(11-15-2022, 09:56 AM)Mikey Wrote:

(11-14-2022, 07:58 PM)Jags Wrote: I’ll say this, I’ve got LED daylight bulbs throughout the house.  Blackout curtains throughout.  When painting a decent swath of paint, there should be very little variables.  We painted a room a grey color that looks to be blue at times and almost purple at others.  My house has been set up that the fixtures all have the same lighting and we can “black out” it’ll we want.  Obviously, there is some sort of light imbalance.  Where??? Idk!!!  I just know it should not be normal for a white to look suede or even “rose gold” when I’ve controlled all other variables.  It’s frustrating, irritating, and most importantly of all, I can’t agree with the wife.  The color we have is amazing.  I don’t understand the want to spend so much money on something we can do ourselves. But, we’ll have a color painted on the wall that we have no clue what it’ll be.She bought more samples. Yay!  (Eyeroll).   She tells me that she read an article about one of the particular colors.  How it shows one colors upon north facing light and another in south facing light.  What the actual [BLEEP]???   Apparently a northern light affect the southern view and vis versa?  [BLEEP] me.  Can’t we just paint the wall gray, white, brown, purple…?  I just want the shot to look the way it looks.

My first guess would be what you're painting over, if the walls were different shades before they may be bleeding through if you aren't using paint/primer blend.

My son's room is a dark blue, repainting that is gonna be a capital-P Project. I am already resigned to first having to primer all walls to get that bleed gone.

Our house painting adventure was fun, former house painter and we live in a wooded area, house was gray and hadn't been painted in ages. I grabbed a bunch of natural tans, ochres, olive, even some grayish blues. First thing wifey says "I don't wanna blue house". Ok, scrap the blues. Tan? eh, greens? eh. yellow? nope. grabbed a few samples, including a light blue, slapped a bit on the back of the house to see how they'd all look.

We have a blue house now.

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(11-14-2022, 08:23 PM)Jags Wrote: Well, damn!  Just [BLEEP] up.  Going over the colors, 8 in total now, i suggested one was too “periwinkle” for my liking.  Whoa!!! Apparently “periwinkle@ was the wrong word to use.  She pissed!

spoiler: that was her favorite.

other spoiler: that will be the color you all go with.

To the bolded: seriously dude?   Smh.  I’d just call it a green.  Gotta bust your balls on that one, lol. But you had “olive” colors involved, so I do understand the need to specify.  


The majority of my walls are a true light gray color.  They look grey in all lights.  We got a home run on that one.  So I don’t think it would be a PIA to paint over.  Supposedly, he’s doing 2 coats all around and 1 on the trim.  Idk if primer is involved or if it’s mixed in with the paint.  However, for whatever reason, my master bath is, no joke, [BLEEP] brown!!!   That’ll need an extra coat!!   

I like our walls (except for the master bath).  I didn’t know the wife got an estimate until she told me a few weeks back.  We aren’t prepared and this guy is supposed to be out tomorrow.  [BLEEP]??   She never put a second coat on her new samples.  We never picked a color(s).  I have a saltwater tank that I’ve relocated the fish but -about 120 gallons worth of tank in the way that I need to sell, a safe that is not getting moved, and a wrap around (corner) desk that spans about 16 feet in my office and a bed in which the delivery guys asked for my help to carry in the head and footboards with a temperpedic mattress that feels like it weighs in at, oh…10 million pounds.   All of which I don’t expect them to move.  But, whatever, it’s game time tomorrow!  I fully expect only 2/3’s of the house to be painted.  Sometimes we just have to let our wives do stupid [BLEEP]???

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