Y’all, thanks so much for your awesome feedback on the powder room’s new paint job! I did a happy dance each time I read one of your comments. :)
Sometimes in the blog world it’s easy for there to be a misconception that all bloggers’ projects go just as planned from start to finish, and that there are never any failures. Lest you get the impression that all my projects are successes (ha!), let me assure you – my first attempt at picking a paint color for the powder room was a complete and utter disaster. In the words of my husband, “Take 1 was an epic fail.”
I wholeheartedly agree.
I should have been tipped off when I opened the paint can (Behr’s Moonlit Pool) and instead of looking like this:
it looked like this:
But back at Home Depot the paint guy had assured me that it would look like the sample once it was dry and I had a few coats on the walls. Sure, why not?
It did not look promising.
Then it looked even worse . . .
. . . and when the first coat was finished it looked appalling.
I decided to stick it out and power through 3 coats, just in case the Home Depot guy was right and the paint would look superb once I’d gotten enough of it on the walls.
Sadly, that was not the case. It doesn’t look so bad in this photo but trust me – it was blinding. And still very patchy. I almost thought Jason might divorce me. My sister saw it, too, and said “Wow, that’s turquoise!”
Not exactly what I was going for. Luckily, after one coat with the new paint I was feeling much better.
Anybody else have an epic fail out there that will make me feel better? :)
P.S. My mom says the paint in the powder room is royal blue, not slate blue, so there ya go.
