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The best, most expensive paint over a poorly prepared surface is a waste of time and money. Clean & prep & prime where needed. Semi-gloss for high traffic, child-use areas and kitchen / bathroom, where it will need to be wiped clean often. Flat for the other rooms - it hides the little defects better. John T.

oh you are referring to a family home, no i am not married and i am going to die alone.

Semi-gloss latex. Flat is OK but the semi is easier to clean. There are white paints made for ceilings.

The blue "painter's tape" for masking works well.

Everyone dies alone.

We can't recommend paint without knowing where you are. Your use of the word "flat" suggests you are not in the U.S. or (perhaps) Canada.

For my family home, I would use a flat latex-based paint manufactured by Sherwin-Williams or Benjamin Moore, since I have used those brands in the past.

Tastes vary. I'm interested in cleanability only in the kitchen and bathroom. All other rooms get flat, with semi-gloss on the trim.

Must be regional. At least in upstate NY 'I have a flat to rent' would be common usage.

Trump Paint is the best paint. He sells the best everything. It only comes in gold. I hope that's okay.

Is Kamala paint black or white? It seems to change color depending on the audience.

I can't wait for trump to win so I can buy one of his $120,000 watches.

When I bought this house, the prior owner had touched up scratches in the flat paint with semi-gloss. in the middle of walls. It looked wonderful. He had painted the plastic doorknobs. Because he was from Louisiana and always cold in Baltimore, he had caulked everywhere, including around all the window and door and sliding glass door frames, and laid it on twice as thick as needed, with big blobs bulging out every inch or so. Often getting it on the glass. Took a while but I scraped most of the excess off

He also put extra layers of wall on 3 sides of the main bedroom. That he did okay but he did cover up the phone jack. The architect sent me, for free (I would have paid), blueprints of the house (which included multiple designs, small variations that other houses in my n'hood have) which I wanted partly to find the phone jack, but learned that those locations aren't on the blueprints. The electrician comes in later and picks the exact spot.

His extra exterior walls had fiberglass batting underneath them and then sheetrock. The wall between my townhouse and the next one was cork, covered by sheetrock. It made the closet smaller but there was still barely enough room for a hanger and a jacket.

He saved every owners manual including all the kitchen and laundry appliances and the sump pump and bathroom fan, and the receipts for the carpet and kitchen floor. I went to the floor place and got more kitchen vinyl linoleum in case I needed a patch someday. Couldn't get matching carpet.

He spilled paint in the middle of the bedroom and had to put in a 6"x6" patch that he took from a closet. I found the patched part, but even though all 4 closets were empty when I got here, I never found the place where he removed it.

Then he was still cold and after only 4 years, he got Social Security (whose HQ is here) to transfer him to a Louisiana office.

The house had not gone up in value and he had to cash a CD to pay the real estate company. He said it was like renting a very nice place.

I told him not to worry about removing everything, and promised to either use what was left or take it to Goodwill He said that if he moved to an apartment first, he'd leave one kind of stuff, and if he moved straight to Louisiana, he leave another kind. I can't remember the distinction, something about furniture vs. lawn maintenance. He left me a dining room table, grass trimmers, a post hole digger (he used for planting berry bushes), books on gardening, etc. some really good stuff. I begged him to give me his phone number, because I could remember it after hearing it once, and the phone company made him sign a release. He never got a phone call and I don't think I ever got a letter for him either.

He fertilized the bushes the morning of the closing.

My mortgage company surprised me a week before the closing. The guy wanted me to come from NYC, stay in a motel, start work, and close on the house. Then go back to NY for my things and move over a weekend. I wanted to visit from NY, close on the house, move straight from NY into the house, and start work after 2 weeks of unpacking. I got my new boss to write a letter, lying about when I was starting work. In fact I think he volunteered, and I thought everything was set, but 10 days before the closing the new boss called me in NY to say he'd gotten an affidavit the loan company wanted signed, and he didn't mind lying but he wouldn't swear falsely.

This was 1983. I borrowed 50,000 from my brother. The real estate company said to bring a bank check (which can be forged also btw, but it takes more effort than just putting a higher number in a personal check), not a personal check, and I told my brother that. He didn't mind at all lending me 50,000 dollars, but he wouldn't go to the bank to get a check, and he sent me a check on the Dreyfus Fund, which anyone can write for any amount. (He had that much liquid because he hoped to buy a medical practice in San Francisco, but they were too expensive.) The seller's attorney accepted it without blinking an eye.

I had hired a lawyer because the real estate agent refused, illegally, to relay a valid offer to the seller, because, she and her boss said, he wouldn't like it. He shouldn't have liked it but he might have taken it anyhow. I think the lawyer suggested the phony letter from my new boss. At the closing, I forgot and my lawyer, who charged a flat price, didn't say anything about title insurance. Later when I complained he said you don't need it. It was a big parcel that was only broken up 4 years earlier. Most of the lots here including mine are different sizes and shapes, and before I got here, the whole n'hood found out after it was built and sold off that we were partly on someone else's property. We had to swap some of our land for land of theirs that we had used.

I bought title insurance myself.

The first mortgage guy knew all the questions by heart and he told me, "Look, we're going to own this house for the next 30 years so this is what I want you to do." Not to me, but what a downer that would be to someone whose family never owned a home before. But in fact the owner owns the house and the mortgage company only has a debt or something and in Maryland it's especially hard to foreclose. For one thing, the owner can pay it off at the very last minute.

So I went to another bank, to get a mortgage to repay my brother. They told me 30 days and 70 days in, I called to find out, How long does it take to get a mortgage. 30 days, they said. So how come it's been 70 days and I haven't got one. I hadn't given them any reason to delay. It took another 20 days. That bank, which had about 10 branches around here, went out of business about 10 years later. Because they called it a Refinance, the new bank didn't say anything about homeowners insurance, didn't check if I had it, and I didn't think to get that for a couple months.

My parents owned our home, I paid attention when we bought the next one, and I went to law school for 2 years including taking Real Property, and it was still a challenge. People who have only rented must often feel overwhelmed or kicked around.

I prefer "Eggshell"

I thought eggshell was a color, not a finish?

Where I live it's a finish. Eggs come in many colors, shades of white to shades of brown and everything in between, so it wouldn't work well as a color descriptor.

"Flesh" too comes in many colors, but that didnt' stop Crayola from making flesh-colored crayons. But if you say it's a finish, I believe you.

Home-depot: What is an eggshell finish? One of the most popular types of wall paint, eggshell finish provides a low sheen and a soft, smooth finish just like a true eggshell. Perfect for low- to mid-traffic areas like hallways, living rooms, entryways and family rooms. Eggshell paint is more washable than flat sheens, and it resists stains and scuffs.

So can I fairly call it semi-semi-gloss?

You believe me, but you still double checked at HD. Trust, but verify. :)

No, it is a softer sheen than semi-gloss but unlike "flat" it HAS a sheen. The most versatile interior paint - BY FAR. I use Semi Gless for trim. Gloss shows fingerprints too much (and imperfections)

you guys, i am like a paint beginner, i know nothing.

basically, i want a paint that will not crack and is easily wipeable.

also i like matte, is there anything for me??

This one is probably pretty good :