What painting for toilets?

The toilets have become the ideal place to express your creativity . But if choosing the right paint color is essential, it is also necessary to adopt the right formulations and the appropriate finishes . Glossy, matte, acrylic or glycerol paint? 

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Small passage room par excellence, often with a strong artificial lighting without natural luminosity, the toilets require specific paintings and finishes . Tips and tricks to choose the most suitable formulations for your toilet, without missteps.

Toilet paint: matte, satin or glossy finish?

For the toilet, velvety satin paint is undoubtedly the ideal formulation. More resistant, it also offers a powdered finish that masks the irregularities of the support. The toilets being a small space, their walls are in fact constantly subject to micro-shocks and other passing friction. A glossy finish would highlight the defects of the support, especially under the artificial light of this piece. Toilet paint: glycero or acrylic?

Glycerophthalic paint or "glycerol" is made from oils and solvents. Long appreciated for its resistance, it is nevertheless less and less used in the decoration. In question: its longer drying time, its strong smell but especially its high percentage of VOC (volatile organic component), highly polluting . 

This consideration is all the more important as toilets often consist of a cramped room with no windows. We therefore prefer to use for toilets, an acrylic paint formulatedwater based. Easy to apply, almost odorless, it is also leachable. Another very significant solution: the depolluting paints. Some brands offer new formulas that can absorb and eliminate the main pollutants in indoor air (including formaldehyde, hexaldehyde ...) as soon as they are applied