Goodbye Barbie Butt

We apologize in advance for the name of this post. Please understand we think the previous owners loved Barbie. Not just one shade, but all shades of Barbie. Barbie was well represented in this house. Classic Barbie and African American Barbie made appearances, mostly in the kitchen and bathrooms; but the love was for Malibu Barbie. This beach inspired babe covered all the walls of this house, except for the bathrooms and part of the kitchen.

We Wife started in the kitchen with help from her sister. They primed. Two thick coats of primer. Then it was covered with two coats Manhattan Mist by Behr. It was a beauty at 2 PM on a wonderful summer day. A few hours later Wife and Sister finished and cleaned up, loving their work. After returning from dinner the color wasn’t so pretty. The beautiful gray became blue tinted. In the morning it looked more white. Hyper-colored walls became what covered Barbie Butt. This simply would not work for wife, she likes consistency. Back to Home Depot she went.

Home with paint strips, she returned to place them around the kitchen. Shades of gray. From a dark charcoal to a light silver, the whole spectrum of gray. The top selections made it in a sample above the counter. After again looking at it in different lights at different times of day a deep dark gray was chosen. Loft, by Glidden was the winner. And Once Upon A Time, Disney by Behr for the ceiling.

A last trip to Home Depot she returned with Behr’s Premium Ultra Primer Plus paint. Rochelle, at the paint counter recommended it. She said it was great to cover over flat old paint. After battling to cover Barbie’s flat butt paint with primer and paint, she was sold. Since the walls were already covered, it was selected anyway - hoping to reduce the hypercolor walls that currently existed. There was also a storage doorway that didn’t get painted with the original Manhattan Mist, so when the sample was purchased, wife had tested the two in one on there.

It worked. Perfectly. Two coats and she was done.