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    Default New tricks for old eyes!!

    Just as I'm about to embark on some serious shed time SWMBO decides the house needs a coat of paint.

    She is actually right, but I don't admit to that. The walls are a reasonably innocuous pale grey BUT, every room
    has feature wall and therein lies the problem.

    Some of the walls are/were very garish - purple, vivid blue etc. The real trouble however, lay with one particular colour.
    The feature in the office and the laundry ( for Pete's sake! ) is a mauve colour not too far removed from the grey in most
    Light conditions.

    So, Ana takes a nice sized sample from the Laundry and we trot off to the paint shop. Get 15 litres with 1/2 tinting as we
    wanted to go lighter. Well Guess what? Ana took the colour sample from the wrong wall!! But worse still, we did not even
    realize that the bloody laundry was two tone until this morning!!!!

    Now we have 15 useless litres of paint!!!!
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    Jeez I hope I never get old
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    Quote Originally Posted by artme View Post

    Now we have 15 useless litres of paint!!!!
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    Make her paint the shed interior with it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rod1949 View Post
    Jeez I hope I never get old
    Arrangements can be made - at a price of course.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rod1949 View Post
    Jeez I hope I never get old
    It may not be much fun, but it beats the alternative!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chesand View Post
    Make her paint the shed interior with it.
    Why should I suffer????

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    Take a close look at the tints applied and see if you can re-tint to a better colour.

    Black is a colour

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    I am not laughing ... Truly ... I am not.

    Nope ... Definitely not me

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    Quote Originally Posted by DavidG View Post
    Take a close look at the tints applied and see if you can re-tint to a better colour.

    Black is a colour
    Yeah right!! Did you know that black is the absence of all colour?

    Actually did that and the new colour -involving more black - came out reasonably well
    but not a good enough tone for the whole house.

    Apart from the obvious lesson I learned a bit from this experience, namely:

    Red ochre is a very difficult tint to subdue but it can be muted somewhat with green.

    Black dulls red but not entirely. Tends to make things a bit dirty looking. Do not laugh!!

    I still don't want pinkish/mauve coloured walls.

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    Not me ... I'm not laughing either ... definitely not ...

    But I reckon a whole big bunch of us are having a déjà vu moment. I am, and I would much rather forget.

    Keep smiling!

    John

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    Quote Originally Posted by artme View Post
    I still don't want pinkish/mauve coloured walls.
    We moved into a house with one room exactly like that except all four walls were a different shade. They must have been running short and adding more water after finishing each wall.
    Cheers,
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    Had a bugger of a day. We've had a painter in and he had gone ahead with a border of
    the mauve/lilac around each side of each wall in two rooms. He had the day off today.

    One room he then painted with the final colour that had the black and green added to it.
    This looked fine except that the border of mauve still showed through the new colour.
    I went round those ares and redid them. Not a bad result but there is a shade of muted
    mauve still discernible in parts. Bloody annoying to say the least!!

    I might summon the energy and enthusiasm to sort it out at a later date, but not as early
    as tomorrow!!

    Bought 10 litres of the CORRECT shade of Grey for the rest of the hacienda so the painter
    can play with that tomorrow.

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    Quote Originally Posted by artme View Post
    Had a bugger of a day. We've had a painter in and he had gone ahead with a border of
    the mauve/lilac around each side of each wall in two rooms. He had the day off today.

    One room he then painted with the final colour that had the black and green added to it.
    This looked fine except that the border of mauve still showed through the new colour.
    I went round those ares and redid them. Not a bad result but there is a shade of muted
    mauve still discernible in parts. Bloody annoying to say the least!!

    I might summon the energy and enthusiasm to sort it out at a later date, but not as early
    as tomorrow!!

    Bought 10 litres of the CORRECT shade of Grey for the rest of the hacienda so the painter
    can play with that tomorrow.
    Please ... I beg of you ... STOP IT.

    I told you, I am trying to forget. Your posts have brought on a recurrence of nightmares about grey paint and silver wallpaper ... done three or four times until herself was happy.

    Arghhhh ....

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    Quote Originally Posted by John Samuel View Post
    Please ... I beg of you ... STOP IT.

    I told you, I am trying to forget. Your posts have brought on a recurrence of nightmares about grey paint and silver wallpaper ... done three or four times until herself was happy.

    Arghhhh ....
    Easy solution John - just stop reading my posts!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by artme View Post
    Easy solution John - just stop reading my posts!!
    Artme,

    There are a few people whose posts I nearly always read ... you are one of them.

    Before the grey and silver nightmare event, there was a house we bought in Arana Hills. It was the first place we owned. The entire house was originally painted beige. The first owner decided to pimp the place. Every room got at least a feature wall ... in purple, orange, mission brown or similar. Some rooms got a feature wall and ceiling. Two of the bedrooms got the whole hog ... all walls and ceilings painted a single colour. One was orange and one was purple ... and these rooms got curtains to match.

    In the name of pity, stop it before the memories overwhelm me. Post something else ... please ...

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