A Tale of Two Paintings
October 13th to 17th

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After 7 years of life with the light beige paint that is almost everywhere in the house, we decided to repaint some walls! This is a composite of the two bedrooms in question. On left the master and right is "spare". Now everywhere in these pictures the colour will NOT be true.

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Spare room with all the wall stuff removed.

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Just to show how untrue the colour rendition is in these pictures.

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Shadow heading for the hills! This is where he hides out from Charlie during the day.

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First coat of paint on!

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Second coat done and "artwork" returned.

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The master suite before!

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Edges have the first coat. And the bumps in the wall repaired. Some of this is light switches and mirror hangers, we really are not that hard on the walls.

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Rolling on the main paint!

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First coat done!
This is not as dark as expected, we might have to reevaluate after the second coat just how dark we really want it.

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Done!
Found out all the door casings had not been taped off when the beige was applied so they have beige on them!
And we have no idea how we got the mirror up when we moved it. Its hangers required some repair before they would catch on the wall bolts.
The actual shade is a lot darker red than it shows here.

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This is the wall to be repainted in the 'computer' room.
Likely going to be a bigger task to return the art to the wall than paint the wall!

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Found under the two desks in the room were 5 older LCD monitors! Like you always need a spare monitor! But we never have. Until the day after these go to the recycle.

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The desk pulled away from the wall. What you can't see is the 4 sliders underneath the legs that let one move things like this on carpet. I have no idea where we got them but they work like son-of-gun, with a little rube Goldberg jack to lift the table away it went.

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History being a good teacher, we took this reference picture of where things go before they get taken down, The red bedroom wall caused a problem putting family pictures back up.

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Wall taped and ready to go.

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First coat of flat dark gray. You can see some streaks but surprisingly good coverage.

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Second coat finishing up. This is "flat" gray paint, it feels like a paint chalk board and would likely be very effective for the first pass. Bets you would never clean it.

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Art work and desk back in place! Oh well having a placement map didn't help much.

Yes Ard
That blue wall hanging was in my ERIS office 30 years ago!
(Any one with an idea as to how the clean it??

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