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You are here: Home / Home Improvement / I Painted The Red Room

I Painted The Red Room

February 2, 2009

That’s two down and a bunch more to go.

I really don’t like painting. It’s not that bad once I get into it, but getting into it is the problem. I have found that doing short bursts throughout the day helps. If I put it off for a few days, I am in trouble. I won’t want to start again.

So everyone knows that pretty much the first thing to do when you move into a house is paint. In our last house, we had to paint over the smoke stained walls. That was nice. There were also many problems beyond that. It took me weeks just to prep one room. Everything came out nice in the end, but the whole project took longer than I would have liked it too. Just as I finished every last thing I could have done to that house, we moved.

This time, there really is no prepping. In this last room, I had to spackle 4 tack hole that I put there. It’s refreshing when people don’t smoke, have holes in the walls or wallpaper on the ceiling. Oh, the good ol’ days. I remember laying in bed a few years ago saying, “Pumpkin, we have wallpaper on the ceiling.”

Painting the red room didn’t take long at all. In just a few weeks, it was done. Most of that time was my procrastination. We closed out the era of the dark red and painted on a brighter blue/gray. Again, this is one of those paint colors that changes color throughout the day. I am sure all paint does that.

The dark red was okay, but we wanted to change up the wood grain trim and make it white. We also wanted to room to appear slightly larger. Brighter paint will do that.

I have said many times before, I love white trim. It’s bright and cheery and easily repaired when damaged. Just touch it up. My heart breaks when I paint over this nice wood, but it’s something that I have to do.

Here are some before and after pictures:

Red room – before it was painted

Red room – after it was painted


I think the toughest part was all the taping around the windows. I wanted to maintain the wood window frames, but paint all the trim around it. That way, they don’t get painted shut and they will look more natural. Also, taking the door off the hinges and closet doors down (and painting them) took a while. Other than that, everything went well.

Related posts:

  1. Rolling With the PaintStick
  2. House Painting, Our Cars & No More Garden
  3. Painting the Basement is Finished
  4. PaintStick EZ-Twist Paint Roller
  5. The Wall is Painted

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Comments

  1. Mom says

    November 4, 2014 at 11:33 am

    Great job, Jay. You do nice work.

    Reply
  2. Nicole says

    November 4, 2014 at 11:33 am

    Very nice. I so feel your pain about painting. (Think it’s a coincidence that the first four letters are P-A-I-N?) πŸ™‚

    Reply
  3. Brian says

    November 4, 2014 at 11:34 am

    I think painting a room is the 10th circle of hell. Lucifer hands you blue tape, red paint and puts you in a round room that never ends. Dante did not write about that in his book-that is how much painting is disliked.
    On a lighter note, I took your advice and added a few videos to my blog. You are right, the number of visitors increased dramaticly! I posted some videos of me standing a post in Times Square on Super Bowl Sunday. Check it out if you get the chance.

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