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STIS: When we moved in, every wall in this house was painted a horrible flat "builder brown". It's a dull tan color that picks up every single mark

Posted by kelly Feb 9 '18, 08:11

and scuff. I desperately want to paint with higher quality paint in nicer colors (don't worry Will, not now, I'm just thinking for down the road...)

So when we painted the teeny tiny downstairs bathroom (it's the Harry Potter room under the stairs sort of deal - very small, hardly any wall space to paint), the old flat paint soaked up so much of the new stuff that we needed 2 gallons just to paint this room. In reality we should have needed *maybe* 2 quarts. That means we are going to need a loooooot of paint for the medium/big rooms.

Is there something else I can do rather than "get more paint than you should need" in order to prevent this from happening? Would a coat of primer solve that problem?

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Also consider the brand of paint - I had terrible luck in terms of good coverage/multiple coats with BEHR. I needed twice as much of that to do my - Cuzzin Todd Feb 9, 08:28 2
- Yeah, I dislike Behr paint too. I am a loyal Valspar user. Never had an issue with coverage and I love their colors. -- nm - kelly Feb 9, 08:41
- And I should mention, when I moved in, every room in the house had been painted in the same brown paint you describe. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 9, 08:30
yep - do a primer coat first. One coat of primer should be equivalent to a couple coats of just paint in terms of sealing off the current colour. -- nm - Andie Feb 9, 08:12 3
- OK. I mean, this little bathroom is tiny. - kelly Feb 9, 08:20 [Attachment] 2
  - I used killz everywhere. another thing primer does is get rid of undertones. if you just paint grey over green, it'll always look a little green. - amanda Feb 9, 08:24 1
    - tinted primer is the best. so much less work afterward. -- nm* - Andie Feb 9, 08:28

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STIS: When we moved in, every wall in this house was painted a horrible flat "builder brown". It's a dull tan color that picks up every single mark

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