Crown Paint Reviews

When I think of paint I normally think of the big shaggy dog that Dulux use to advertise their products. On this occasion I was looking for textured paint and Crown offered a limited, but better, range in terms of colour. The paint is around £20 a pot and your local Homebase are currently doing a 3 for 2 offer which worked out at about ...  Read the complete review

Help!! I have just painted my hall, stairs and landing with Crown Solo paint and it's a disaster. Firstly the paint didn't go on with the first coat very well and so I was forced to do a second coat. It has dried patchy, like drying plaster, and has an odd affect to it. Crown has asked for the tin back, but I already know the results. I now have to repaint my Hallway etc at huge cost ( I had paid a decorator to help me due to sheer scale) and feel very let down!

We're in the middle of getting the house sorted and chose Crown as the paint for my sons room (Dramatic) and the master bedroom (Choc Chip). Its a well known and respected brand so thought I was making a good choice, the fact that it was 2 for £20 sealed the deal! I did my sons room first, its a deep dark blue as he's having a space ...  Read the complete review

Although it is probably fair to say that Crown do not have the product range, or the extensive stock in the D.I.Y. Stores that Dulux do. I would say, that in terms of the quality of the actual paint they are certainly right up there. In the past I have been strictly a Dulux person, but I thought I would give Crown a try after seeing ...  Read the complete review

I do not tend to buy branded products because I think you are just paying for a name most of the time, rather than paying for quality. With paint I am equally tight. However, I was recently painting a wall red and I looked at all the different shades of red across the various brands in our local B&Q and settled on a really deep rich red by ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

I've recently applied Crown suede emulsion paint to my walls (Colour Plum)
The 1st coat was very patchy, and did not cover any marks on the wall from old paint or fillers!
The 2nd coat was applied the next day and the results were shocking!
Still patchy but also the paint tended to drag when overlapping after only a minute or two?
My walls now look like they have been rough plastered, certainly not the velvet suede effect it says on the tin or in the book!

I have painted and decorated for 20 years now and have never used such a god forsaken paint as this one!!

Strongly advise steering well clear of this stuff!

Unless you like the plaster look?

DIY is by no means my strong point in life but I do enjoy painting (walls that is not pictures), I will turn my hand to painting walls but not ceilings and for a long time the only paint I would use was crown. The reason for this is that I felt they had the best colour range but more importantly they offered the best quality paint, ...  Read the complete review

I'm a lazy old sod at heart, and if I can find a handy short cut to assist me to complete a task a wee bit easier and quicker, then that's just fine by me. Add to that the fact that in general 'do-it-yourself' would most definitely NOT be one of my strong suits. My better half had been nagging (sorry, requesting!) me to paint the ...  Read the complete review

This is a review of Crown Suede Paint.
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This paint is easy to apply with a brush BUT:
1. In comparison to normal emulsion, the final effect makes it look as if you couldn't be bothered to apply another coat.
2. If anything rubs against it it completely peels from the wall.
I won't be painting any other walls with this stuff.

When we moved house, one of the main rooms that we wanted to change was our bathroom. When we had looked round the house, we had not really thought about the colour of the bathroom, rather taking in the whole appeal of the place than focussing on specifics. We knew the bathroom would need decorating but thought that we could live with it as it was ...  Read the complete review

There are many Do it yourself programs on the television nowadays and some of these are creative, whilst some a little mundane and temporary. Changing rooms is one where little things are done to change a room's ambiance instantly. Unfortunately, some of the changes are a little questionable and I would not let these people near my ...  Read the complete review

Crown Suede Emulsion adds a subtle textured feel which is thoroughly modern. A hard wearing subtle textured matt emulsion for interior walls and ceilings. Ideal for rough walls as it adds a mottled, shadowed effect, like that of suede. Colours available: Sage Suede, Pale blue suede, Chalk suede, Plum suede, Dusky suede, Henna ...  Read the complete review

We decided to decorate our spare room a few months ago thinking its a small room and won't take long. We chose English fire from the crown range (dark red) in matt. I had never used Crown before but I was safe in the knowledge that it was up there with Dulux both in Price and quality being such a household name. It cost us abbout £12.99 a ...  Read the complete review

Crown Solo one coat Gloss. Our huge family have just moved into a huge house, now this house is old and will need loads of tender loving care, with that in mind you will probably find quite a few opinions on various DIY products over the coming months. The first room we are decorating is our 20 month old girl’s room, she is ...  Read the complete review

My house is a Crown house. All the walls and ceilings are (were) painted with Crown paint. My reasons for buying Crown have been: - a medium quality at reasonable price - durable finish - good coverage when using both a paintbrush and roller However after several painting sessions in various rooms I am beginning ...  Read the complete review

I'll come right out with it - it doesn't work. As it is the holidays our family did the ususal thing and decided the hall was in need of a little regeneration. The banister, caked in years of white gloss, seemed destined to destruction until we had the bright idea of painting it a new, fun and funky colour(!). After a ...  Read the complete review

Slish slish slish ... that evil sound despised by MAN since the very dawn of time, a sound so guaranteed to strike pain into the heart of the entire male race that you could bet the house on it ... slish slish slish .... there it is again, boring away at my consciousness, nagging away at my very being, its steady and monotonously efficient rhythm ...  Read the complete review

In a word – NO. The claim ‘Guaranteed to cover in 1 coat or your money back’ was going to be tested hard. I needed a strong and durable paint for the wood in my VW Camper van, as I’m putting my baby up for sale soon, I needed it to dry reasonably quickly and I hoped that it would stop me having to give it a second ...  Read the complete review

Crown paints come in all sorts of colours from the very bright to the more subtle tints. To be quite honest you are spoilt for choice. Once you have chosen your desired colour you then have to decide between gloss vinyl silk or matt finish. Obviously gloss is for woodwork, but for walls and ceilings the latter three can be used. I myself ...  Read the complete review