Finishes, colour, and the preparation that decides whether a paint job lasts two years or ten. Including the part most quotes leave out.
Sheen matters more than colour for how a wall wears.
The finish decides how a wall behaves: how much it reflects, how well it hides a defect, and whether it survives being wiped. Colour is the easy part.
The step people rush and then live with.
Paint is the cheapest thing to change and the most visible thing to get wrong. Test properly, and test in the room it is going in.
Where the quality of the job is actually decided.
Almost every complaint about a paint job is a preparation problem, not a paint problem. It is also the part that is invisible in a quote, which is why cheap quotes are cheap.
Different paint, different problem.
Outside, paint is protection before decoration. Dubai sun degrades pigment and heat cycles the substrate daily, so exterior coatings are built to flex and to hold colour.
When a flat colour is not enough.
These are applied by hand in layers, so they are priced by the square metre of labour rather than by the tin. Best used on one wall, not four.
Pattern, texture, or an image that paint cannot give you.
Wallpaper needs a flatter wall than paint does, and the wall has to be sealed first or the paper will not come off cleanly when it is time to change it.
How painting is actually priced.
Painting is quoted per square metre of wall, not per room, plus the items. Knowing the coverage tells you whether a quote has allowed for enough paint to do the job properly.
A two-bedroom apartment typically takes 3–5 working days for walls and ceilings, including preparation and drying between coats. A single room is usually one day.
No. We work room by room and keep the rest of the home usable. Modern water-based paints have low odour and are dry to touch within a few hours.
Yes, but it needs sealing first. Handover paint is a thin builder's emulsion over bare plaster and it absorbs the first coat unevenly. Sealing costs less than the extra coat you would otherwise need.
Two as standard, three where the colour is changing significantly. One coat is a touch-up and will look patchy in raking light.
Either. We can supply, or apply paint you have chosen and bought. If you are buying, tell us the finish as well as the colour — the sheen affects how much you need.
Send the rooms and we'll come back with an itemised estimate — walls, ceilings and joinery priced separately, with the preparation listed rather than assumed.
Fastest route. Photos of the walls tell us what preparation they need.
The design tool prices painting by the square metre, coats included.