When can we paint?

[DaveBrigg]

I've read the recent paint threads with interest. Our house has new lime plaster, applied between September and October last year. In places it is more than an inch thick, in two or three coats. Most of it has now turned a very light grey/off white, with a sort of marble effect. Can it now be painted with distemper, which seems to be the most strongly recommended covering? The walls have dried unevenly, so do we have to wait until every last bit is dry before getting the brushes out? At the moment there isn't a single wall in the house with colour on it, so being able to brighten things up a little would give us all a boost.

 

[NT]

You could have painted it with distemper as soon is it had gone solid. The way to make paint on lime plaster last longest is paint it while still wet, the paint soaks in a little.

NT

 

[piper]

Fresco. Get Michaelangelo or Giotto or someone like that to do it.

 

[NT]

I do hope Dave hasnt been waiting to paint it all this time.


NT

 

[DaveBrigg]

WHAT!!! You mean to say that I could have spent the Christmas holidays painting, rather than entertaining relatives!! And it didn't have to feel like we were living in an Eastern European youth hostel for the last three months...
The fresco advice sounds good though. I looked to Pompeii for a few ideas and came up with this for the bedroom ceiling. They obviously didn't have the problems we have with draughty fireplaces and single glazed windows

 

[piper]

The legs of that bed look VERY inadequate. A disaster is just around the corner, I think, especially with her weight.

 

[piper]

On second thoughts, perhaps Vesuvius erupted before the legs broke, and the earth really moved for them.