sherbet lemon
Purple Passion
Lovely prize house needs a lick of paint
sky blue
I’d call it Vibrant! It would be my favourite shade of bright dark orange, so orange its nearly red.
Pecan 🙂
‘Perfection’, because we are always looking for that perfect, but elusive colour whenever we decorate. We moved 12 months ago and are slowly decorating room by room. I say slowly because when we did the living room it took weeks – firstly hours poring over the paint colour books, then ages in the DIY shop choosing. Then the colour we chose and painted the room with – we went off it the next day. We re-painted 3 more times till we were happy with the colour…. well when I say happy… we don’t love it but have decided to live with it…
paradise blue. a lovey turqoise blue inspired by the caribean sea.
sexy lips.. bright red of course
Apricot dream
I would call it parma violet as it would be a pale pastel purple colour
Marshmallow pink. 🙂
Passionate Peach
purple passionata
acidulicious lemon
Cream tease, for a lovely creamy colour
Clairise
Victoria Blue, turquoise is my favourite colour & I travel on the Victoria Line everyday
Sunny days
I’d make a glossy red shade and call it ‘Love Struck’ ♡
Let it be me, let it be me,
I really really hope that it is me 🙂
Great prize!!
Lou’s Lushious Lilac 🙂
Bloody Mary – would be a deep red
Maisie Pink, as the colour of my daughter’s cheeks when she smiles <3
chocolate delight – a rich milk chocolate brown.
Vivacious violet 🙂
Purple rain. Thanks for the fantastic giveaway. 🙂
Kir Royale – a pale raspberry pink
A bright turquoise blue/green mix called Pisces Passion
Ruby dazzle
Pink Popsicle- A Bubble gum pink shade,with sparkly glitter particles
Contentment – it would be avery restful shade of blue.
Lemon Puff
Candyfloss shimmer
autumn blast orange
heart sprint red
Warming house cream
dream easy, a very pale soothing green
Sleepy sky
Buttercup bliss!
mellow yellow
mysterious ocean, a beautiful blue/green shade to remind me of the sea
Borealis green.
Mysterious mojito..
Dandelion dusk
tingy tangy orange
Summer meadow green
Lemon bon bon.
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. It would be a beautiful blue.
Princess Pink
I love teal so I would go for Teal Technique! 🙂
Sooty nose
Blueberry Muffin 🙂
Candy Floss 🙂
Banana Haze
Banana split!
Ravishing rubine
Sassy Strawberry
A duck egg colour and I’d call it Sea Mist
Goblin Green for a nice funky green maybe for a little boys bedroom
mellow Yellow
Jasmine – Pearl White
Dirty HandPrints – a kind of grey brown! Will never show up another hand print again!
A smile in a tin. Everyone needs a bit a of happiness in their lives!
Sherbet Lemon
liquid limey lemon
Happy yellow x
Luscious lilac
Something like Tranquil Oceans I think, a lovely blue-green colour 🙂
Jess xo
Golden Sands
A nice bright blue called Royal Blue Rebel.
Tilly Teal
I’d call it something like ‘blue mint milk’.
Squashed blueberry
Ocean deep
Crazy Darkness
A bright red – Paloma
Roaring Red
Sunday Blues – a pale grey blue.
Blue is my favourite colour 🙂
Mia
x
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I’d have a muted neon orange and I’d call it Coral Reef 🙂
Hazy Sage
Happy sunshine
spring fields – green
Butterfly Blush – a pale pink/lilac shade 🙂
Honolulu Dreama
Rohemian Raspberry 🙂
smokin hot red
Spencer’s Sweet Silly Sawdust
Denielle’s Delightful Den. Its a cozy warm but rusticy red shade to make my lounge the most cozy and relaxing space there is.
sugar plum
Red sky at night
Everlasting sunshine
Hell’s Red – A bold, striking red.
Sherbert ice cream for a mid pink tone
sun kissed sky blue
Tangerine sherbert
turquoise dreams
I would call it Jubilent Haze, great competition!
Oblivion Black
Springs Beauty – Yellow
Gan green (I wish I didn’t laugh so much at my own jokes)
in the distance
pearls of wisdom! (for a pearly white colour!)
I would have a paint called ‘turquoise teal’ which would be a pearlescent paint, suitable for kids bedrooms, bathrooms etc.
Orange sunrise x
Wonderful waterfall 🙂
Sleeping Children: a remarkable colour that is guaranteed to lift your spirits.
Dreamy Decadence, & it would be a rich true purple 🙂
Bogey…seeing as everything in my house appears to be covered in them.
‘Honest white’
sleep (and pray it works on toddlers who refuse to map)
Sunblush
English rose
Cinamogooomi A Colour so radical everyone in your house will love it.
vanilla chilla
Unicorn Horn 😀
Pink Cupcake
Summer Breeze
My eldest daughter is crazy about all things pink and her nickname is ‘Ted’ so I’d choose a beautiful pale pink and call it ‘Teddy’s Blush’
Summer daze
radiant raspberry
brainless red
Wall Nut!!
Milford blue after the sea t Milford Sound
Emerald Hue
Monster blue!
Pink to make the boys wink 😀
Jamaican Sunset… a pale but bright orange 🙂
Jaded Jones sounds pretty cool 😉
Starlight Splash
Phoenix Feathers 🙂
sunrise suprise. it would be a lovely yellowy orange 🙂
Everlasting White – A white that NEVER needs repainted 🙂
Bacardi and coke
Hazy days
Spring blossom pink
Apple blossom
Marvellous Marine, a lovely bright turquoise colour
MAN CAVE GREY! (GRUNT)
Tutti Frutti! 🙂 faye xx
Raspberry Fool
Morning mist! Blues
I’d call my paint Poisoned Pink
Lemon Cheesecake – a lovely shade of yellow
Zest yellow, as yellow is my Tension Sheet Colour, very relaxing.
new growth – a spring green
ChocOlatte
Golden Syrup Shimmer…
Bluebell blush for a light blue
Golden Blue
my colour would be poppin candy pink
Happy Days
Bubbly blue
Periwikle’s Dream – a warm light-bluish lilac.
Peppermint cream (a pale green with a slight yellow rather than blue tint!)
Kevin
rustic red
Ipswich Blue
Sparkling sea blue, it would be the colour of the sea with a slight shimmer when the sun hits the sea!! 🙂
Heatwave – A warm golden colour
Glittering Grey
Nigella Pink
Candy Cane
Key lime pie
Morning star
I’m in the middle of moving house so this would be brilliant!
I’d name a kitchen paint “Shake and Bake”
Emma xx
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lucious lilac
Ocean Blue
Indigo Summer
custard yellow
etonmeshpurple
Striking red
Ruby Blue
Astonishing Orange
Sugar Candy Pink
Silver fox a silver grey colour with a hint of sparkle.
midnight ,, navy with silver glitter specks
MUM’S OWN
Emma Blue
Passionate Red
Happy Yellow
Barley Wine.
Tantalising Teal 😀
Serendipitous mountain yellow.
Mermaids sky – a beautiful torquoisey blue for my bathroom
Ravishing red
Demon eyes.
Purple Punk 🙂
Roxy Red
randy red
Smouldering Cherry
i like homebase heh
liking randy red haha
This is a tough question!!
I’d make it something food related so as to rouse the senses – minted pea for example would be a vivid green for example
Mellow Yellow 🙂
rainbow
Terrific Teal
“happy days” a vibrant yellow
Good morning sunshine-yellow!
Strawberry Blonde
Purple Power
creamy cappuccino –
Punchy Pink!
Ribena Red….useful when you have kids!
golden delicious green
Loganberry.
I would name my new colour Deep Desires, and paint my bedroom in a really romantic pink!
Badger rage
Sunset Orange
Lamb White
Hawaiian Aya, after my daughter – I think it would be a subtle yellow 🙂
Powder pink and it would go in my daughters room. X
‘courgette flower yellow’ is my paint colour
Austen Pink
Peppercorn Pink
strawberry kiss!
SUNSHINE SPARKLE
Sunset Orange
Shell beach .. For a warm creamy beige with a hint of iridescence !!!!!
Seaside Summer Blue, to reflect the colour of the sky and sea.
Passionfruit surprise
Greengages
Azure Blue – a lovely rich teal colour, my fave!!
sweetpea petal passion 🙂 it would be a soft pink/purple colour x
Peaceful blue!
Ice Cream Soda
I would design a blue luster with shell like effect and call it escargot
i would do a woody white colour, and call it beach hut
A pale orangey yellow called Breaking Dawn
rebellious red
I would create a light purple and call it Pinky Blue
paradies blue
Blue Breeze
I would create a bright yellow colour and call it dandelion yellow
Purple Poppers
tropical fire
Lovely lavender
Racy Red
Honey bee yellow
Cosmic Mauve
sunset glory
Cat’s Crazy Coral
Tudor rose
Summer Rose Champagne
red Rosealie
Penny Perfect
Dizzy Pink
Pumpkin patch
Lushscious Pink
Lemon Zing
Indian Summer
Kaya’s breeze
A sage green colour and I would call it “Homely Hues”
somerset cream
Grappa green
fresh air
Luscious Lemon
poetic pink
Sludge
Iced coffee
Blue Flash – bright blue!
Red Delightness
Lily the pink
Twinkle
sailing blue
Sunset orange
Tropical seas – blue
Fire Start Orange
Ginger spice- a deep rustic orange red
Berry Burst – the colour of squashed Raspberries x
Berry Burst – the colour of squashed Raspberries xxx
Electric Sunshine
lilac breeze
Amsterdam Blue
homely honey
Raspberry Ripple for a deep pink colour 🙂
purple lush
baby pooh green lol
sol brillando
(Shining sunshine in spanish)
fresh air which would be just a purply,blue light clean pastely fusion hehe
Cream of Cornwall – it would be a lovely soft rich cream – just like a tub of Cornish Clotted Cream
poppy red
pretty in pink
Gone Bananas – rich warm yellow 🙂
Honey yellow
balanced harmony
Mauve Over Darling
Highland heather
PS. I Love You…
Cherry and rhubarb squish
Ocean green 🙂
Lily the Pink
Golden Champagne
Fantastico blue
Berry Icing
going green
Pickle
Secret daydream and it would be a pale yellow.
Dusky Rose
A beautiful rose colour. I’d call it Maisy Rose after my beautiful daughter.
earthshine
Turkish Sunset
Starlight
I Would Call My Paint Fairydust Divine!It would be a very soft,Pale pale Pink with little flecks of silver glitter through it!!
pretty in pink
Subtle sunshine – it would be a warm pale lemon
I’d go for an eggshell blue/green colour to be named ‘Emma’s Envy’ after seeing her face when confronted by a friend’s room painted in something like that colour
Sweet Pea arbour as it would smell of sweet peas lol
Simply heaven, as it would be a gorgeous the most gorgeous sky blue
Hue of Lu, cos that’s my name and I do like a nice rhyme!
I would call my paint Autumn Rose, as that’s the name of my baby girl.
Black (like your heart)
Golden aurora
Lemon Meringue Pie. A pastel yellow with iridescent swirls
Indigo Island
Sun-drenched pale
New Day …..A very pale blue…
sea breeze
Burnt Amber
Ultramarine Blue. simply for the geek in me to pay homage to Games Workshop and their paints!
Raging Bull Red!
Burnished Orange
Electric Blue
Pink blossom
Mink Minx
magical blue…
Crimson Crush
Graham’s Gorgeous Green
Purple haze would be a pinky purple with a hint of grey
I would have Precious Pink a bright baby pink with a pearlized sheen to it & Psychodelic Purple a deep purple with a silver sheen.
Peony passion a vibrant deep red
makes me happy
glorious green
PRECIOUS JADE
Bahama Breeze, a soft blue for the bedroom
Comfy peach
Rosa Cream – a lovely soft creamy pink
Raspberry Ripple
Egg yolk yellow
Cupcake 🙂
Tangerine Sunrise
Clotted Cream
Aurora would be a gentle peachy pink to represent the dawning of a beautiful new day
sea haze – gorgeous torquoise blue with a slight lighter blue haze
It would be sky blue and called Oliver after my son
rosa cream
Choca Mocha – a warm deep delicious chocolatey brown with a crisp shimmering sheen
Rhubarb Crumble
Summer Sky
BlueBell Breeze i can see it in my mind!
candy floss
Parker’s Purple 🙂
purple passion
Sunrise amber
Yellow Fizz
Cheerful green – a lush hue of grass green
I’d name a paint Snuggles – its would be a warm orange/red x
Sweet Strawberry, a lovely warm medium red
Starlight
Plum Shimmer
I would call it scared with the toaster pale beige x
Cherry crush 😀
Sparkling White
Paint It Black