Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Help with an ugly paint job!!?

I painted my bathroom this weekend. I chose Behr's Crushed Orange because on the internet it looked really nice. Well....it's much more orange than I anticipated and now I feel like I'm peeing in a giant pumpkin. I was hoping for a warm Southwestern-y feel...is there something I can put over it to tone it down? Or does anyone know a color that will cover orange well??? Thanks!Help with an ugly paint job!!?
I am not familiar with Behr, but generally there is nothing you can put over it to tone it down. If you like the tone you can add white to some more and repaint.





All colours will cover orange, you just might have to do a couple of extra coats. And contrary to popular DIY belief, there is no need to prime or use Kilz. Primer is for bare surfaces and a few problem surfaces. Just buy quality paint which will therefore have a high pigment content to obliterate the orange colour.





Choosing paint colours always is a slight gamble. Swatch cards will often be different with ech run at the printers, each machine can or factory batch may be slightly different to the rest. And then the same colour will look different from room to room, wall to wall, at different times of the day, in natural and artifical light and with whatever other colours are near it.Help with an ugly paint job!!?
You can put another colour over it. This time take a colour chip home and look at it carefully in the bathroom. You could just paint right over it to cover the whole thing, or use a textured painting technique such as sponging to put a lighter or less bright colour over the orange which could look very Southwest. Every place they sell paint will have brochures about these techniques, and the staff should be able to advise you too. You could also try painting one wall a different but harmonizing colour
put some white paint over it; the ';orange'; will still show thru but hopefully will be a softer apricot color which is yummy instead of pumpkin! good luck!

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