Painting a Dollhouse Options

[Livinginthepast]

It was my birthday yesterday and my boyfriend was coming over to do something fun. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do and he suggested the night before... undercoat my dollhouse, something that I've been wanting to do for years now. See why I love him? So, we spent ages moving things around in my house so some rooms are free to paint, and yesterday we started.

However, I'm now noticing that it's not at all an even job and how hard it is/was to get paint into the corners. How on earth do I fix this? We started using rollers but they don't go into the corners so then I was using a paint brush to get into them (since the corner brush I'd been given is so obviously for full sized rooms and won't go into the corners properly). That looked really bad. So, today when I was by myself I experimented with a sponge on a handle, and I did the corners first and then rolled the rest of the room. There are still 'lines' and patchiness though I tried to be as even as possible and what I did with the sponge shows on the corners.

How on earth do you get it right? It's just undercoating but since it's white I was hoping I could use it as whitewash or white ceilings in some of the rooms.

[Merry]

Sometimes you can use a damp rag to "clean" the lines and even the color. This would probably work best while you're painting, but I'd try it anyway.

Just be sure and don't use a wet rag, just damp.

[Debra from Olde ...]

Lots of times, the bare wood will absorb paint unevenly too.

[KathieB]

Happy birthday, if belatedly!!

Lots of times, the bare wood will absorb paint unevenly too.

Yes. Perhaps it needs a second coat to even it out?

[Muriel]

I think too that a second coat will even it out a lot.

Happy Birthday to you! What a lovely suggestion from your BF

[Livinginthepast]

I am on the second coat, which is the sad part.

[KathieB]

What are you using to prime it? Is the paint unusually thin?

[havanaholly]

I had fits with a dark green paint going on evenly over a primed wall once, I think I wound up with four coats and it still looked streaky to me. Then, after I'd finished up the rest of the dh and was going back to finish decorating the room and repaint that **! wall, the streaks were no longer noticeable.

[Livinginthepast]

It's some sort of acrylic paint that Dad got me after researching.

[Livinginthepast]

I actually think the paint might have been too *thick*! We're experimenting now with thinning it down. This is really slow work.