Gold paint.

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I hope that this is the right place to ask this. I have a strip of wall round a large room, guess it's just over a metre in height. I would like to paint it gold, metallic gold not yellow. Is there such a paint? Guess it would need about 2.5L of paint. Help please!

There is such a thing! I did the wooden bits of my front room silver many years back (with blue walls).

Not everyone's taste but I loved it

It was over a decade ago, I can't remember where I got the paint but I suspect it was simply a local paint store.

Yes there is. I did a silvered wall in a bedroom once. It went over the top of a strong base colour.

That's good news..thanks for that threeleftfeet and Stealthsquiggle. Any ideas where to get it? Dulux and the like are just yellow..any links [cheeky]

Do you have an independent or smallish paint shop or building suppliers near you? I expect they could order it for you.

The last one shut down last month threeleftfeet only seem to have B&Q or Homebase. Is there somewhere online this would be available..quick search showed gold paint but not suitable for walls.

silver and gold metallic paints are always (AFAIK) oil paints, not water, I expect that is why they say not suitable for walls. You might be able to get a foil wallpaper with a metallic finish.

Crown Fashion for Walls Millionaire shade?

Also, Craig & Rose do a range of metallic colours. Still racking my brain about another make but not sure whether it still exists.

I just had a quick hunt and came up with Crown Fashion for walls too

I second the Craig & Rose metallics range suggestion. I used the Grate Black, it is definitely metallic looking. It is thicker than normal paint though so will need fairly careful handling.

Thanks for the suggestions..will look those up!

please post back if you find a good water-based one suitable for walls - I'd be interested.

ta.

Okay...months later and under a different name we have finally started painting gold paint. It's a Crown paint called "Millionaire" in the metallic glamorous shine range. Very good gold colour but due to the shine will show up any imperfections in the wall surface.

is it oil-based?

did u not think about covering the wall in a gold fabric if u pulled it tight enough and fixed it to the wall and u wouldnt get any imperfections from the wall either..theres so many different kinds of fabric out there.

PigletJohn ,
I've just bought a couple of tester pots of Crown Metallic. It is emulsion (so water-based I assume)

I've tried to link below but not v good at links .
Hope it's helpful though
LB

www.diy.com/nav/decor/paint/specialist-paints/special_effect_paints/-specificproducttype-metallic/Crown-Feature-Wall-Metallic-Emulsion-Striking-10298758