I have almost finished the ceiling. Just need one more quick coat and hit the edge again. Earlier, I had picked the color, but coming home from work one day it reminded me of pink way too much. After 6 more colors, 9 in all, I found one that would work. It’s not pink, but has the same softness. It’s a light orangish-yellow. My brain keeps trying to make it pink, but when I look at it close there’s no way. And then it catches me off guard again later.
This has been very difficult, because the light in the hallway has like 8 different moods. Some filtered through the front door, then you round the corner and it’s much dimmer filtered through the rooms. At night there’s no light from outside it’s all the interior lights. Exterior light is very different when sunny than cloudy.
There were 3 original colors. Two of which almost got selected. Then 3 awful colors. Finally, 3 good colors. Ivory peach, which I picked. A white that was hardly different than the primer, really. And Birch Bark, which is oddly attractive in it’s grey green dullness.
The primer was laid down almost as good as the color, two coats I think. That mustard yellow was hard to hide. The ceiling was done in Anthem White like the master bedroom. The leftover almost covered it. If I had watered it down in the beginning it might have. I used a 1 1/4″ nap roller with color on the walls. It laid on really thickly. Some of the deep crevices from the sanded faux finish still show yellow, but there’s no need for a second coat. A paintbrush or foam brush can finish those.
The next big surface area are the doors. They get the same color as the bedroom trim. That trim color for the whole house same as the Anthem White for ceilings. Then it’s all slow tedious detail work. The baseboards still haven’t got a complete coat of primer. The floor has to be taped off.
I can tell I learned alot doing the bedroom. Prime everything. Start at the top and work down. If you lay your colors down in the right order less taping is needed. For example, who cares if you accidentally get ceiling white on the walls if they are covered in primer. And who cares if you get a little wall color on the trim if they are covered in primer.
Two hallway doors haven’t been painted. I plan on replacing both with solid core doors from MRL for privacy, the master bedroom and the hallway bathroom. Little details. At the old dorms at Texas Tech the girls have hollow doors with vents and the guys have solid doors.
Since everything is already strung out, I’ve been playing with the idea of repainting the washroom with the hallway color. It would look sunny, especially with a replacement half-glass exterior door. The view is onto the sunflower and watermelon patches, once I remove the fence panels. And this is where I come into the house. The room is small and it would look much prettier. I can work it into the existing job without much trouble.
Ya know… if you like pink then stick with pink… =/