With a wealth of experience and expertise in the leisure and retail sectors, Johnstone’s technical professionals are well qualified to provide support and recommend decorative schemes for hotels and restaurants, leisure facilities and shopping centres.
Creating the Right Environment
The careful use of colour in different areas and environments can help to create a welcoming experience for the people who frequent and use the buildings. For example, a cool relaxing scheme for hotel bedrooms and a lively scheme to generate buzz in restaurants and leisure complexes.
Colour is an invaluable tool in very large establishments such as shopping centres. Corporate colours can highlight specific retailers and immediately draw customers to familiar brands. Colour identification or coding of areas such as car parks, eating areas, and other public facilities helps visitors find their way around.
Using colour is also essential in public buildings to ensure that the partially sighted can access and navigate their way around. The buildings regulations Approved Document M provides guidance in line with the Disability Discrimination Act, which highlights the need for critical surfaces to be highlighted in colours and shades that have a contrasting percentage points of light reflectance value (LRV).
Choosing the Best Products
To ensure that decoration continues to look great after application and lasts as long as possible, it is essential to select the most appropriate products and finishes.
Buildings in the leisure and retail sectors are undoubtedly subject to high levels of traffic, so highly durable products that can withstand regular cleaning regimes are essential.
Specialist paint systems can help to ensure that buildings meet regulatory requirements. The use of Johnstone’s Flame Retardant systems can contribute towards the guidelines within the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Or using Johnstone’s Microbarr Anti Bacterial Coatings can contribute towards health and safety requirements.
When undertaking decoration projects, key decision makers and appliers must be aware of the current and forthcoming legislation regulating VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds). Johnstone’s have a vast range of high quality paints that use advanced technology formulations which are low in VOCs whilst retaining excellent performance characteristics.
More information can be obtained from the British Coatings Federation. Using our low VOCs products can be a welcome addition when undertaking projects under the BREEAM guidance principles.
Technical and Colour Advice from Johnstone’s
The leisure & retail section of our website is designed to provide you with some immediate guidance on decoration in leisure and retail establishments. It highlights key considerations for different situations, recommends suitable products for different substrates and suggests colour schemes to create the right environment.
If you would like more help and advice or a tailored approach for your project, our dedicated specification team is here to help. They can provide an initial on-site consultation following which they can then provide a bespoke written specification and colour scheme document incorporating suggestions from the Johnstone’s palette of 15,000 colours.
Call 01924 354100 to speak with our Technical Specification Consultants.
Or click here to download a copy of our brochure “Paint Solutions for Leisure & Retail”