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Just beautiful! I'm very envious. How many coats of paint did it take for that lovely red color?
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We've got a bathroom that color. We used a tinted primer and FIVE count 'em, FIVE coats of paint to get the color even. A year or so later I saw a display at Home Depot that showed this color on top of various primer colors. They had white primer, the same tinted primer that we had, which was pepto bismol pink - the most tint they could add and still have the primer do it's thing - then they had a grey primer from Glidden. The grey cut the number of color coats down to 3! The others had 5 each and there was alot of bleed still visible on the other two primer colors. Now in my small half bath, we didn't consume a whole lot of paint, but if this guy had to do that many coats in that room, he went thru a lot of paint.
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We had to use three or four coats in our dining room for a similar color, sans primer.
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Actually it only took two coats over white primer, and on new freshly finished drywall too. We used Benjamin Moore paints new Aura line. It was expensive, I think 60 or $70 a gallon, but they gaurantee it will cover in two coats. My wife and I were amazed. We did a similar color in our dining room several years ago and it took 5 or six coats. Although this Aura paint is expensive, it actually works out to be the same cost as having to buy many gallons of paint and is a heck of a lot less work!
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Wow that is an elegant and attractive color, I bet it enhances the picture when the lights are off! I love the concept of a projector and screen, how big is your screen? Does it work well during the day? We were thinking of getting a projector as well. And finally what type of stereo receiver are you driving your speakers with?
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Thank you, we really love the color. It was a happy medium with the wife. I would have probably gone even darker than that, but it really does look great.
Our screen is 100" and the speakers are driven by Outlaw Audio seperates (990 pre/pro and 7500 5-channel amp). With 200 watts per channel, it has plenty of power to run the Axioms. It really sounds great.
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