As a way to help our girls adjust to our new home we promised to paint their rooms. I did one yesterday and the other is half done at this point. One daughter picked the same color she had in the last house, which does remind us of the old house. The other picked a bold aqua color!
We needed to buy two gallons for each room. After the first room we did end up with half gallon left over. I expect the same for the second room. We always do two coats, but this paint from Lowe's seems to be covering pretty well after one. But since we bought it and can't return it we are using the second gallon. Lesson learned with this paint, we might just need one coat in future rooms! Sure saves time and money.
Do you do your own painting? Or do you hire it out? Or do you decorate in another way?
Sprucing Up with Paint
July 28th, 2012 at 04:35 pm
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Anything that requires a really tall ladder, we have hired out (living room and exterior). But the price of hiring out was extremely reasonable. I can handle a room "here and there" on my own. For the 8-foot-tall walls it is "do it ourselves."
I got 2 gallons of *really nice* paint for $1 from a neighbor, for our last painting episode, and am hoping we can find a similar deal at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore. But even paying full price for paint, it's a pretty inexpensive way to spruce up a room.
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I watched the prep done by the pro hired by our older neighbor. He sprayed undercoat and two coats of paint on walls, closet doors & bdrm door rooms in one day around $100. per room, extra for prep/taping. It was beautiful work. My friends did all the small details like switch plates, nail holes etc which ratchets up your costs for pro painters.
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