Do you remember me saying earlier that we wanted a Tuscan/Provencal sort of a look in this kitchen? Well, Dutch Boy has a series of paints called "Old World Plaster" that is a four step series of applications that they promised would have the appearance of old Eurpoean plaster.
Well, we picked out our color (which actually entailed picking out two colors, a base coat and a finish) and we bought our supplies -- the base coat, the "crackle coat" (a clear polymer that inhibits proper drying of the finish coats so that cracks appear) and the top coat. And I went to work. Total work time: FIVE DAYS (mind you, I can usually do two coats in a room this size in one day, so this was some seriously nasty, complicated paint).
As you can see, the base coat, a sort of deep crimson, was hideous. Not the sort of thing you'd want in your kitchen. If you're normal. But then came the "crackle coat," which just made the horrible base coat look all shiny.
Next came the first coat of the top coat coat. This photograph doesn't do it justice, but when this coat dried, I was nearly despondent. I had spent three days paint a room that should have taken hours, and it was ugly as sin. It had sort of a 1960s, psychedelic, paisley effect to it. Hideosimus maximus.
But, son-of-a-gun if the finish coat didn't come out looking just like the color sample chart in the Dutch Boy brochure.
This was one mother of a paint job, but MP and I are pretty pleased with it.
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