Hi everyone!
I am a first-time homeowner and trying to change my VERY gray kitchen and diningroom into something a little more cheerful. To give you an idea, My ceiling is a semi-gloss light gray, my walls are a satin light gray, my countertops are a speckled dark gray laminate, and my floor is a light gray linoleum.
ANYHOO, I got my test samples from Lowe's (I dont' have a decent paint store around here so Lowe's it is!) and slopped them on to a section of my wall.
Well, when I went to remove the current "chair rail" (they used regular door frame molding with shims behind it that splintered but that's a whole nother issue with the project), the paint just peeled right off the wall with the chair rail! So after a little "discovery" (read "peeling") I discovered that at some point the kitchen/diningroom was a grayish-light-pink and then the person before me painted the gray satin over top of that color, WITHOUT primering.
My dad seems to think that I need to scrape the paint down to the pink layer before I primer this time and paint. I'm hoping it doesn't involve that, but I don't want the paint peeling (I have 2 kids under the age of 5 here!). The guy at Lowe's suggested that I sand the current paint, then primer, then paint and I would be fine. Is this true? Is it that easy?
Also, we are painting the ceiling as well. Since it's a semi-gloss, do I need to sand that as well?
Thanks in advance!
Novice Do-it-yourselfer
I am a first-time homeowner and trying to change my VERY gray kitchen and diningroom into something a little more cheerful. To give you an idea, My ceiling is a semi-gloss light gray, my walls are a satin light gray, my countertops are a speckled dark gray laminate, and my floor is a light gray linoleum.
ANYHOO, I got my test samples from Lowe's (I dont' have a decent paint store around here so Lowe's it is!) and slopped them on to a section of my wall.
Well, when I went to remove the current "chair rail" (they used regular door frame molding with shims behind it that splintered but that's a whole nother issue with the project), the paint just peeled right off the wall with the chair rail! So after a little "discovery" (read "peeling") I discovered that at some point the kitchen/diningroom was a grayish-light-pink and then the person before me painted the gray satin over top of that color, WITHOUT primering.
My dad seems to think that I need to scrape the paint down to the pink layer before I primer this time and paint. I'm hoping it doesn't involve that, but I don't want the paint peeling (I have 2 kids under the age of 5 here!). The guy at Lowe's suggested that I sand the current paint, then primer, then paint and I would be fine. Is this true? Is it that easy?
Also, we are painting the ceiling as well. Since it's a semi-gloss, do I need to sand that as well?
Thanks in advance!
Novice Do-it-yourselfer