Meet Atomic Blue — a true blue with real voltage, where deep navy meets royal and neither one blinks. This is the colour for the room you want remembered: a powder room done floor to ceiling, a stairwell, a home office that means business. Ceramic matte keeps a blue this strong from going glassy, so instead of a shiny slab of colour you get depth and velvet, the pigment reading rich rather than loud, and it looks entirely different by lamplight.

One Hour Ceramic is Wise Owl's luxury interior wall paint — a 100% acrylic matte built on 3M ceramic microsphere technology. Ordinary matte paints get their flatness from crushed mineral particles with coarse surfaces that hold onto stains; the ceramic microspheres here are hard and uniformly round, so the finish stays velvety flat while fingerprints, soil, grease and many other stains wash off with mild soap and water without harming the paint film. It resists scrubbing and burnishing, self-levels to reduce brush drag, and is self-priming on drywall, cured plaster and masonry. Coverage runs 350 to 400 sq ft per gallon, it dries to the touch in about an hour, and it is extremely low-VOC at 50 g/l and low odor, with soap-and-water clean-up.