Maitama living room, one Ankara Indigo wall
The client wanted indigo everywhere. The test square, left for two days, changed that to one feature wall and a warm off-white for the rest. Two days on site, furniture back where it was.
Painters & decorators · Abuja
Pick your paint colour on the wall, not on a chip.
A 50mm square in a hardware shop in Wuse tells you almost nothing about what a colour does to a room. Pick one below and watch it land on a real wall first.
Currently showing
Ankara Indigo
LN-204 · Matt emulsion
Paint colours for Nigerian homes
Twelve colours, put on a real wall.
These are the twelve we mix most often, named after the things they actually look like here. Tap one and it goes on the wall — and on everything else on this page, which is the fastest way to find out whether you can live with it.
Two coats · matt emulsion
The range
Rendering that failed two rainy seasons ago
Wall preparation & damp
Paint is the last fifth of the job.
Almost every complaint about a paint job in this city is really a complaint about what was underneath it. Emulsion over damp comes back as bubbles in June. Emulsion over dust comes off with the first wipe.
So we test the wall before we quote it, and the quote says which of the three it is: sound, needs screeding, or wet and needs finding out why first. The price in the calculator below changes with that answer, because the work does.
Painting cost calculator
Measure the room, get the number.
Give us the dimensions and the state of the walls and this works out the area, the litres, the days and the price. It is the same arithmetic we do on site, so the quote should not surprise you.
Width, m
Length, m
Height, m
Painting through harmattan
We do not paint into dust.
Between late November and February the air carries enough fine dust to settle into wet emulsion and leave a bloom you cannot wipe off. We seal the room, damp the floors, and where a job cannot wait we schedule the finish coats for the early morning before the wind picks up.
Recent painting jobs
Three rooms from the last month.
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Utako offices, fourteen rooms out of hours
Repainted over two weekends, starting at 18:00 on Friday, so the company never lost a working day. Every socket and frame masked, and the rooms handed back before Monday.
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Gwarinpa exterior, after the damp
The old paint was bubbling because a gutter was feeding the wall. Gutter fixed, rendering screeded, weathershield applied, and finished in February before the rains.
Painting & decorating services
Three habits, from painting about two hundred rooms a year.
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A litre on your wall first
Before a big job we paint a square metre in the actual room and leave it two days, because a colour changes completely between the fluorescent tube in a shop and your own light at seven in the evening. It costs us a litre and it has stopped a lot of repaints.
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We move it, we cover it, we put it back
Furniture to the middle, sheeted, and sockets and frames masked properly rather than cut in by eye. The room you get back is the room you left, in a different colour.
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Offices at night, houses in daylight
Nobody wants a painter in the corridor at eleven in the morning. Commercial jobs run from 18:00 and over weekends at no extra charge, because it is easier for us too.
Painting FAQs
What people ask before we come and look.
How much does it cost to paint a room?
The calculator above works out the area, the litres, the days and the price. After a look, you get a fixed price the same day.
Can I see the colour on my wall first?
Yes. On bigger jobs we paint a square metre in the actual room and leave it for two days before anything else happens.
What if my walls are damp?
We test before we quote. The quote says whether the wall is sound, needs screeding, or is wet and needs the cause found first.
Do you move the furniture?
Moved to the middle, sheeted and put back. Sockets and frames are masked properly, not cut in by eye.
Can you paint our office after hours?
Yes. Commercial jobs run from 18:00 and over weekends, at no extra charge.
Is the look really free?
Forty minutes, anywhere in the FCT, with the surface tested and the room measured properly.
Free painting quote, Abuja
Someone comes and looks at the wall. Free.
Forty minutes, anywhere in the FCT. We test the surface, measure properly, and leave you a fixed price the same day.