Claire CJS
window, main room - 1 - painted - bad Home Depot color matching - IMG_3306 (20110720)
Home Depot's color-matching skills with Behr paint-with-prime vs Behr paint-without-prime leaves a lot to be desired. A LOT. Our color mis-matching here is what you get when you take the same paint back and ask them to match the existing paint. They, er, uh... don't. No refunds! $40 a gallon paint-with-primer, $25 a gallon paint-without-primer, tons of brushes, paint thinner, rags, elbow grease -- And you get this! Mis-matched color!
The rear window of our main upstairs room (original side of room), now repainted, with rotted away lower right part of sill successfully rebuilt using successive layers of Elmer's wood filler.
(Boards in window are to keep out light. We're an anti-sun household!)
Home Depot color matching, house maintenance, mismatched paint, window.
after painting.
front yard, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
July 20, 2011.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
BACKSTORY: So our homeowners insurance (Farmers) got dropped due to having peeling paint on our window sills (among other things). Weak. It was a LOT of work AND money for us to repaint all our sills. Wood windows SUCK!! Modern vinyl windows are MAINTANENCE-FREE!! Wood windows... You gotta re-glaze the panes when they fall out, and then the wood itself is always going to slowly rot away. We already had our cats knock a pane out, so we already had glazing compound for pane repairs. This came in handy when we painted our various window sills, as some also needed glazing compound.
It was quite a pain, because it cost so much money and had our living room in disarray for so many months, and the whole insurance basis for the situation was pretty bullshitty in the first place. We're not going to make a property damage claim due to moisture that occurs because our paint was peeling! Ridiculous...
Main room window when we moved in: www.flickr.com/photos/clintjcl/90505377/
window, main room - 1 - painted - bad Home Depot color matching - IMG_3306 (20110720)
Home Depot's color-matching skills with Behr paint-with-prime vs Behr paint-without-prime leaves a lot to be desired. A LOT. Our color mis-matching here is what you get when you take the same paint back and ask them to match the existing paint. They, er, uh... don't. No refunds! $40 a gallon paint-with-primer, $25 a gallon paint-without-primer, tons of brushes, paint thinner, rags, elbow grease -- And you get this! Mis-matched color!
The rear window of our main upstairs room (original side of room), now repainted, with rotted away lower right part of sill successfully rebuilt using successive layers of Elmer's wood filler.
(Boards in window are to keep out light. We're an anti-sun household!)
Home Depot color matching, house maintenance, mismatched paint, window.
after painting.
front yard, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
July 20, 2011.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
BACKSTORY: So our homeowners insurance (Farmers) got dropped due to having peeling paint on our window sills (among other things). Weak. It was a LOT of work AND money for us to repaint all our sills. Wood windows SUCK!! Modern vinyl windows are MAINTANENCE-FREE!! Wood windows... You gotta re-glaze the panes when they fall out, and then the wood itself is always going to slowly rot away. We already had our cats knock a pane out, so we already had glazing compound for pane repairs. This came in handy when we painted our various window sills, as some also needed glazing compound.
It was quite a pain, because it cost so much money and had our living room in disarray for so many months, and the whole insurance basis for the situation was pretty bullshitty in the first place. We're not going to make a property damage claim due to moisture that occurs because our paint was peeling! Ridiculous...
Main room window when we moved in: www.flickr.com/photos/clintjcl/90505377/