[HPFGU-OTChatter] Painting techniques (was: Re: Sunday afternoon boredom)

[Sheryll Townsend]

--- serenadust <jmmears at prodigy.net> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "cindysphynx"
> <cindysphynx at c...> wrote:
> > 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.

Technically, colourwashing is done with watered down
paint (equal parts paint and water), not paint mixed
with glaze, and then brushed on. The brushing is done
with random strokes in every direction and allows the
bottom colour to show through. I wouldn't recommend a
drastic difference in colours, rather something that
will change the colour of the bottom layer of paint. 

We've done both our entryway and the bathroom with
this method. The entryway was painted yellow, then
colourwashed over with a pale peach, leaving us with a
very pale terracotta/peachy colour. My husband did the
bathroom with green colourwashing over a cream
basecoat. The colours are nice, but you have an
obvious brush stroke pattern when you use colours that
contrast too much, as opposed to the subtle layering
of colour in our entryway. 

The only drawback to colour washing is that it doesn't
lend itself to being washed after, so a coat of
varnish is necessary on top of it if you ever want to
be able to wash the walls without removing the paint.
It also makes it pain if you ever decide to repaint
the room, but once you've got a nice colour, who wants
to repaint? :)

Sheryll, who won't watch Martha Stewart but watches
Debbie Travis faithfully

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