Help Please

Daughter rydalong has some old wooden garden furniture which she wants to brighten up. To make things not-so-easy, she wants the table and each of the four chairs in a different bright colour.

Idealy they should be sprayed so as to get into all the nooks and crannies. The question is; can "normal" household gloss paints, like Dulux be thinned down to give an acceptable finish?

There are a few half full tins of suitable colours here. This it is an opportunity put then to good use - and make some space on the shelf.

Thanks.

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Personally, I'd tell her not to be daft about doing them in different colours, get her to agree on one and go out and buy some proper outdoor paint.

Paint the chairs up to match the colors on the croquet set and incorporate all the colors into the table that goes with them. And make her pay for the paint.

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AFAIR you can dilute gloss down and put through an electric spraygun.

Like one of these.

I once sprayed all the new flat panel radiators in Southmead Maternity Dept. with a Burgess spray gun and gloss paint. The results were surprisingly good for a piece of DIY Kit. If you are a 27yearold Bristolian sensitised to white spirit, that'll be why!

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Yes, you might not even need to thin it

If it has alot of nooks and crannies like you say then you need to sand/clean them first or the paint will not stick, unless it is old clean stored in garage not old left in garden and mossy

Don't try spraying it unless you are handy with a spraygun or don't care about the finish quality, thick paint will tend to ripple droop if you apply it unevenly as it dries, in my vast experience of trying this once the first time I ever sprayed anything at all and covering the garden in a white mist. It was so pretty, looked like it had been snowing - almost, the furniture got binned though