Master Bedroom - Paint Project

We've been in the house now since May 2008. From the day we looked at the house, we knew the MB paint would have to change. Surprisingly, this was the only room, well along with the boys' bathroom, that we knew we would paint immediately, or so we thought. We've endured the coral pink walls for the past 14 months and we've talked about it off and on throughout the past 14 months on when we were going to paint. First, I had to buy new bedding, which I continued putting off. I finally bought it about 6 months ago and it sat in a box. Finally, Jason decided we needed to put it on the bed, and it did somewhat coordinate with the wall.

You can see a slight shade of pink in the bedding. Well, that was pretty much the color of our wall, but a little deeper/brighter. So, you see the vibrant red. Pottery Barn showed this in their catalog with a red wall (Million Dollar Red to be exact) and was also shown with a light green wall. Well, the light green wouldn't work b/c the main areas of home are light green. While, I wasn't going for Fire Engine red, I wanted a nice muted red color for our walls.

So off to Home Depot we go with Pillow Sham in hand, just in case I need it for them to color match if they didn't have Benjamin Moore's formula for Million Dollar Red, as suggested by PB. They had the formula for the ever hated Million Dollar Red. So they mix it and we buy 2 gallons of the new Behr's Primer & Paint. Sweet....get home and J preps everything. Open the can of paint and WOW.....it appears to almost be Home Depot orange. J puts a coat on the wall and SHIT.....it is ORANGE-RED. OMG...........it was terrible. He tells me to chill out and let it dry and he'll do a 2nd coat. I've already got my mind made up that this isn't going to work. A few more choice words come flying out of my mouth since we have 2 gallons of custom paint. I don't even let him get the 2nd coat on before I head back out the door to HD. Thankfully, HD is 1/2 mile from our house. Back up to the paint counter.....and of course they look at me like I'm crazy since I was JUST there 45 minutes ago. So.....all they could do was add black to the paint. Dorky paint dude told the Old paint lady to add a 1/2 oz of black to both gallons. Well, Old paint lady decided she would add a whole ounce. I didn't know this until AFTER both pails were sitting on the counter ready for me to leave. So...............I get back and J starts painting. It is looking better and it is closer to what I was wanting. I tried to help, but my roller was taken away. I was the beer retriever and supervisor. Soooooo.........3 coats are now on 2 walls and the trim is done. While the walls are now more of a rust color(brownish/reddish), and not as red as I would've liked, they look great. I think that if the Old paint lady had only put in 1/2 oz of black as she was told, it would be closer to what I wanted. While it isn't exactly what I wanted.......they look fabulous and I don't know that we'll ever be painting our MB walls again. Lesson learned....just color match and not follow a suggested paint color.

Oh....and I had to go back for a 3rd gallon of paint yesterday. We've gone through 2 gallons of paint/primer and we have 2 walls left for 2nd and 3rd coats. Jason said that him painting our bedroom was my birthday present! HA!

Here is a very, very, very crappy picture. You can see (but only kind of due to the craptastic lighting) the fabulous coral pink, Million Dollar Red, and the new color. I have other pictures on my camera, I just haven't downloaded them yet. Due to the flourescent lighting and the sunlight coming in.....it really wasn't great for taking pictures. I was getting cursed at since I was taking pictures and not helping, so I didn't take the time to adjust the lighting. I might've gotten completely fired from my job had I taken any more pictures or tried to adjust the lighting.

Behr's Paint & Primer review: While it was suggested that we would probably only need 2 coats of Paint/Primer, we had to do a 3rd coat. If you get about 12 inches away from the wall...you can still see specks of pink paint through the new color, but we are not doing a 4th coat. The Paint & Primer in one is $8 more/gallon. I guess I'd recommend it, but still slightly disappointed that it didn't provide better coverage. Although, on the display at HD they show that it takes 7 coats of regular paint to do what Behr's Paint/Primer does in 2 coats. So there ya go.....