paintin over purple paint!

ladydriva

hiyas my daughter has purple painted walls, and now wants it cream and beige, whats the best way to paint over it without using coats and coats of paint before the final colour

thanx x

shykins

cover it with white paint first,, if u use very cheap white paint u will prob need a couple coats if its really dark so u may be better off using one coat of a better quality one

good luck

paullwill8

Use polycell base coat, it is excellent for covering dark walls and provides a sound base.

squirrelz

Use a proper undercoat as suggested above - I've tried using cheap white paint and you quite often end up doing 2 or 3 coats to cover the previous colour.

sal

Just spent the day painting over dark blue paint with the above mentioned polycell basecoat. Does the trick I reckon, but read the instructioins properly, unlike me...I started off with a nice thick lambswool roller and ended up with a finish almost like artex - yuk. Re-read the instructions and carried on with a short haired roller, much better but I had to go over the first wall again to smooth it out. Wasted a lot of paint there but still better than 3-4 coats of 'pretty pink'!

sal