N and I picked out a color for the bedroom. We considered the artwork we wanted, the other colors we have selected in the rooms near it (green and orange), and our preference for bright, striking color. This shade of blue is Valspar's Enchanted Sea.
A couple of Thursdays ago N removed the remaining baseboards in the room, and I began taping off the moldings around the windows and doors. After sanding and texturing the patched areas of the walls, we began to paint every area except the patch from the previous door.
I decided to remove the plate for a telephone line that was run into the bedroom, and left it as is in the closet. There was a bundle of wire/cable that ran up from the electrical box through the closet ceiling and into the attic. I simply shoved the cable up the hole in the ceiling, and patched the bed room wall. There was no true electrical box: the phone line and cable were hanging out next to a two-by-four. I kind of made a mess of the wall cutting a hole to pull out a non-existent box.
N sanded down the wall patch (after a disastrous attempt at painting it - did not do a neat enough job with the MUD), and we spread out the patch significantly.
But, not enough. After N finished painting most of the room and everything dried, we realized that it was not as smooth as we had hoped. N sanded the area again, and then applied MUD. Less of the area needed sanding/mudding, which is a sign that we're getting closer to the right job. Here's a spot with a little of texture on (a different texture - the knockback texture without the knockback).
Pictures of the painted room:
Meanwhile, I sanded down the window sills and painted them with the good white alkyd paint. They and the door frames and doors will need to be painted completely.
Is the blue in the picture pretty true? Because I really like it. Sorry to hear that the patch is so much work to hide; hopefully a few more cycles of mud/sand/mud/sand and it will be ready.
ReplyDeleteLove the color! Don't get discouraged; it is really difficult to do wall patching so that the patch blends seamlessly, and that was a really large patch! We are looking forward to seeing and staying in the new and improved blue bedroom next time we visit!
ReplyDeleteYeah, that color's pretty true. It shifts slightly throughout the day, but at that time of the day it was that color.
ReplyDeleteWe're not too discouraged. Finding the right texture has helped a lot - the patch was hampered as much by the different texture as by the slight unevenness.