Bunnings in Box Hill was our ritual every weekend. And after picking our base colour scheme we went through about 9 colour samples pots before settling on our final choice.
Our base colour was grey walls and white trims and ceiling.
After trying a multitude of different greys, we settle on tranquil retreat (1/4 strength), vivid white for the trims, and Brilliant White for the ceilings (A special dulux product). We chose to go with Dulux.
Paint Types used - We chose to go with the Dulux range.
For the walls we used low sheen "Wash n Wear" as this was on sale at Bunnings for $69 for a 6 litre tin (bonus 2 litres).
For ceilings we used a much more expensive ceiling white paint called "Light & Space" in brilliant white. It has some titanium pigments in the paint to make their whites brighter. Coverage of this paint is not very good, we used a spray machine for the ceiling, however found that the rollover was much better to use. We had to cover very old of pink ceilings so 3 coats was required, and a brown ceiling which required 4 coats. Under sunlight the room is very bright and would definitely use the paint again.
For the trims we used high gloss "Aquaenamel" paint. The reason I chose a water based paint, was because I was going for a vivid white finish and I did not want the white is yellow over time like it would with the oil based paint. The finished is not as good a oil based. And I have to do a light sand after each coat to get a smooth "brush stroke free" finish. I would use this paint again as well as it was a lot glossier that I expected, about 80% gloss of oil base high gloss. so really its in between a semi gloss and high gloss oil based paint. The only down point of the paint it that I had to sand in between coats of get a smooth finish.
For all the prep work, we used the Dulux 1 Step. Tip here is to mix your colors into prep paint for a much better coverage and finish when you put on you top coats.
Below pic is one of a room with all completed paint work except for the window trims which only the prep coats is on. I had to do 2 prep coats as the old oil based trims are dark pink.