On Paint

Bear with me. I've been stuffing and unstuffing myself into awkward closet spaces since Saturday. My everything aches.

Say it with me - No one is going to be in your closets looking for brush marks.
No one.
Not your realtor, not your friends, not your mother.
No one reading this blog (Hi Mom! Hi Dad!) are in the real estate market at the level where we have to worry about a potential buyer showing up and hearing, "Oh My God, we simply can not buy this house Chad, there's brush lines in the closets!"
No one cares, as long as there's ample clean space that holds stuff.
If you're going to take it upon yourself to overhaul the closet situation in a cobbed old house - here's a tip. You're going to be wedging yourself into some very uncomfortable places. Maybe go on a diet, and take a month or two of yoga before you start. Stretch liberally.
Then, and I can't say this enough, buy the good paint.
It seems counter intuitive, right? It's just a closet, cheap paint should be fine. But here's the thing - even though you cleaned the space (contortion act #1) and then primed the space with stain blocking Kilz (contortion act #2) and laid down a coat of paint (contortion act #3) you're going to look at the uneven streaky surface and know deep down in your heart (that even though it's just a closet) you're going to have to wedge yourself back in there for a second coat of paint.
If you'd just bought the good paint with primer and crud built in, you'd be done. But no, because you got the cheap paint, you're got to get back in there for round 4, little buddy. Ready the aspirin.
At least you'll have fun stories for your chiropractor. (Shout out to Dr Dan!)

A note about color.
Warm white seemed like a good idea at the time. It was cold out, so anything that promised warm seemed like a good idea.
But you don't like warm white. It's not white. It's not yellow.
If you want yellow, buy yellow. If you want white, get white. You're stuck with it now for the closets, because you've got a gallon of it, (and no one is going to look critically in the closets anyway and if they do, get new friends.) Once the closets are done, you're going to use whatever's left for primer. Or to paint beehives. Maybe once you paint the floors, it won't be so bad, but right now, against the old green floors, it's just horrendous. You're going to have to go get warm-toned floor paint to try to salvage this, friend. Brown might work. Good luck.

But it's the first day of spring! Now we begin to see what lives here with me, other than the birds and the squirrels.

Promises of things to come.