Farrow and Ball - do you need to use their primer undercoat

[foofooyeah]

Bit of advice, I'm planning to paint my living room in estate emulsion and eggshell on the woodwork. F&B website advises to use their primer/undercoat .... It this really necessary or a way of getting you to buy more aunt?

Walls are neutral and paint I have chosen s slightly darker.
Woodwork is white over white

[Paintingrainbowskies]

We haven't in the rooms we have used it and they have come up lovely.

We did some furniture and used the primer for that after a recommendation from someone and it really helped but those pieces of furniture needed about 4 or 5 coats.

[Thesunrising]

Nope. On our newly plastered walls we used a mist coat made of plain white emulsion, a coat of b and q own brand emulsion that was close to the F and B colour and then 2 coats of the F&b (ammonite - a very light grey. Ditto on our mdf wardrobe doors and skirting we used an own brand primer. All fine!