After several months of false claims, we finally (re)painted last weekend. The act of painting itself isn't that bad, it's just the whole moving furniture out of the way, taping the walls and laying down newspaper that feels like a major pain. It took all weekend because we had to use primer on the wall first since we'd already painted it another color a few months ago. We liked the color on the swatch last time, but after the wall was done, we both felt like it was too green and slightly jarring. So this time we picked a more neutral color. It took three coats to get the paint as close to its true color as possible.
I don't want to paint anything again for a long, long time. I felt this way after we painted all our rooms at the Harleyford house, (which is probably why I also procrastinated this time). That time was definitely worse - we painted 4 rooms in 3? days while this time we only painted 1 wall. But at least the rooms were empty last time. Our apartment is kinda small, so we had very limited space to move around and do everything.
So anyway, we're one step closer to finishing our apartment!
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haha, painting our rooms was a crazy idea!! you should be a pro after all we did at that house :P though i'm guessing painting a place you own would require more care than how we did it at harleyford.
ReplyDeleteniiice... thundercloud gray! colors are always different once they fill an entire room.
ReplyDeleteany spots on the ceiling this time? =P or have u mastered painting?
Neutral is definitely the way to go when it comes to wall color, or if it is a color, i feel like it should be a much more muted, subdued color, since they always look brighter on the wall. it also gives you more decorating flexibility
ReplyDeleteno spots on the ceiling this time, but i haven't mastered it completely..we still had that problem of pulling paint when we were removing the tape. We even started ripping the tape when the paint was still wet to try and avoid this problem, but it might've happened because of the 2 already dry coats underneath. i'm not sure..
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