Recommend a good brand of paint

[nantucket66]

Our dining room is slowly (very slowly) taking shape. Walls are stripped, skirting boards, plaster cornice and picture rail all have been removed.

Chimney breast opened up and width extended (flue off centre), new fire trial fitted. Door frames have been stripped using a heat gun (window frame to do this Sunday).

Room is getting plastered on Tuesday, carpet fitter is booked for December 17th so I've a decent amount of time to fit new skirting, picture rail cornice etc etc.

Question is this - what paint shall I use?

Woodwork will be primed, undercoated and glossed - I don't want it turning yellow in 12 months. The walls will have a PVA/white emulsion mist coat, then at least 2 coats of whatever colour we decide upon.

Dulux, Johnstones (or Leyland?), Crown, Farrow & Ball??

Any opinion? Attention to detail in the room has been good so far and I don't want to spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar!

Cheers

 

[nantucket66]

Paint varies dramatically in quality, I don't paint everyday hence a perfectly valid question that may get answered by someone with a better idea then me. After all this is the home and garden section. If you've nothing worthwhile to contribute why bother?

 

[nantucket66]

First off, don't put PVA on your walls, you're essentially hanging sheets of paint on the plaster by doing so and it will fail one day coming off in sheets.

Use non vinyl emulsion thinned to single cream, 1 coat, example for imperfections, fill, sand, then another coat on top. This way the paint will actually adhere to the plaster. The idea of a mist coat is to reduce the initial porosity which would suck the moisture from regular viscosity paint and leave it sheeting, by doing so you're leaving a stable surface for to paint on.

Then your main coats, a good trade emulsion like Johnstones, trade emulsion has higher pigmentation, I tend to avoid dulux because they've given up making good trade products since voc 2010 and they're generally a waste of time.

Ceiling in contract emulsion, then walls in decent trade.

Then skirtings, for gloss I last used Johnstones aqua thinned with floetrol to increase open times, wooster silvertip brush was the tool of choice.

Woodwork as follows - knotting, zinsser 123 primer, aqua undercoat, sand, aqua undercoat, sand, then 2 of aqua gloss. And it should come up nicely.

Thanks for the pointers, much appreciated!