[FONT=Comic Sans MS]I bought 2.5 litres of a good silk emulsion to paint 2 of the walls of my Daughters room & was told this would be more than enough to do the job with enough left-over to use elsewhere. However, I have used about 2 litres of the paint to paint the smallest of the walls which measures about 7ft x 7ft and has a long window. My house is a newly-built property with white painted walls and I was told that primer wouldn't be necessary yet the walls seem to be soaking-up the paint. A friend who has quite a bit of experience in home decorating suggests that I apply a thin coat of thin wallpaper paste to the wall still needing to be painted & allowing it to dry before I paint it which will act as a barrier between the paint and the wall and prevent the wall from soaking-up the paint but my Dad says this is probably the worse tip he has ever heard. Has anyone here ever tried/heard/recommend/not-recommend this tip of pasting the wall prior to painting. Thank you in advance for any advice you might be able to give me regarding this or another tip to stop walls soaking-up paint. [/FONT]

Is it possible to paint a pocket door without removing it? If so, how?