Rapture Came and We Were Left Behind 5
Kate and I are no strangers to colorful tastes in home decor. Shortly after we met, we spent a weekend painting her apartment bedroom electric blue while I pinky swore that regardless of what happened to the relationship, I'd help her to paint it back in a year when the lease was up. She didn't need to enforce the pinky swear. I gladly helped her to paint the apartment back, but it was a little sad painting a room for bright blue to blah beige just so someone else could move in.
While choosing colors for the bungalow, we had the idea to use warm colors in the public areas, and cool colors in the private areas of the home. The way things worked out, we were supposed to have a red kitchen. Rapture was the exact color name. We tried, we really did, but it just wasn't working out. The rapture came and went, and we were left behind with a splotchy red paint job. After four coats of paint, I would have bet we were in for another four before we would reach anything resembling decent results, so we primed it and repainted. The color we ended up with isn't warm as we originally planned, but, given the infuriating time had with the color red, we were in the mood for something cool and refreshing.
One worthwhile note: we did not use tinted primer before the red went on the wall. It was covering a bright white coat of Bullseye 123, and that was probably our biggest mistake. The guy at the paint desk was kind enough to suggest that, but only after we were picking up our second gallon. We did tint the primer for our second color, and that went up without any problems. One coat of primer, two coats of paint. Just like it should be.
Lessons learned? Tinted primer rules, and red paint is meant for people with a special brand of dedication that we lack.
I once had a deep blue wall in an apartment. Glossy too! I picked eucalyptus leaves from the trees just outside and painted them metallic gold. I affixed the gold leaves to the deep blue wall and it was a thing of beauty. When we left, we painted it Navajo White. I, too, thought it sad to paint over such a lively wall so someone else could have something bland.
Bravo to you for not being afraid to live with color.
We have a red kitchen... it's more browny red, though. We LOVE it. Weirdly, we didn't have any problems with coverage over our SHOCKING WHITE walls... it was fairly cheap paint, too. (Behr). We just did two coats with no priming.
Love color!
That's what happened to us! We painted our bathroom red and the guy at the paint store-- a friend of mine from school-- told us about the tinted primer on our second trip. For the second bucket of paint.
In all fairness, he was not there when we bought the first go round.
The color you went with is definitely refreshing-- I like it!
(btw-- the "rapture" made me giggle. a lot.)
Was it the Home Depot on Linwood? Because that is the exact same thing that happened to us painting our dining room. The first gallon of paint we bought they mixed up and got all ready for us, and we went to work. After we finished that gallon off and still had splotchy wall we went back in and got another gallon. They guy behind the counter saaid "Hey, you will want to put on a tinted primer before you try painting that on, or you are going to have to do 3-4 coats."
Oops....
Anyways, ours seemed to work fine after the third coat, sorry yours didn't work out, but what you have looks great.
Thanks, everyone, for your support -- I think 4 comments is some sort of record around here. :-)
@Why, it is Navajo White that I am running away from with all of this color. My parents bought that junk by the 5 gallon bucket for their small three bedroom ranch, so I grew up surrounded. I'm glad someone (other than my sister) understands why I dislike that color so.
@Jennifer, the tinted primer must be an issue. We used Glidden, but I had my coworker ranting about red paint after he used 5 coats of Behr on his daughter's bathroom.
@Amalie, I'm happy to provide a giggle or two. Finally I understand why I sat through TH 4320, Endtime Prophets, at Rockhurst. It was all for comedy.
@JR, it must be a problem at Home Depots everywhere. We are still living in Olathe while we fix up the KCMO bungalow, so we usually get our fix at 119th and Strang Line before we hop on the highway.