I just painted my bathroom and, well, it’s hideous. It’s actually shockingly hideous. The door is shut (to prevent a cat from sticking to the walls), and you open the door and goggle at the ghastliness.
My husband is away on a trip. I can’t decide if I want to try to fix it before he gets home tomorrow or if I want him to experience the full horror that is the color he chose for the walls–a form of electric baby blue.
It looked okay on the chip!
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Sorry your bathroom’s so shocking. I once painted a half a room a kind of somber blue/battleship gray shade before I gave up and had to admit I goofed. I went back and got a sort of faded pea green which I really love.
Yeah, it’s really hard to judge what a whole room will look like from one of those damn little 2" X 2" swatches. Nowadays, I like to have them mix up a quart of the shade, then paint a few feet of wall and stand back and see what I think. I try to push the furniture near the painted patch and see if it clashes. If I still like it, I then go back and buy it by the gallon.
Seriously, you can’t decide?
Damn, you’re a much nicer person than I am.
But if I leave it I have to look at it.
Oh, why not…
Pics? 
Keep the door closed until he gets home. Why should you be the only one to suffer?
If a cat does get stuck to the wall, please post pictures.
I will admit, I feared for our kitchen/dining area while the paint was drying on it a few weeks ago.
We have a very assertive beige for the living room, and the dining area was going to be that beige on the top of the chair rail, and what we hoped was a dusty china blue underneath. Which would look damned good.
For a day or two after it dried, that dusty china blue sure looked greenish and not at all dusty. More like flourescent. Which does NOT look damned good. I feared it’d work for a pro football team, but not us.
Happily, once it really dried through and through, it did end up the blue we wanted, and is a great combination with the beige (sorry I don’t have a full room picture. This one was taken during a dispute with the carpet installers to show some damage to the walls). But it was a scare.
We were having a new house built and I picked out a beige shade for the living room/dining room area, which had an area of 18 foot ceilings with skylights. I came to see how it turned out after the painters had been and, with the natural light on it, the walls looked Pepto-Bismol pink!! I about died. We just went with it, though, and after the beige carpet was put in, the color looked normal again. Phew!
My SIL once painted her daughter’s bathroom a nice shade of yellow.
A nice blinding shade of yellow. Opening the bathroom door was entirely too shocking. You had to shield your eyes from the brightness.
I told SIL she might want to re-paint or buy the kids sunglasses for eye protection whilst in the bathroom.
After a very, very long laughing jag involving most of the family, we helped her re-paint.
The sage-green results from the second stab at painting the bathroom were much, much nicer than the previous surface-of-the-sun yellow.
If the cat sticks to the walls - yes, we must see this.
Your husband won’t credit your bathroom as being as bad as you say it is. Don’t repaint until he gets to see it for himself. No contention will remain between you for the next five years on the paint if he sees it first hand.
But what if he likes it? What will she do then? :dubious:
Tell him she had to repaint it, because it scrubed off the wall when cleaning. That should demonstrate why she used a new paint on the wall, before he came home.
I’d say leave it for him to see. Then the next time you do some redecorating, you’ll have all the ammo you’ll need to make sure everything is done your way.
I’m mopping my brow in sympathy, because I had a similar scare, though in my case it was just a scare. I picked out a “hint of lilac” color for my bedroom in my new house – really, on the chip card, just the merest breath of purple. Well, I put it up and it ends up to be more of a solid elbow in the ribs of purple – but fortunately, after living with it for a couple of days, I like it.
And I think “assertive beige” is a great band name.
Oh, and another vote for letting the hub see it; otherwise he won’t truly appreciate the hideousity that is the bathroom now.
The camera is in St. Louis with the “Honey, I picked a really nice shade of blue” husband.
But it’s 9:30, and his flight is at 4 something tomorrow, so I can’t fiddle around with it too much before he gets here. I’ll try to get pics. And then you’ll all say it isn’t that bad because the ones who do think it’s that bad will have passed out under their desks from the horror.
My friend got herself a pink kitchen once. She had intended red. Her husband didn’t think it was so bad. It was! :eek: She begged, quite abjectly, and he repainted. (She would have done it herself but was chasing after three children under four at the time.)
Myself? I found this loverly shade of red from Martha Stewart and painted a wall with it. It ran horribly down the wall, to form a sickly pale red swirly type deal. It was truly awful. It took four coats to make it look anything like an actual color. I’m sure it was the individual store’s fault, but I think that was when I turned on Martha.
Some years back we picked what we thought was a lovely pale mint green for our bedroom. It turned out to be at least 17 shades brighter than we’d expected. But the room was dark enough it wasn’t that visible, and since we really weren’t in there much except after dark, it wasn’t that bad…to us. The woman who bought the house cringed. But not as much as we’d cringed at the dingy grey walls with black curtains that had been there when we bought the place!
My sister in law picked some colors to paint her (and my brother’s) new house which indicated that perhaps she’d never heard the advice “Pick a color you like, then go two shades lighter, because it will be darker on the wall”.
The living room was fine after it got the planned topcoat–faux finish.
The kitchen chair rail and wainscoting got a quick “antiquing” job.
The highlighter yellow computer room got an UNPLANNED faux finish topcoat.
Certain other rooms, she decided she liked, and weren’t really too obnoxious anyway.
Important note: I give my sister in law 90% of the blame for all decorating decisions made in their house. My brother’s no pushover, but what color the walls are doesn’t interest him much.
Oooo, are we discussing garish paint jobs? I only ask because this is the result of my weekend efforts.
When it’s finished, each wall will be a different color, as will each wall’s trim – eight colors in all (plus the ceiling).
And when he asks what happened to the bathroom act confused and say it was always like that.
