Can I use non-kitchen paint in the kitchen?

keystone

I hate silk finish with a vengeance but thats just my opinion.

If you would prefer matt go for Dulux Endurance. Its washable and scrubbable and the only retail spec emulsion paint I really like.

Cheers

Leif

keystone wrote: »

I hate silk finish with a vengeance but thats just my opinion.

If you would prefer matt go for Dulux Endurance. Its washable and scrubbable and the only retail spec emulsion paint I really like.

Cheers

I used that on most walls and I really like it. I wish I'd used it in the kitchen, which was the first room I painted before I knew about acrylic paints. As an aside, I have a lot of cracks between coving (normal matt emulsion) and walls (Dulux Endurance) and I do wonder if this is because acrylic paint is less elastic than normal stuff, though friends say they have cracks too, but I seem to have a lot.

barbiedoll

We've got B&Q yellow emulsion on our kitchen walls and it's fine, went on really easily and two coats were more than enough. The old colour was on there for around 6 years (also B&Q) and we had no trouble with it.

I once used "bathroom" paint in my small, well-ventilated bathroom. It was awful, it never seemed to really dry, you could pick it off with your fingernails! :eek:

keystone

Leif wrote: »

As an aside, I have a lot of cracks between coving (normal matt emulsion) and walls (Dulux Endurance) and I do wonder if this is because acrylic paint is less elastic than normal stuff, though friends say they have cracks too, but I seem to have a lot.

Well the paints are a different formulation but in any event you will always get differential movement between the coving and the wall and its probably those cracks breaking through the paint rather than anything else. A line of flexible decorators caulk at the interface prior to painting usually sorts it. As you've already painted you could still always run a line in and then touch up the paint.

Cheers

Radsteral

if normal paint lasted 2 years i would be grateful...i d never leave my living room more than 2 years without painting it ,let alone kitchen and bathroom...a fresh paint for kitchen and bathroom, probably 25 quid in materials in all and couple of hours work.

my wife would kill me if i left it 8 years