Paint Colours

We have used Resene - they have a sale at the moment til the end of the month I think... They have a good range of light neutral colours...

In our house we use Double Spanish White for the walls and Half Spanish White for the ceilings and skirting/scotia and window frames

good luck I find it sooooo hard choosing colours - have just had to decide on exterior and garage door colours....

Our last place was painted in Dulux Kinleith (Colour Map I think) and I loved it. Unfortunately it doesn't go with the tiles in our new place so we have painted Resene Eighth Tapa.

I actually bought the paint from Plymouth Paints and they couriered it to me. It was heaps cheaper, was delivered fast and we found it to be good paint. SIL has used it as well, I bought on her recommendation. They can tint Resene and I think Dulux colours

we used Resene. cant remember the colours coz DPs parents are paying for the paint so they have my paint cards with the circles and room names written on them lol.

but we have used a slightly off white (very very light grey because we reckon plain white is too harsh) for the ceilings, skirting boards, windows and door frames. we have a blue for the walls, with a darker blue feature wall, plain dark blue curtains and all of our bedspreads go with it. (spare room will be just the plain light blue, DS's room is Dark blue with a mural wall, lounge room is going to be a light blue/grey/white colour)

We used A combination of Dunsandel, Half and Quarter Dunsandel. Light but warm too.

sandie wrote: We have used Resene - they have a sale at the moment til the end of the month I think... They have a good range of light neutral colours... In our house we use Double Spanish White for the walls and Half Spanish White for the ceilings and skirting/scotia and window frames good luck I find it sooooo hard choosing colours - have just had to decide on exterior and garage door colours....

We have the exact same colours! Think they work well together

I love 1/2 tea and have that in my house. For the apartment I thought it might be a bit dark so I went with the spanish white. Did the coat of 1/2 spanish white today on the ceilings. I have decided ceilings are like labour and birth. It is bloody painful yet we forget and do it again. lol. luckily it is only 37 square metres.

Tomorrow will be the walls which I went with double spanish white (as per sandies recommendation) which looks quite dark in the tin but hopefully will be ok on the walls.

I got one of those wagner paint mates which means you don't need a tray. It sucks the paint in the handle and you pull a trigger and it goes out on the roller. Now I bought it when I lived in the states for $20 so not the $60 that it retails here for but it was fantastic. Especially in a small space where trays to trip over would have been a pain. The spare heads were $3 in the states and they are $23 here. So I washed it all out rather than throwing away the roller sleeve. The clean up was a bit of a PITA. However I think the overall experience was worth it in the end. I also used way less paint than what I should have.

Double spanish white is looking good. Very warm and working for us so phew as I was worried it might be a bit dark. Floor coverings are beige and neutral so I was fine as long as I went neutral. There is a huge range of neutrals with resene however that makes it a problem for me. The more choice the more uncertaintly. Typical librain.