You can tell what "type" of people who had previously occupied the home. Gold trim?! The ceiling color is okay but it reminds me of colon cancer. The red I kind of agreed with but at night, it was really, really dark where the room was actually violet. Oh, oh! The mirror... WTF? Why do people like mirrors?! I hate them!
I understand that they make the room bigger but should the mirror be bigger than one side of the wall?! SUCH CRAP! Plus, when you walk into the room, you may spook yourself to death like I have on a few occasions.
So what have I done to the room?
PAINT IT WHITE!
That was two gallons of white. After I finished it.... the room was hella bigger!! So it sat white for a month. Now I am back to fix it up and mark it off my list!
My goal is to make the room look like a mix of these rooms:
Hell yeah that's the color! Guess what, it's a whole different color than what's in the paint can! Man, I really don't like this color.
After doing some research, I figured out what I did wrong. Now let me tell you this. I'm a big fan of HGTV and everything I learned came from HGTV but the one thing it didn't show me was how to paint a wall red! Well guess what I did wrong:
I understand that they make the room bigger but should the mirror be bigger than one side of the wall?! SUCH CRAP! Plus, when you walk into the room, you may spook yourself to death like I have on a few occasions.
So what have I done to the room?
PAINT IT WHITE!
That was two gallons of white. After I finished it.... the room was hella bigger!! So it sat white for a month. Now I am back to fix it up and mark it off my list!
My goal is to make the room look like a mix of these rooms:
So here's my progress:
So... let's talk about the color.
On the can, the red looks good. On the wall... it looks horrible. I was on call that evening I decided to paint. So while doing my thang on the laptop, I was trying to figure out what color this turned out to be. Then it came to me: - blood orange!
So... let's talk about the color.
On the can, the red looks good. On the wall... it looks horrible. I was on call that evening I decided to paint. So while doing my thang on the laptop, I was trying to figure out what color this turned out to be. Then it came to me: - blood orange!
Hell yeah that's the color! Guess what, it's a whole different color than what's in the paint can! Man, I really don't like this color.
After doing some research, I figured out what I did wrong. Now let me tell you this. I'm a big fan of HGTV and everything I learned came from HGTV but the one thing it didn't show me was how to paint a wall red! Well guess what I did wrong:
So the wall is primed white right? Well guess what.... it should be primed GREY!!
Comments here:
http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf229630.tip.html
Well tomorrow, I am going to stop on by the local Lowes and find grey primer and then repaint the whole room again and attempt to finish this beast!
Now I did something else while the paint dried:
What I was trying to do was to add raise paneling. I hate beaded wainscoating and I am really attached to raised panels like so
In the picture above, they did a tall rectangle. i've decided to do a flat rectangle. When I was almost done, I noticed that somehow I measured/divided the columns wrong!! I am like 4 inches short! I was majorly pissed off. Now I have to redo the whole thing again! That is pathetic. I have to remove 6 slats AND paint the stupid wall grey. Hell... there is always another weekend. I'll get this room done and when Kyle is home, he can help me remove the stupid mirror!
Oh here's an added bonus:
One of my other houses got broken into and now I have to go and buy a $200 door and install it myself! WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP! If they had locked the back door storm door, none of this would happen. Potty watter!
Comments here:
http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf229630.tip.html
Well tomorrow, I am going to stop on by the local Lowes and find grey primer and then repaint the whole room again and attempt to finish this beast!
Now I did something else while the paint dried:
What I was trying to do was to add raise paneling. I hate beaded wainscoating and I am really attached to raised panels like so
In the picture above, they did a tall rectangle. i've decided to do a flat rectangle. When I was almost done, I noticed that somehow I measured/divided the columns wrong!! I am like 4 inches short! I was majorly pissed off. Now I have to redo the whole thing again! That is pathetic. I have to remove 6 slats AND paint the stupid wall grey. Hell... there is always another weekend. I'll get this room done and when Kyle is home, he can help me remove the stupid mirror!
Oh here's an added bonus:
One of my other houses got broken into and now I have to go and buy a $200 door and install it myself! WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP! If they had locked the back door storm door, none of this would happen. Potty watter!
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