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Hi Friends and Members I did this when we bought our home and were renovting but now we have sold the home and come back home to live in the city. But I hope that this helps you. When painting our home, we found that shopping local saved us a lot more money than purchasing what we needed from the larger, more popular retailers. We found a paint shop in our area which gave us reduced prices on everything from the paint to the drop sheets. The staff gave us wonderful ideas on how to cut down our work load and made no attempts to try and sell us anything we didn't need in fact, on the contrary, they even talked me out of buying some products I didn't need, suggesting lower cost alternatives! As a result we have become loyal customers where possible and have found a huge difference shopping there compared to other well-known stores, where we couldn't even get someone to tint the paint without standing around for 35 minutes first. We also discovered that local shops will happily tint your own paint for the cost of the tint only; whereas at a large hardware shop we were told that they wouldn't tint any paint that wasn't purchased through them. It pays to shop local!