Our Paint Colours and Our Painted Samples

Standard Paint Colours & Wood Finishes for Our Handmade Furniture

All our handmade furniture is available in 16 paint colours and 4 wood finishes. These options are shown below for easy reference.

If you find an item that is not available in one of these paint colours below, simply select a paint colour from the same group list and add a note in the special instructions with your preferred colour. Please note that dark-colored paints, and special colours will incur a small additional cost.

Order a Small Painted Sample

To ensure you choose the perfect color for your furniture, you can order a small wooden painted sample in any of our standard colours. Simply click here to request your sample.

Important Colour Information

The colours displayed on our website and in our listings are for guidance only. The actual paint or wood finish may vary slightly depending on:

Your monitor, phone, or tablet screen
Lighting conditions in photography
Surrounding environment when the photo was taken

For the most accurate representation of our colours, we recommend ordering a small wooden sample. We will post these samples to you via Royal Mail.

Our Standard Wood Finishes are:

RAW WOOD (for DIY Finishing)

Light Wax

Honey Wax

PAINT

All of our paint is sourced from a specialist supplier and is a durable, spray-applied two-part lacquer system. We carefully mix this ourselves in-house to achieve a strong, long-lasting finish that’s specifically designed for furniture.

This is quite different from paints you’d typically buy in DIY stores, which are generally made for brushing or rolling onto walls rather than being sprayed onto wooden furniture.

In terms of appearance, our finish is closest to an eggshell sheen, which means it has a soft, subtle finish with a gentle low-level shine. It’s not completely matt, but not glossy either—just enough to give the furniture a bit of warmth and depth, depending on the light in the room of course.

Standard Paint Colours:

We do stock a number of paints in the following colours -

LIGHT COLOUR SHADES: 'Light Wax', 'Antique Lacquer', 'Honey Lacquer','White', 'Off White', 'Cream', 'Elephants Breath', 'Dovetale', 'Worsted'

DARK COLOUR SHADES: 'Medium Oak Lacquer', 'Dark Oak lacquer', 'Downpipe', 'Railings', 'Stiffkey Blue', 'Hague Blue', 'Green #21'

SPECIAL COLOURS: 'Green#1', 'Green/Grey#5', 'Green#16', 'Green#21', 'Yellow#1', 'Yellow#2'.

We can send out a small wooden painted sample of these colours if you would like to see any of the actual colours and sheen finish rather than in a screen.

All our handmade furniture is available in the paint colours that are shown above. If you find an item and it is not listed in one of these colours above just select a paint colour that is listed in the SAME GROUP and please add a note in the special instructions of which colour you would like. DARK COLOURS and SPECIAL COLOURS do cost a little extra so please add a colour from the SAME GROUP to get the correct price..

White

Off White

Cream

'Elephants Breath'

'Dovetale'

'Worsted'

DARK PAINT COLOURS

'Downpipe'

'Stiffkey Blue'

'Hague Blue'

'Railings'

We do stock a number of paint and wood colours -

LIGHT COLOUR SHADES: 'Antique Lacquer', 'Honey Lacquer','White', 'Off White', 'Cream', 'Elephants Breath', 'Dovetale', 'Worsted'

DARK COLOUR SHADES: 'Light Wax-handwaxed', Medium Oak Lacquer', 'Dark Oak lacquer', 'Downpipe', 'Railings', 'Stiffkey Blue', 'Hague Blue'

SPECIAL COLLOURS: 'Green#1', 'Green/Grey#5', 'Green#16', 'Green#21', 'Yellow#1', 'Yellow#2'

IF YOU ARE WANTING A PAINT COLOUR THAT IS NOT LISTED ABOVE

MANUFACTURERS ACTUAL PAINT:

If you are wanting to use the manufacturer’s actual paint that you have purchased from a DIY store and used around your home i.e Little Green, Farrow and Ball, Dulux etc, then we also do have the option of supplying our furniture in the RAW WOOD (NO finish) for you to paint at home yourself. This will then enable you to use the paint and the colour that you have already seen. We do NOT use or purchase the paint from the specific manufacturer

COLOUR MATCH MIX SERVICE:

For an additional cost our paint supplier can MIX a SPRAY APPLIED version of most colours in a MATT finish similar to an EGGSHELL.. Please remember this is JUST THE COLOUR that we are creating . There may be a slight variation in colour and shade due to manufacturers processing of the paint formula. If it is NOT crucial that this is an exact match then the colour match service is for you. Our paint supplier is only able to use the paint manufacturers colour chart along with name or by RAL number to achieve the colour.

They will not accept a sample pot of your paint or an item with the colour on.

Unfortunately we do NOT use or purchase the paint from the specific paint manufacturer for custom colours as this does not give as good a finish as our 2 part paint and lacquer mix which is designed to be sprayed. These manufacturers paints are designed to be brushed or applied with a roller. Our paint is a 2 part paint and lacquer mix

We also do not have small wooden painted samples of these 'special' colour requests as they will be mixed especially for you for your order. The supplier will not mix up a sample pot for us…

If you do opt for our colour match mix we unfortunately are unable to replace the item if the colour is not what you was expecting. Cheshire Pine will not know what the colour is meant to look like.

PAINT

This is quite different from paints you’d typically buy in DIY stores, which are generally made for brushing or rolling onto walls rather than being sprayed onto wood.

EXAMPLES

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CUSTOMERS OWN HANDLES

We supply all our furniture with WOODEN KNOBS as standard but we can fit your own handles on to your cupboard here at our workshop before delivery. We just ask that you to send them to us with a note of your NAME and ORDER NUMBER to the address below. You will get an email from me asking you to send your handles if we have not already had them at the time that the machining starts. We do not drill any holes for handles until further down the manufacturing line (once it is constructed and prior to painting they are drilled and fitted, they are then removed and then put back on once painted ready for delivery). If you do send them sooner rather than later this is also not a problem as I have a storage area for customers own handles that are all labelled up. Bar handles are not a problem either. We will just need your handles to do the drilling and fitting when the time arises.

Unfortunately this can not be done by our driver on your delivery day in your home, but you can fit your handles yourselves once the delivery has been made if you prefer.

The vertical door rails where the handles are fitted on our cupboards are 65 mm wide.

SUGGESTED SIZES

Round Knobs: 30 mm - 45 mm

Bar Handles: Any

Please send your handles to:

Cheshire Pine

Sealand Farm

Sealand Road

Chester

CH1 6BS

HOW WE MANUFACTURE

All our furniture is made using solid timber - no MDF, plywood or man made boards are used, even when painted. We use a Kreg® Pocket-Hole Machine to construct cabinet furniture, bookshelves, tables etc with multiple joints in a professional way. It drills a pilot hole and counterbore at a 15-degree angle into the timber without the use of glue, nails and screws on the outside what can be on view, look very unsightly and not very strong. It enables us to construct furniture from the inside instead of the outside. Our time served cabinet makers have used this for many many years and it gives the best strength and most stable construction out there. These pilot holes are visible on the inside side edge.

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