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A fairly new company already making its mark, The Real Paintbox Company offers real hand painted swatches to help you choose the colour and finish best suited to your home. The paint itself is durable and washable, environmentally friendly and of the highest quality, but sold at high street prices. A swatch box with 295 colour sticks is priced from approximately £76.37 and a 1 litre pot of Matt Interior Paint from £12.93. Next day delivery is available and orders over 15 litres to one address are free.

I often find that people are so busy doing up their interiors that they completely forget about their exterior – and cracked or faded masonry is not a good look. This Bank Holiday though might be the perfect excuse to get stuck into a paint job. But, if the thought of a paint pot and brush effort seems daunting, Dulux has the perfect alternative in the form of its new Weathershield Easysprayer (£25.99), and its specially developed Easyspray masonry paint (£25.99/ five litres). Easy to assemble and apply, the paint takes just two hours to dry but offers protection for up to 15 years.

There’s more to a fresh lick of paint than meets the eye at EcosPaints.com, where revolutionary matt wall paint – the Atmosphere Purifying Paint – not only colours and freshens up the look of walls, but absorbs and neutralises pollutants within your home. Unlike air purifying units, it requires no power supply, maintenance or filters; and the Ecos APP can be applied as normal wall paint, absorbing chemical unsavouries 24 hours a day all year round when dry. Priced from £89.90 for five litres.