https://www.susanthepainter.com/articles daily 0.75 2016-12-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1480815775018-YNDXH6FK7MT15OIBVP02/Cat+on+ladder.jpg Articles https://www.susanthepainter.com/pet-supervisors daily 0.75 2017-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1507051684102-D8NY3DZTB8E0EIHJKHBD/Ellie+May_opt.jpg Pet Supervisors https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/59cfedf69f74567b7ee4bd29/59cff15a29f1874f7092b1b2/1506802798788/Ellie+May_opt.jpg Pet Supervisors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1506805413934-0OLATM0HZONZ35ZR1AXI/Ellie+May_opt.jpg Pet Supervisors https://www.susanthepainter.com/room-colors daily 0.75 2016-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1481418041783-JADYVAYYXOB79O27OFGN/MY+kitchen+1.jpg Room Colors This kitchen (my kitchen) was painted to suggest the medium-dark blue of a French kitchen but it wasn’t quite the right blue and because of that it always seemed a bit off to me. The backsplash area wasn’t painted because I was planning to get it tiled (but I didn’t get around to it). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1481418042858-IPFL7P8V6ANEIXDT5B2Y/my+kitchen+2.JPG Room Colors I repainted the walls with a rich teal, which I like much better. The room is brighter on sunny days. Since I haven’t decided yet what to do with the backsplash area, I painted it the same teal color for uniformity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1481418184547-IYC1FVDAN1AWBBMZ9CSV/my+green+1.JPG Room Colors The walls in this living room and stairwell (mine) were white when I bought the house. I knew I wanted a green for the walls, and when I chose this green and started painting with it, it seemed rather dark to me compared to the white but I did like it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1481418182477-O83IVOQOJ8ZADSGZHEDG/my+green+2.JPG Room Colors Years later, the green didn’t seem rich enough to me and I wanted a darker green. This is the new darker green being painted over the old lighter green. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1481418183923-O3YJ4GUM3MQUG95I14JA/my+green+3.JPG Room Colors This isn’t the best photo but for now it shows the difference in the room with the darker green on the walls. Among other things, I think the woodwork looks much richer against the darker green. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1481418185481-2HLVGLQPLR7QM9VRCHHW/my+green+4.JPG Room Colors A photo of the other side of the living room shows the darker green a little better. This green, along with the teal in my kitchen, are the second darkest colors on Ben Moore color strips. People often shy away from dark colors out of a fear the rooms will seem too dark or the color will close in the room but I don’t find that to be the case in any of my rooms. I think dark colors can add a lot of presence and character to a room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1481418862959-VJYMD3NUUZQCLJUIZN0U/stripe+1.JPG Room Colors I forgot to snap a photo of this powder room wall before starting. All the walls in this powder room are a sage green color, and my client wanted one accent wall with white stripes. Having measured 6” increments across the wall and mapped out where to add the white stripes, I applied yellow Frog Tape to ensure sharp lines when painting the white stripes.   Note: The white papers are my visual reminders of which columns will be painted white. For balance, the accent wall starts with a white stripe and end with a white stripe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1481418864372-NW2RENJFW2LE0WM7SRDJ/stripe+2.JPG Room Colors This is a view of the finished striped wall with the powder room’s door open.   Again, the solid green background was the color I painted the whole powder room first. By painting white stripes over it, the end result was green and white stripes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1481418864091-OOA2FY6WFVTT9OL4ETWH/stripe+3.JPG Room Colors This is as much of the wall as I could photograph with the door closed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1481418865267-E5PU3TQ3YE0MKV1F2VF3/stripe+4.JPG Room Colors This powder room wall is sage green like the others but the photo exposure makes it appear lighter. The mirror above the sink shows the striped wall opposite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1481416808657-YZXK5PTZWE93ZKD55MUE/Den+1.jpg Room Colors My clients wanted to convert the den/spare room into a nursery for their first child. To make the room more fitting for a baby, they wanted the woodwork to be white, and they wanted to add more color into the room by changing the white ceiling and wall color.   Note: the dark color of the doors and wainscoting conflicts a bit with the lighter color of the wood floor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1481416808657-3BP3NM4QD1U839QY0E9E/Den+2.jpg Room Colors Painting the doors and wainscoting white lightened the room and made it seem more fitting for a nursery. Also, the doors and wainscoting, now that they’re painted white, no longer conflict with the color of the wood floor, and that removes a feeling of tension from the room and helps lighten things. The green adds cheerfulness to the room.   Note: this room didn’t have a distinct ceiling like most rooms, it had a lot of angles in it. To create a unified feel in the room, the ceiling was painted green to match the walls; this created an uninterrupted experience of the color. It’s the same green on all surfaces, it just looks a little different in some places in the photo because of shadows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1481418658919-ZKQQIV817SO8B6V1Y290/Entrance+1.jpg Room Colors Light colored wallpaper was stripped in this entranceway and stairwell. This photo shows the stripped walls with one coat of white oil-base primer on the walls to seal the old wallpaper adhesive residue. There’s nothing wrong with all white rooms but without color, there’s not much to focus visual interest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1481418661161-VYFQCVQNU4IL05MWRFQ3/Entrance+2.jpg Room Colors Painting the walls a light-tone tan was an understated way to define this entrance area, it’s enough to focus visual attention. And using a brighter white on the woodwork makes the tan walls stand out even more. The tan walls in this entrance area are now similar in tone to the green walls in the living room, which creates a feeling of harmony and flow even though they are two different colors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1480813920699-36R8NOEDZ12JS15IF0NM/Blue+bathroom+door+before.jpg Room Colors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1480813931790-HMW2ESXH99FCBPOH9RW2/Blue+bathroom+door+after.jpg Room Colors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1481417762230-SSK5XB76GPUO1PQRSNS1/family+room+1.JPG Room Colors In another example of paneling, this photo shows the TV room of a house when it was on the market. The buyer (my client) thought the paneling made the room look a little dark and dated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1481417764026-57G32IVRHEZXD4O1TRXZ/family+room+2.jpg Room Colors Results after priming the paneling with a bonding primer and then applying two coats of a soft white paint. My client was pleased with the results, which she thought made the room look lighter and more modern. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1481418504628-WOUZNH3PRIG096QN9RTJ/FrS+1.jpg Room Colors The wall color in this bedroom was neutral for years, which suited the occupant. But the new owner wanted to make a big change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1481418506637-J7931PLXESM56BBGLJ5P/FrS2.jpg Room Colors The dark gray on the walls makes the room more distinctive and personal. The strong masculine color suits the current owner very well. The brighter white on the ceiling lifts the ceiling up a bit and makes the gray walls pop a bit more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1480811900595-3Y8V3NEEU9N8RK1W1DVM/Home+Page+Color+Image.jpg Room Colors https://www.susanthepainter.com/repair-work daily 0.75 2017-10-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1481325979237-O6NK0U5QTQS5AP8KPCL8/bath+1.jpg Repair Work Water damage on ceiling and wall. A quick look may suggest the damage is only superficial flaking/peeling paint but the amount of moisture/water needed to cause this reaction in paint means the water most likely damaged underlying wall layers as well. Note: before starting repairs, a big paint chip of the existing wall color was carefully removed from the wall. The paint chip was taken to a paint store where a computer color matching system matched the color closely for the new paint. Having closely matched the paint color, I was able to repaint just the repaired area and have it blend in to the rest of the ceiling and wall area, rather than painting the whole room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1481325975569-L7SO4NKGI7ZGW0L5F1CD/bath+2.jpg Repair Work Loose damaged plaster had to be removed down to the brown coat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1481325978292-R64PAD330ZFBNUX3X046/bath+3.jpg Repair Work Results after (1) repairing the damaged areas, (2) sanding and priming the repairs, and (3) matching the existing paint color and painting the repaired area. Note: Paint was still wet in places when this photo was snapped. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1481327990730-RCJVVPFPF7HIW6Y0H4I4/graffiti+1.jpg Repair Work Walls in this basement room were damaged with magic markers and pens (ink) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1481327990817-FD0R9WOR0K3T6LDZIKBB/graffiti+2.jpg Repair Work Five coats of very heavy duty shellac-based primer were required over the magic marker and ink areas to completely seal them (the marker and ink kept bleeding through the primer until the 5th coat). Once the marker and ink stains were sealed, two coats of white paint were applied to the walls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1481327525051-BXBUYFCGXVD6AU7DG17F/extreme+strip+1.jpg Repair Work These bathroom walls had wallpaper on them. When the wallpaper was hung years ago, the walls were not properly prepared first. Years later, when the wallpaper was removed, the removal badly damaged the drywall around this sink area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1481327528359-9V0WP4WCDA7X7QX3XQBO/extreme+strip+2.jpg Repair Work Before starting repairs, the damaged walls were primed to seal and stabilize the drywall surfaces. Then numerous coats of joint compound were applied to the entire walls to smooth them out. The repairs were sanded, primed, and then the walls were painted with two coats of the blue paint. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1481327526192-EAPV9KDMXFNP0QF0E82C/extreme+strip+A+with+text.jpg Repair Work The left wall around the sink also was damaged during the removal of wallpaper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1481327527684-255644RMPSDV8TKKNI23/extreme+strip+B+tweaked.jpg Repair Work Repairs here were handled the same way https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1481327544218-6Y83EOHMXIKHM1VTQ05A/extreme+long+shot+1.jpg Repair Work Whole bathroom Before https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1481327541692-HUDJXX3URMMAQM239WRK/extreme+long+shot+2.jpg Repair Work Whole bathroom After https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1481326978681-CBDO5KOKE20B3DLW8HI7/ceiling+1.jpg Repair Work Water damage on drywall ceiling. The hanging piece is old drywall tape (paper drywall tape), which is used to bond the seams of drywall together. A water leak from above made the paper tape wet and caused the bond to fail, separating it from the drywall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1481326977150-LNF5JLCSOCQRTUBFRJ37/ceiling+2.jpg Repair Work The drywall was not damaged from the leak. After removing the damaged paper tape and any loose paint or crumbling joint compound, the exposed areas were primed, the drywall seam was re-taped, and the area repaired with several coats of joint compound reinforced with plaster of paris. Repairs were then sanded, primed and the ceiling was painted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1481327282849-CQ5D7EYODMBB4TURFLCN/church+1.jpg Repair Work A roof leak caused severe water damage to wall/ceiling area in a church. Note: Before any work was started, a large paint chip was carefully removed from the wall to the right of the vent. The paint chip was taken to a paint store where a computer color matching system matched the color closely for the new paint. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58422597e6f2e16ba632e10b/1481327285689-OU0B2Z1OTWIH3HK9YT8P/church+2.jpg Repair Work After all the damaged areas were scraped away, the exposed area was primed to seal and stabilize the surface for the repair work. The surfaces were rebuilt with joint compound reinforced with plaster of paris. Repairs were sanded and primed. 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