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QuickviewDun Beag
£1.00 – £75.00Dun 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 -
QuickviewFairy Glen Serenity
£1.00 – £75.00On 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 -
QuickviewFairy 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 -
QuickviewFalaisgear
(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 -
QuickviewFlora MacDonald
£1.00 – £75.00In 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 -
QuickviewGlenbrittle
£1.00 – £75.00At 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 -
QuickviewIdrigill 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 -
QuickviewJurassic Skye
£1.00 – £75.00Although the vast majority of Skye is composed of fossil-free basalt rocks, there are exposures of sedimentary beds in several places around the coasts. Many of these exposures are difficult to reach, and many of them are rich in fossils. For the casual fossil seeker, the most attractive of Skye's sites are the ones with evidence of dinosaurs. Luckily, two of the best places to find them - Staffin and Duntulm
Colour Description: Refreshing yellow with the merest hint of greenOn the beach at An Corran, Staffin, are some remarkable footprints. They were left by a family of dinosaurs that walked across the sand here some 165 million years ago. To put that in context, the gabbro rocks of the Cuillin were formed about 60 million years ago, and they were carved by the glaciers of the last ice age on Skye just 11,000 years ago. These are very, very old footprints. To be able to see and touch them in-situ is an amazing experience. There is a sense of connection with these beings from an unimaginable distance in time.
The dinosaurs that passed here were Ornithopods, herbivorous creatures who walked on two legs. They, along with the carnivorous Megalosaurus and the omnivorous Cetiosaurus and Stegosaurus, contribute to Skye's reputation as the 'dinosaur isle'.
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Colour CombinationsJurassic Skye Skye Marble Kilmuir Thatch -
QuickviewKilmuir Thatch
£1.00 – £75.00There 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 -
QuickviewKilt Rock
£1.00 – £75.00The 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 -
QuickviewKinloch 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 -
QuickviewLealt Falls
£1.00 – £75.00Lealt 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