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[Gigis]

Tiny bathroom, bit of a bodge job when it was built (lumpy walls, random impossible to remove hooks etc). Recently been half retiled in a light grey. I had a sudden attack of the home improvements and thought I'd paint the other half. I excitedly told my husband that because it is SO small I wasn't going to try and open up the space or anything, but rather embrace the teeny and go all cave like and dark. We bought a tin of f&b stiffkey blue bathroom paint and OH MY GOD IT LOOKS TERRIBLE. You know when you start a job and you can tell it's going poorly but you keep ploughing on hoping it'll fix itself? It didn't. Why didn't I Google before?! Every lump is magnified. There are millions of them. The paint is weird and shiny because it's bathroom paint. The line where the wall meets the ceiling is bumpy and wobbly. I had imagined hotel chic, dark and brooding. But I've created a serial killer's dungeon, complete with random fucking hooks in the wall (seriously, why won't they come out?! Are they structural?) and tacky wipe clean walls, presumably to make tidying up after the murders easier. I'm gutted, we do not have enough cash to spend on the gallons of white paint needed to start from scratch. So I guess it's laugh it off for now and stick loads of bathroom related posters up to hide it and obviously kill anyone who uses the loo to prevent witnesses to this crime of interior design .

Anyone want to share their painting disasters to make me feel less shit?

Go with flow and embrace the serial murderer look? Splash some dark red paint? Hang some interesting items from the hooks?

Just read the bottom bit!

My mum once painted the dining room, one dark winter evening. It was supposed to be a sort of muted crushed raspberry. We awoke to a dark reddish pink colour, normally only seen in a brothel!

My Gothy daughter wanted her bedroom painted black. We realised when the door was shut it was sooo dark you couldn't find your way out of the room!

We painted our dining room lime green. It was like Kermit the Frog went to Chernobyl. Horrific.

And yes, when ex DH had done a wall we both went hmmm, that's a bit bright..I don't know why we thought that it would look better when the whole room was the same lurid colour!

Just went to the loo and actually creeped myself out a bit. It is SO oppressive. Husband reckons it's bad lighting and said he'll treat us to a new light fitting (as long as it's not over 30 quid, lucky me) because what we've got now is casting out a kind of yellowy hue which doesn't mix well with the blue/grey. It's also over 30 years old and one of those glass things that looks like an old dimpled pint glass upside down. Hardly helping my chic dream.
@moonflower a brothel pink would be welcome over this!
@chiara I have friends who painted their living room bright green and swore for months it was what they'd wanted before finally caving and admitting they'd been living a lie and with never ending headaches

My mum and dad decided to brighten up the hallways in their house.
They bought navy blue carpet, painted their textured wallpaper in bright orange and then all the woodwork and banisters in lime green.
It looked absolutely horrendous, like a packet of bloody tic tacs.
They refused to admit they hated it, mainly due to all the time it took to finish and they kept it for 6 years.

Forget the light fitting, spend the £30 on white paint.
But please post a pic of the chamber of horrors first
Also could you post a pic of the offending hooks? Someone might be able to give some tips on how to remove them.

If you're anywhere in Sevon @Gigis my husband just cleared out the garage and has litres and litres of trade Dulux he's getting rid of...

Devon 🙄

Thank you, what a kind offer. Unfortunately I'm miles away in the Midlands!

Of you're in the midlands there's a couple of big tubs of magnolia going spare...

I painted the diningroom in something that was meant to be a mellow gold. It was more like manky straw.

We've had a few paint disasters - something Walnut turned out not to be a pale brown toned cream but peach and we'd done one and a half coats on the hall stairs and landing. Mellow Mocha was lilac on the living room walls.