The King Of The Castle (Crown Paint)

Member Name: Sarahjh

Product:	Crown Paint
Date:	08/01/09 (153 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: A good quality paint

Disadvantages: none

We have been doing some Spring decorating lol, a little earlier than usual but hubby felt `in the mood`!
Of course any household decorating means a visit to B&Q, one of the busiest places you can visit during a weekend and to me not the most interesting of places to visit either.
I am just the labourer, I do the cleaning up, paint the odd skirting board and make the cups of tea.
Men tend to take the decorating pretty seriously, the equipment is everything, they have to have the right paintbrushes and good quality paint.



B&Q often have some brilliant offers on top quality paint and although we have used Wilkinson`s paint many times before and it has worked well, if Crown or Dulux is on offer we would take that offer up.
As we fought our way through the aisles hubby spotted Crown white emulsion paint on offer at £10 for 10 litres, a massive saving. Because he is going to do some decorating for our daughter he decided to buy two tubs.



The plus point of a good quality paint is the way it handles, as you coat the emulsion brush the paint stays on the brush, so many cheaper paints are considerably thinner so they drip off the brush bristles as you paint, especially when you paint ceilings.
A good quality emulsion paint also keeps its colour well, white stays whiter for longer.



There's no doubting that Crown produce quality paints, for the coloured emulsions, gloss paints, period colours, one coat paints, kitchen and bathroom paints, easy clean and fashion paints you will pay more than average.
Crown paints have a very helpful website, they give advice, there are online colour charts to help you co-ordinate your colours, the site also gives you ideas, guidance and inspiration.
The website allows you to have a virtual room, from then on you just `left click` on your chosen colour and it appears on the walls of your room, giving you a good idea of what the end result would be. In your virtual room you can use more than one colour, it really does help to choose paint!
There have been so many times we have stood in the Do It Yourself stores and have been mind boggled by the never ending ranges of colour schemes on offer.



A half of the Crown white emulsion is now on our lounge ceiling, the paint was thick, creamy and therefore easy to apply. Crown paint dries quickly.
Most paints have an odour, emulsion has less odour than gloss paint, but Crown do have a range of virtually odour free paint, the range is called `Whispers`. I realise there may be people who have chest problems or asthma who would welcome this.



Hubby has just summed it up well for me, he says that own brand paints are fine, they produce reasonable results too, but for working with and getting an excellent end result Crown paints do have the edge.

Summary: Good quality paint that lasts well.