Mixmaster

Well I finally got around to starting to paint the walls in the middle bedroom tonight. Got a wall and a half painted before giving up.

Donna originally wanted me to paint it the same color as the other green bedroom, but I didn’t have enough paint to do it. Trying to not buy another gallon of paint, she then suggested I used the color from the hallway. I didn’t want to do that, I barely like it in the hallway, its too light, I wanted something darker. Then I had an idea, I could take some of the other cans of paint I have and pour parts into the really light green and maybe come up with something suitable.

I added what little I had left of the other green bedroom color. I poured in a heaping dose of a forest green that was used in one of the bathrooms (prior to remodeling). Then I tossed in a few dollops of a a sort of olive green that was used on the lower kitchen cabinets. Almost there, it just needed to be a little darker. I added a pinch of some flat black I had used for the interior of the fireplace a long while back. I now a full gallon of a nice green that looked real close to what was in the existing green bedroom. Perfect.

I used a small brush to cut in all the edges and corners. When I started using the roller I was getting black dots at intervals. Ack! Somehow the black paint had coagulated into little beads of black that were invisible in the tray or can, but when rolled on the wall they left behind little black spots. I found that when they popped up I could spot them on the roller and then kind of disperse them using a small brush loaded with paint from the tray. Then with careful reapplication I could blend the paint on the wall to make them disappear (I thought.) After a dinner break I went back in to start painting again, but now that the paint had dried I could see that where I thought the black dots had vanished, they had actually been sort of spread out real good.

Tomorrow after work we are going to stop at Home Warehouse Store and pick up a gallon of paint, so I can start over.