Paint Central

I have alot of exposed brown brick walls at home, built in the 80’s but with a 70’s design and have been contemplating painting a few as feature walls. (Think I just heard a pin drop, along with cutlery and jaws!) Well, it’ll be cheaper than plastering or having them gyprocked and besides I think it’ll be nice having the brick pattern, like an ‘embossed look’ emerge. Hmmm… where to start, what paint, what shade of white, don’t want it to be smelly, prefer a more natural paint and then I remembered…
.Paint Central! Located on Daws Rd with hardly any foot traffic and many times as I zoomed past, I thought I’ll have go in there one day. I’ve seen furniture out the front of the shop before but it was a horrible humid day today and non of it was outside, I don’t blame them for not bothering.
Paint and home décor is sold here, paint side of things is Paint Central where they sell Haymes and Porters Paints, the other is MaxiMalistic home décor. Interesting about the home décor as they source reproduced furniture and even do some up with their paints to show what can be achieved… this in my opinion is an excellent visual concept. Plus an important note: they stock from Australian owned paint companies.
There are small cushions, hammocks, a giant ornate stone pot and more, a look I would describe as provincial (it’s following me around), with it’s scrolled metal furniture and I have to mention an enormous antiquated metal harp style/​3 glass tube/​flower holder.stunning.
I explained to the lady what I intended to do and she was excellent in advising what I needed to do in preparation, as I have never used Porters Paints in my life. So I purchased a tiny sample pot of an off white called Milk — and was told it was one of their most popular colours — to try on the brick wall. Which really means I have to do it, otherwise I’ll have a small square patch of paint on the brown brick wall!