Final evening, I cleared one of many main hurdles on this walk-in closet venture. The cupboards are painted! This was an enormous job with all of these cabinets, but it surely’s lastly executed, and I can transfer on to the following step on this closet venture.
Right here’s how they turned out…
I took all of those footage with the broad angle setting on my telephone, which makes the room look bigger (longer) than it truly is. I imply, the room isn’t tiny. It’s 11’4″ broad and 15’10” lengthy, however the broad angle does distort it a bit. Utilizing a large angle is the one means I can get the entire cupboards within the photograph, although.
The colour is Sherwin Williams Billowy Breeze, which is a really mild blue with a touch of inexperienced in it. I feel that inexperienced retains it from wanting like a blue that belongs in a child’s room. I used their Emerald Urethane Trim Enamel in a satin end.
This room nonetheless has horrible lighting (simply the one mild on the ceiling fan for now), so I’m sure it is going to look a lot better once I lastly get the brand new lighting put in within the room. I’ll be changing the ceiling fan with a chandelier, after which including at the least 5 recessed lights, plus accent lighting with 4 sconces within the room.
I had deliberate on doing the flooring subsequent, beginning tomorrow morning, however I feel I’ve modified my plan. As a substitute, I’ll spend tomorrow engaged on the lighting. Since I’ve to chop holes within the ceiling drywall, that’s going to be a really messy and dusty venture, so I’d wish to get it executed earlier than I begin on the flooring. That means, I may get the ceiling painted earlier than I do the flooring, which I feel makes far more sense.
Plus, it will actually be good to see this closet in good lighting, and to have a lot better lighting to work by as I proceed with the opposite initiatives that have to be executed.
Anyway, I’m so excited to have this big venture checked off of my record for this room. Clearly, these perimeter cupboards had been the most important a part of this closet, so having them executed seems like I’ve turned a nook. Whereas I do nonetheless have a really lengthy record of issues that have to be executed in right here (which I shared in yesterday’s submit), it seems like the remaining will likely be a simple jog to the end line by comparability.
How I Painted My Closet Cupboards
To color these cupboards, I used a brush to chop in round the entire corners and to color the trim. You’ll be able to see that on this photograph that I shared yesterday.
I did two coats of paint, so as soon as I had the primary coat executed, the paint was dry sufficient to start out on the second coat. I did the entire slicing in and trim with each coats of paint earlier than portray the remaining.
After which I painted the entire massive, flat surfaces with a 6-inch curler labeled for clean surfaces.
Why I didn’t spray my cupboards
The principle purpose I didn’t spray them was as a result of I completed the cupboards in a really piecemeal means. And I did it that means as a result of that’s simply how I work. I don’t all the time do issues within the order through which they take advantage of sense, or within the order which is best. I work in an order that may maintain me , motivated, and transferring ahead.
So by the point I had primed, caulked, and sanded the cupboards on the proper aspect of the room, I used to be prepared to maneuver on to color. I didn’t need to wait till I had completed the priming, caulking, and sanding on the left aspect of the room. After which by the point I obtained two coats of paint on the primary two sections of cupboards on the proper aspect of the room, I used to be anxious to get the wallpaper and sconces up. There’s no means I may have executed that out of order if I had been spraying my cupboards. However that’s the order through which I wanted and wished to do them for my very own peace of thoughts. I didn’t need to be caught within the priming, caulking, and sanding stage for a number of extra days with out seeing a few of the fairly stuff lastly being executed. I wanted that psychological break from the mundane duties, and seeing the gorgeous wallpaper and sconces motivated me much more to get the opposite aspect of the room completed.
It’s undoubtedly not essentially the most environment friendly approach to do it, however since I do the entire work myself, I’ve to do what I’ve to do to maintain myself motivated.
Will I be clear coating the cupboards?
In the event you’ve been round right here lengthy in any respect, you realize I like to make use of a transparent topcoat on cupboards and furnishings which have been painted with latex paint. However this time, I gained’t be doing that. That is my first time utilizing Sherwin Williams Emerald paint in a satin end, and it’s good all by itself. The paint us sturdy, and the end is attractive. No clear topcoat is required in any respect.
Up to now, I’ve used clear topcoats for 2 causes: (1) so as to add sturdiness to decrease high quality paints, and (2) to knock down the sheen on paint that’s too shiny for my style.
The primary purpose is why I all the time used a transparent topcoat if I painted cupboards or furnishings with Behr paint. Behr paint all the time appears to retain a slight tackiness to the end, prefer it by no means utterly dries. So if I paint bookcases or a credenza high with Behr, after which place objects on the cabinets or credenza high, they stick. To forestall that, I all the time used a transparent topcoat which took care of the issue and added sturdiness to the end.
The second purpose is why I used a transparent topcoat even once I used an costly and high-quality paint (Benjamin Moore Advance) on my kitchen cupboards. The bottom sheen accessible within the Advance paint was nonetheless means too shiny for my style, so I ended up topcoating it with Normal Finishes Excessive Efficiency Topcoat in a flat end. It pissed off me to spend that a lot on a high-quality paint solely to need to clearcoat it, however that sheen was simply an excessive amount of for me.
However the Emerald paint is sturdy, and the satin end is attractive. So for the primary time in a really very long time, I gained’t be utilizing a transparent topcoat. I’m bought on Emerald Urethane paint in a satin end. I’ll be utilizing this paint for all of my cupboard and furnishings initiatives sooner or later.
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