In getting a quality paint, throwing more money at paint won't make it a quality paint, but, no I don't plan on skimping on the price and then have to paint two coats. I'll get primer for the patches and the peeling paint areas in the bathrooms-and I really like the suggestion of using exterior paint in the bathrooms. I'm not planning on painting again for many many years. The ceilings will be flat while the walls will be semi-gloss. I'm painting over white semi-gloss walls for the most part, and I will be painting an accent wall (darker) and 3 lighter walls in most rooms, especially upstairs. I haven't bought the paint or more equipment yet and will be doing that soon. I agree, we should use quality equipment, prepare the walls well, prime when needed, get a quality paint. And the exterior paint (semi-gloss) should hold up even longer than interior paint, and be more washable.įirst, thank you, all of you for your advice. (Both cans were half-price, not quite as good as the $3.00 mismixes that you used to be able to find, but better than full-price!) I painted one wall of my bedroom with the pink, just to see if I liked it, and decided to see how far I could go with it - it actually did my whole bedroom!! And I like it! It's not a real girly shade of pink at all. I thought that might be okay as an accent on one wall, so I got it. I got a gallon of off-white semi-gloss, and the only thing I could find to go with it was some exterior pink (an earth-tone pink, like you'd see on a stucco house).
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My room was going to be sage green, but on my way into the store to get the paint (not Home Depot - Diamond, which is similar but a smaller chain) I spotted a flat dolly full of mismixed paint and decided to see what I could find there. DD's room is bubble-gum pink (with a Winnie-the-Pooh border). I've painted the kitchen with semi-gloss in a pale yellow, and plan to extend that to the laundry room, hall, and hall bathroom. I'm slowly repainting the inside of our house - it's a manufactured home, six years old, and was originally painted with the cheapest flat off-white (grayish shade, yuck) that they could find. What is the surface you are painting? if It is an oil based paint or a very glossy enamel then painting with the right primer will create a better surface and keep your paint from peeling up. Sometimes tinting the primer will also be necessary for very dark colors. If you are painting over a much darker color or a much lighter color, then you may find using a primer is the way to go. Valspar Ultra Premium SemiGloss (Lowe's) > Best Buy
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Kilz Casual Colors Satin (Walmart) > Best Buyīehr Premium Plus Ultra Flat (Home Depot)īehr Premium Plus Enamel Flat (Home Depot) > Best Buyīehr Premium Plus Ultra SemiGloss Enamel (Home Depot)
If you don't want to subscribe to the magazine for a year, you can also subscribe online for a month.īehr Premium Plus Ultra Satin Enamel (Home Depot) I love Consumer Reports because they test everything, they buy everything they test from regular stores and they don't take adds from manufacturers or other companies. All the other rooms just had white paint over the drywall that the drywallers used after putting it up.
Goes on great & the only room I used a primer was in my Living room & dining room which I painted a brick red so I used a tinted primer. Also washed other areas where I used the satin & no paint comes off on my rag's either. I used a semi-gloss on the kitchen wall behind the stove & it washes Great, never get any of my paint color on my rag. The Conco brand is alot less exspensive than most other paints I've used. I used the same when we remodeled our bathroom at the old house & it worked great there too. So far 5 years later & still no mold or mildew problems on the bathroom ceilings, etc. In the bathrooms I use an Exterior paint, I figure if it works on the outside of a house in all kinds of inclement weather it's good for a bathroom that get's all the steam & moisture. It's called Conco & it comes in different varieties, I used the Conco 2000 for all my interior rooms & satin. I'm a big fan of Menards brand paint, it's the only place you can get it.