Note to those of you considering painting over your red walls with yellow paint.
IT CAN NOT BE DONE.
I am on coat 5.... red... still bleeding through. I'm going to let it dry and give it ONE more night of effort and then, I'm going to move.
The upside of this never ending process is that it's keeping me busy!
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Kilnz - Lowe's or Homo-Depot paint department. Check into it.
X's & O's!
Er...Kilz. Sorry about that. http://www.kilz.com/
Something I learned in printmaking class is that the black and white inks (effectively, paint) are opaque and all the rest are transparent to one degree or another. The white, for example, has zinc oxide. If interior latex follows suit (and there, who knows?), you could cover the red with white and the white with yellow.
Oh, and your kitchen is built on an old Indian burial ground. "Bleeding through" isn't always just a metaphor.
Did you prime it first?
The person who recommended Kilz has the right idea -- that would have worked. We had a water stain and Kilz was the only thing that worked to seal/cover up the water stain so we could paint over it.
Hey! Didn't you work at a paint store in a former life?????
One word: Shellac-based primer-sealer (okay, that's technically four words!)
Oh, and yellow is the most TRANSPARENT colorant on the tint wheel, so that is also contributing to the issue! Remember to apply 'full' coats with a quality roller, not skimpy ones. After the sealer-primer step, of course!
Jeezus, one would think you might have ASKED someone for advice on that, since there are at least two of us here who are Architectural Coatings Professionals. (pnb_dave also posts as paintboy49, just in case seattle's paint princess hadn't figured that out.)
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