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We are going to paint the interior of our house we just bought and the walls are some seriously dark colored brown and DEEP reds....through out the house.
So I would like to prime everything and then paint....
Give me some suggestions on primers that you have used...
You won't find much better than Kilz primer for covering dark colors. Kledge steered you right on the tinting as well. If you are painting several different colors in the house, you can get the primer tinted gray to help with coverage of the paint.
Get Benjamin Moore Aura and you won't need primer.
We are painting over some very dark colors (dark maroon, dark brown, etc) in our new house now and 2 coats of Aura does the trick
What a great marketing ploy that is! I gotta hand it to them- they really sold the idea that you could do two things at once.
Primer:
Origin:
< L primus first
-noun a first coat or layer of paint, size, etc., given to any surface as a base, sealer, or the like.
-verb (used with object)
to cover (a surface) with a preparatory coat or color, as in painting.
You prime for a reason- priming and painting at the same time means nothing! Why didn't they just call it a heavy gravity paint? Or, a high solids paint? That's what it is really.
Those "primer & paint" combos work pretty well, when we moved into our house I used Behr Ultra to do my son's room since I wanted him to get comfortable ASAP. It definitely saved a lot of time and I was amazed how good the coverage was. The trimwork was painted this awful dark blue-ish/purple-ish gray color and I was able to repaint it in white very easily with the Ultra. I also used a yellow and a green in the ultra, great coverage, color underneath was covered in the first coat I really only did the second coat out of habit but I probably could have skipped it.
Only problem is that primer/paint is far more expensive than a large bucket of primer so if you're trying to save time and only have 1 room to do it's great but if you have to redo your whole house the cost adds up very quickly!
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