Since we're still waiting for our new couch to arrive, I've put the living room redo on hold and moved on to the master bedroom. I found a quart-sized can of flat white paint leftover from the last owners of our townhouse. I figured since the ceiling was already white this would be enough paint to give it a quick refresher coat. Wrong. The ceiling sucked up that paint like a milkshake. I got about half of it finished when I ran out of paint. I basically painted over all the dirty and patched areas and hoped they blended with the still-looks-pretty-good part of the ceiling when everything dried. Then I found a second quart-sized can of white paint, this one in eggshell finish instead of flat finish. In hind sight, I probably could have mixed the two together and possible had enough to paint the entire ceiling. Oh well. At this point I should have stepped away from the ceiling and let it dry completely to see if the streaks went away. Instead I convinced myself that since this was eggshell instead of flat maybe it would spread farther. Wrong again - as you can see by the huge shiny white splotches all over the ceiling.
Half a day waisted and not much to show for it. Not to worry. I went to Home Depot this morning and bought the cheapest can of flat white paint I could find (under $8). It's the crappiest paint I've ever worked with. I'm definitely going to have to apply two coats but that's OK. It was cheap and it will do the job just fine.
