Tony and I have finally had to admit that much as we love the french themselves (at least all those we’ve met to date), the french way of life, the french places we’ve been, french food and of course french wine, the paint is awful.
We now understand why every house we’ve ever seen is wallpapered and are wishing we were a little more fond of wallpaper ourselves!
We’ve tried the cheapest of the lot and just today having decided that “you get what you pay for”, we splashed out and bought 4 litres of “dulux monocouche” (literal translation is “one coat”) for EUR 43 thinking this would be the answer to all our problems.
We can now report that monocouche actually means you can probably get away with 2-3 coats and so Tony wondered if others had experienced a similar issue so googled “why is french paint so bad” and immediately stumbled upon “britishexpats.com forum” where the topic of discussion was indeed french paint and it would appear we are not alone - one comment on the forum actually says “using dirty dishwater would be more effective than using french paint” and it seems as though certainly all the british expats bring paint with them when they come - incroyable!
So here we are, determined not to let our overly priced paint go to waste - waiting for the first coat to dry so we can put the 2nd coat on in the hopes we might be able to leave it there - I should mention that this is being painted over a ceiling that has already received an undercoat as well as two full coats of even poorer quality paint that Tony’s using now as primer.
Living and learning and wondering if a few gallons of paint will fit in our suitcases the next time we return from Cayman.....!
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