This guide is for homeowners and DIY enthusiasts looking to refresh their interiors with a vibrant, durable paint finish. The Johnstone's MY Colour Luxurious Durable Matt Paint in 'El Capitan - Red' offers intense, long-lasting color and a flawless matt finish, perfect for high-traffic areas. While providing excellent results, achieving its full potential relies on thorough surface preparation.
Luxurious Durable Matt Finish: Provides an elegant, non-reflective surface that is hard-wearing and suitable for busy areas like family rooms, hallways, and kitchens.
Intense Colour Technology: Formulated with high-quality pigments to deliver rich, deep, and vibrant hues, ensuring your chosen 'El Capitan - Red' shade remains beautiful over time.
Low VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds): Environmentally friendlier formulation that releases fewer harmful chemicals into the air during and after application, contributing to better indoor air quality.
Wide Colour Selection: Part of the 'MY Colour' range, allowing you to choose from 21 trend-led colours to create unique colour combinations and personalize your interior space.
Versatile Application: Suitable for various interior surfaces, including walls, furniture, and even cabinets (with proper preparation), offering flexibility in your decorating projects.
Smooth & Flawless Finish: Advanced formula designed for easy application, helping achieve a professional-looking, consistent finish with minimal effort.
High Durability: Specially designed to withstand daily wear and tear, making it ideal for busy household areas.
Vibrant, Long-Lasting Colours: The intense colour technology ensures deep, rich colours that resist fading and retain their vibrancy.
Eco-Friendly Choice: Low VOC content provides a safer painting experience and better indoor air quality for your home.
Versatile Use: Can be applied to a wide range of interior surfaces, offering creative freedom for your decor.
Easy Application: Its advanced formula promotes a smooth flow and finish, simplifying the painting process for DIYers.
Personalization: Encourages creating unique and reflective interior styles through its curated colour palette.
Requires Careful Surface Preparation: Optimal results, particularly the flawless finish and durability, are dependent on proper cleaning, sanding, and priming of surfaces.
Matte Finish Characteristics: While durable, matte finishes can sometimes show scuffs or marks more readily than higher sheen paints, though this paint is designed to be wipeable after curing.
High Durability: Specially designed to withstand daily wear and tear, making it ideal for busy household areas.
Vibrant, Long-Lasting Colours: The intense colour technology ensures deep, rich colours that resist fading and retain their vibrancy.
Eco-Friendly Choice: Low VOC content provides a safer painting experience and better indoor air quality for your home.
Versatile Use: Can be applied to a wide range of interior surfaces, offering creative freedom for your decor.
Easy Application: Its advanced formula promotes a smooth flow and finish, simplifying the painting process for DIYers.
Personalization: Encourages creating unique and reflective interior styles through its curated colour palette.
Requires Careful Surface Preparation: Optimal results, particularly the flawless finish and durability, are dependent on proper cleaning, sanding, and priming of surfaces.
Matte Finish Characteristics: While durable, matte finishes can sometimes show scuffs or marks more readily than higher sheen paints, though this paint is designed to be wipeable after curing.
This paint is engineered for high-performance interior decoration, especially in areas demanding both aesthetic appeal and resilience. Its durable matt finish makes it an excellent choice for high-traffic zones like hallways, children's rooms, or active kitchens, where surfaces are prone to everyday scuffs and marks. The Intense Colour Technology ensures that vibrant shades like 'El Capitan - Red' provide a deep, consistent colour that makes a statement and retains its richness over time, resisting fading even in well-lit rooms.
Users can leverage the extensive 'MY Colour' palette to implement sophisticated design principles, such as the 60-30-10 rule, to create harmonious spaces. For instance, you could use 'El Capitan - Red' as a bold accent wall, complemented by more subtle shades from the Johnstone's 'MY Colour' range on adjacent walls, or use it to refresh old furniture, giving it a vibrant new lease on life to match your updated room aesthetic. Its low VOC content means less odor during and after painting, providing a healthier environment, which is particularly beneficial for homes with children, pets, or individuals sensitive to strong fumes.
Clean: Ensure all surfaces are clean, dry, and free from dust, grease, dirt, and loose material.
Fill: Repair any cracks or holes with appropriate filler and sand smooth.
Sand: Lightly sand glossy surfaces to create a key for better adhesion.
Prime: Apply a suitable primer, especially on new, porous, or previously unpainted surfaces to ensure even absorption and optimal colour depth. Allow primer to dry completely as per manufacturer's instructions.
Stir: Thoroughly stir the paint before and periodically during use to ensure colour consistency.
Apply: Use a good quality brush or roller. Apply paint evenly, avoiding excessive spreading, to achieve a smooth finish.
Coats: For best results, apply two coats, allowing adequate drying time between coats (typically 2-4 hours, but always check the product label for specific guidance).
Suitable for interior walls, ceilings, wood (primed), and metal (primed).
Always test a small, inconspicuous area first if you are unsure about surface compatibility or colour outcome.
Cleaning Tools: Clean brushes and rollers immediately after use with warm, soapy water.
Drying and Curing: The paint will be touch dry within hours, but allow at least 7 days for the paint to fully cure and achieve its maximum durability and washability.
Storage: Store the paint in a cool, dry place, protected from frost. Ensure the lid is tightly sealed to preserve the paint's quality.