Neutral paint recommendations please

Slinky

Barley White

Head_The_Ball wrote: »

Our Dulux White Satin hasn't yellowed in two years and some of the rooms get a lot of sunlight.

Even with the curtains closed, the window sills can be in full sunshine all day and they still look perfect.

Sunlight seems to help the white stay white. It's the skirtings behind furniture where ours has gone yellow.

onomatopoeia99

Was going to ask why you've got a load of bland options, then realised it was a rental. I have Dulux Natural Calico in my hall as it gets almost no natural light so I couldn't do anything bold. It's fine, i't not magnolia and it's hard wearing (I used their trade diamond paint).


The other rooms that have windows I've gone for some colours that are anything but neutral. I mostly use dulux but had a colour mixed up in Valspar 700 and that went on nicely.

Waterlily24

We used Dulux Perfectly Taupe and Dulux Just Walnut for our living room, didn't think I would like it as I'm not really into neutral colours but I love it and wouldn't mind the whole house done in the same colours.

Magnolia was an absolute no no for both of us. Neither of us like the creamy colours.

System

Dulux Trade vs Retail

For the benefit of readers who are researching this topic I've looked into this and apparently there's a significant difference between the two and this is confirmed by Dulux.

Here are a couple of interesting and reasonably contemporary threads from MSE that discuss this issue at length

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5623639/dulux-trade-v-dulux-retail-paint (From 2017 )

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2370207/dulux-trade-vs-normal-paint#topofpage (From 2010)

For anybody else hoping to choose colours here is another contemporary thread which also features personal choices and decorating schemes!

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5895839/what-house-colours-do-you-have&highlight=paint+colours (From 2018)

adandem

Timeless

You don't need to sand the walls, only if there are any filled holes etc. Any brand of fine sandpaper will do, anything too gritty will go through to the plaster.l and give scratch marks.
I cut in along coving and skirting with a brush l, then roller. Some people use pads.

Ms_Chocaholic

I vote for Natural Hessian

whatsthenews

Pale Grey

For the first time in maybe 15 years, I took a risk and bought B & Q paint which was Colours premium matt emulsion in Light rain. It proported to need only one coat and it said it could be used for walls and woodwork, so I did wonder if it was more like the latex paints I got used to using in the USA.
I'm quite a paint connoisseur and have used everything from Wilko paint to Farrow and Ball, plus Valspar in America, but not here as I refuse to pay the price.
Never had any success with "one coat"in the past, so when I see this I just ignore it!


Used the paint on bare plaster walls and it is a dream to paint with, especially when cutting in with a brush. Allows you time to tidy up before it becomes tacky and starts coming off the wall, unlike a lot of emulsions which are tacky in seconds.
I didn't use it on any woodwork so can't comment on that.


Just a comment about the colour. It's quite a warm grey and definitely looks bluey in certain artificial light. I think if I was painting a reception room I would probably go for the Cotton flower.


Don't know who makes it for B and Q, but it's far superior to Dulux or Crown, apart from the Dulux feature wall, which is great paint .