Barn Red?! More like Barn Magenta!

   Molly continued to work on the dining room all day Tuesday, it was discovered that one coat of Martha Stewarts' "Barn" over a grey primer, creates a sort of magenta look.  Which was not what Missy wanted at all.  We were all beginning to think this was possibly a wrong color choice, but regardless, two coats were going to be needed, ugh (Guess the primer wasn't enough).

     We'd only bought one gallon and that pretty much covered the room, so once one coat was on Molly set to work on other projects.  She did however come back to paint one section with a second coat so that we could all get a feel for the finished/dry color.  It did still have the effect of a slight pinkish undertone.  But my Dad and I had decided it was due to the blue tinted plastic the exterior painters had tapped over the windows.  That light blue hue was just enough to create a difference in the color.  Missy decided to sleep on it, and make up her mind in the morning whether or not a new color choice was in order.  Either way, another gallon of some kind of red would need to be purchased from Home Depot in the morning. Which is a journey onto itself as the nearest Home Depot is in Pulsbo, nearly 50 minutes from us in PT.

   By morning the paint had fully dried and the section that had received the double coat was looking perfect.  It dried into the red Missy was hoping for and we all had a huge sigh of relief.  That morning Missy and my Dad took a trip down to Home Depot to pick up more paints (including colors for the "Library"), and check out some area rugs for the house at Macys.