I have been up to my eyeballs in trying to paint two rooms in my house this week! I am painting the dining room and the kitchen. And did I mention that I am cooking Thanksgiving Dinner tomorrow? Oh yes! For my family of 5 and my parents. So it is a fairly small group, but we will be working in the kitchen and eating in the dining room. Everyone is just going to have to accept the fact that these two rooms will not be looking their best. I only have certain times of the year to get things done, and they are when I am off of school for breaks. I am painting the kitchen nook and one wall in the dining room with Behr premium plus ultra in oolong tea. and the rest of the walls the same paint in garden wall. It is kind of a greige. Is that a word? Oh well! I say it is because my good friend Chrisanne is who I got it from, and she is an English teacher!
I am also going to do a paint treatment on my backsplash to mimic subway tile. The garden wall color will be the grout lines and the subway tiles will be a glossy white. This is not all going to be finished this week. It is a work in progress! At this point, I am not completely sold on the garden wall color. It is a little darker than I planned. I finished a couple of walls after dark last night, and it looked pretty dark, but in the morning light it looks a lot lighter. I am going to keep trudging on with this color because I may like it better once I have that glossy white backsplash finished. Also I plan to do a paint treatment on the green wall in the dining room. Either a stencil or something using painter’s tape, so that will lighten it up a bit too. So that is my story and I’m sticking to it! So here are some pictures of the paint progress. And beware of the massive mess in my house. It happens when you are in the midst of painting. I am getting my daughter on that today so this house will be decent for Thanksgiving tomorrow!!
Update 11/1/14: See the current state of our kitchen here, here and here.
Welcome to my disaster, proceed with caution!
How long is the signature, 1 or 2 inches? Maybe you could leave the sig and draw a line up and down next to it then go over how ever long the sig is and draw another line up and down and do that all the way around to make like a block pattern and paint every other block a lighter color, maybe a light color that is in the pic. That way you could still have the sig but it would lighten it up a little. I don't know thats all I could think of. Good luck!!
Shawn
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ps, would like to see once you figure out what to do.
Great suggestion! I ended up just changing the mat. The signature was also on the picture, so I figured that was good enough.