Woooo! Our master bedroom is painted! It started off as quality-but-dated tongue and groove (from the 80s don't get all worked up) paneling and turned into something light and airy. Alaska is a dark and dreary place sometimes, a winter of the wood was quite enough of that. Don't let anyone tell you that prepping to paint a paneled wall is easy though! Between the boards were spaces anywhere from 1/8" to 3/4" wide and, well, knotty pine is, knotty! Observe:
Before. The messy chair corner by the fireplace.
Before. Note the boring, ugly low n' long dresser mentioned in Green Dresser
During. Handsome M caulking between the boards
Before. Huge knots in the wall that took like two tablespoons of filler to fill.
After! There's ol' green dresser stage left.
We love it! It's so much lighter throughout the day and it doesn't feel like a cave at night. We found a new bed and nightstand so the other half of the bedroom reveal will occur at a later date. We ended up going through a tub of Minwax wood filler, a case.5 of _______ caulk, 1.5 gallons of Killz Fresh Start Low VOC primer (the wood was thirsty) and 3/4 of a gallon of Benjamin Moore- Natural Cream (get your mind out of the gutter). I realized early on that I hate painters tape so I got after it with my edging tool and a wet rag. This was actually completed back in April after working on it for almost two months. I had read reports of painted wood paneling "bleeding" through the primer and paint, this has not happened to us, probably because I used Killz Fresh Start. Other views of the bedroom to come later!
