Do I need to use a primer?

FelinePrincess

I am planning on starting to paint the living room tonight, we have striped the walls of 2 layers of wallpaper and they are now bare plaster. We are using a dulux matt emmulsion, do we need to use a primer or is it ok without it?

It looks like the wall is going to need several coats so I had thought of using up a tin of white paint I have hanging round for the first layer and then using our light cream colour on top of that - hopefully then we would need less of our cream paint.

Any thoughts gratefully appreciated

ormus

yes a thinned coat is useful. you could mix the white and some cream to give a better color undercoat.
add some water if the paint is very thick.

nickj_2

make sure you remove all the wallpaper paste , othwer wise when you put water based paint - ei emulsion it will re-activate the paste and look like the dogs dinner whn it dries out