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PAINTING INTERIOR ROOMS BATHROOM: The walls are plaster - more like concrete with a heavy coating of plaster over the concrete. When I did another bathroom, I primed everything and painted with fairly glossy paint - looks great but the paint will peel off if pulled. Very strange. Is there any special paint or primer the will work better? TRIM: Any recommendations on trim paint? WALLS: --LAA I'm not sure about your bathroom but it's my experience that this behavior is caused by putting latex paint over oil paints. Latex forms that plastic sheet which can be pulled off if it's not properly adhered to the wall; oil paints form a coating to which latex doesn't adhere well. Some primers are designed to be used only under oil paints. Some work under both oil and latex; however if there's old oil under it, the primer won't do its job. --Alan For killing bathroom mold, wash the affected areas (and maybe the whole room) with a bleach-and-water solution. Let sit at least 10 minutes to kill the mold, then rinse off and let dry well. Paint with a special mold-proof bathroom paint from a good paint store (I think it has more nasty chemicals in it to repel the mold, but it WORKS!) Comes in colors, too. Get glossy so it's easy to wash. Trim should be glossy, so it's easy to wash, and don't get the cheap stuff, cause the better stuff is thicker and covers better- you want a nice tough coat. White on walls: Ditto, go for the expensive stuff cause it's not watery and covers better. Unless you have a special reason to make it different, room paint should be matte or eggshell finish- the more matte it is the harder to wash, but it has that nice soft look. I like eggshell finish as a compromise. When choosing room colors, always go less pigmented than you think you want- colors look more overpowering on an entire wall than they do in a little swatch. If you want to play with colors, read The Perfect Palette by Bonnie Krims, a nice introduction to interior color. --Liz |
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