K wrote:
In article ,
says...
Dado rail at 1 metre any old matt or silk vinyl emulsion below can then wash
down touch up or repaint as necessary
maybe use darker colour below rail so marks are not as obvious and light
colour above to keep hall bright
There's already a dado rail and I'd considered different shades below
and above, but the colour needs to coordinate with the rooms off the
hall, plus the the colour will be carried through to the kitchen, which
means I've had to choose something that works with three different
floors (two tiled, one carpeted) and it's been difficult enough to
choose one colour, never mind two. Also the hall is long and narrow,
which I think would be emphasised by different shades top and bottom.
We're going with a taupe shade, which I hope will not show dirt too
easily - but it *will* get dirty, no matter what colour I use, so my
main consideration now is getting as resilient a paint as I can.
Victorian houses sometimes (frequently? rarely?) had a dado rail with a
form of anaglypta/embossed paper below the rail. This then painted with,
I imagine, a full set of under and top coats of oil-based paints.
Typically either creamy or a rich colour. Ended up hardly less tough
than tiles. And one of the absolute worst wall finishes to remove. As I
found out... Even tiles yield to SDS. :-)
Maybe a modern interpretation would work?
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Rod