Browse Forums DIY, Home Maintenance & Repair Re: How to buy paint for feature walls 3Mar 16, 2014 5:13 pm The Harder You Try - the Luckier You Get ! Web site http://www.anewhouse.com.au Informative, Amusing, and Opinionated Blog - Over 600 posts on all aspects of building a new house. Re: How to buy paint for feature walls 6Mar 16, 2014 6:10 pm The Harder You Try - the Luckier You Get ! Web site http://www.anewhouse.com.au Informative, Amusing, and Opinionated Blog - Over 600 posts on all aspects of building a new house. Re: How to buy paint for feature walls 7Mar 16, 2014 7:37 pm You would need advice on the undercoat if the wall already has a deep based colour on it. For instance, I painted over a pink wall without an undercoat- I used 2 coats of new paint, but the pink still showed through! The paint shop told me I needed to neutralize the pink with grey paint, once I'd done this the new colour I'd chosen went on great. So the original wall colour can make a difference to what procedure you have to follow... Re: How to buy paint for feature walls 8Mar 17, 2014 9:37 am The painter should still do the undercoat as he will be painting all the walls with undercoat. He may even do the topcoat but in the same colour as the other walls. Then it's just a matter of buying a 4lt tin of your colour. I suggest looking up how to paint a wall on Youtube, seeing as you've never done it before. Good luck. Re: How to buy paint for feature walls 10Mar 18, 2014 10:00 am travelbug The painter should still do the undercoat as he will be painting all the walls with undercoat. He may even do the topcoat but in the same colour as the other walls. As i said in the other thread, putting on needless coats is bad painting practice. Let the painter do the undercoat, but DO NOT allow a pointless topcoat to be put on if you are just going to re colour it. Re: How to buy paint for feature walls 11Mar 18, 2014 3:30 pm qebtel travelbug The painter should still do the undercoat as he will be painting all the walls with undercoat. He may even do the topcoat but in the same colour as the other walls. As i said in the other thread, putting on needless coats is bad painting practice. Let the painter do the undercoat, but DO NOT allow a pointless topcoat to be put on if you are just going to re colour it. If the project builder is painting the whole house it may be easier to let him do just that rather than say don't paint this wall or this wall or that wall. Have you worked with tradies? Plus they may spray which will be more work to leave a few walls. Think outside the square. Re: How to buy paint for feature walls 12Mar 19, 2014 9:03 am travelbug If the project builder is painting the whole house it may be easier to let him do just that rather than say don't paint this wall or this wall or that wall. Have you worked with tradies? I get your point and I know some tradies are ignorant & make false promises in regards to what you want, but that is no excuse to defer to thir stupidity/laziness. Leaving off the useless top coat is beneficial to the tradie as well, as thats less work he has to do. So it is worth pressing home the point. travelbug Plus they may spray which will be more work to leave a few walls. lol nonsense. they dont have to mask it, it can cop the overspray. travelbug Think outside the square. Has nothing to do with thinking outside of the square. ITs has to do with making sure things are done properly (as i said before). IF you cant instruct painter that you dont want wall A or B topcoated, what chance have you got they will do anything right? I dont deal with tradies who cant follow simple instructions. Re: How to buy paint for feature walls 13Mar 31, 2014 5:18 pm You can go for two tone of the same colour specially the darker one for feature walls can look pretty good. Re: How to buy paint for feature walls 14May 21, 2014 3:28 pm If you felt ignorant i would like to know how that "paint expert" at Master feels! Paint comes in different bases which have certain amounts of Titanium White and each can will allow enough tinters to achieve your desired colour and still allowing it to cover well. In terms of undercoat, at times it is suggested to use a grey undercoat. More so when choosing Red shades. The "expert" at masters would have access to every colour which would prompt him to use a certain base. Should always be mixed on the spot unless they are out of the Base required. Your Job Simply should be to pick a colour. If covering a deep colour or applying a strong colour a specific undercoat may be required. hmmm id assume youll get hit with the "natural product therefore variation in colour etc" excuse. How bad are we talking? 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