We got a little ahead of ourselves in William's room the other night and started priming before we did the orange peel texturing for the walls. Oops.Since absolutely nothing is happening as far as the bathroom tile or the roof at this point - we dove in this weekend and started working on William's room in earnest. We even mustered the energy to stop by Lowe's with all five of the kids in tow to pick up the paint for the room. Yes, it's a bit premature - but I thought having the color on hand would be motivational.
Silly me.
I slathered some of the base color on a small portion of wall today to just get a feel for how the texturing would look when the room is done... And I admit I was a little shocked at just how dark the base coat was going on -- but green can be a strange paint color... and I was hoping it would dry lighter. It didn't.
Undaunted - I opened the glaze color and applied some over the top earlier this evening to see what would happen.... Nothing happened. The glaze simply disappeared into the dark, dark base color. Erg.
The base color I selected was LaFonda Cactus -- an earthy green just a tad lighter than the Sag Harbor we used in our dining room. The glaze color I selected was LaFonda Deep Olive - a really bold and dark jungle shade of green. Applying the actual paint we have to the walls separately -- it looks like our paint-mixing gal switched the two colors... leaving me with a super dark base and an only slightly lighter glaze. That still leaves me at a loss as to why the glaze coat just disappeared into the base, however... I am actually wondering if both base and glaze are actually mixed to the same color (with the glaze drying lighter on its own simply because it's a glaze... not because it's actually a lighter color).
The only thing we know for certain is that the paint was mixed incorrectly in some fashion.
I'll be really relieved when this cycle of color mixups has ended and we can move on.
Silly me.
I slathered some of the base color on a small portion of wall today to just get a feel for how the texturing would look when the room is done... And I admit I was a little shocked at just how dark the base coat was going on -- but green can be a strange paint color... and I was hoping it would dry lighter. It didn't.
Undaunted - I opened the glaze color and applied some over the top earlier this evening to see what would happen.... Nothing happened. The glaze simply disappeared into the dark, dark base color. Erg.
The base color I selected was LaFonda Cactus -- an earthy green just a tad lighter than the Sag Harbor we used in our dining room. The glaze color I selected was LaFonda Deep Olive - a really bold and dark jungle shade of green. Applying the actual paint we have to the walls separately -- it looks like our paint-mixing gal switched the two colors... leaving me with a super dark base and an only slightly lighter glaze. That still leaves me at a loss as to why the glaze coat just disappeared into the base, however... I am actually wondering if both base and glaze are actually mixed to the same color (with the glaze drying lighter on its own simply because it's a glaze... not because it's actually a lighter color).
The only thing we know for certain is that the paint was mixed incorrectly in some fashion.
I'll be really relieved when this cycle of color mixups has ended and we can move on.
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