Re: How often do you paint the inside of your hous... - Page 3

151949 · ‎03-09-2010

@bri20 Glad you lime it -- never for me. Why would they name a grey sea glass.? Sea glass doesn't show up in grey.

cherry · ‎03-09-2010

When we had painted walls, we painted every year. Sort of like a spring cleaning deal.

since I have wall paper I have repapered a few times but my walls honestly look like new

bri20 · ‎03-10-2016

Sea Glass really isn't a grey. Depending on the light, it can look blue or green. I prefer my paint colors to have that grey undertone to them. You would have to see it in person to appreciate the color

bri20 · ‎03-10-2016

proudlyfromNJ · ‎05-01-2010

Real sea glass comes in all colors. My sisters collects sea glass from all over the world. She has the most amazing colors and some are gray.

bri20 · ‎03-10-2016

Oh geez. I'm calling it Sea Glass - it's Sea Haze. It looks more like Beach Glass in my room - again due to lighting. Sorry about the confusion

chickenbutt · ‎03-09-2010

Not very!

I've painted many a house, inside and out, in my lifetime. But I've done very little painting in this house since we painted most of it when we first bought it.

I can't really paint anymore because I tend to fall off ladders now. What I painted almost 16 years ago is holding up pretty well, though. I was a realy good painter. I always did the best job possible and made sure I covered super well.

I had one mauve wall to cover and, in another room, one that was some freaky kind of puce or something. I'll tell ya what - that mauve wall was easier to cover than the pucey-yellow-green-ish one!

I love satin finish paint and do everything, in and out, in satin. HATE flat paint and glossy is a bit too shiny for me except maybe in a bathroom.

When we bought this house EVERYTHING was painted in the most super flat flat paint I had ever seen. It was so bad.

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

@151949 wrote:
@bri20 Glad you lime it -- never for me. Why would they name a grey sea glass.? Sea glass doesn't show up in grey.

Oh yes! There are many many shades of gray! There are lots of beautiful green/blue/gray colors that go from green/gray to gray green. "Gray" comes in every color under the rainbow! It is a very complex color. Gray with a little pink is pretty too for many things. Gray that is almost viloet but not quite. . . Gray is great!

My favorite shade of gray/beige is sort of the color of a Siamese cat (the lighter parts) or a chocolate malt can go to the gray side.

151949 · ‎03-09-2010

Another thing that is rather subjective is if a color is warm or cool.I once asked here if kiliam beige was warm or cool. The answers were a just about perfect 50% divide so I went to the Sherwin Williams website and they said it's the perfect neutral. I asked my girlfriend who is an interior decorator - she also said it was totally neutral and will change by what color you put near it and how the sunlight hits it. And here I thought it was an obviously cool color. I think greys may fall into that same thing - different by what colors you put next to them.

I once painted our living room a color I felt was taupe but at night with the lamps on it was a definate pink. i called the painter back and he came over during the day and said - yep it is totally the color you picked, putting the swatch up on the wall against it - and yet at night it was pink. i had him repaint it ivory.