What paint will be okay in the bathroom?

[BoBoo]

Almost finished the bathroom. Will be half tiled but one wall and half of the others will be painted. Do I need a special bathroom paint and do I need to do anything special to prep the walls? Don't want to start faffing around choosing colours if the paint won't work. Thanks.

Do you have a good vent in the bathroom ? As if you don't this will affect any paint you put on the walls ?! Is it freshly plastered walls as this will make a difference too ?! :-)

The walls are freshly plastered. There are two windows in the bathroom, but no ventilation unless I open them...

Definitely use bathroom paint. We didn't on our ceiling and it started to go mouldy because our vent wasn't very good, we always opened windows, anyway we recovered in bathroom paint and it started flaking, peeling and generally looked awful. We ended up having to replaster :-( nightmare!

Definitely use bathroom paint. We used dulux and impressed

Thanks all. Have spent the morning in the bathroom with the laptop and sent off for some samples. Dulux it is.

if you're doing up the bathroom, now is the time to get the extractor fan fitted.

It ought to come on with the light switch as many people have a psychological aversion to ventilation and will not open windows or turn on fans.