Got Paint?

[Carols Clucks]

Going to look at the palest of purple paint tomorrow. I am thinking that with the white ceiling and trim, maybe if I do a "headboard" wall with white beadboard and the dark hard wood it will tone it down enough to not make a crackerbox sized room look too bad.

The room is 8x12 so pretty small-even if I have to do all the walls with beadboard it will be okay.

Purples are her favorite color and we used it as an accent on the house already...so why not...(its just paint like Mom says)

 

[Carols Clucks]

We found about the palest color of purple that still had some contrast with white

Today i started picking at the walls in the bedroom I was going to do and what did I find


100+ year old bead board (in redwood) under 3+ layers of wall paper and 2 layers of paint!

I am SOOO thrilled! This bead board goes all the way to the ceiling, a bit higher than I want, so going to cut the top 4' off and put in drywall instead.

With any luck, the bead board ceiling is hidden under a layer of masonite too! woo hoooooo

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

Good luck! Bet it turns out great!


IKWYM on being messy.....although when I paint over my 'homebuilder beige' walls, I will have to put a drop cloth in every single room, even the ones I am not painting in.......... transfer paint is a big issue with me...I seem to get it all over me...then all over everything else.

 

[Laurajean]

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Pale purple sounds much nicer than the hideous shade I had. And my bedroom is only 9' x 9', so talk about tiny! I've got it mostly painted, still need to do the trimwork. It's coming out nice. Makes the room look A LOT brighter in this pale green shade. I've noticed in sunlight it looks pale blue, but with lamps on it looks pale green. Which is fine, more versatile that way. When I bought the color for the walls, I asked for top quality paint with excellent coverage. It worked great. Then I decided to paint the closet white. It doesn't have a door (I may hang a curtain) but otherwise the closet is open to the room, with white trim board. So I ran downtown and asked for the cheapest paint they had, in a basic white. It figured painting the closet white instead of green like the room might add the illusion of some dimension. So I get this cheap paint home, and OMG! It is AWFUL! It's going to take three coats to get full coverage. So paying more for quality paint really is worth it. I am SO glad I didn't choose cheap paint for the walls!

Love bead board by the way, wish I had it in my bedroom. My bathroom has some on one wall, that goes halfway up, I like it.

 

[Carols Clucks]

How fun, I would have picked a green, so I picked it for the kitchen instead. This room is 8x12 and has a similar no door closet (not even full height-it has a cabinet above it that I think I will take the shelf out for now and use for moms "old fashioned" TV

The 4' of bead board I am removing will be used to fill a doorway that we discovered and the rest in other rooms. I am SO thrilled to find it, I had already picked up some (primed-sealed-and painted in the same color and finish) free off craigslist.

Looking forward to pictures of your completed room.

 

[Laurajean]

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Oh, good find! And ditto, post yours too! My project is slow going between work and my poor muscles (and waiting for my bed to be built), but I'm getting there. Can't wait to get a bed in there and actually SLEEP in the room! It's been sitting there all purple and filled with junk since I moved in.

 

[Carols Clucks]

Ha....no before photos...LOL

This was my bedroom as a kid, back in the dark ages like the 70's. I wanted a room with yellow and green and white wicker. I think I picked out the yellow, INTENSE yellow...yikes. Even on the ceiling. My dad liked to "mix his own paint" seems everything was a similar color of a gross green or aqua color. He would just buy a tube of paint tint and put some in and mix it with the left over cans he picked up free. I hated the room from the day I painted it when I was 11. It does not look better decades later!

Oh, I also found that under the vinyl laid over the cotton loop rug laid over the vintage (and worn) linolium "rug", the wooden floor seems to have never been painted. So it should be much easier than expected to sand, stain and seal the old wooden floor.

 

[Carols Clucks]

How is your paint project going?

Any photos of the texture to share?

Any tips?

I have a small room that I am going to have some seriously ugly walls!

 

[debilorrah]

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Personally, I would like pics from BOTH of you!!!

 

[Carols Clucks]

I will post pictures when I do the nice room.

This is a rental with some funky walls, just trying to make it look better.

I should add: it has funky walls I had nothing to with! But we had to make a repair on one wall so I have to tape and mud that wall, thought will I was having fun with joint compound I would look at the rest of the room.

The other room (the nice one-I hope) We removed 3 layers of wall paper and 2 layers of paint to expose the original 120 year old bead board. We found the old cook stove hole and where a sink must have been back in the day it was a kitchen. Seems it was up dated in 1920 (found a paper tucked in by the replacement window) Because we are keeping the beadboard and have places it was missing due to the 1920's update, I have some areas I have to patch. I was not a fan of the beadboard all the way to the 9' ceilings, all the lines felt like bars. So I cut the top 4' off (there is a scar from the previous band at that point and it happens to be a perfect point for a sheet of drywall) The beadboard will be sanded, repaired and painted white. Above on the 4' section will be Moms lavender.

Right now the room is minus the ceiling...lol. It was 3 layers of cardboard, yes cardboard and not the corrugated kind, that was sagging and hanging from the nails and trim strips holding it up. We are going to add some nailers to the joists to better support a real ceiling. Right now that room is kinda airy....it never did have any kind of insulation so you can see the roof and out the vents. So far no critters have dropped in on us. I did discover that probably in the 1920's update (I found an art deco linoleum rug in the closet) when they changed a pantry? to a closet, they used scrap would and the worst construction techniques. Like cutting the door frame for the closet ceiling and failed to attach the ceiling or casing to it (missed by an inch-that would have been fun if I had actually left it alone and put a tv in it as planned) or attaching the door hinge & door jam to nothing but the trim, no wonder it failed, just amazed it lasted as long as it did!