Exterior Paints, Durable Finishes

At Little Greene, our range of exterior paints allow you to transform your outdoor space with colour. Available in our complete colour palette, these long-lasting, hard-wearing exterior paints combine the highest technical performance with a beautiful finish and profound depth of colour.

“Decorating your exterior is not only a practical way of weatherproofing your home, but it’s also the perfect opportunity to add design personality to your outdoor space. Even a simple update such as refreshing existing garden furniture or painting a wall can add instant impact and extend your living area outdoors.” – Ruth Mottershead, Creative Director

Our exterior paints provide the perfect tools to elevate your outdoor space this spring. Create a scheme that flows by designing colourful, functional spaces that extend your living area outdoors.

Our Creative Director, Ruth, says: “From homeworking to outdoor dining, our gardens have become multi-purpose. As well as providing relaxing areas in which to enjoy nature and gardening, we are seeing the creation of outdoor living and dining rooms, zones that truly reflect an interior design scheme, with soft furnishings, mirrors, outdoor rugs and the embracing of colour on walls and outdoor furniture.

“Whether you are painting a large expanse of wall to provide a backdrop to al fresco dining or simply refreshing pot plants for a small balcony, you can completely coordinate outdoor elements to create a cohesive scheme that flows throughout your home.”

Find more ideas on styling your garden with our Creative Director, Ruth

The Finishes

The exterior family includes durable paint finishes for every project. From the robust, weatherproof Intelligent Masonry Paint for brickwork, stone and render, to our elegant gloss and eggshell paints in both oil and water-based formulas. Explore the full collection to find the perfect finish…

Intelligent Exterior Eggshell

A reliable, practical choice, Intelligent Exterior Eggshell is suitable for all exterior woodwork and metalwork including doors, window trims, gates and garden furniture. Its self-priming formulation can be applied straight onto bare wood, meaning it’s ideal for a simple weekend project that adds joyful colour to your exteriors.

For an instant update, explore how to paint your garden fence with Intelligent Exterior Eggshell

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Intelligent Masonry Paint

This tough paint for exterior walls is designed to last up to 15 years before re-painting is required. With an eco-friendly, water-based formula, it dries quickly to a smooth matt finish on brickwork, new render, cement blockwork and existing paint finishes. Whether you choose bright, bold colours or shades that blend into their natural surroundings, use Intelligent Masonry paint to transform your garden with long-lasting colour.

Explore our robust yet beautiful Intelligent Masonry Paint

Or find inspiration for painting masonry…

Tom’s Oil Eggshell

This more traditional paint finish is named after one of our Little Greene chemists, and is the preferred finish of many professional decorators. Its oil base makes it extremely hard-wearing, with excellent flow, deep adhesion and a beautiful low sheen. Fully washable and weather resistant, Tom’s Oil Eggshell is ideally suited to painting exterior woodwork and metalwork to achieve a sleek, luxurious finish.

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Traditional Oil Gloss

With its classic, deep gloss finish, Traditional Oil Gloss is a popular choice for front doors. Its smooth high sheen reflects natural sunlight beautifully, giving front doors a magnificent, eye-catching appearance. Extremely hard-wearing and made using naturally occurring vegetable oils, this paint is a practical and sustainable choice too.

Front door inspiration…

Intelligent Gloss

A water-based alternative to Traditional Oil Gloss, Intelligent Gloss is tough, environmentally friendly and fully washable. With a self-priming formula, Intelligent Gloss achieves the same distinctive high sheen whilst being fast-drying and low odour – perfect for all joinery, woodwork and metals.

Read our guide on how to paint your front door with Intelligent Gloss

Limewash

Our most traditional exterior finish, Limewash can be used to decorate and protect porous stone and lime-rendered surfaces with a unique, matt and chalky effect. It is natural and fully breathable, and can be applied to old walls by painting successive coats to achieve beautiful, charismatic depth.

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Intelligent ASP

A versatile primer that can be used across a wide range of projects, Intelligent ASP provides the perfect partner for your chosen finish. With its speedy two-hour drying time, it is the go-to preparation tool for big and small projects. Our most technically advanced primer can be tinted to every shade in our palette to achieve beautiful depth of colour with a long-lasting finish.