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How to Paint a Wall

How to Paint a Wall. Learn how to paint your interior walls with this quick and easy DIY guide. If you are new to DIY, painting a room is a great place to start. For beginners and veteran renovators alike, painting a wall can be a fun and fairly inex

How To Choose The Right Paint

How To Choose The Right Paint. From emulsions for walls to marine paint and wood stain to gloss, we offer a huge range of paints and primers. With so many brands and finishes to choose from, we often get asked what’s difference between the different

Baby Safe Paints

Baby Safe Paints - Perfect for Toys & Your Home. Whether you’re welcoming a new born or moving a toddler into their own bedroom, decorating the nursery is an exciting task for every parent. It’s important you take time to find a paint that is baby sa

Kitchen Paint

Kitchen Paints. Your kitchen is the heart of your home, enduring everything from cooking to hosting guests. Therefore, it's essential to choose kitchen wall paint that can withstand these demands!. Scroll to discover our trade kitchen paints, ranging

How To Paint Kitchen Cabinets

How To Paint Kitchen Cabinets. For ease of wiping the cupboards down with a cloth, a paint with a semi-gloss is recommended. Any flatter then it will have a chalky feel when you wipe it down. Using high-gloss paint will highlight every single brush s

Home Office Painting Ideas

Home Office Painting Ideas. The way we work is changing, with 1.7 million people in the UK working remotely and rising numbers due to self isolation, the home office has become our new normal. The displacement will take time to get used to, so here a

Hallways

Durable Emulsions for Hallways. Discover our wide range of scrubbable interior emulsions that are perfect for busy homes and high-traffic areas like hallways. Typically durable paints are acrylic-based emulsions which are tougher than regular vinyl m

Interior Wood

Paint for Interior Wood. Refresh your interior wood surfaces with our wide selection of interior wood paint. Refresh your interior trim such as skirting boards and windowsills with a lick of Dulux Once or paint your banister in a luxe matt finish woo

Floor Paint & Floor Varnish

Floor Paint & Floor Varnish. Painting floors seems risky unless you know what you’re doing and what surface you’re working with. With a hard-wearing, non-slip, mid-sheen or gloss finish, you can easily take control of painting your floor. Our range i

Wood Oil & Waxes

Wood Oil & Waxes. Preserve the natural look of soft or hardwood flooring and wooden furniture with our high-quality wood oil and wood wax. We have a range of oils and waxes, from Rust-Oleum, Osmo, Sadolin and other leading brands, formulated to provi

Wooden Kitchen Worktops

Wooden Kitchen Worktops. Keeping your wooden kitchen worktops in tip-top condition is easy with the right product for the job. While you can use olive oil or linseed oil, we recommend using something more hardwearing like Osmo Top Oil or Fiddes Hard

Bathroom Paint

What are the best bathroom paints?. When it comes to choosing bathroom paints, it is important you take 3 key factors into account. 1 - humidity - understandably your bathroom will experience high levels of humidity which can compromise the performan

Radiator Paint

Radiator Paint. Freshen up your radiators with a fresh coat of radiator paint from The Paint Shed, we offer a wide range of leading brands ensuring you have access to affordable, quality paint specifically designed for your metal radiators. Radiator

Interior Furniture Paint

Interior Furniture Paint. Interior furniture often shows signs of wear and tear over time. That's why our range of interior furniture paints, oils, and varnishes is the perfect solution to rejuvenate your furniture and bring it back to life. We offer

Children's Nursery Paint

Children's Nursery Paint. Give your little ones a room they will love with our range of colourful paints perfectly suited to kids bedrooms & babies nurseries. Choose from our wide-variety of trade paints, including wipeable formulas which can be easi

Living Room

Living Room Emulsion. If you're looking for the best paint finish on your walls and ceilings, our collection of trade emulsion paints come in a wide range of high-quality finishes, designed to help you get the job done right. With everything availabl

Kitchen Cupboard Paint

Kitchen Cupboard Paint. When it comes to refreshing your kitchen you should look no further than our selection of kitchen cupboard paint, we believe that painting your kitchen cabinets is the easiest approach to fully transforming the look and feel o

How to paint a bathroom

Bathrooms offer a unique opportunity to create a dramatic impression in a functional space. Often smaller than other rooms of your home, bathrooms are great for experimenting with colour, decor and paint designs. However bathrooms aren't without chal

How To Paint a Bathroom Cabinet Or Vanity

Remodeling a bathroom can be as simple as adding a fresh coat of paint to your cabinets or vanity. With the right paint, this cost effective paint project can be the makeover your bathroom needs. Get a new bathroom for less at The Paint Shed. Shop ou

How To Paint A Ceiling

Ceilings can often be overlooked, but with a fresh coat of paint they can go a long way towards transforming a room. The fifth wall offers opportunity for creativity and experimentation, with plenty of colours, designs and patterns to choose from, yo

How To Paint A Radiator

Painting a radiator isn’t like painting any other fixture in your home. It takes a little bit more time and a lot more preparation. Following this simple step by step guide will help prevent air bubbles and irregularities in your finished look. Wheth

How To Paint Floors

How To Paint Floors. Looking to transform a room on a budget? Is your building needing a refresh for 2020? Painting a floor can dramatically impact the look and feel of a space, and there’s no better time to do it than over the holiday season. With a

Cutting In Tips

Cutting In Tips For Painting. When it comes to creating clean, sharp lines when decorating, we know a thing or two at The Paint Shed. You'll find lots of conflicting opinions and ideas online about whether you should or shouldn't use tape, if an angl

Anti Mould Paints

Anti mould primer paints, their benefits and when to use them. Anti mould primer paints are paints that contain biocides or active ingredients to protect surfaces against fungal degradation and high levels of moisture. Typically, anti mould primer pa

Furniture upcycling

Furniture upcycling: What paint to use on wooden furniture?. Deciding to upcycle your furniture rather than throwing furniture away is a great way to curb your shopping habits as well as minimising impacts on the environment. Not only this, but paint

Oil for Wooden Floors and Doors

What is the importance of maintaining wooden floors and doors?. With a busy home an important consideration is choosing suitable flooring throughout your home, whether this be engineered, solid wood or a laminate alternative. When you choose engineer

Kitchen Worktop Oils

Kitchen Worktop Oils, Which To Choose & Why? An Experts Review. There are various kitchen worktop oils on the market and some DIY suggestions we don’t recommend. The main consideration regardless of what you choose, should be to use a food-safe oil w

Farrow and Ball - Dead Flat

Farrow and Ball have launched their Dead Flat product which replaces their original formulation. So what is a “Dead Flat” finish? A dead flat paint finish is the lowest sheen level on the market. It's more matt than a regular matt emulsion with a fla

Durable and washable paints

Discover our wide range of scrubbable interior emulsions that are perfect for busy homes and high-traffic areas like hallways. Typically durable paints are acrylic-based emulsions which are tougher than regular vinyl matt emulsions and can be washed,

Mould inhibiting paints

If you're looking to paint an area prone to mould, we stock a wide range of high-performing anti mould paints to do the job. From interior mould resistant paints to exterior masonry paints with mould-inhibiting properties, you'll find the best range

Farrow and Ball Paint Finishes

Once you have decided on your favourite Farrow and Ball paint colours, you need to decide on the finish you want. Choosing the right paint finish is essential if you want to showcase your chosen colour at it’s best. All Farrow and Ball finishes are w

Which emulsion is best?

Which emulsion is best?. Choosing the best emulsion paint for your next DIY project can be a minefield, with such a variety of finishes and brands to choose from. Our emulsion comparison table can help you out. Vinyl Matt Emulsion. Vinyl Matt emulsio

Little Greene

Little Greene are an independent British paint manufacturer with a commitment to the social and environmental responsibility of producing  high quality paints. Their vast range of water based paints have virtually zero VOC content and are practically

Farrow & Ball

Farrow and Ball has inspired designers and decorators since 1946 with an extensive and timeless range of high quality, intensely pigmented paints. Born from a passion for colour and chemistry, Farrow and Ball paint is characterised by its chalky matt

Benjamin Moore Paint Spotlight: Best Paint for Bathrooms

Benjamin Moore Paint Spotlight: Best Paint for Bathrooms. As the most humid room in your house, we know bathrooms are exposed to high levels of condensation which adds another level of complexity when it comes to choosing the best paint for your bath

Furniture upcycling: What paint to use on wooden furniture?

Furniture upcycling: What paint to use on wooden furniture?. Deciding to upcycle your furniture rather than throwing furniture away is a great way to curb your shopping habits as well as minimising impacts on the environment. Not only this, but paint