Sunday afternoon boredom

[serenadust]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "cindysphynx" <cindysphynx at c...> wrote:
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> I'm currently painting my daughter's bedroom, so painting 
something 
> is a great thing to do on a Sunday.  There's always *something* 
> around that could use some paint, right?
> 
> BTW, does anyone have any ideas about what to do if the selected 
> paint color is turning out to be way too intense?  Think Green-
Apple 
> Green.  Should I just ragroll or sponge a lighter color over the 
too-
> intense color, re-paint the whole room, or just live with it?
> 
 
I had the same sort of experience myself a year ago with an alarming 
shade of green. If it's just the intensity of the color and not the 
actual shade that you don't like, I found that if I took the trim 
color (off-white in my case), mixed it with glazing liquid 
(available in paint stores) and  sponged it over the green wall, it 
made it look surprisingly nice.  Another alternative is to use this 
glaze to colorwash (I used an old cloth diaper--not ever used for 
it's original purpose) over the green.  That's even easier and 
faster than sponging.
Good luck.

Jo Serenadust, scared of Martha Stewart, but curiously unable to 
look away when she's on tv