Just go for it, if you don't like it. Redo!
Blooie, pick a single wall to make an accent. Start there and live with it for awhile before painting another. If you don’t like it, try a different color or return to original color.
It’s gonna be hard enough for these two old, crippled up geezers to be going up and down ladders the way it is. Redoing isn’t quite as easy as it sounds.
We have to paint every room in the house, even if we stick with white. These homes are shipped from the factory sprayer-painted with white flat paint. Flat paint is fine for ceilings, but not for walls! It’s in every room - even in the bathrooms. Who puts flat paint in bathrooms and kitchens? The house was delivered with a 5 gallon bucket of Delicate White Interior Flat paint too, like I’m gonna use it anywhere. Well, come to think of it, the ceilings might could use another coat, but that’s way down the road.
Paint the ceiling first, much better that way if you drip on the walls. Think about getting shades of a similar color for adjoining rooms. Often the color samples are helpful in that regard.It’s gonna be hard enough for these two old, crippled up geezers to be going up and down ladders the way it is. Redoing isn’t quite as easy as it sounds.
We have to paint every room in the house, even if we stick with white. These homes are shipped from the factory sprayer-painted with white flat paint. Flat paint is fine for ceilings, but not for walls! It’s in every room - even in the bathrooms. Who puts flat paint in bathrooms and kitchens? The house was delivered with a 5 gallon bucket of Delicate White Interior Flat paint too, like I’m gonna use it anywhere. Well, come to think of it, the ceilings might could use another coat, but that’s way down the road.
This is all so new to me I feel like such a dummy. What has me stumped isn’t the actual room painting, it’s the amount of open transition we have. For instance, the living room is a stunning (I think, anyway) blue/gray color, so if I paint the hallway sage green and the kitchen blue, no matter where you stand you can see every different color running into each other. Circus tent. On the other hand, if I paint everything so it transitions into the living room color, that’s a lot of various grays….be like living with an elephant surrounding me.
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You can see the living room from the kitchen.
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Standing in the same spot to take the picture, the hall wall also doubles as part of the kitchen and dining room walls.
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It’s all so confusing to me…
You’ve got a ton of storage in there!!! Wow!
Our old house just had that gloomy, greasy, cheap paneling on all of the walls, not the beautiful stuff like you have. Well, the backsplash in the kitchen wasn’t paneling. When Ken’s aunt lived in it, she was given a partial box of floor tiles which she promptly glued to the area around the sink. I never could pry, peel, or chemical those things off.
Dynamite might work!
Not my problem now….that old house is long gone!
