All totalled:
Door - primer, paint, paint, touch up.
Trim - primer, paint, paint, swearing, paint, wondering what the porch would look like painted, grouchy at Sammy, lots of yelling, more swearing, paint, mixing paint like a mad scientist, paint, resignation, finding pennies to go back to Home Depot and try again.
The door before. Well, with grey primer that wanted to suck the life out of me. Our door and trim before before were all white. White wood trim and a white metal door. Just like every other door in our neighborhood...Except the cool black door across the street, but I KNOW he had nothing to do with that.
The door, round one. The paint is SO uneven. The green is brighter than expected. The plum / eggplant is, um RED, even though it's most definitely plum in the can and plum where they blobbed it on top. Great. A psychotic Christmas door. Still happy and have hope. Whee!
Door, round two. I mixed brown into the paint after consulting Sharon, my decorator, and instead of making it richer and darker as we both thought it would, it made it a dusty rose color. Yup. Reminded me of everyone's color scheme from the eighties. Well, swapping the green for blue. Yikes! Resolve weakening...
On a positive note, the second coat of green evened things out and made it a little richer. LOVE the door. Well, except that corner I got a big blob of red/plum/dusty rose on.
More mixing. It goes a LITTLE darker and isn't so scarily the same color as a wooden doll I made at a church activity in college. Still not pretty or what I was after. Blends into the bricks. I'm not looking for a door that blends. Clearly...
Realize it's late and Isaac is coming home. Sore, tired, HOT, cranky. Will go to Home Depot and buy deep purple eggplant this weekend and try again next week. But, until then. Here's the on hold stage three door. When you look at it from the street, the green looks the appropriate mossy / army green. I'm completely in love with it. Except the gold hardware that I desperately want replaced.
The door looks great! The trim will be easy to repaint and you should only need one of those tiny little cans.
ReplyDeleteLOVE the green.
ReplyDeleteAny methods that worked better than others for painting? Did you use a brush or small roller?
We also have the same boring door and I want to paint mine too.
The plum will make it look great!
Becky - I used a brush on the whole thing (door and trim) for the primer and the first coat. My husband convinced me it would be easier! That is why the first round of color was SO uneven. For the second coat on the door, I used a roller. OH MY GOSH so much easier! I didn't have a small enough roller for the trim, so used a small brush, which worked fine.
ReplyDeleteI'm now thinking I'm going a dark eggplant for the trim...
It looks great! Can't wait to see what it looks like with the eggplant :)
ReplyDeleteWe bought tiny rollers and they were really cheap and also used foam brushes for the creases in the door....this was after I threw the brush at the street.
ReplyDeleteBrushes = swearing...they should put that on the box!!
Love Love Love the green. Can't wait what your new adventures hold for the trim :)
Cheryl - right? Sammy learned that painting = fun words!
ReplyDeleteI THINK you should be proud of yourself AND I think it looks great! Pat pat on your back!
ReplyDeleteI really like that green.
ReplyDeleteReally T, I could've found your house without the door.... hehehe!! I like it. I HATE normal standard crap! For the remixing of the paint, I'd have used a dark blue instead of a brown to pull it towards a more rich purple colour. We've been lucky.... we haven't had to restain our door since we put it up. Still looks fantastic; rich rosy-honey colour with some stained glass of kookaburras....
ReplyDeleteThat's right. It was all for you...follow the neon green door!
ReplyDeleteI didn't have dark blue. And I couldn't shut my door to go get some...
Yeah, that's right!! All for me! hahaha Did you have black?
ReplyDeleteMy mom had a peach and green decor in the 80's. Mine was blue and mauve.
ReplyDeleteLove the green. We have to get approval from the HOA to change any colors on our house to anything not on the list. Stupid rules.
My sis had an eggplant door on her house. Loved it.
Thanks for the motivation. I'm finally going to finish painting the trim on my house so I can get to my reward...painting the front door a color other than white. I was thinking red but I'm loving your green.
ReplyDeleteOh, Holly. I'm LOVING the green. It's so unexpected!
ReplyDeleteLove the green door! Good luck with the trim...
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