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Painting over eggshell?
rainbow_fountains
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Just moved into 90s house, every wall is painted with dulux eggshell magnolia (old paint tin found in shed)
I’d like to put a bit of colour on the walls and have settled on a mid tone green dulux heritage velvet matt (Dulux’s equivalent of the chalky finish you get with farrow & ball).
I’d like to put a bit of colour on the walls and have settled on a mid tone green dulux heritage velvet matt (Dulux’s equivalent of the chalky finish you get with farrow & ball).
I’m an inexperienced painter. Do I need to prepare these eggshell walls in any way (sanding? Cleaning? Primer?) or can I crack open the matt paint and get straight to it?
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Sugarsoap, fix any defects with filler, lightly sand, i then Primer over the filled bits, then paint0
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