Painting a Door Question

JustinSane07

H/A, I need your help.

So I'm painting this room I'm moving into and I wanted to paint the door white. So I slapped two coats of primer on it but I can still see the blue (the original color) through the white. Now we ran out of primer, but we have some white ceiling paint. Will that work or is there another kind of white paint I'll need for this?

Everywhereasign

You can use the white ceiling paint, just make sure it matches the primer. Ie latex or acrylic.

They should say on them which type they are.

JustinSane07

I'm not quite sure what kind it is, but I know the primer was latex. I'll have to check it out.

Gafoto

Generally when painting something of a very different color (i.e. brown over white) you will need at least two coats of the paint. The ceiling paint should be fine though, just might need a couple coats of it.

JustinSane07

Yeah, to paint the room itself we did two coats of primer and two coats of green. It really did take the second coat of green to cover everything.

EggyToast

You need 2 coats of good paint to change a color, in general. To go from dark to light, you need at least two. Primer + paint, though, should reasonably cover it.

My house came w/o doors (only on the bathroom), so we picked up some old wood doors that fit the sizes (each room different, yay), and then spent some time stripping all the old paint off of it. Some lead, some varnish, some latex. Once we had them reasonably clean, we put primer + 2 coats of white semigloss on, and it covered everything up nicely. But yeah, that was only because we'd taken off the colors underneath, and the wood soaked up the primer.


IF you've only used the primer, then yes, that's good -- primer will never cover a color completely. It's to prime the surface for painting, and any color or material underneath will pretty much always show through. You would probably need a dozen coats of primer to get something "primer white." If you've primed it, slap the paint on and call it a day.

TheRealBadger

Ceiling paint should be fine although it might not be optimal on high contact areas such as where the door touches the frame or places you get a lot of hands and fingers and what not.