Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Got the house painted and I hate it

I havent read the whole thread so maybe i am missing something but one thing i never do is pay it all up front and if that is what the contractor wants i find somebody else to do it............it just leaves a little negotiating power at the end just in case.

VinceM: Can tell you have been there and done it too, no wise guy stuff taken. Believe me, I know all about the dime a dozen painters, after all, "anybody can paint", and "heck, you could teach a [bleep] to paint", sure you've heard it all too. When times get tough, a couple of paint brushes are cheaper than going to plumbers school, enuf said. The SW store I do business with always puts a dab of what I asked them to mix for me right on the swatch I take in so I can see the comparison, they are almost always spot on. This whole deal just sounds like an "in and out" painter to me, hope it works out for the OP.

Travis, she's so butt ugly I don't think YOU'D even do her at closing time on Saturday night!

I like it. If I had a picture of the color my kitchen used to be you would love the color of your trim. If a butthole was blue it would have been the color of my kitchen.

Geeze man, tell us about that hog mulie. Helluva rack. What's the story?

Jordan

I painted houses in high school and college. I can't tell you how many times a woman (always a woman) picks out a color, and I paint a whole room or side of a house and she says "I don't like it." If they want me to re paint it, they are going to pay me to do it... and if they want a light color over a dark one, they are going to pay me twice because I'm going to prime it until it stops showing through. I painted a woman's bedroom eggplant purple and she turned around and asked for white. Her husband didn't want to pay me to do it. I walked. Over and over it happens though. You can tell a contractor to stop and beat it if you don't like their work. If they finish, and you let them, you are going to pay them. There isn't a lot of recourse once he's got your money.

As to your color. I'm sorry. I agree with you. It's very hard to do a brown house. I painted a couple, and one had red trim and one had a light yellow. Neither would suit me. I'd add some light colors. Trim, shudders, doors... I never painted gutters, electrical meters... That's not cool. Or, I hate to say it, re do. I wish you luck.