Mia's Folly: Study.....

Talk about a pain in the a**e.....what was supposed to be a one day undertaking ended up taking 5 days....grrrrr
Friday night Kelly and I cleared out the study in preperation for painting the following day...easy....
Saturday, Tony & I washed the walls and decided to do the entry way at the same time, thus giving the study more time to dry out before doing the feature wall.
Walls washed...check.....masking done...check......walls painted...wellll.....the entryway was done in a flash...after all we are only doing one coat in a semi gloss acrylic over the low sheen....entryway finished....
Study on the other hand...found out that this room had only had one coat of paint put on it...not a problem....did the three walls....went away and literally waited for the paint to dry (this is when we did the entryway)....
masked the feature wall and started painting...we had so much trouble finding a colour we liked for this room...ended up choosing a Taubmans Crimson Belle...which is a raspberry colour...when we bought the paint i commented to the sales guy that i thought it was too pink, so he put a dab onto the colour sample and dried it...okay...fine.
Put the first coat on the wall...hmmm...not a very good coverage, and yes, it still looked too pink..maybe it will look better when it dries....came back two hours later to do the next coat....still looked too pink, plus you could see the overlapping marks...darn! it will need a third coat.
Came back and did the third coat, using all the paint up...neither of us were happy about it and when you held the colour sample up against it, it still came up way to pink...
so off to Bunnings we trotted on the Sunday...found a slightly darker shade, so purchased 1 ltr of it, this one is called Ruby Flame...while we were purchasing it, the sales lady asked us if we had put a grey tint undercoat on first....ummmm, no, we're we supposed to? Yes, to stop the colour bleeding thru. We decided that since we already had 3 coats on we wouldn't worry about the undercoat.....silly us, we could still see the overlapping marks BUT, the colour was perfect.
Monday, after waiting round nearly all day for a delivery that didn't turn up, I went back to Bunnings and bought some undercoat and some more paint...got home and applied the said undercoat...Hmmm...it covered the wall very well and did hide the appalling paint....by this time Tony had arrived home from work, so after dinner I applied the first coat..WOW!!! so much better, pity we didn't know about the undercoat from the beginning..excellent coverage...no overlapping marks visible...yay. Waited for the appropriate amount of time to pass and did the final coat....
To say we are happy with the result is an understatement...we both love how its now turned out. So this morning i have cleaned the carpet and the room will be put back together tonight when Tony gets home from work.