2 Bedrooms: Part 2

Note to self (and to blog reader): Do not buy paint from Home Depot.

The girls browsed the paint swatches at each store and chose the colors for their rooms.
One of them was not available at Lowe's, so we had to get it from Home Depot. It was a Glidden Evermore brand paint. Why on earth would Home Depot feature a paint that requires 5-6 coats? Pathetic.

We purchased the no VOC Olympic paint from Lowe's. It required one coat and then a second that was really just for touch-up. The other room, however, required 5 coats and it was still not opaque. After spending hours in this small room, we decided to nip the paint project in the bud and finish it up with a black glaze.

Fairly inexperienced with glaze, it took us a little while to figure out the proper technique. We used a cheesecloth and basically dabbed random spots about the wall and as the cloth begins to desaturate we started blending. Looks pretty good.

We also installed the new shelving for the closets: