Walk-In Closet Progress – I Finally Started Painting!! (Plus, To Color-Drench Or Not?)

First, if you happen to learn Friday’s publish early within the day, you’ll have missed that I took aside one of many leftover jewellery trays that I purchased on Amazon (these are the ones I bought — affiliate hyperlink), reduce it right down to the suitable dimension to suit that remaining 3.5-inch hole, after which put it again collectively. So now, I’ve a very personalized look that matches the width of the drawer completely. And I acquired that personalized search for lower than $70, and about 45 minutes of my time. That beats the heck out of paying over $500 for a completely personalized jewellery drawer insert!

After engaged on that, I spent the remainder of Friday priming cupboards. I acquired the remainder of the cupboards on the suitable facet of the room primed, and all the cupboards on the left facet of the room primed. I nonetheless must do the corners with a brush, however all the components I might do with a 6-inch curler are finished.

It’s wonderful how a lot primer alone completely modified the look of the cupboards. Earlier than, it was a sea of brown plywood with white pre-primed trim…

And now that every thing is identical colour, even whether it is skinny, streaky primer, it appears so significantly better. (I used my new favourite primer, Zinsser B-I-N shellac-based primer). As soon as primer goes on, you possibly can actually get a significantly better concept of how the completed cupboards will look.

Right here’s a shelf earlier than caulking. First, you possibly can see why I wish to prime earlier than caulking. It makes all of these darkish cracks and crevices a lot simpler to see and far more durable to overlook. If I attempt to caulk earlier than I prime, I at all times find yourself overlooking areas that wanted to be caulked.

And right here’s what it appears like after caulking. What a distinction!

Earlier than I might prime the jewellery drawer and the necklace organizer, I needed to finalize the design on the necklace organizer. I ended up going with this quite simple design on the entrance.

I made a decision that I didn’t wish to have something going all the best way throughout the entrance that might get in the best way of quick access to the necklaces, so I’ll simply use the entrance necklace bar as a pull. It took me some time to get this all found out, end the design, after which take every thing aside once more (i.e., take away the drawer slides, bars, and bar {hardware}) in order that I might wooden fill, sand, caulk, and prime every thing.

I acquired every thing on the suitable wall caulked apart from the cupboard by the door. As soon as I completed caulking the shoe cabinets, I made a decision I deserved a reward for my perseverance. 😀 And that reward was to lastly PAINT!

I didn’t get so far as I had hoped on the portray. I had hoped to get the primary two sections utterly painted whereas I waited for the caulk to dry on the shoe cabinets. However I didn’t fairly get all the second part painted. However a minimum of I acquired to do some portray.

For these cupboards, I’m utilizing Sherwin Williams Emerald paint in a satin end. This paint is ridiculously costly (about $115/gallon), which is far more than I’m used to spending on Behr paint at Residence Depot.

The colour known as Billowy Breeze, and it’s a light-weight greenish blue.

I’m used to utilizing Behr paint from Residence Depot, so I severely doubted that paying over $100 for a gallon of paint could be value it. However as quickly as I began portray the cupboards, I noticed that this paint is value each penny. I made a decision to make use of a paint brush for the corners and trim and a 6-inch curler for easy surfaces for all the flat surfaces. This paint goes on so easily, and it’s a dream to color with. I used to be nervous about utilizing a satin end, which is the bottom sheen that this paint is available in. Y’all know I hate shiny finishes, and I’ve at all times had an issue with Benjamin Moore’s Advance paint in a satin end as a result of it’s too shiny for my style. However this one is PERFECT!

It’ll nonetheless take two coats, and that is simply the primary coat. However simply have a look at this beautiful colour! And sheen!

In reality, I like the colour a lot that I’m contemplating color-drenching the room with it. That principally implies that I’d paint every thing within the room in that colour — all the cupboards, all the trim (even the crown molding and baseboards that aren’t on the cupboards), the window trim, the door trim, and the ceiling.

The one factor areas that wouldn’t be colour drenched on this stunning greenish blue colour could be areas the place I plan so as to add wallpaper — the partitions across the washer and dryer and the one higher part within the heart cupboard on the wall on the suitable. Every part else could be painted Billowy Breeze.