Paint Fail
I know a lot of you have been anxiously waiting for an update on our weekend bathroom paint job. And if this were yesterday, I would be too. Then we peeled off the paint tape last night and this happened:
Oh… and this:
I am so sad! It looks great otherwise (when you can’t see the problem edges). Here is sneak peak for now:
Please excuse the bad pictures but I didn’t really have the heart to spend a lot of time and energy photographing this sad paint job. This failure of epic proportions was a combination of two things. The surface we painted on was not ideal… there was very glossy but cheap paint on the walls before (thus the reason it came off the walls too!) that practically repelled our new paint. If this were not a rental, we would have sanded it down to the drywall and started over. Sadly, this wasn’t really an option and, sadly, it obviously didn’t work out too well for us. Secondly, life got in the way and I waited way too long to remove the tape after the second coat. I think part of me thought we may need a third coat so I kept it on. But alas, we did not and the paint was happier sticking to the tape than it was the crappy, slippery wall underneath.
So we will be using some sand paper and a small paint brush to clean up the edges in the next couple days. We will show you our grand reveal soon!
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Needless to say, we got some pretty strange looks. I had to drive slowly and everyone hated me. But we got our tree home in one piece and Walker planted it in front of the bathroom window so hopefully it will give us some privacy (and also block the view of the side neighbor’s hideous new satellite dish). Happy Arbor Day!
Yay! The shop owner even put a wall hanger on the back for us. :)
