There is a clever feature on the card which we have have described as ‘flying paint chips’.

Until you get your hands on one, it’s not immediately obvious what this means, but it’s a really neat way for you to compare paint colours to fabrics, wallpapers, and other paint colours – without forcing you to see them surrounded by a white background. Here’s a video to whet your appetite:

As always, the paint chips are our actual paint (not a matched ink – so they are 100% accurate for colour and finish), and we’ll post you one for free – just fill in your details here and we’ll pop one in the post along with our full product brochure.

Happy colour choosing!

HRH The Prince of Wales with Little Greene MD David Mottershead

Little Greene’s environmentally friendly paints and wallpapers were once again chosen to decorate the ‘Prince’s House’ at this year’s Ideal Home Show. The Prince of Wales made a very special personal visit to the Little Greene stand to take a closer look at our paints and papers. Managing director David Mottershead introduced the prince to our most recent wallpaper collections ’50s Line’ and ‘Retrospective Papers’.

Delighted with the royal visit, David said “The prince was genuinely interested in the new wallpaper collections and particularly referred to the methods of printing and the environmental credentials of the collections.”
The philosophy of the low- energy Prince’s House is to use materials of the highest quality and craftsmanship, made in the UK. The Arts & Crafts interior used a palette of thirteen beautiful Little Greene shades based on a range of neutral colours to give a sense of flow through the house. We are delighted to have been chosen for the project for the second year and to sit alongside the other companies with the same shared values.

Click here for a short film on The Prince’s visit to the house at Ideal Home Show.

Little Greene picked up the top Gold Award in the Northern Design Awards.

All eight 1950s designs in this collection are taken from originals found in the archive of The Whitworth Art Gallery, just a couple of miles from us here in Manchester, so a truly successful collaboration to celebrate design in the north west.

Award Winner!

And we’re delighted to announce the show organisers have awarded us ‘Best Small Stand’ at Ideal Home Show 2011. If you haven’t been yet, come and find us in Earls Court at stand 1K88, on Prince’s Avenue.

Chapel Lane's Steve Pool with Little Greene's David Mottershead in Wilmslow, Cheshire

Chapel Interiors is a family-run business that has recently made the sideways step from trade paints to a ‘designer paint and wallpaper studio’, making choosing colours easy for retail customers, interior designers and decorators alike.

Here you can browse our full range of nearly a thousand paint colours and over a hundred Little Greene wallpapers (and if you ask nicely Steve, shop manager Andrew or Mark will make you a cup of coffee too).

Owner Steve Pool (pictured, left) is delighted to be selling Little Greene paints and we wish him all the best.

Chapel Lane Interiors is located at 33 Chapel Lane, Wilmslow SK9 5HW, tel 01625 524113

If you’re about to restore a room, or even the entire house, to its former glory – whether it’s a Tudor cottage, a Georgian townhouse or a 1970s duplex – we know some people who’d like to hear from you..

A new BBC show called Home Truths is on the hunt for all kinds of restoration projects in the UK, and the social and design history of YOUR HOUSE could be featured.

Email hometruths@bbc.co.uk if you, or someone you know, is undertaking a renovation or restoration project in the next 6 months, and don’t forget to let us know how you get on too.

Special thanks to Katrina and Simon pictured below with Terry Christian, who hosted the award ceremony with Bill Bailey

Search Engine whizzkids PushON win with Little Greene at Big Chip Awards 2009

We’ve worked closely with PushON over the last year or so and we’ve got lots of exciting projects on the go so watch out for more awards!

Another legendary painting tip from Little Greene MD David Mottershead

Holland is one of our strongest export markets and our list of supporters grows and grows. New stockist Mr Robert Lentelink is mad about paint, mad about everything English and mad about Little Greene. His beautiful new shop, “Lentelink de verf & behangspecialist” in Hengevelde is full of bright ideas and neutral solutions – a great place to choose colours.

MD David was so delighted to be picked up in this rather nice old Hackney carriage in Mid Bronze Greene and complementary Little Greene livery that he gave an uncustomary extra tip – “remember to drive on the left when we get through the tunnel”

This week we gathered there to present lots of nice new stuff to our network of French stockists.

"Peintures et papier-peints tres joli"

Merci to everyone who came, and especially to Alice et Vincent who put lots of work into organising le day.

Next time you’re in the area do call in for a coffee and a consultation with colour expert Vincent, at 197 rue de Vaugirard in the 15th district (nearest metro is Pasteur, on both the green lines).

Our resident technical expert donned a different hat yesterday, having been invited to speak to students at St Wilfrid’s Primary School near our head office in Manchester.

Colin said, of the 50 or so Year 1 and Year 2 budding chemists “Despite being younger than our conventional audience, their questions were incisive and displayed an encouraging thirst for knowledge.”

Thanks to the staff and students at St Winfred’s, and to Colin for taking some time out of his schedule to inspire the next generation of scientists (and artists!).