Galeria Sic Art A home & interiors gallery

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A gallery for the rooms you actually live in

Practical guides to improving, furnishing and finishing a home — kitchens and interiors, gardens and outdoor rooms, keeping the place safe, and the small decisions that make a room work.

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Written to be usedGuides you follow while the job is in front of you.
Home & gardenKitchens, patios, planting, safety and heating.
A tool that runs on your deviceThe paint calculator does its sums in your browser.

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Gardens & Outdoors

Gazebo, Terrace, Veranda, Patio What’s the Difference.


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A cottage plot gets a finished look only after the necessary design elements are included - without decorative details, the territory adjacent to the house remains a lifeless and impersonal space. Gazebos…

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  1. 01 Gardens & Outdoors 3 guides
  2. 02 Kitchens & Interiors 1 guide
  3. 03 Home Safety 1 guide
  4. 04 Heating & Climate 1 guide

Free tool · runs in your browser

The paint calculator

Put in the size of the room and how many coats you want, and it works out how much paint to buy — with the doors and windows taken off, and rounded up to whole tins with a little spare.

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What you’ll get

Wall area from the room size, minus doors and windows
Litres needed for one, two or three coats
Rounded up to whole tins, with a little in hand
Works in metres or in feet
Runs in your browser — nothing is sent or stored

Corrections & suggestions

Spotted something, or want a room covered?

Products change, and what works in a small flat does not always work in an old house. If a guide is out of date, or there is a room or a job you would like us to write up, the editorial team would like to hear about it.

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