Johnstone's

He shouldn’t have said it! We’d been living together for five years and it was obvious he hadn’t listened to me! Morty should have known better. For the last few Christmases he had happily invited a houseful of friends on Christmas Day, on Boxing Day, and sometimes both. I’d always pulled all the stops out, laying it all on, but I wanted a year off. I wanted friends to ask us over for one of the special two Christmas days and let them do the work and spoil me. Even more importantly than that, I wanted a Christmas Day on our own. Just the two of us. To slob out together; eat a whole box of chocolate brazils each; enjoy a splendid meal; laugh at ...  Read the complete review

I've been having a big clearout & been reorganising the house now that my youngest daughter has moved out to go to uni. My older daughter decided to help me out by buying some paint so we could do up the spare bedroom as a study & generously came back with some Johnstone's matt paint. I've always been a Dulux woman but the sight of the Johnstone's logo on the tin (I'm calling it tin but it's actually a hard plastic) immediately brought memories back of when my late Mum used to religiously decorate the house every 2 years. The container has a sturdy plastic handle & the well-sealed lid is easy to open yet no problem sealing tight after a ...  Read the complete review

For the past 2 weeks I've been helping my girlfriend decorate her new house. We've used mainly Johnstone's and Dulux paints (I forget what make one of the emulsions was but it was rubbish - you get what you pay for). Anyway, I just want to say that in future I will not even bother with Dulux, normally I just buy Dulux and get on with it. But this time, my girlfriend's parents were raging about Johnstone's being far superior, I thought "yeah, yeah, paint's paint" but actually they were right. I don't want to run the risk of sounding like a Johnstone's sales rep, but it went about three times further than Dulux. Where Dulux needed 3 coats, 2 was more than enough ...  Read the complete review

Having got bored of our living room, looking at the same decor for nearly 2 years we decided on a dramatic change. I do mean dramatic. What once was a burgundy carpet with matching creamy colour combined with burgundy patterned wall paper, matching border and mahogany varnished wood work. Has now become beach laminate floor, white glossed wood work and a purple and cream living room finished with dado rail. Oh and not forgetting our metallic lavender ceiling which will complete the room this Sunday. After we decided on the colour scheme to use, we then had to find a nice combination of shades to compliment each other. We searched every DIY shop ...  Read the complete review

I found the best smear free window cleaning product, I have been using it for years now and I swear by it. Cornflour and warm water cheap and effective. I use one teaspoon of cornflour added to 3 parts warm water using a sponge and wipe all over the window or glassed area. I then use 3 microfibre cloth's (that wash and are reusable) you could use newspaper or kitchen roll. I use the first cloth to wipe off the water, the second to wipe off any access water, then the third to buff and shine. I find it better than any other window cleaning product. You can buy cornflour it most supermarkets at about 99p for 750g and that amount goes a long way. Cornflour is known to be ...  Read the complete review