Decorating (yet again!)
Megan
bathroom that needs redecorating, so I thought I would ask your
advice.
Its currently sort of jade green, slightly bluish, but not aqua.
Rather overpowering, but I've actually got used to it.
Problem is, its a very small room about 6' by 6', maybe a bit more.
The whole area round the bath is tiled (plain white) to the ceiling,
topped off with naff polystyrene coving, which will stay put for fear
of what its hiding. So that bit we don't have to do anything with.
The middle third has doors at either end, one to the outside, which is
fine , the other is actually three doors, which are the access to the
header tank and hot water tank, with a small airing cupboard in the
middle. Due to DH getting bored while sitting on the loo, these doors
need repainting as he peeled the paint off (lack of preparation by
previous tenants).
The wood work (I use the term loosely) is all painted white, and with
the exception of the three cupboard doors is in good condition.
The final third is the real problem. Its where the basin and toilet
are, plus all the plumbing is exposed, which will make things tricky.
There is a very small splashback on the basin, again plain white
tiles, the rest is painted green. The coving had to be taken down for
the new cable trunking in this section, so its a mess at the top
(hence redecorating).
Finally, the ceiling is a horrible pastel version of the green, and
the floor is currently cream with pale blue squares, fake tile lino
type stuff. That can go if necessary - it only cost me a tenner.
Ideas so far: I like aqua. I have a thing about bathrooms being
blue, don't know why. Basically a bluer version of what it is now. I
like the idea of a strong colour even though the room gets no natural
light at all.
DH suggested "a pale skin colour", to which I said "Peach - no!", he
said not peach but lighter. Sounds like the rest of the flat to me -
a sort of creamish off white.
I have countered with yellow to brighten it up - he's not sure about
that.
One idea I have milling about in my head is to use a lighter colour on
the walls and a corresponding strong colour on the three cupboard
doors - I figure that we can't paint them white as they will look odd
being fresh painted.
Anyway, does the ANCW have any ideas, suggestions, etc.
TIA
Megan
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Vicky Larmour
>The middle third has doors at either end, one to the outside, which is
>fine , the other is actually three doors, which are the access to the
>header tank and hot water tank, with a small airing cupboard in the
>middle. Due to DH getting bored while sitting on the loo, these doors
>need repainting as he peeled the paint off (lack of preparation by
>previous tenants).
One note on this point - if he's peeled off part of the paint then you will
need to strip and sand the whole thing otherwise the edges of the peeled
bits will show. Speaking from bitter experience here - I experimentally
peeled a few bits of paint off the door in the room we are re-doing, and we
ended up having to strip it all. Of course, *after* both of us spending
ages stripping it (with a hot air gun) and then sanding it, it occurred to
us that we ought to test it for lead since it was last painted aeons ago.
Sure enough it turned out to contain lead, and we've been inhaling the
fumes and ingesting the dust for the last few days. Lovely. Lead tester
kits only cost a couple of quid from B&Q so I recommend giving it a go
*before* starting work if there is any possibilty that the paint is pre-
1960 or so.
Vicky *wibble*
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Megan
wrote:
but then again I might just have mucked up the snipping as usual!
>One note on this point - if he's peeled off part of the paint then you will
>need to strip and sand the whole thing otherwise the edges of the peeled
>bits will show. Speaking from bitter experience here - I experimentally
>peeled a few bits of paint off the door in the room we are re-doing, and we
>ended up having to strip it all.
Luckily, it came off in a single sheet, practically. Literally just
peeled off in huge chunks. I suspect that there was no sanding prior
to painting it at all!
>Of course, *after* both of us spending
>ages stripping it (with a hot air gun) and then sanding it, it occurred to
>us that we ought to test it for lead since it was last painted aeons ago.
>Sure enough it turned out to contain lead, and we've been inhaling the
>fumes and ingesting the dust for the last few days. Lovely. Lead tester
>kits only cost a couple of quid from B&Q so I recommend giving it a go
>*before* starting work if there is any possibilty that the paint is pre-
>1960 or so.
Eeek! Not nice at all! I'll remember that for any furniture I might
end up refinishing.
I guess we are lucky that we can be pretty sure here, since the place
was only built in 1968. We'll have to remember to get low odour paint
for the bathroom though, since no windows means no decent ventilation!
Shawn & Joy Pennington
"Megan" <megan.mo...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:v3rfft0gblgstr17k...@4ax.com...
> > middle. Due to DH getting bored while sitting on the loo, these doors
> need repainting as he peeled the paint off (lack of preparation by
> previous tenants).
I don't have any words of wisdom, but this cracked me up! Of course, we
just had the discussion today at work about how a co-worker opens her mail
on the pot!
Joy
JH
Certainly more productive than sitting there playing Potty Putter.
Megan
but then again I might just have mucked up the snipping as usual!
>
>Certainly more productive than sitting there playing Potty Putter.
Playing what?
Kris Hildrum
Megan <megan.mo...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>>Certainly more productive than sitting there playing Potty Putter.
>
>Playing what?
Potty Putter! It comes with a mini putting green, a ball and a
club, so you can practice your putting while on the toilet. The first
time I saw that comercial I couldn't stop laughing. It's funny enough to
be a parody. It's one of the more useless products I can imagine, and yet
the ad tries to convince you than any upwardly mobile person really does
need to practice putting on the toilet so that you can make better
business deals on the golf course. In fact, I was taping a program w/o
commercials for a friend, and the ad was so funny that I left it in!
Kris
Megan
Hildrum) wrote:
but then again I might just have mucked up the snipping as usual!
> Potty Putter! It comes with a mini putting green, a ball and a
>club, so you can practice your putting while on the toilet.
I thought that was what it was!
<shakes head>
Not enough room in our bathroom anyway!