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As in actual arguments man. I cave though. As in let her decide.

Which as you can imagine is not the right response at all. 

I have to agree, or, disagree only to be shot down and end up agreeing anyways.

Or you do what I'm gonna be doing in a weeks time, and start repainting the areas that need repainting in greys and whites. 

 

Just as well my wife understands colours, being a photog and all!

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Ya tried this. Except we went with plascon after all that drama.

 

The swatches aren't the best reflection of what a colour looks like on the wall but I suppose close enough. The colour can also change depending on the type of paint you want mixed.

 

This caused big *** because we went with Plascon Wallseal.

Which seems to saturate any colour you go for...

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Pop Corn ... just tell the wife that yellow is the colour paint that fades the fastest of all the colours...fact.

 

i should show you this blue exterior paint from plascon....

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Ya tried this. Except we went with plascon after all that drama.

 

The swatches aren't the best reflection of what a colour looks like on the wall but I suppose close enough. The colour can also change depending on the type of paint you want mixed.

 

This caused big *** because we went with Plascon Wallseal.

Which seems to saturate any colour you go for...

Helped me just explain which walls got which approximate color...  saved my already short patience...

 

Do yourself a favor and go at least 2 shade lighter than any color a wife picks.... right off the bat....

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i should show you this blue exterior paint from plascon....

Let me show you a dulux brown/grey colour called old fishing doc.... lasts 3 years max... then ALL the balustrades need painting.... and man is that a long winded job.... given I have about 50m of the stuff.... upstairs balcony's seemed a good idea at the time - needless to say they don't really get used for anything else than hanging out washing occasionally.

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Let me show you a dulux brown/grey colour called old fishing doc.... lasts 3 years max... then ALL the balustrades need painting.... and man is that a long winded job.... given I have about 50m of the stuff.... upstairs balcony's seemed a good idea at the time - needless to say they don't really get used for anything else than hanging out washing occasionally.

 

the wall with the blue suffered a tan line after roughly the same time, 3 years, right where the veranda casts a shadowline during the day. Not funny when asked if i ran out of paint <_<

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Let me show you a dulux brown/grey colour called old fishing doc.... lasts 3 years max... then ALL the balustrades need painting.... and man is that a long winded job.... given I have about 50m of the stuff.... upstairs balcony's seemed a good idea at the time - needless to say they don't really get used for anything else than hanging out washing occasionally.

did you use the right spec paint ... not just an acrylic?

 

Used plascon at our house about a year ago (interior) and it was fine, not the best paint I have used yet though.

 

I usually find Midas paints are consistent and reliable.

 

A real gem of a find was the in house Builder warehouse paint (Can't for the life if me recall the name ... sounds similar to Midas) ..... priced well, rolls / covers very well and has been very hardy. Will certainly use it again.

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Actually. Its what happens when your wife spends enough time on Pinterest to consider herself a qualified interior designer. Then once she starts and it doesn't turn out like the pictures. It all just snowballs from there... You don't know her do you Gen? Honey. If you're reading this. I love you... :ph34r:

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did you use the right spec paint ... not just an acrylic?

 

Used plascon at our house about a year ago (interior) and it was fine, not the best paint I have used yet though.

 

I usually find Midas paints are consistent and reliable.

 

A real gem of a find was the in house Builder warehouse paint (Can't for the life if me recall the name ... sounds similar to Midas) ..... priced well, rolls / covers very well and has been very hardy. Will certainly use it again.

Dulux.... exterior specialist something or other expensive rubbish.....  next time I am going to try something else - something a contractor mate recommends from a smallish paint factory - can't remember the name...

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All that is going through my head is: "we all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine! So we sailed up to the sun, Till we found a sea of green!!"

Coffee. On keyboard & screen!!!

 

Skollie - I DARE YOU to sing that as you're moving the furniture in. Take a video for me as well, please... I'd like very much to witness the subsequent FATALITY!!!!

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