Before you glue the wallpaper, you need to purchase them. Take with a small margin so that you do not have to buy more. If you want to purchase, for example, vinyl wallpaper with a pattern, do not forget that it will have to be "customized". Therefore, the consumption of wall material will increase slightly.
The range of wallpapers is now very large. Before you buy wallpaper, you can look at samples on the Internet. Determine what you want to buy vinyl, non-woven wallpaper, ordinary paper or, perhaps, for painting. Each type of wall material corresponds to wallpaper glue, there is also a universal one, designed for several types of wallpaper.
After you have bought the wallpaper, measure the height of the wall from ceiling to floor with a tape measure. At the same time, do not forget that you need to glue the wallpaper from the window to the right .
Set aside the resulting value on the wallpaper, cut it off. Dilute the glue according to the instructions, apply it with a brush on the wrong side of the wallpaper. If they are dense, it is recommended to glue the part of the wall on which you attach the prepared canvas with glue.
Attach the top of the wallpaper to the top of the wall, walk over this place with a dry soft cloth. Once you've glued the top of the wallpaper, use a cloth to gently press it against the wall in the middle, then glue the wallpaper down from the middle at a 45 degree angle. Imagine that you draw the trunk first, and then the branches of the spruce, these are the movements that should work. After you have glued the wallpaper to the top of the wall, attach it to the middle and then to the bottom. Then measure and cut the second wallpaper. If they are with a pattern, be sure to match it correctly. Glue this part of the wallpaper in the same way.
Finish decorating all the walls in the same way. Particular attention is paid to the docking points. It is best to apply the edges of the wallpaper end-to-end, and not overlap. Then the seams will not be visible. If the joints are not glued well enough, go over them with a special glue for the seams.
In places where there are sockets and switches: turn off the voltage in the 220 network and remove the housings of sockets and switches, after gluing the wallpaper, mount them back.
If you have parquet, boards in good condition, but the old varnish is already uneven, it is advisable to scrape it off. With the help of a manual cycle, this is quite difficult to do, so you can buy an automatic one or rent it. After the parquet is cleaned of old varnish, it must be thoroughly vacuumed.Then, with a piece of masking mesh, walk along the boards in the direction of the pile, this will allow the parquet to look better.
It is advisable to cover it with a water-based varnish. It is odorless, not as harmful as synthetic and dries quickly. Apply the first coat, let dry for 40 minutes, then cover the floor with a second coat of varnish. It will dry for four hours, after which it is necessary to varnish the parquet for the third time.
If you do not have the opportunity to scrape the floor, and professional equipment is expensive, then laying laminate flooring is a great option. If the old base lies flat, you can lay the laminate without removing it. Read more about this procedure in the article: how to lay a laminate.
If you are doing Khrushchev repair with your own hands, you want to save money, you can lay linoleum on the floor. To do this, it is rolled out, put with the wrong side up, allowed to rest, then glue is applied, turned over and glued to the base. If the floor is uneven, you can lay a solid underlay, such as plywood.
When the wallpaper is completely dry, drape the top of the wallpaper with a ceiling plinth. To do this, apply glue for PVC tiles on its wrong side, attach to the desired place and hold for 10-15 seconds. Once you've glued the first one, move on to the second one.
You will remove the wires in the wall part of the floor plinth, screw it onto the screws. After that, put on the top of the plastic plinth.
Here's how to make inexpensive DIY repairs. The renovated room will certainly please and will cheer you up every time.
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The usual everyday business: the apartment clearly needs repair, but there is not enough money. How to make an inexpensive apartment renovation with your own hands? It seems to be the simplest, obvious way: surface cosmetic repairs. That is, plywood wallpaper, whitewashing the ceiling, painting, fixing the creaky floor; Possibly window replacement.
However, if you calculate the labor costs and consumption of materials, it turns out that by increasing labor costs by half, and spending money by a quarter, you can give the apartment a completely different look, and for a long time. How much you need to invest specifically depends on the prices in the region, but the general methods by which you can make an apartment cozy and elegant inexpensively are the same.
Saving money when repairing an apartment with your own hands is, like the Earth in ancient legends, on three whales and a slowly hurrying turtle under them:
We are not afraid of work. Nothing comes from nothing. Either money or labor.
Wherever possible, we do not change the capital, but the old one that has lost its appearance, but renew it.
We attribute the maximum savings to where it will not affect the quality of work and will not be visible.
We spread the costs of labor and money over time: having conceived repairs in the summer or autumn, we spend a year on preparation, and then we pile on and quickly do everything. To lay out 200-300 thousand rubles at once is a problem, but it is quite possible to break them up in parts for a year. In addition, there will be time to measure seven times - cut once.
The only area where you have to invite a specialist is the alteration and strengthening of electrical wiring if it is old and weak. Here, the only way to save money is to negotiate with the DEZ electrician. He will do the work in pieces, in his spare time, but the likelihood of hack work will be even less than that of “branded” specialists: after all, he will then serve all this.
It is better not to save on electrics and wiring, however, some points, such as installing sockets, can be done independently.
A good specialized tool makes the job much easier and cheaper. But it's hard to buy. Therefore, it is better to rent a tool as needed. In terms of costs, it will come out a little if you decide in advance on the design and draw up an approximate work plan for yourself.
The best time of the year for self-renovation of an apartment is the beginning and middle of autumn. Still warm, you can do outdoor work, and indoor - with open windows. And at the same time, prices for building materials will already fall significantly on the eve of the winter calm. Savings without loss of quality can be up to 15% when selling summer non-liquid products. If, for example, 200 thousand are set aside for repairs, then the savings will be 30 thousand, and this is a hallway or a bathroom - “sweetie”.
Special mention should be made of illiquid assets. A significant proportion of the repair costs will be for finishing materials: plaster, putty, floor leveler, mounting adhesive, sealant. All of them have a limited shelf life, so construction companies, which obviously do not have leftovers from season to spring, are selling them at a bargain price. Therefore, in advance, look everywhere for announcements of the sale of building materials. Professionals do not need 50 kg of Aqualayer for leveling walls, which expires in a month, but you will have enough for two rooms. Savings will be 70-80 rubles. of everything, but the hen pecks grain by grain.
For more ideas about saving on building materials, look here.
A sore point with independent cheap repairs is the replacement of plumbing. If it is still “alive”, only filthy, then it can be cleaned and painted. How to do this will be described below. But if there are chips and cracks, then, if you like it or not, you need to change it.
For such a case, here is some information for you: new settlers, especially in houses above the budget category, often start a major overhaul immediately upon entering, and excellent, completely new faience and cast-iron plumbing equipment ends up in a landfill. Landfill operators (simply - landfill scavengers) have long turned this circumstance into a profitable business.
They do not make direct contact by office phone with strangers, but it is quite possible to get through to them using word of mouth methods. The rate is from a third to a half of the factory price for a household item. And do not think that they will take you to the dump and show you where it lies. In the back room you will be offered a choice of clean, carefully washed products, which you can sit down on at least immediately.
The next sore point is the removal of construction waste. The operation is not cheap, and requires paperwork. Exit: basement, barn, cottage or closet and a few bags of used plastic sackcloth, bought for a penny. Construction debris does not sour and does not rot, it can then be poured into a container in a garbage dump in a bucket. There is nothing illegal in this.
For lathing, various ancillary work and sewing up large surfaces, you will need wooden slats and plywood. You can buy slats not planed, but slabs - waste from sawing industrial wood. The slab goes on sale raw, but if it is purchased in advance, in March-April, and kept in a dry room until autumn, it will not yield to edged lumber in terms of wood quality.
As for plywood, waste packaging plywood from dismantled used containers can be turned into waterproof in the following way:
We buy a 10 l canister or two PVA putties; it looks like very liquid PVA glue and is cheap.
We cover the floor in the country house, in the barn, in the attic or in some other non-residential premises with plastic film. The air temperature is not lower than +13 degrees.
We lay a sheet of plywood on the floor, pour a puddle of putty on its center and disperse it with a brush.
We cover the plywood with plastic, lay the next sheet, putty in the same way, etc.
We put heavier oppression on the PVA-impregnated foot of plywood; better - dispersed over the area: bricks, pieces of metal, concrete, an old TV, etc.
After a week, repeat the procedure, turning each sheet over.
After another two weeks, even waterproof plywood is ready for use. Additional exposure under oppression will improve its quality.
Boards and large pieces of thick timber can also be obtained from used containers - pallets for cargo.Advertisements for their sale are not uncommon.
A very economical repair option is to cover the walls and ceiling of living rooms with laminate; for economical owners richer - MDF. When sheathing on a wooden crate made of slabs, in 80% of cases it is not necessary to level the walls and ceiling, which already eliminates the high costs of labor and money.
You can save even more by sheathing the walls to the waist or to the chest, and pasting up to the ceiling with non-woven wallpaper. The work is simplified and cheaper, and the bottom of the walls, which beats and gets dirty the most, will be reliably protected by resistant material.
The most economical option for flooring is marmoleum. Floor preparation for it is not required in 90% of cases. But marmoleum is not suitable for the bathroom and toilet; here you have to fork out for a tile, especially since it will take a little.
If you want to have a floor in the rooms that looks like a plank, then covering the floor with a laminate will not be much more expensive, but you may have to level the floor.
The walls in the bathroom can be covered with laminated hardboard instead of tiles - it is hygroscopic and does not require surface preparation.
If it is supposed to glaze and insulate the balcony, then it is better to do it separately from everything else and in advance: from the end of March to the beginning of May. Outside, the balcony is decorated with siding, but inside it can, instead of traditional MDF or lining, be sewn up with plywood, pasted over with self-adhesive film.
When deciding how to repair an apartment economically, you need to pay special attention to windows and doors: they account for a significant share of the costs. As for windows, here is the most economical option: self-installation of wooden window frames. It is more expedient to buy them in March-April, when prices for industrial wood fall, and to put them in late spring - early summer, when the tree dries out properly and shrinks. The technology for installing wooden windows in openings is quite accessible to a mediocre home master.
Doors would be better to update. Remember the self-made waterproof plywood? So both fronts of the door are sheathed with it, on mounting glue, laying the door removed from the hinges on a plastic litter and under oppression. At the same time, you can cover the window in the interior door at the same time, if it is not needed.
This will make the door thicker. There are two options here:
Reinstalling hinges is not the best way for the "lazy".
Remove the old lining from the door; it is most often made of building cardboard or thin fiberboard, and put on a new frame, plywood. In this case, the broken corners immediately “leave”.
In both cases, the new door is pasted over with self-adhesive wood-like or with a different texture and varnished. And you will be surprised (pleasantly, of course) by her new look. And rigid plywood cheeks will provide doors durability. It is better to cover the slopes of the doorway with extensions from the same plywood: it will come out cheaper and more beautiful than re-plastering.
Dirty plumbing, if it is intact, needs to be cleaned. The rather expensive active detergents recommended for this can be replaced with much cheaper table vinegar - after all, it is also a weak acid - followed by washing the sagging stains with the most common washing powder. Just do not use detergents with abrasives - they will scratch the icing, and objects, especially the toilet, will get dirty very quickly.
For cleaning with vinegar, they make kvass - a knob of a rag on a stick. Vinegar is poured where it will not leak, or sour milk is dipped into it, and the streaks are cleaned with circular movements with pressure. Particularly "stubborn" spots in the recesses are removed with a small kvass and technical hydrochloric acid. All this, of course, is done in latex household gloves, a plastic apron and with open doors and windows. It is also advisable to wear a respirator, at least a cheap "petal".
Tiles that are not chipped or cracked can be restored using a method well known to motorists; they thus update the worn plastic spoilers and bumpers:
The entire lined surface is washed with pemolux; do not use active detergents on acid!. 1 liter is enough for a bathroom in Khrushchev; for a larger one, respectively, more.
After pemolux, we wipe it with a rag, abundantly moistened with the same table vinegar: pemolux is alkaline, and the vinegar neutralizes its residues.
We wipe several times with a wet rag "until a clean rag"; now we have got rid of the contaminants that have eaten into the surface.
We paste over the edges of the tiles with masking tape (“paper tape”), except for the seams.
We paint the seams from a spray gun with nitro paint in two layers; the second - after the complete drying of the first.
We remove the tape, splashes and streaks of paint on the tiles are removed with a cotton swab moistened with solvent 646 or 647.
We buy a can of liquid silicone grease at the car market or in a car shop, and properly spray the tiles with seams.
If the grease is absorbed immediately, you will have to spray again.
If after 2-3 days silicone is still “taken” on the tile, wipe the surface with a cloth moistened with vinegar.
The meaning of this treatment is that silicone tightens microcracks and pores in which dirt accumulates. Processing is enough for 3-5 years, and then it can be repeated.
A cast-iron capital bath can be restored by repainting with an epoxy or acrylic compound. Complaints about its fragility arise from a violation of the technology for preparing the coloring composition and its application. With strict observance of the technology, the restored bathtub serves for another 10-15 years.
It is not at all necessary to change it to an expensive one made of stainless steel or brass and make a bypass (bypass) for it. The heated towel rail is cleaned to metal after cleaning the bath for painting with the same cord brush in the drill chuck. If no fistulas are found, it is painted with the remains of the compound from painting the bath. The look will turn out no worse than modern branded ones, and the durability is like that of a bath.
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You can save up to 1000 rubles on fasteners during repairs by using not galvanized or cadmium (shiny), but phosphated (black). The heads of self-tapping screws and dowel-nails will still have to be sealed, and there is no rain and frost in the apartment.
In order to make repairs cheaply, you must first of all know what and how to do, how the apartment should look after repair. Do not be too lazy to consult with the whole family several times, see more pictures of ready-made apartments. Design is not something incomprehensibly sublime; Most people are endowed with artistic taste. The professionalism of a designer in most cases comes down to understanding the taste of the client and guessing what he wants. And you, since you are doing for yourself, you need to understand what you want. Up to 50% of the cost of do-it-yourself repairs arise from the fact that they start at random and then correct and redo them along the way.
And, finally, carrying out the work in the correct sequence makes its share in the savings on repairs: we start from afar from the front door, and in the course of work we gradually approach it. The living room, bedroom and nursery can be renovated in any order. Then comes the turn of the kitchen. We make the entrance hall the penultimate one, and we complete the repair with a bathroom. Savings are obtained on the amount of construction waste (and half of it is the waste of materials for which you paid) and on the alteration of soiled and beaten with an unreasonable organization of work.
Based on the foregoing, you can make a comprehensive renovation of an apartment with an original design, spending a little more money than on cosmetic repairs.
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Redecoration is one of the most affordable and easiest ways to improve housing in the shortest possible time, to give the surrounding space of a house or apartment new colors and decorations. The financial costs of cosmetic repairs, as a rule, are not high, and the achieved effect of cleanliness, freshness and novelty of the interior can exceed all expectations, give a feeling of joy and comfort.In the article we will tell you how to make cosmetic repairs with your own hands in the apartment.
Cosmetic repairs are done independently with minimal redevelopment of housing, with low costs for repairing walls, floors, plumbing, windows and doors. This type of apartment renovation can be characterized as a partial or complete restoration of the condition of the walls, repair and installation of floors, ceilings without performing a complex replacement of structural elements (reconstruction of floors, replacement of partitions). These works usually include puttying and painting ceilings and walls, replacing wallpaper and skirting boards, painting windows and doors, minor repairs to floors, for old parquet, scraping, and repeated varnishing.
Currently, the concept of cosmetic repairs with the advent of many new finishing materials and technologies has expanded slightly. For example, today it is quite possible to transform the room on your own within a few days by making decorative plaster on the walls, which does not require careful preparation and laying a laminate in the room.
Another small nuance - in the process of cosmetic repairs, shortcomings in the structural elements of the apartment or in engineering systems can be revealed, which will entail unforeseen work and cost overruns. It all depends on the ability to independently evaluate the initial data of the premises before carrying out repair work and the actual wear of the object.
Let's make a reservation right away that the capital redevelopment of an apartment (demolition and transfer of load-bearing walls, changes in the intended purpose of premises, reconstruction of floors) are not included in the definition of cosmetic repairs, since these activities require the preparation of redevelopment and reconstruction projects and their coordination in the relevant authorities.
Ceiling painting
Wallpaper pasting
Repair and painting of wooden doors and windows (although it is currently cheaper and more technologically efficient to replace old windows and doors)
Linoleum or laminate flooring
Leveling and scraping of parquet floors, and their repeated coating with varnish
Laying ceramic tiles on walls or floors
Plumbing installation
Partial replacement of sockets and switches
Replacement of lighting fixtures.
If you have minimal skills, desire and time, you can perform a simple apartment renovation on your own, however, before starting work, you need to draw up a clear procedure for carrying out all the stages for yourself.
Before starting the repair, it is necessary to free the room from the furniture. If it is impossible to take out large-sized furniture, it must be moved to the center of the room, to ensure a free approach to the walls. The remaining furniture must be carefully covered with old rags and plastic wrap.
If the floor covering is not planned to be replaced, it must be protected (except tiles). To do this, you can use hardboard, sheets of packaging cardboard, on top of which the room is carefully covered with plastic wrap in an overlap, and the joints are glued with a film. Remove decorative frames from sockets and switches or paste over with tape. Before carrying out work with electrical wiring, it must be de-energized (!)
Old coatings are removed from the ceiling. Currently, the most common ceiling coating is water-dispersion paint, which is practically impossible to wash off, unlike traditional whitewash. It is enough to remove the exfoliated sections of the ceiling with a metal spatula, obvious cracks need to be embroidered and puttied.
If you are repairing a ceiling with old whitewash, it must be washed off with warm water to the ground. To do this, take a container with warm water, rub a little laundry soap into it and add two tablespoons of soda. With a roller or brush, carefully apply water to the ceiling and wash off the old whitewash. It must be removed completely.
Old wallpaper.If old paper wallpapers are pasted on the walls, they hold tightly, and it is planned to apply a dense coating in their place (non-woven wallpaper or for painting), then you can save the old surface. Old vinyl wallpaper is hard to remove. You can use a hair dryer or a heat gun. The rest of the coatings are simply thoroughly wetted with warm water or a special wallpaper remover is used.
Old coverings of doors, windows, platbands and skirting boards are carefully cleaned with sandpaper and a small spatula. Then primed, puttied with a special compound, sanded and primed again. Oil paint is removed using a building hair dryer or mortar.
Ceiling painting. When choosing materials for painting, it is necessary to focus on the intended purpose of the rooms. If the premises are residential, then it is better to choose acrylic paint. Non-residential rooms (bath, corridor, kitchen, hallway) with high-quality moisture-resistant water-based paints. You can pick up color additives in the paint and make different shades in the rooms. The ceiling is primed before painting. The paint is applied to the surface of the ceiling with special rollers, carefully observing the joints and the occurrence of streaks.
Wallpapering. For finishing the ceiling with your own hands, you can use special wallpaper for the ceiling, which is characterized by increased density and light color. The procedure is time-consuming and requires certain skills.
Ceilings are glued. Square or rectangular panels (special polystyrene foam ceiling tiles) are glued onto the ceiling surface. The main thing is to thoroughly clean and prepare the ceiling, and then carefully primed. The plates are fixed to the ceiling with the help of special adhesives.
Now in stores there is a huge selection of different wallpapers: silk-screen printing, embossed, paintable and photo wallpapers. Almost all wallpapers come with application instructions, special adhesives are sold. The main thing is to observe the specified technology, to prevent temperature drops, humidity and drafts in the room.
Using free time, a little financial resources and a little diligence, you can transform your apartment into a new and cozy space in a short time.
1. A good mine in a bad game.
100% polyester silk. Stone-like tiles, parquet-like linoleum, onyx-like laminate, Trekhgorka under Ralph Lauren. Porcelain stoneware "under the python". “Artificially aged” something there ... It’s embarrassing to even think about it. Alas, the number will not pass. Look through good interior magazines. There, everywhere, stone is stone, tile is nothing but tile, and wood is exactly what wood is. If there is no money for parquet, and a simple laminate is beneath your dignity, look for a good engineering board. As a result, you will get a floor that looks much more expensive than the money spent on it. A good alternative to porcelain tiles for kitchens, bathrooms and hallways is cement tiles. The result will look more expensive a hundred times.
2. Leave the ceiling alone.
Everyone has become obsessed with ceilings! If you think sensibly, riveting attention to the ceiling, you only remind everyone of its existence. And according to his height. Ceilings with a height of two sixty will not turn, even if cracked, into majestic vaults melting somewhere in an unthinkable height. This cannot be, no matter what the "decorator tricks" promise you. Just accept it. Tall doorways can do a lot more for your home than a ridiculous five-layer neon-lit ceiling. Let the interior doors be two, say, twenty high. And lower the door handles a little, five to seven centimeters. Having shown a non-standard approach, you will be pleasantly surprised by the result.
3. Choosing paint for the walls, consider the movement of color around the house.
Adjacent rooms should contrast. If you have a bright living room, consider painting the entryway a deep, relatively dark color.In any case, the cost of paint will be the same, and the result may look really expensive.
4. Buy modular laminate cabinets from the store, and order the doors to them in a good carpentry workshop.
This will give you significant savings, which, however, no one will ever notice. The same is true for kitchen equipment.
5. If you still purchase ready-made cabinet furniture, let the facade veneer be dark, and the door panels simple (rectangular).
Remember: light wood always looks cheaper. Avoid yellowish and reddish shades of veneer. And, saving on the furniture itself, splurge on good pens!
6. If there is no money for a good carpet, look for viscose carpet or mixed fibers, imitating a silk or wool pile carpet.
Choose the color and texture that suits you and order a piece of the size you need. For additional small money, its edges are swept with braid.
7. Plant the curtains on a thick lining.
Even inexpensive curtain fabric will seriously benefit from this. Look for fabrics that are three meters wide. This results in significant savings. If you are not ready to spend a lot, give up printed textiles (fabrics with a pattern). When cutting fabrics with a pattern, due to the need to properly join the fabrics, there are a lot of scraps. The more rapport, the more waste. Do not use curtain tape for curtains. Let the seamstress lay the "manual" folds. It's not that expensive, and the folds gathered on the braid look very cheap.
8. Set-headset-set. The same things in the interior are allowed only in one case: if they are paired things that form a symmetrical composition. Chandeliers, table lamps and sconces from one set, leave those to whom God did not give imagination. He also - sets of upholstered furniture "sofa-two chairs" and similar tender sadness. For more details, see the next paragraph.
9. Ready-made solutions.
Bad news: there are none. At least for us. The shower room is built using the construction method because it is a room. Unless you run a student hostel or an underground massage parlor with a striptease, the shower stall (it's a sad structure of yellowish acrylic and skewed doors) will not work for you. Do not spend money on "designer" plumbing. Let the appearance of the sanitary equipment of the bathroom (kitchen, bathroom) be dictated by the function. Buy washbasins and faucets with simple shapes, without inappropriate decor. The toilet bowl should be invisible and cope with its duties. No one will love them, right?
10. Paintings, prints, prints, photographs and posters frame in simple but deep frames with glass and be sure to passe-partout.
Even a picture printed on a home inkjet printer (or a naive children's drawing) looks very significant in such a frame. Play with the size of the passe-partout. A small work in a very wide passe-partout looks very “designer”. And, by the way, cardboard for a passe-partout can be almost any color.
11. Comfort. Another collective fetish.
According to my observations, what is called “comfort” in our Palestinians is, in 99 percent of cases, poetic crampedness. In many ways, this is a bodily memory of a bygone childhood, of a warm and affectionate meager Soviet life with carpets teeming with saprophytes, a kind grandmother, Czechoslovak crystal and Dreiser, unread by anyone, in the polished Polish wall "Hanka". The coziness will not be added by an expensive demon like a round bed with music and a minibar, a bar counter with a built-in aquarium, etc. The same is true for such rich things as a lambrequin, a garland and a swag. Do not worry: in a good, thoughtful interior, coziness inevitably comes naturally. So…
12. ... Farewell, Gypsy Sera!
Duvet covers made of coarse calico in a small Nefertiti, towels in scarlet roses, pillowcases with “stray-eye” shades, nylon blankets with Shanghai leopards. All these are attributes of collective farm chic, forgive me for being direct.They don't add comfort. Motley coloring is often necessary for these things solely to hide their exceptionally lousy quality. Let the bed linen and bath towels be plain white (options: ivory, ecru). But from excellent Egyptian cotton.
13. However, it is also important not to overdo it with ivory.
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Peach, beige, sand… The average nuance range is good for chain hotels. Because their stencil interiors are bound to please everyone. Your interior should please you. After all, he is a manifestation of your essence, right? Pick up a fan-palette of any paint manufacturer. Do you feel a pleasant heaviness? These are your possibilities. Don't miss them!
