Best brand of paint to use for decorating house?

[Ruskie]

Any Recommendations for covering some dark wall paper?

[edo]

always buy the professional dulux - much better than the consumer stuff.

[B17NNS]

Dulux Trade is good

[Ruskie]

Worth paying a bit more then to get better results?

[Poledriver]

I found that B&Q one coat (made by DuPont) covered bright colours really well when Dulux needed about four coats!

[monthefish]

Ruskie said:

Worth paying a bit more then to get better results?

Yes. Every time.

You'll end up buying more of the cheap stuff due to the number of coats required, thus cancelling out any saving in terms of cost/litre, but there'll be additional costs in terms of labour and time to do apply the additional coats.

[adycav]

Can you not get the wallpaper off?

[Engineer1]

Also don't forget that unless you are going for the beige/off white there may also be the factor of who does a colour you like.

[Ruskie]

adycav said:

Can you not get the wallpaper off?

Its a rented house and bit worried if we take paper off half the wall come too!

[zcacogp]

I was once told that all the Dulux paint is the same - no matter whether it is their 'expensive' or 'cheap' range.

I can't vouch for how true this is, but it came from a reliable source.


Oli.