Paint?

[BooBoo*TheKiddo*]

How would I go about painting the chins room?

Like what would I do with them and such.

I'm not 100% sure how I want to paint it but right now I'm think painting it glossy white, then painting a red stripe around the room then a green strip on top and bottom of that.
Though I'm still unsure. I just like green and red lol

Any advice or comment?

 

[Diamond Dreams]

For starters I would definitely use a zero VOC paint.

Sounds like you're wanting to paint a Christmas themed room. You could paint the room to match your chinchillas.

 

[threewingedfury]

I'd personally stay away from white for a chin room unless you're using it for grading under show lights. It's going to show every urine stain you could ever find. I just redid a storage room this past summer and made it my little chin room. I picked an eggshell finish by Valspar called Timid Absinthe that worked great. I asked around for what type of paint would be the easiest to clean since I would be scrubbing walls often and that was what I was told to get. I wanted something that had a calming effect and wouldn't be too extreme and easy to cover urine stains.

 

[BooBoo*TheKiddo*]

For starters I would definitely use a zero VOC paint.

Sounds like you're wanting to paint a Christmas themed room. You could paint the room to match your chinchillas.

What's a zero VOC paint?
And I really want to just green but I don't think I want it solid green but don't really know how to do it. Maybe if I found the right shade of green I'd do it solid green.
Making it match my chins would be interesting. I've got 2 beige, a standard, a TOV Tan, 2 violet wraps, a Dark Ebony, and a black velvet. that would be interesting lol



Thanks Tiffany. That color is pretty but I'm thinking it might be to bright for a whole room. The chins have an entire room to themselves.

 

[BooBoo*TheKiddo*]

Also, how long should I keep the chins out of the room after its been painted?

It's rather cool outside so I was thinking I'd open a window or both (while daddy cleaned their a/c) to allow some air in so the smell wasn't as strong.

 

[Diamond Dreams]

What's a zero VOC paint?

Here is some more information http://www.mythicpaint.com/

 

[chincinnati]

I love green too. You could pick an accent wall to paint green, in a color that is very pleasing yet saturated and the rest a beige/golden color (Sherwin Williams Believable Beige-can be mixed into any paint by Lowes/Depot) to compliment. Or you could use 3 shades of green, light to dark and do the strip techinique you described starting with the lighter color on top. If you want red in the room then use it as an accent in things such as rugs, curtains, furniture, and art. I made the mistake of glossy white. Very very stark looking and I don't grade my chins in that room so there was really no point in it except to point out all the urine stains easily! I will pick a darker beige next time. But my floor is green!

ps: one other thing you can do with the striping that would give you a easy surface to clean at chin urine level but without the glare at your eye level would be to use the same color green but in 3 different formulas. The top stripe would be a flat paint, middle satin, bottom stripe in a semi gloss. The end result will look like 3 different colors because of the way the light reflects off of them and will blend almost unseemingly into each other.

 

[Chinmama]

My two live in the living room, and my biggest problem is that my living room walls are a brick red color, and they are always visibly coated with dust. I'm always taking a cloth attached to the swiffer and dusting the walls.

Unless you want to dust walls all the time, pick a color that won't show it as well. Thankfully my guys don't spray pee on the walls, but if yours do, you do need to get a paint you can scrub and not remove.

 

[BooBoo*TheKiddo*]

one other thing you can do with the striping that would give you a easy surface to clean at chin urine level but without the glare at your eye level would be to use the same color green but in 3 different formulas. The top stripe would be a flat paint, middle satin, bottom stripe in a semi gloss. The end result will look like 3 different colors because of the way the light reflects off of them and will blend almost unseemingly into each other.

I really like this idea. I think I'm going to give it a try. Thanks.

Does anyone know if blue painters tape will bring the paper off of dry wall?

 

[3CsMommy]

Blue painter's tape won't, but regular paper masking tape might.

I was going to suggest something similar to what chincinnatti said, only using a chair-rail height border of some sort (you could even cut a custom stencil of a chin and use a sponge to paint it around the room in each color of your chins) with gloss or semi-gloss on the lower part, and a matte finish at the top, possibly of two different shades that coordinate well.

Red, like chincinnatti said, is really best used as an accent color, though if the room is large enough you could probably get away with an accent wall in red and use a pinkish or off white/beige tone for the other walls. I'd keep the ceiling white or light colored, though. A painted ceiling often sucks up a lot of light and makes it seem dimmer even if it's well-lit.