painting a room|I’m painting over a previously sponge painted room. How do I prevent heavy sponge marks from showing through?
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painting a room–: I’m painting over a previously sponge painted room. How do I prevent heavy sponge marks from showing through?
The current sponge color is a blue-ish gray and I’m covering it with apple red. I’ve tried sanding. If I prime, can I just use a light color paint rather than true primer?
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Answer by Alex J
no idea
Answer by Mermaid
Lightly chizle them off?
Answer by Blahhx16
I think a light color should cover the marks up, but If you want to be sure that they’ll go away, just go with a thick primer.
Answer by CT
Primer is different than light-colored paint. You might as well just stick to the primer.
Answer by Travis J
make sure its sanded very smooth. and use 2 or more coats if you have to.
check out my video:
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Answer by RickyRedwood
IF you want to do it right, you use primer. If you don’t care, you use a lighter color paint. However, the lighter color paint might not give you the same coverage as the primer. This means that you’ll end up doing multiple coats. Additionally, the old paint might “leach” through to the new paint and you still haven’t covered up the sponge marks.
I would use the primer.
Answer by Skt
primer wold be better especially if you want to get the true color you paid for
Answer by Kinky
I suggest using like a pink tint primer, so for when you paint it shouldnt been very noticeable. Also I dont know how many coats you are planning on painting, but I suggest two at least.
Answer by unknowing
I was going to suggest sanding a bit first. But, I noticed that you tried that.
I would definately use a dark colored primer. The primer will cover all the previous paint and make the new paint stick better, look smoother and look richer. Also, it will reduce the number of coats you have to apply. One or two coats with the right primer is all you should need.
Answer by TheRock
Use a primer that is tinted a couple of shades lighter than the red you’ll be using. Most paint stores will tint the primer for you.
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My bedroom is currently a pale yellow, and it is pretty large. I want to make it feel cozier and smaller, so I was thinking about painting it a deep purple or wine color? I am Italian so i would like it to reflect that as well… Any ideas on room color, decorations, curtains, etc? Open to all ideas, thanks a lot!
Oh and i would like to add that i don’t mean a dark, blackish purple, i meant a more magenta-purple that is deep but a rich color.
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Answer by ♥ello
wine for 1 wall yes.
whole room no.
wine and white would be nice. with black iron furniture or dark brown wood. dark brown furniture would look great.
with maybe some green accents?
plain white curtains if the wall is red and wine curtains if the wall of the window is white.
Purple won’t reflect your Italian culture.
plus it will make the room look VERY VERY dark.
if your not Emo don’t do purple.
Answer by hungryeyes
I would say wine and maybe an off white. You could paint all the walls wine but make the ceiling another color, or might feel closed in. You could do a texture paint, very easy. Take a crumpled up plastic grocery bag, dip in paint lightly, put to wall and swirl in circular motion, then dab the bag over the area you just painted. When dried it gives it a “leather” look, very beautiful and warm. As far as italian, you could decorate with decanters, wine bottles and photos/paintings of vineyards, grapes or wines. Accessorize with fringed pillows, rugs and fringed or beaded lamp shades.Good luck and have fun!
Answer by alexchayo
i would color stripes of wine color
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prime it first. If you’re willing to use a light colored paint, what’s the big deal with just going to primer and doing it right?
Otherwise you’re going to be ther for ever with paint stripper or a belt sander.
If you’re going to take the time to do it then you might as well do it right the first time. First use a light gray primer not paint to cover the old color. The primer is made to cover old paint with a even color coat. Using a light color paint would probably not work as some times the old paint color can bleed through the new paint and you would have to spend more money to get more paint to cover and color evenly.
You ever hear the old cliche “there’s never time to do it right but always time to do it over?” Well having to do it over can be more time consuming and costly then doing it right the first time…..
It’s hard to tell if a previous coat is going to show through or not. Fortunately for you, the sponge painting includes the whole wall, or room and if it telegraphs through, it won’t be noticeable. Or if it does, it will look like normal texture. The sanding ideas are good, although real hard to do. A lot of work. The priming ideas are good also, might eliminate or minimize the problem. Sometimes, heavy bodied exterior paints make a good interior primer. I’m talking about old paint that you don’t have to buy.
I think this story is funny. My friend’s girlfriends parents were going out of town. They gave her the job of painting the living room while they were away. She of course enlisted the help of my friend Steve. Steve, as a joke paints F_CK YOU on the living room wall with a nine inch roller at the start of the project. With the same color of paint her parents choose. He intended to paint over it as soon as the laughter died down. No matter how many time he painted over it, the print still came trough. He had to paint the wall over 6 times to get it to cover over. So it doesn’t take much of a pattern to show through.