To whoever thought it would be a selling point to paint one of the bedrooms Wal-Mart blue and the other Pepto-Bismol pink: it's not at all charming. Here's what each room looks like with a patch of primer (two coats):
The gray-tinted stuff seems to be quite effective on the blue, but the white is hardly affecting the pink (can you even see where it is?). D's added another coat of white this evening; hopefully that will be enough. Tomorrow, we'll test out some color samples.
To Almost Dr. Sis and Marketing Sis, who will be staying here over Thanksgiving: we promise the guest room will be dry before you arrive in two weeks. But you might have to leave the painter's tape in place -- we're not expecting to get to the actual top-coat color until after Turkey Day, given how slowly this is going ...
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LOL this made me think of when bro-in-law and family moved into a huge new house two years ago, sis-in-law hired painters to do the inside of the entire house. She couldn't wait to show off the house when they were done. OMG the colors made me shudder!!!!! It was horrible to say the least.
Have fun with the painting -- can't wait to see the end result :)
Oh man, that pink is powerful stuff! Good luck!
Sherlock -- yikes. We also gave a tour of the house when we had our housewarming (at the insistence of our guests). There were some odd looks when they saw these rooms. Until we clarified that we weren't keeping the colors, that is :).
TKW -- thanks, we're going to need it! Happy to report that the third coat of primer seems to have done the trick.
So glad the third coat masked the pink. Wow. That stuff really wanted to shine its light, no?
Can't wait to see the finished walls!
Me too, GEW! We actually discovered that there is ANOTHER color under the pink -- some nasty shade of turquoise, visible where the previous residents missed some spots around the baseboards, in the closet, etc. And we think the pink is a home-mixed shade to boot. We found a can of paint that had a label indicating it should be white, but it had dried up Pepto-Bismol drips on the outside. I'm guessing they threw in a little red, stirred it up, and called it a day. Amusing, no?
goodness, isn't that blue dark! I wouldn't like to sleep in such a dark room. Good luck with the transformation
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Thank you, FF -- fortunately no one has had to sleep there since we moved in. D uses it as his office.
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