White gravel

grandpa Love · Mar 4, 2021

Man!! White marble gravel sure brightened up the barn! Wonder if painting the ceiling and walls white would help even more? Or would it just look dirty real quick? Wood stove in there and running tractors sometimes.....

Bret4207 · Mar 4, 2021

It won't hurt. Use the cheapest white primer you can find and call it good. There's a white shellac primer that would give you a washable surface, "Binzz" maybe?, but thats more moola.

RBnWA · Mar 4, 2021

Gramps i think you would be amazed how much it would help the lighting. RB

Pete in Holland MI · Mar 4, 2021

Yes.........painting the inside white or light color will make it much easier to light, and the available light will reflect off the walls, and not be absorbed into it. You will probably have to prime it for the top coat not to semi-absorb into the wood and look crappy. You will appreciate it.

An airless sprayer will make short work of it. If there is a Habitat for Humanity store near by, they generally have all sorts of "used paint". Many place take donated paint into back rooms, and blend similar colors into 1 & 5 gallon buckets and sell it pretty cheap. You won't get white, but you should be able to pick out some form of lighter color.

Richard G. · Mar 4, 2021

Kevin, your wife brightens up that barn by just being there.
I painted my interior shop walls with with the cheapest white paint I could find.
It does brighten the place up quite a bit.
Richard

fixerupper · Mar 4, 2021

It will takes a long time for it to look dingy. Like the guys said the cheapest latex you can find will do a good job.

JK-NY · Mar 4, 2021

Yes, white or light color will help a lot.

wrenchere85 · Mar 4, 2021

How long will the gravel stay white, with walking on it and muddy tractor tires? But it sure looks good now.

SDE · Mar 4, 2021

During a slow time at work (2008), we paint the brown beams a lighter color and it helped brighten the place up. In 10 years of manufacturing, the beams still stayed clean.

Stephen Newell · Mar 4, 2021

Make you think it snowed inside.

old · Mar 4, 2021

Also if you replaced that blue tarp with a silver one that would help a good bit

DoubleO7 · Mar 4, 2021

I like what you did with that SS or aluminum pan you brought home last month.
Does it now have a drain in it and hinged to the wall??

Good repurposing job, did it come from a morgue???
:shock:

grandpa Love · Mar 4, 2021

No drain. Yet. It is hinged. I thought
morgue too.....

greg oliver · Mar 4, 2021

Kevin after putting plywood on the ceiling and walls on my old bosses shop we painted it all white. It was the Tractor supply barn and fence paint. We did not paint the floor. Heats with a small wood stove building is 30x30.

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