Dulux Lexicon - anyone used this recently?

Hi Tamara,

sounds like you have excellent taste too Our main floor tiles are a light greyish/neutral colour, our bathroom/ensuite tiles are a darker grey, and we have grey & charcoal glass feature tiles in our ensuite with glass feature tiles in our kids' bathroom too but with a hint of colour in them (grey/brown & aqua blue). Didn't end up finding any charcoal carpet at our local floor covering store and because I couldn't be bothered going out of town to find something (and time is running out) we've chosen a lovely black carpet. Hoping its not too harsh but I think it should be fine. I absolutely love the pattern in the carpet pile, and best of all its one of those that wont show the vacuum tracks.

Anyway, our kitchen is also white - Caesarstone "Nougat" benchtops with White gloss doors that have a hint of sparkle/shimmer to them (colour is Galaxy Pearl Gloss from FlexiPress). Its all being put together on the weekend so I'll be able to tell you whether the walls look blue. At this stage I don't think they will because we picked up the doors this afternoon and have them all stacked inside near the walls and no blue tinge it seems. I'm so glad we did the final coat of paint in Lexicon 1/2 though. If you're going Lexicon 1/4 you should be absolutely fine.

Wow Tamara, that is going to look AWESOME!! Can't wait to see some pics too!

Hi,
I know it's a few years since this thread was current, but I am now at the stage of choosing a paint colour and after discussing wanting a white throughout the entire house with our painter he has told me he doesn't think Lexicon is appropriate and I need to choose something with more colour. Can anyone tell me how their paint has lasted?

I too have a gloss white kitchen with grey ceaserstone top, so certainly don't want any hints of blue.

Hi all,

our new house is currently being painted with Lexicon and I could nearly cry because its not at all what I was hoping for. Its throwing way too much blue and just doesn't have that slight grey tone I was expecting. AFter much googling yesterday I've discovered this can happen with whites that are tinted with black. Wish I would've done my homework first before going with Lexicon!! It looked lovely on the little paint chip we got, but a whole house filled with it just isn't working the way I imagined it would.

Its only had 1 coat, is it likely this blue will "settle down" after it has its final coat? If not, is there anything we could possibly do with the remaining paint to tone this down or whatever before applying the second coat? I know nothing about paint (obviously!) so please forgive me if my questions seem silly. I don't trust the advice of the paint rep we have been dealing with, even though he is a friend of my husbands and has worked in paint for years, any advice he's given or questions he's answered haven't really been on the ball if you ask me. Unfortunately thats the problem when you deal with "mates". You're stuck between trying to be nice and keep the peace, and trying to be 100% happy with the choices you make based on advice you're given.

One thing is I know even though we chose a dulux colour, he uses Solver base paint. Would this make a difference? Hubby says no because they still mix it up using the correct code...but I'm not so sure.

Here are some pics of what its looking like so far...I realise light/shade make all the difference when we're dealing with whites and yesterday when I took these pics it was a shady overcast kind of day. So I'm hoping on a nice bright sunny day when all our furniture is in things might not seem so bad....but I'm not expecting much considering it was bright and sunny on Friday when I first saw it. Its an expensive mistake to make when I'm going to have to look at these walls for the next however many years it will be before we can afford to repaint it

Edited: ok, so clearly I can't figure out how to attach pics properly either I'll keep working on that...