Now that I have some more lighting in the room with the newly installed LED dimmable recessed lights, I can start determining paint colors. Picking a paint color for me is like asking which eye do I want to get punched in. It’s torture!!! There are millions of paint colors to choose from and I always seem to pick exactly the wrong color. This time, I’m hoping better lighting will help, but it probably won’t. At the least, I am sure I want gray and white in the room, with dark doors. That does narrow it down to several thousand options. Knowing me, I’ll have at least 50 paint samples when it’s all said and done
Since I’ve almost convinced myself of the dark doors, I’ll start with picking paint for that first. I did run across a beautiful color for my interior doors that I keep going back to, Benjamin Moore Wrought Iron. Check out my board for Interior Door Colors.
Wrought Iron is a dark gray, almost black paint color. I love how it looks!
I also found a couple of pins where Dear Lillie used Benjamin Moore Mopboard Black:
Both of these colors are speaking to me, so I think I’ve narrowed the choice for the doors. That wasn’t so hard. I’ll go up to my neighborhood Ace Hardware and get samples of both to see how they will look.
In the meantime, I’ve mentioned to Dad once or twice about painting the doors, but I think he thinks I’m kidding. Hopefully, I’ll have better luck convincing him once my brand new paint sprayer shows up. Listen, I tried painting doors before with a brush and it looks hideous. I’m sure it was 80% user error, 10% crappy paint, and 10% cheap brushes. Whatever the cause, I’m not doing it again. Those doors are getting sprayed and spending $61.00 for a paint sprayer will be worth every penny.
After doing some research, I settled on the HomeRight C800766 Finish Max Fine Finish Sprayer. I’m a little concerned that I’m going to have over spray all over the house but, I can’t worry about that now. I have doors to paint, people!!!!
I have had your post saved for such a long time and now we are finally remodelling! Could you tell me what white paint colour you used? Thank you!
YAY!!!!! Thanks for checking out my blog!!! I love that you have the chance to do some renovations. You’ll love the outcome and kick yourself for not doing it sooner. In my case, I should have painted walls or done something 20 years ago. LOL! To answer your question, I used BM Simply White and it has very faint yellow undertones that is a little softer than a bright white. It won’t be a stark white. Since painting my room, I’ve decided that I actually would like a brighter white. I guess it’s whatever your preference is and sometimes you don’t know until you live with it awhile. You can always paint it another color in a few years and it will only cost you the supplies and some elbow grease. Good luck with your renovation! 🙂
I stumbled across your blog and so glad that I did! How messy (or not) was the paint sprayer when you used it? I, too, painted one of my doors by hand, and I was more excited that I finished painting it than I was about how it looked-LOL! I wasn’t happy with the color and finish (SW Tricorn, satin). The two colors shared in your blog may be what my house (and sanity) needs!
I’m glad you found me! So, it was super messy. The only reason I even attempted to spray in the house was because the entire room was under construction. There are more professional sprayers that don’t create a ton of overspray, but I didn’t have one of those. I was just as happy as you were when those doors finally went back up. You would have thought I had rebuilt the whole house! LOL! So, the rest of the doors I painted the regular way, don’t worry about spraying them because the brush works fine. When I first started doing doors, I took them down. Now, I just paint them hanging on the hinge with a good brush and roller. Tricorn black is the best black, but I think I was a bit afraid of it on the doors. I did end up painting my bedroom walls that color and I love it! Mopboard Black is a really dark gray/black, but I don’t feel it’s as stark as Tricorn. I bet whatever choice you made turned out beautifully!