Paint the Red Room

The mid-hallway bedroom was a deep dark red, but painted splotchily.  It needed help.

So we got some primer, some paint, some brushes, some tape, and all the other good stuff, and got ready to paint.  I taped all the molding, ceiling and removed the outlet covers, and we were ready to go.

Since it was a deep red, we had to use primer to make sure that it wouldn't bleed through when we painted.

Turns out we needed two coats of primer.  Maybe overkill, but we wanted to be sure.  It wasn't the best primer job ever, but it did the trick.  We sanded some parts down to make it smoother, but there were still some sloppy parts (mostly my doing).

We got to painting, and things went fairly smoothly...until we peeled the tape off.  We used latex-based paint and primer, which, when dry, gets very stretchy.  The tape pulled some of the paint with it, and we were left with a bunch of uneven areas, around the ceiling and molding.  What a pain.




So we had to pretty much re-do all of the trim.

After a full 2nd coat, and some touch-ups we finally got the room to decent condition.  Not the greatest paint job ever, but I think the room looks pretty good now.  Now just to furnish it...