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... cheap paint.

I did the hallway in sage green some time back. It looked great, but with seven doors, four of which are mostly closed, it was too dark. Then I saw this lovely colour, lemon sorbet, and thought it would do the job to lighten things up.

First coat, still green. Second coat, a sort of lime green. Third coat, lemon - with a hint of mint. I have just enough left to thin out and give a final once over. Whatever it looks like: that's it.

An extra few quid and I could have had some decent paint to do the job in one or two quick coats.

Paint here is very expensive, but we use plastic paint, as it moves when we have earthquakes

Inside, we use the cheaper stuff - and it's all white - everywhere

Sadly, you do get different shades of white, so need to keep buying the same make

Frank

I didn't know that about plastic paint Ton

When we move we won't need plastic paint, as we don't (or not yet anyway ) have earthquakes in the Alentejo. We're too far inland - hopefully

I'd have used a white emulsion first as an undercoat............ *runs away*

Darker paint to lighter always needs more coats if painting on top of it directly...

Apparently grey is good for going dark to light, as an undercoat, according to himself I wouldn't know, 'cos my asthma gets me out of doing it

We have to decide what colour we'd like around the windows, in our new house - when we move

Have I said, we're moving soon

I love the dark grey we have around our windows and doors here, but think a bright, but dark orange would look good up there.

Mostly, the Portuguese go for blue, yellow or orange.

Are you moving? You should have said............

Kaz wrote:Are you moving? You should have said............

I just might have to remind you tomorrow

I'm dreading the decorating of our lounge, if it ever gets done that is. Currently we have dark blue walls.

Ton did I miss something???? You're moving???????