Dulux

I do a lot of decorating being a property developer and here are a few useful things I have found. B and Q Paint Everywhere Satin for wood work. Beautiful. Much nicer finish than gloss and piece of cake to apply. Also startlingly white. So fresh. Most testers will come out way different than you imagine. Buy a tin of the paint you think you want. Buy a bucket of Dulux Matt pure brilliant white. Mix until you get the desired shade. Dulux Light and Space. Great for contrasting walls if you have a darker feature wall. Makes everything "ping" Crown cupboard paint. Awesome. I transformed a desperate kitchen with this. Looked completely new. ...  Read the complete review

Having finally completed decorating our living room (at one o clock this morning) I figured, why should I suffer alone? Why not share the horrors of my Easter weekend (supposedly a holiday?) with all my chums at dooyoo? Perhaps I might be able to impart some useful knowledge along the way... I'm exaggerating, it wasn't that bad really. It's just after hours and hours of kneeling on the floor painting skirting boards and breathing in the fumes I've lost a little perspective. *** A WORD OF WARNING *** As I felt talking about paint was a little boring, I have thrown in a few other tips along the way. If all you're ...  Read the complete review

When it comes to DIY I give everything a wide berth apart from the painting, I love painting and for years insisted that my long suffering husband parted with lots of cash and bought me Dulux paint to paint with. Dulux always seemed to be the best looking paint when the job was finished, they always seemed to offer the best range of colours and Dulux always seemed to apply better than other brands. I would say for around 15 years I painted with nothing other than Dulux paint for glossing and emulsioning and I would still stand by the fact that Dulux is an excellent brand of paint to use. The trouble is that Dulux is very, very expensive and a lot of the other ...  Read the complete review

Dulux Magic White Rich matt emulsion seemed to be just the thing I was looking for. I was trying to emulsion a really awful, bumpy ceiling and the light was bad in the room, as it faces north. So, I went to Wilkinson’s and thought I had made a very clever and economical purchase. The emulsion was £8.99 for 2.5 litre can which is good for a quality product. It wasn’t long before I wished I’d never heard of Dulux Magic, let alone started to emulsion the ceiling. Let me start at the beginning so that you can see that I did everything correctly but still ended up in a mess. First of all I read the instructions on the tin. All ...  Read the complete review

It's started...loft conversion finally completed and now just the rest of the house to renovate. It did mean, however, that I could( start to paint the hall and stairs. So, with this in mind, it was down to the local diy store to select my paint. I knew exactly what I had in mind...more brown than yellow...more cream than pink. So, on to perusing the shelves, and ever taken in by marketing, I found this one, Natural Hessian. Over the years and after many house moves (itchy feet) I have tried almost every paint there is on offer and am always amazed at the prices they charge for a bit of colour. So, although this was quite pricey, being £27.99 for 4.5l, it was ...  Read the complete review