Painting Before & After: Craft zone
May 28th, 2007 at 8:12 pm (painting)
This is a small area in the basement that doesn’t really have a door on it, but it has two smallish closets with lots of rough shelves in them, and it has doors leading out to a bathroom, the guest room, my daughter’s room, and the door leading IN to the area from the stairwell. Including the closets that 6 doors to put tape around.
I’m a firm believer in tape when painting because I don’t wanna slow down when I’m painting to cut in edges in that ever so careful way you see ‘professionals’ on TV do it. This room is destined to be demolished if and when we ever get our old house sold, and line up someone to come and do the work. So it’s silly that I painted it, but the walls hadn’t been painted in many many years, and it showed. Plus it could be a year or more before we get the money together to do the remodel. In the meantime, let’s paint!
Here’s a before (standing outside doors to guest room and daughter’s room):
Another before, looking the other direction:
I forgot to take a picture before putting the tape up, it’s covering a probably-needs-painting trim around floors and doorways, but no way am I painting trim down there.
And the after:
The difference is amazing. The color is my favorite, “Shadow Beige”, available at Home Depot. It warms it up just enough, and contrasts really well with the white trim and white ceiling. Having the walls look so clean is awesome too. It’s definately not my best paint job; there are still a few thin spots, and the ceiling to wall area is a little sloppy, but for what I wanted it to do - clean it up and make it look all fresh, was worth the $20 on the gallon of paint (of which I still have at least 1/3 to 1/2 of it left).
Now if I just have energy to do a primer coat in the dining room, plus the two full base coats.
Jill said,
May 28th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
It looks great! So much different! Paint does amazing things. I’m impressed that there are no boxes in the room. Are they all moved into the other room or shoved in the closet?
Mom said,
May 30th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
I see your sewing table is being used as a paint station. Were you able to get it replaced after the move and it being broke? Awesome different on the walls.
marta said,
May 31st, 2007 at 11:47 am
It looks fantastic! So, lil’ Miss Energy, when you finish there, you can come over and do my new house…um, that is, when this house, AL’s house are sold and we find a new house. Love all the new colors - amazing what paint will do! I actually finished something - go look (and, yes, that is an order).
Abigail said,
May 31st, 2007 at 9:47 pm
That looks great! We finally got our dining room all sorted out. Now we just need to choose two shades of sage green for the bedroom, and a grey-tone neutral for everything else. I’m also pushing for some color in the spare bedroom but it has to be light and not too flashy, so we’ll see.