Paint mistake

Mutter_2

I am preparing my house for sale due to divorce.
In better days I purchased 10 ltrs of Farrow&Ball new emulsion in "String" which looked to me white but not bright.

Please don't have a go at me for getting it wrong. Having to decorate and sell against my wishes is heartbreaking.

I have painted around one window and the colour is dark beige and looks horrible to my mind and I may have to live with it for a year or two until sold.

I have bought a huge pot of cheap white silk today, so my question is; Should I carry on with one coat of F&B, then recoat twice with white or will the white cover my mistake without F&B showing through?

When we built this house I stipulated ceilings being high, oh how I'm regretting it.

ormus

why not mix the two together?

allan673

i would just use the white now the white will cover after 2 or 3 coats, and get a roller on a poll for the ceilings, cut in 1st with a brush around the edges and light fitting then use a roller on a poll.

andrew-b

roller on a poll...possible usage for gordon brown??!! Maybe he is of some use after all!

Andy

Mutter_2

ormus wrote: »

why not mix the two together?

OMG ormus, if only you had been here this morning. All prep done yesterday, thought the worst was over.

First the brush. Is it a paint brush or pasting brush? Try, hard work and too soft.
Discarded.
Roller, can hardly lift it and applying it takes pressure I don't have.
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Mhm, unlike paint pads, rollers give a grip for spiders. Paint pads are smooth. Something wrong with the holder and I've used them many times before.
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How high can I reach? Two rungs on a ladder? The ceilng is not high, just higher than regular. ( I had a fearsome fall onto hard floor from balancing on a chair, couple of years ago, now am terrified) Go find a chair so ladder now.
Discarded.
Dining chair in place. Try to step up. No go, too high. Look for footstool as step up but no luck.
Discarded.

When I was younger I'd move heavy furniture upstairs alone. erect fencing, I'd tackle anything. How weak we become when old as I've found today and it's come as a horrible surprise.

DVardysShadow

I would continue with the 1 wall in F&B, then overpaint. Reason is that you may be able to live with insufficient depth of white over the top of it on a whole wall, but if you have an eye for colour and shade, you may see it though several coats of the white [especially if it is DIY grade rather than trade]. Between different walls, you can get away with the difference more easily than on the one wall because different walls are naturally differently illuminated.

Mutter_2

DVardysShadow wrote: »

I would continue with the 1 wall in F&B, then overpaint. Reason is that you may be able to live with insufficient depth of white over the top of it on a whole wall, but if you have an eye for colour and shade, you may see it though several coats of the white [especially if it is DIY grade rather than trade]. Between different walls, you can get away with the difference more easily than on the one wall because different walls are naturally differently illuminated.

I dont like this dry lining and no skimmed finish. Plaster looks and works so much better. has a more solid feel too.

They did have trade paint for newly plastered walls. Should I go for that?

27col

I shouldn't worry about the paint. Whatever you do will be painted over by the new owners shortly after they move in.

rachbc

i'd carry on with the string colour - even though you don't like it (I had it in old house and love it) it will look 100 times classier to a seller than cheap white silk

delain

Silk paint is awful, it looks bad on the wall an any buyer is going to think 'that looks awful and it's going to be a b*tch to get rid of'

I think the farrow and ball colours are nice. If you must have white, get matt.

Crown do a nice off-white called ivory cream, and another one called soft linen.

skiTTish

Beigy colours always look crap when you have only painted a little bit ,try finishing it and im sure it will look betterer