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Armadale Gardens
Armadale Castle was once the seat of the MacDonalds of Sleat. Now a ruin, the castle overlooks the Sound of Sleat and is surrounded by 40 acres of magnificent woodland gardens. Colour Description: Lush fern green with yellow undertones Please note: Whilst we try to replicate each colour on our website, colour on screen may vary due to a number of factors including screen resolution. We therefore advise that you order a colour card or sample pot to check actual finished colour. Colour Combinations£1.00 – £75.00Armadale Gardens Bla Bheinn Majestic Quiraing -
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Beinn Edra
Beinn Edra is the highest point on the northern half of the Trotternish Ridge.
On 3rd March 1945, a B-17 Flying Fortress crashed during fog at Beinn Edra on its way from America to an RAF based in Wales, killing all 9 crew members. Parts of the wreckage are still visible on the ridge. Please note: Whilst we try to replicate each colour on our website, colour on screen may vary due to a number of factors including screen resolution. We therefore advise that you order a colour card or sample pot to check actual finished colour.Beinn Edra Dun Beag Ord Slate -
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Bla Bheinn
Blà Bhein (also known as Blaven), is usually regarded as an outlier to the Black Cuillin.
It is mainly composed of gabbro, a rock with excellent grip for mountaineers and scramblers.
Colour Description: Understated warm greenPlease note: Whilst we try to replicate each colour on our website, colour on screen may vary due to a number of factors including screen resolution. We therefore advise that you order a colour card or sample pot to check actual finished colour.
Colour CombinationsBla Bheinn Castle Moil Milovaig Storm -
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Black
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Black Cuillin
The peaks of the Black Cuillin are mainly composed of gabbro, a very rough black igneous rock which provides a superb grip for mountaineers, and basalt, which can be very slippery when wet.
The summits of the Cuillin are bare rock, jagged in outline and with steep cliffs and deep cut corries and gullies.
Twelve Black Cuillin peaks are listed as Munros, though one of them, Blaven, is part of a group of outliers separated from the main ridge by Glen Sligachan.
Colour Description: Deep denim blue with warm undertonesPlease note: Whilst we try to replicate each colour on our website, colour on screen may vary due to a number of factors including screen resolution. We therefore advise that you order a colour card or sample pot to check actual finished colour.
Colour CombinationsBlack Cuillin Milovaig Storm MacLeod’s Maidens -
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Bracadale Berry
Bracadale is a settlement and parish on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. It lies on the west coast of the island, west-south-west of Portree, on Loch Beag, an inlet off Loch Harport.
Nearby settlements include Struan to the west and Coillore on the opposite shore of Loch Beag.
Colour Description: Vibrant berry redPlease note: Whilst we try to replicate each colour on our website, colour on screen may vary due to a number of factors including screen resolution. We therefore advise that you order a colour card or sample pot to check actual finished colour.
Colour CombinationsBracadale Berry Black Cuillin Fairy Glen Serenity -
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Broadford Bay
Broadford, is the second-largest settlement on Skye.
Like many places in Skye, Broadford derives its name from Old Norse. To the Norsemen this was Breiðafjorðr - the wide bay.
The Gaelic name is of modern derivation and assumes that the "ford" element meant a river crossing.
Broadford was a cattle market until 1812, when Telford built the road from Portree to Kyleakin. Veterans of the Napoleonic Wars settled during the first half of the 19th century. Writing in the middle of the 19th century, Alexander Smith said, "If Portree is the London of Skye, Broadford is its Manchester.
Legend holds that the recipe for the liqueur Drambuie was given by Bonnie Prince Charlie to Clan MacKinnon who then passed it onto James Ross late 19th century. Ross ran the Broadford Inn (now the Broadford Hotel), where he developed and improved the recipe, initially for his friends and then later to patrons. Ross then began to sell it further afield and the name was registered as a trademark in 1893.
Colour Description: Fresh lilac with a cool grey undertonePlease note: Whilst we try to replicate each colour on our website, colour on screen may vary due to a number of factors including screen resolution. We therefore advise that you order a colour card or sample pot to check actual finished colour.
Colour CombinationsBroadford Bay Trotternish Heather Snizort Seathrift -
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Camasunary Pebble
Camasunary is a small bay on the Strathaird peninsula of the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Camasunary is the Scots form of the Gaelic name Camas Fhionnairigh, and means "Bay of the White Shieling".
The Camasunary Fault is a geological subsurface feature underlying a portion of the Isle of Skye extending under the Sea of the Hebrides.
Colour Description: Timeless beigePlease note: Whilst we try to replicate each colour on our website, colour on screen may vary due to a number of factors including screen resolution. We therefore advise that you order a colour card or sample pot to check actual finished colour.
Colour CombinationsCamasunary Pebble Red Cuillin Marsco -
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Castle Moil
Caisteal Maol is a ruined castle located near the harbour of the village of Kyleakin. An ancient seat of the MacKinnon clan, the fortress commands the strait between Kyleakin and the mainland. Colour Description: Warm earthy neutral Please note: Whilst we try to replicate each colour on our website, colour on screen may vary due to a number of factors including screen resolution. We therefore advise that you order a colour card or sample pot to check actual finished colour. Colour Combinations£1.00 – £75.00Castle Moil Marsco Falaisgear -
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Coral Beach
Skye is famous for many things, but great beaches are not high on the list. You'll find better ones on Harris, or Tiree, or Uist, or Berneray, or Iona. But there are a few wee gems on Skye, and the Coral Beach at Claigan is one of them.
Its combination of accessibility and white sand make it a very attractive option on a warm sunny day.
Despite its name, and all these tales of the Gulf Stream, the beach is not made of coral at all. It is actually composed of pieces of dessicated and sun-bleached algae. If you look carefully it is still possible to find some fairly big bits.
Colour Description: Creamy whitePlease note: Whilst we try to replicate each colour on our website, colour on screen may vary due to a number of factors including screen resolution. We therefore advise that you order a colour card or sample pot to check actual finished colour.
Colour CombinationsCoral Beach Red Cuillin Winter Bracken -
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Dun Beag
Dun Beag (the small fort) is the best known, the best preserved, and the most accessible broch on Skye.
A short and easy walk up a slope of sheep-cropped grass takes you to the remains of the broch itself. It has massive walls, still mostly intact to more than 2m high. In them you can find lots of detail, including a gallery, the entranceway, a stairway and a security cell.
Colour Description: Gentle grey with a pinkish tonePlease note: Whilst we try to replicate each colour on our website, colour on screen may vary due to a number of factors including screen resolution. We therefore advise that you order a colour card or sample pot to check actual finished colour.
Colour CombinationsDun Beag Winter Bracken Pride of the Summer -
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Fairy Glen Serenity
On the West side of Trotternish at Balnacnoc (which means - the village or township in the hills) above Uig, is the Fairy Glen – a Quirang-like landslip in miniature. The road winds around small round-topped grassy hills with lochans (ponds) in between which gives the glen an otherworldly feel.
Skye has a long history involving the Fairys, most of which is related to Dunvegan Castle and their ‘Fairy Flag’. The Fairy Glen (much like the Fairy Pools in Glenbrittle) has no real legends or stories involving fairys that can be traced. The simple fact that the location is unusual so it has been given the nickname Fairy Glen.
One of the hills still has its basalt topping intact which, from a distance, looks like a ruin and has been called (inexplicably) Castle Ewan. It is possible to climb to the top where there is not much room, but does have wonderful views. In the low cliff behind Castle Ewan there is a very small cave where it has been said pressing coins into cracks in the rock will bring Good Luck.
Colour Description: A versatile tranquil off whitePlease note: Whilst we try to replicate each colour on our website, colour on screen may vary due to a number of factors including screen resolution. We therefore advise that you order a colour card or sample pot to check actual finished colour.
Colour CombinationsFairy Glen Serenity Flora MacDonald Coral Beach -
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Fairy Pools
The Fairy Pools is a magical place of outstanding beauty at the foot of the Cuillin Hills. Beautiful crystal clear water, waterfalls and rock pools has seen this wonderful place become one of the must visit places on Skye. Colour Description: Jewel like green blue Please note: Whilst we try to replicate each colour on our website, colour on screen may vary due to a number of factors including screen resolution. We therefore advise that you order a colour card or sample pot to check actual finished colour. Colour Combinations£1.00 – £75.00Fairy Pools Armadale Gardens Spirit of Skye -
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Falaisgear
(pronounced Falashgar) Muir burning is a practice of burning off rough hill grasses and heather to improve grazing for sheep and cattle. Undertaken in the spring time, the hills are left looking grey/black until new growth appears. Colour Description: Dramatic smoky grey Please note: Whilst we try to replicate each colour on our website, colour on screen may vary due to a number of factors including screen resolution. We therefore advise that you order a colour card or sample pot to check actual finished colour. Colour Combinations£1.00 – £75.00Falaisgear Dun Beag Castle Moil -
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Flora MacDonald
In Kilmuir Cemetery, just behind the Museum of Island Life, is a tall memorial to Flora MacDonald, 'Preserver of Prince Charles Edward Stuart'. Despite the romanticism of the Skye Boat Song et al, she was a real and remarkable person.
This is the place to come to and spend a moment reflecting on her amazing courage. She was buried in this graveyard (though not very close to where her memorial stands) in 1790.
Colour Description: A warm yellow based neutralPlease note: Whilst we try to replicate each colour on our website, colour on screen may vary due to a number of factors including screen resolution. We therefore advise that you order a colour card or sample pot to check actual finished colour.
Colour CombinationsFlora MacDonald Falaisgear Winter Bracken -
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Glenbrittle
At the head of Loch Brittle is a big beach. There is sand here at all states of the tide, and plenty of space for playing, kite flying and the like.
The sand is not white, but that apart it is a beautiful spot with views to the Island of Canna.
Colour Description: Pale red based neutralPlease note: Whilst we try to replicate each colour on our website, colour on screen may vary due to a number of factors including screen resolution. We therefore advise that you order a colour card or sample pot to check actual finished colour.
Colour CombinationsGlenbrittle The Misty Isle Kilt Rock -
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Idrigill Point
Idrigill point headland affords magnificent views over Uig Bay with the Trotternish Ridge and Cuillins in the background, round to Loch Snizort and across the little Minch to North Uist and Harris. A fine spot to admire the ferocity of the wind in a gale or watch an astounding sunset. Please note: Whilst we try to replicate each colour on our website, colour on screen may vary due to a number of factors including screen resolution. We therefore advise that you order a colour card or sample pot to check actual finished colour.£1.00 – £75.00Idrigill Point Glenbrittle Kilt Rock -
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Kilmuir Thatch
There are very few old-fashioned thatched cottages to be seen today in the Highlands. A hundred years or so ago thatched houses were very much a part of the Highland scene and within their walls, by the light of the peat fire – the crofters of the Islands kept alive the songs and stories which have made the Hebrides famous throughout the world.
Warm, sturdy and economical of scarce materials, the croft house was admirably suited to the landsacpe and the climate. It embodied the principles of streamlining hundreds of years before scientists thought of the idea, with the result that it could stand up to the worst of the winter gales.
Colour Description: A sunny mid toned yellowPlease note: Whilst we try to replicate each colour on our website, colour on screen may vary due to a number of factors including screen resolution. We therefore advise that you order a colour card or sample pot to check actual finished colour.
Colour CombinationsKilmuir Thatch Skye Marble Waternish Sunset Rated 5.00 out of 5 -
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Kilt Rock
The famous Kilt Rock is a sea cliff in north east Trotternish.
It is said to resemble a kilt, with vertical basalt columns to form the pleats and intruded sills of dolerite forming the pattern.
Colour Description: Subtle mid toned neutral with pinkish tonesPlease note: Whilst we try to replicate each colour on our website, colour on screen may vary due to a number of factors including screen resolution. We therefore advise that you order a colour card or sample pot to check actual finished colour.
Colour CombinationsKilt Rock The Misty Isle Dun Beag -
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Kinloch Forest
A beautiful natural forest that is home to oak, hazel and birch trees. The walk through the forest leads to the historic township of Leitir Fura which is an old village of ruined black houses.£1.00 – £75.00Please note: Whilst we try to replicate each colour on our website, colour on screen may vary due to a number of factors including screen resolution. We therefore advise that you order a colour card or sample pot to check actual finished colour.
Colour CombinationsKinloch Forest Talisker Sands Rubhna Hunish -
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Lealt Falls
Lealt is a crofting settlement on the western coastline of the Sound of Raasay on the Trotternish peninsula of Skye. The River Lealt which gives its name to Lealt, passes through on the way to the Sound of Raasay.
The Lealt Valley Diatomite Railway was a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge which ran parallel with the River Lealt.
The western end of the line was at Loch Cuithir, where diatomite - known locally as Cailc (Scottish Gaelic for chalk) - was extracted from the lochbed and dried on wire nets. The seaward terminus had warehouses on the cliff-top at Invertote. At the base of the cliff was a factory where the diatomite was kiln dried, ground and calcined. The line was extended from the factory onto a pier into the Sound of Raasay. During its existence, the Skye Diatomite Company extracted 2000 tons of diatomite.
Colour Description: Relaxed pale chalky bluePlease note: Whilst we try to replicate each colour on our website, colour on screen may vary due to a number of factors including screen resolution. We therefore advise that you order a colour card or sample pot to check actual finished colour.
Colour CombinationsLealt Falls Milovaig Storm Dun Beag -
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Linda’s Wedding
Linda Farrar was instrumental in providing research to Isle of Skye Paint company in our use of Seaweed in paint. Linda and her husband Bryan married on Skye and this colour is in honour of her assistance to us. Colour Description: Delicate zesty yellow Please note: Whilst we try to replicate each colour on our website, colour on screen may vary due to a number of factors including screen resolution. We therefore advise that you order a colour card or sample pot to check actual finished colour. Colour Combinations£1.00 – £75.00Linda’s Wedding Struan Peatbog Waternish Sunset -
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Loch Coruisk
Loch Coruisk is an inland fresh-water loch, lying at the foot of the Black Cuillin. Loch Coruisk is reputed to be the home of a water horse.
Sir Walter Scott visited the loch in 1814 and described it vividly:
“Rarely human eye has known
A scene so stern as that dread lake,
With its dark ledge of barren stone...”
Lord Tennyson reported more prosaically:
“Loch Coruisk, said to be the wildest scene in the Highlands, I failed in seeing. After a fatiguing expedition over the roughest ground on a wet day we arrived at the banks of the loch, and made acquaintance with the extremest tiptoes of the hills, all else being thick wool-white fog.”
Colour Description: Blue with violet undertonesPlease note: Whilst we try to replicate each colour on our website, colour on screen may vary due to a number of factors including screen resolution. We therefore advise that you order a colour card or sample pot to check actual finished colour.
Colour CombinationsLoch Coruisk Black Cuillin Dun Beag -
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MacLeods Maidens
Three impressive sea stacks at the south end of the Duirinish Peninsula. According to legend they are the drowned wife and two daughters of one of the Chiefs of the Clan MacLeod Colour description: Subtle grey green£1.00 – £75.00Please note: Whilst we try to replicate each colour on our website, colour on screen may vary due to a number of factors including screen resolution. We therefore advise that you order a colour card or sample pot to check actual finished colour.
Colour CombinationsMacLeod’s Maidens Milovaig Storm Lealt Falls