Painting a Small Bathroom
| September 12, 2012 | Posted by Jessie under Bathrooms, Paint |
I revealed our bold stenciled half-bath paint job on Monday and am going to share the paint and supplies that helped me get the tricky job done. By the way, if you haven’t entered to win a stencil of your own, do it now! You have a good chance:)
Ok, onto today’s post. The kind people at Dutch Boy contacted me awhile back to try their new line of paint called Refresh. I jumped at the chance because the paint has so many great qualities: it is low VOC {which makes it safer for your family} and also uses Arm and Hammer to help block odors. Since we were working on a bathroom, I knew this was the perfect opportunity to test the paint out. We chose a soft white paint, called White Lullaby for the background color and the blue color is called American Know-How for a fun punch of color. Dutch Boy was also kind enough to send some Purdy products to help get the job done well:)
I had never used this type of roller before and wasn’t sure how well it would work, to be honest. It was a large and I just wasn’t sure how smoothly it would roll, but I have to admit, I love it. It held a lot of paint at one time and covered a lot of footage with one roll through the paint tray.
I used the Pro-Extra brush to cut in around doors and edges and it worked great also. I have also been using it on the trim I’m very slowly trying to finish:)
And can I just drool over one more thing? The gallon of paint from Dutch Boy has a spout. Yes, people, a spout. If you paint much, you know how awesome this feature is because you aren’t dealing with splattering paint as you nail your lid back on. You twist it back on mess-free. Genius.
And if you missed our “finished” paint job {minus the fact the trim isn’t done}, here are a few pictures of how it all turned out.
The colors are gorgeous and the stencil adds some fun to the room. Since this is such a tiny room, there were definitely challenges. How do you fit a ladder in such a tiny space? Not easily. Hubs had to finish a lot of the ceiling trim because I couldn’t reach all the way around. If you are going to stencil, I would recommend a flat or eggshell for the base coat and then a eggshell or semi-gloss for the actual stencil. I did the opposite, of course, and learned the hard way that eggshell paint doesn’t stick well to semi-gloss paint, which made it a longer process giving each stencil a couple coats before moving to a new area. You live and learn. And pass my mistakes along to you all:) Hopefully in the next week or so we will be ready to show the whole room!
If you want a room re-done, but don’t want to do it yourself, head over to Restore My Decor and enter to win a makeover for yourself!
*Disclosure: Dutch Boy Paints provided the paint and Purdy supplies free of charge in return for a review, however, the opinions expressed are 100% mine.
