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Forum: Fireside Chat with Nannette
RE: Painting Rooms
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Wow! Very cool tips! I, for one, appreciate them. Thank you.
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Forum: Fireside Chat with Nannette
Painting Rooms
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Nannette
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My 3 daughter's bedrooms were hideous! The house we live in had the cheapest paint on the walls. They weren't washable and any slight touch left them looking filthy!
So when HomeDepot had quality paint on sale, I decided to invest in a bucket of paint for each of the girls' bedrooms and paint their rooms!
Some things I learned:
Lesson 1:
Don't let kids pick their room colors. hehe. The oldest ended up with a shade of green. It looks very nice. But her first 5 selections were garrish and horrid!
The second ended up with a light shade of violet, but originally wanted a dark purple! I tried to explain to the kids about how room colors affect your moods and how the dark purple would make her feel depressed and melancholy, and she thought that would be cool. No go here!
The third wanted blue with clouds. Nothing wrong with that, other than that it would require MUCH MORE than one can of paint to do it, not to mention a Cloud Kit, since I don't have a clue how to do it, and much more time than already was spent. So I told her pick something else. She picked a bright yellow. BRIGHT! I felt so bad for turning down her blue clouds that I didn't say no. But it is okay for a 10 year old. But warning, a bright shade like that, turns everything in the room a reflection of the color!
Lesson 2:
Don't wallpaper unless you're rich! I sat at HomeDepot in the wallpaper section and learned that I could not and would not wallpaper! Even at their low prices, I simply could not afford even a strip of wallpaper! I told the girls we would go to Mardell's, the local Christian book store and get those strips that you put around classrooms for decorations. Themed. Lydia wants bees for her yellow room. Hannah wants a forest theme, and not sure what Esther will opt for. But you can stick or pin those up around the perimeter of the room and they're removable when the kids get tired of them.
Also, I noticed that pre-glued wallpaper still requires glue! They advertise that it is easily removable! Yeah! It removes itself within the first few weeks (something I learned from going to model homes and simply asking the person in the wallpaper department.)
Lesson 3:
Put primer on your walls! I read in the HomeDepot book, something like 1-2-3 something or other..., that if you stick a clear piece of tape on the wall and it picks up paint, that putting paint over paint won't do. The paint will peel, even if it is quality and is new! So my one can of paint didn't work. I ended up with a can of primer and paint!
Also, learned, do NOT go with the white shade of primer they sell. Get it tinted to match the color of paint you are putting on the wall. That way you will only have to do one coat of primer and one coat of paint. Pre-tinted! On my yellow and violet, it was an exact match, but the green primer was a tad lighter, which the book said it would be. Likely because the green was a darker shade.
Lesson 4:
Don't mess with brushes! I bought brushes and only used them in one spot, a really tight spot between corner and door post where there was no room for nothing else. If you don't have a really tight spot, don't use brushes. Use rollers and those little edgers. Rubbermaid sells a really nice edger. Not one of those cheap sponge edgers, but the nice beige ones with a rectangular patch. I also bought a corner brush, but the rectangular edger worked just as fine for the corners too.
Also, be sure to buy stuff like this at Walmart where it is cheaper than at other stores. Tape, plastic for the carpets, etc.
Lesson 5:
Forget taping! The first 2 rooms I taped plastic to the wood trim on the baseboard, and around the window sills and the edges of the ceilings.
The paint leaks anyway, the tape doesn't lift up easily, so you're picking tape off the ceiling and baseboards with a tweezers and it rips up the paint from where it's dripped into the walls and leaves torn paint on the edges! Argh!
Third room, Larry suggested I use a paint edger and forget the taping. I did still tape the plastic over the carpet and to the baseboards, but not right up to the walls. Then I carefully went around the entire room where the edges were and used a 12" edger metal thingy with my rubbermaid edger brush and it worked great! Don't get too much paint on the brush though, because when you step away to the other side of the room, it will drip while you're not looking, then dry that way, and argh again!
Lesson 6:
And you'll think I'm crazy on this one... don't use a full size roller brush. I purchased smaller ones, about 6" wide and 1" round and it made the paint much smoother and didn't blob the paint and drip the paint like the larger rollers did.
Now, I know, an experienced painter will laugh and point and make fun of me, but I'm not an experienced painter so I had to work with what worked well for me. Of course, I had to dip my brush many more times than if I'd likely used a larger roller, but by the time I cleaned up all the drips from the larger roller and the blobs, I saved time in the long run.
Lesson 7:
I had an estimate on one room, one coat of paint, no primer, from a professional.... more than $200! Yikes, the can of paint on sale was $16! So lesson here is, if you have more time than money, then do it yourself!
Lesson 8:
Get some of that Goof cleaner stuff. When you're done, put it on a rag and go around the room and wipe up your goofs. Don't let it touch the painted walls though, as it will take the paint off there as well.
Lesson 9:
Paint during the day light with sunlight shining in so you can see where the shine of the paint is (especially if the primer is the same shade as the top coat), so you don't miss spots, and you can see your mistakes, etc.
Okay, that's it for my platitudes of wisdom on my painting experience!
God bless your next painting mess!
Nannette
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