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Sunday, July 25, 2004 Seeing Red Well, the Sunroom/Family room is finally painted red. Only is instead of looking warm and groovy, it sucks ass. I don't know exactly what's wrong, but the paint doesn't go on right. Or maybe it's my technique (but the more I think that, the more I realize that I paint the same way I've always painted. And I've done many rooms. This is the only one to come out funky like this. 
There's a molted effect, where the red doesn't seem to apply evenly. Only when I'm putting it on, it seems fine. As it dries, there are sections where the undercoat comes through. So there's darker areas and lighter parts. But it doesn't look good at all. It looks sloppy and unprofessional (not that I'm a pro painter or anything). Tine is really unhappy and I can't say I blame her. I don't like it either. But I am sick of painting. Counting the primer coats, I've now put 5.5 coats of paint on those walls. I can't paint anymore. I'm just burnt out on it. Besides, I don't think slapping coat after coat will actually solve the problem. The unevenness will just be ported to the next coat. And we need to get on with our lives here. I've been painting that room on and off for over a month now. I've never seen paint go on like that. So, it's either the fact it's red and there's some inherent mega difficulty in applying red to a wall (which we were warned about), or it's the primer. I thought it might be because it's the darkness that keeps coming through. They made up the primer to be a very dark grey, almost an off-black. And that's the dark that keeps coming up. So, without bothering to research it in the slightest, I've decided to jump to a conclusion and blame Home Depot. Yup, they blow chunks. I went looking for help and they gave me too dark a primer, probably in some scheme to get me to buy more paint. Oh, they're insidious like that. An evil mega-corp that only wants more of my money. Greedy bastards... Yessirrie, not my fault in the slightest. You suck HD. posted by Evil Wayne | 10:56 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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