Women just generate more work with their two colours schemes don`t they lol, don`t forget if you go for two colours you will need twice the tools - two rollers/scuttles, paint kettles, etcetera, as it`s your bedroom and we all know how a colour of a room reflects what mood we are in, I would go for hot colours to keep the flames of passion burning brightly
, teal is a horrible colour and is only used by nature for colouring in boring stuff and female birds (we all know which sex of bird has all the vibrant colours don`t we
and are appropriately called cocks
).
I would go for a mixture of of toned down yellow/terracotta.........
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A few tips when buying paint, always buy a branded paint (I swear by Dulux, even though the removal of certain hazardous chemicals over the past few years has changed the way it works, it`s still one of the best out there next to Farrow and Ball), when I say branded I mean as in a well known brand of paint and not a paint bearing a name of a well known woman famous for fabric furnishings..... Dulux - made by the leading producer of chemicals in the world ICI, Laura Ashley - made by the same people who make curtains etc and Sunday dinners.
Alrighty, some tips when buying Dulux, never ever buy Dulux paint from a D.I.Y. store as there is a 100% chance that you will be buying Glidden paint, a less well known type of paint, but also owned by Dulux, buy paint from a painters merchants.
Types of emulsion - These range from a flat matt to vinyl silk, I would go for mid range in a bedroom - a soft sheen or a diamond matt, remember this - When using a paint with a shiny finish you cannot touch it up when the paint is dry, it does not absorb into it but sits on the surface and sticks out like a sore thumb, as does rolling over walls with Polyfilla in them, ALWAYS I REPEAT ALWAYS sand down the filla 1st and when you cut that wall in (going around the ceiling line and tops of skirting with a brush, paint over all the filla just prior to rolling).
For filling etc there are three basic types needed when using emulsion/oil base, your basic hole filler - Tetrion, Alabaster, Polyfilla, in between coats Ie. filling after a mist coat or 1st coat, and touch up filling - Fine fill, for this use Red Devil it`s awesome, and for hairline and basic cracks - Decorators Caulk, make sure you buy caulk and not mastic, there are huge differences between them.
For the ceiling use super matt, and for the woodwork - Satinwood.
For that professional look, whilst at the painter`s merchants buy some 80 grit sponge pads, when the 1st coat is bone dry use these over the wall to remove all the
snots, thus giving a nice smooth finish and provides a key for the top coat, a necessity when using a paint with a shiny finish
.
Hope this helps hun, you know where I am if you need help, and where most men will be when women start painting....down teh pub
.