Let's paint my living room (or yours)
I have an army man green wall in my living room and I hate it.
I didn't hate it when I painted it of course, but it is time for a change. I painted it a little more than five years ago and I remember the weekend well. It was in the autumn of 2003, and the west coast of Florida was hunkering down for a hurricane warning. This was before 2004's hurricane season from hell. Back then, I never really understood how dangerous and damaging a hurricane could be. Within a year though, Hurricanes Charlie, Jeanne, Francis and Wilma would come along and beat the crap out of us and instill in me a profound respect for the nightmare scenes the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean can throw at us here in the sunshine state.
So in any case, in the fall of 2004 we had been hunkering all the way down to wait out some other storm's passing and I planned to paint an accessory wall in my living room to pass the time. Accent walls have been all the rage then and the military guy inexperienced I picked turned into very a lot on fashion. There become a moment returned then whilst black-veggies have been the final phrase. That second surpassed approximately six months once I painted that wall.
I've groaned at the sight of that wall whenever I've come domestic for the final four-and-a-1/2 years and it's time. So how a whole lot paint to shop for?
Well, I'll tell you. There's a rule of thumb on the subject of paint coverage and like all policies of thumb, it's a tenet extra than it's far a tough and rapid rule.
A gallon of paint will cowl four hundred rectangular toes of completely prepped and smooth wall. So take the area of the walls to be painted in square toes and divide with the aid of 400 and you'll recognise how many gallons you may need. So measure the peak and width of every wall in inches. Multiply those numbers the divide the result by means of one hundred forty four and it'll provide you with the area in square toes.
So a superbly rectangular room where each wall measured 10 feet by means of ten ft might give you 400 square feet of wall. A gallon of paint would paint a unmarried coat on that complete room. A second coat might suggest you'd double the gallons of paint you would want. Make feel?
So now that I recognise what number of gallons of paint I want, in which do I visit get the incentive to truely paint?