Need some advice please

[Invert0]

Hi folks,
I want some thoughts on something I am wanting to re-do.

In our house we have these (let's call them) wooden rails (see pictures) running across the walls for decorative purposes going upstairs and on the ground floor across the dining room walls. It's colour changed over time from a semi-goldish colour to a dark green. I bought paint at Builders last year to give it a nice gold colour.

Here's the problem. The paint was a high gloss enamel paint (first mistake) , and I applied it to all the wooden rails, it dripped all over the place, and when it settled, it still showed signs of dripping. Being gloss, it's a tough paint to work with, especially on wood. In some parts it also has this shiny transparent coating, which it should not. I obviously did not stir the paint well.

Looking back, we have a semi-gloss gold paint, only a small bit, which would've worked much better.

Now, this dripping effect is throughout most of the wooden rails, even showing as drops of paint having settled right underneath the rails.

I have a few choices

1) paint over it until I get it right.
2) sandpaper everything down as they are attached to the walls, and paint over it (creating a lot of dust).
3) remove all the wooden rails, sandpaper everything down, paint them all, and put them back onto the walls.
4) replace all the wooden rails with newly and correctly painted ones, putting back where the old ones were.

EDIT: I do use masking tape wherever I paint.

I totally messed up, and I want to fix it.

I am open to some fresh ideas.

Any advice
Thanks for any help

 

[WAslayer]

Get rid of them and repaint the walls..

If you MUST keep them, there are only two correct approaches:

- 80grit sand them to remove the drips and repaint properly..
- buy and paint new strips properly..

 

[3WA]

Combine with purple velvet drapes, strong perfume scent, and warm yellow lighting to give your home that brothel ambience.

 

[KantSnyer]

Not sure how wide those are but maybe stick some Dado rails over them

 

[Jean Claude Vaaldamme]

Keep them there and sand them smooth. You do not have to remove all the paint, just sand them till they smooth and all the running/drip parts are smooth.
After they smooth I will suggest giving them a thin coat of Universal undercoat because off that stupid high gloss paint you put on. If you sanded it all down to the wood, you can then rather put on a thin coat of wood primer.

These things is a bit 1990's, but they still look pretty good/classy is you paint it just the same color as the rest of the wall. That way they do not "stand out" too much. So just paint them with the same paint as the wall.
This will make the job easy and no need for masking tape or good paint skills.

I have done this for many clients over the last decade and all was a bit skeptical when I said just paint it with the wall paint, but afterwards they all agreed it looks great and better than two colors.

And finally, looking at the strip and the white wall paint, it really looks like you do not know how to paint properly. There is skill to painting. So I would highly suggest you rather pay someone to do it. It will save you a lot of money. Like just think if you did it the first time, you would not have sat with this mess now and having to spend more money. Just get a painter with referral from someone you know. A painter that ask R300 or less for the day probably also do not know what they doing.

 

[Snyper564]

dont use masking tape use this

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[maumau]

Is OP talking about Dado Rails? From his post I imagined trellises

 

[RedViking]

Do what all the white people does

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you dont need any prep.

 

[RedViking]

Combine with purple velvet drapes, strong perfume scent, and warm yellow lighting to give your home that brothel ambience.

Or you are just Indian.

 

[rh1]

Keep them there and sand them smooth. You do not have to remove all the paint, just sand them till they smooth and all the running/drip parts are smooth.
After they smooth I will suggest giving them a thin coat of Universal undercoat because off that stupid high gloss paint you put on. If you sanded it all down to the wood, you can then rather put on a thin coat of wood primer.

These things is a bit 1990's, but they still look pretty good/classy is you paint it just the same color as the rest of the wall. That way they do not "stand out" too much. So just paint them with the same paint as the wall.
This will make the job easy and no need for masking tape or good paint skills.

I have done this for many clients over the last decade and all was a bit skeptical when I said just paint it with the wall paint, but afterwards they all agreed it looks great and better than two colors.

And finally, looking at the strip and the white wall paint, it really looks like you do not know how to paint properly. There is skill to painting. So I would highly suggest you rather pay someone to do it. It will save you a lot of money. Like just think if you did it the first time, you would not have sat with this mess now and having to spend more money. Just get a painter with referral from someone you know. A painter that ask R300 or less for the day probably also do not know what they doing.

Agree, and yet as a laaitie growing up in a coloured household, we were expected to paint every December, no training given.

 

[Invert0]

Thanks for all the advice. Appreciate it.