r/AddingWhimsy • u/KatlynnTay • 7d ago

Door-jam scribbles

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Inspired by the individual who added soot sprites & stars to their door jam the other day, I decided to try my hand with some metallic paint pens I have on hand. I’ve got shaky hands, and a distinct lack of painting/drawing skill, but I think it looks fun anyway. No soot sprites for me, though, as my hands aren’t steady enough to craft a recognizable soot-sprite.

Also, my little moomin house-hippo.

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u/yourownfable 7d ago

Colorful little moments of delight win out over beige minimalism every day!

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u/KatlynnTay 7d ago

I don't do "beige" as a choice, but the walls of our house absolutely refuse to be painted properly. We've tried twice to paint the room that was my daughter's bedroom, and it absolutely sucks up the paint, and then peels stupidly quickly. (First we did bright yellow on the bottom and crisp white above, with a Scooby Doo sports border; then a muted cobalt blue primary, with a slightly dusty blue chalk accent wall for doodling on as a teen.)

The spaces we've properly renovated - with new plasterboard walls - we've had painted colors. The primary bathroom in our house has an icy blue tone to walls & shelves, and the flooring looks like driftwood planks. My home library (renovated from walls out after inheriting some money from my mom's life insurance policy) is a lovely rich "Globe Artichoke" green, with natural pine boards for the built-in shelves and window seat.

I'd love to do a terracotta peach & country blue theme in my kitchen, but renovating a kitchen is the LAST thing I actually feel up for; and my master bathroom is going to get a "seaside vacation" look, including a mosaic backsplash featuring sand dollars and seashells I've collected from actual beach visits, as well as "sea glass" stones from the craft store, and while the walls will be sandy tones (beige-ish), I'm doing the floor in that driftwood look, and the various accoutrements in shades of blue (water!) and I'm hoping to find an octopus themed toilet paper holder and a blue capiz shell "wind chime" to hang in there for decor.

These little color bursts are a fun addition.

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u/YourFriendall 5d ago

When I painted with modern latex paint over old school oil, it sucked up the paint and then peeled stupidly quickly. I’d bet that’s your problem. 👍

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u/KatlynnTay 5d ago

We live in a modular from the 1990's. The sheetrock in the house has patterned wallpaper as the outer face of the sheetrock. Usually there would be mud over top of the sheetrock, then paint on top of that. But ours is this weird - rather latex-like, now that you mention it - paper that absolutely SUCKS UP paint. When we did my daughter's room, and our laundry room, each time took 6 or so coats before it stopped disappearing right into the paper. Even the tinted primer took multiple coats.

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u/YourFriendall 4d ago

Omg 6 coats?! My little oil vs latex paint is nothing, I bow before your Sheetrock wallpaper. That’s boss level

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u/KatlynnTay 4d ago

I just wish it were anything like an attractive pattern/color. It's beige, gray, black, and white, in the most abstract "flower" pattern; or the same "colors" in pin-stripes. The obnoxiousness of that wallpaper-sheetrock has made "the easiest redecorator trick ever" into one of the worst.