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Painting started in earnest just a day or two after I plastered my last wall.  I was hoping to maintain as much of the textured look of the plaster and simply tint it with a color wash but I don't have any experience in that area.  I asked the folks at the paint store and a friend of mine who's been a painter for a long time and they both suggested priming the plaster to insure that any other color added to it would adhere well.

I'm disappointed by how much the primer "homogenized" the surface and I'm kicking myself more than a little for not experimenting with a color wash.  I've already primed the two bedrooms upstairs so the only walls left to experiment are the ones in the hallway. (The bathroom should be primed to prevent mildew from forming on the plaster and to provide a washable surface.)

The error comes from rushing to get it all done.  I just didn't feel like I had time to experiment, having set myself a deadline to move upstairs by June 1st.  Unfortunately, there's no going back from this mistake short of skim coating the walls again which would probably qualify me for institutionalization.

This is really a hard one to swallow, but it's only an aesthetic issue and we're practically sick of using only half of our house.

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