🦋 Preparing and Priming
Ellen and I spent most of the weekend setting up our dining room to paint it: covering the floor with newspaper and drop-cloths, taping edges and corners, and applying primer. It's not a huge room but it's a fairly intimidating job because of how the room is put together: lots of molding everywhere that requires attentive care and the use of a brush instead of a roller, including an insane crown molding that has 12 surfaces -- besides the crown molding there is a chair rail and a baseboard, and three doorways and a window. There will be a whole lot of taping, too, which we have not even started yet; for now we are priming everything together. We made pretty good progress! Finished off a can of primer, we've done everything except one section of crown molding and most of the ceiling. we'll finish that up tomorrow night and then the fun of applying the actual colors begins. Ellen is primarily in charge of the color selection, with input from her friend Lisa and (a bit) from me -- she has settled on some colors from the Benjamin Moore catalog that look pretty nice to me, I will try and find them online and link to a sample.
posted evening of Sunday, October 18th, 2009
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BTW, if you aren't already, plan on doing large test swatches (at least 2x2 & 4x4 is better) for large areas of color; the difference in perceived color for a large area of color against a small one is substantial.
posted morning of October 19th, 2009 by Randolph
Thanks, Randolph -- that's probably a good idea, I'm sort of turning the color chips over in my head but it would be better to get a real-world idea of what the paints look like. I'll ask Ellen if she's meaning to do that.
posted morning of October 20th, 2009 by Jeremy
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