Specialist bathroom paint from Crown or Dulux- does it look good?

[whataboutbob]

I need to paint my loft conversion bathroom. Do the specialist bathroom paints have a nice finish? i have read on one post that the finish can be plasticky. Does anyone have it and are you happy with it? Or are there other finishes out there that look better? Thank you.

They have a slight sheen, but are not as shiny as vinyl silk emulsion. IME darker colours appear shinier. We have a Dulux kitchen and bathroom paint in our kitchen in a pale green and there's a hideous inherited brown in our bathroom.

My decorator uses Trade Diamond Matt (which can be coloured mixed to any Dulux colour) in bathrooms. Definitely not plastic'cy at all. I've just asked him (he's decorating at the mo!) and if you compare diamond matt side by side with normal emulsion, you can see a very slight sheen if you look really carefully. We have it in our bathrooms and to me, the finish looks identical to the same colour (standard emulsion) in the adjoining bedroom.

Thanks wow. Do you like the way it looks?

as an aside, don't use the Homebase kitchen and bathroom paint - really hard to put on and comes off again at the slightest knock!

Thanks toadhill. I'm sure I can live with a very slight sheen. I'll steer away from Homebase's kitchen range, thanks for the tip.

I have dulux Kitchen and Bathroom in Cracked Clay (not a dark colour). It's a tad too shiny for my liking, but the non-bathroom paint that was on when we moved in had started peeling. This stuff is pretty bulletproof, so I guess that makes up for the shininess. The colour is lovely too.

I have crown bathroom paint and it looks ok, slight sheen but not plasticky. It is a light colour.

Previously I had b&q own brand in a dark colour and it looked like shite and then peeled off.

bob - yes, looks fine in both rooms finish wise, I just hate the literally crappy brown in the bathroom. In both rooms the paint has stood up to moisture really well. I've scrubbed things off the kitchen walls and there are no signs of wear.

Thanks everyone. Wow I think we could start a thread on horrendous stuff inherited from previous owners. Our flat was a buy to let before we bought it, 10 years later we're still working on dismantling that "I've done this on the lowest possible budget" look.

Hmm - I know what you mean! The only reason we haven't painted the bathroom yet is because the whole thing is a terrible DIY bodge done on the cheap. We have plans to get it sorted and are saving up for it.