So this is our first home. My boyfriend just purchased our 2 bedroom coop apartment and we've painted & updated every room with a good amount of success - except the master bath. It was a plain, drab semi-gloss white when we moved in, and since we'd used vibrant fall colors throughout the rest of the apartment, we chose a sharp red in a satin finish for this small bathroom. Well, the first coat went on all smeary and drippy, and not knowing any better, we figured that a second coat would help. The red was way too bright - it advanced far more than was comfortable in such a small space - and the dripping was only accentuated making it look as if a hideous murder had been committed. So we let it dry and selected a warm, safe beige. We put two coats of primer over the red and then 2 coats of the beige. Satisfied with our work, we began to remove the blue tape protecting the ceiling and woodwork, only to have large patches of paint come peeling off in strips. Apparently the original home's semigloss paint underneath was resistant to the satin finish of our first coats of red. This was bad enough, but unfortunately it didn't all come off so easily - we were left with bald patches and an incredibly ugly bathroom. We tried using a sander in one area, but even with a fine grade of paper it ate right through the drywall's paper. We tried Peel Away 6, the kind that's supposedly safe for drywall, and ended up with a stubborn, gummy mess. Then we tried sanding that stubborn, gummy mess after it dried and found it still ate away at the drywall's paper, exposing bits of gypsum. We are on the verge of a nervous breakdown. My boyfriend refuses to even use that bathroom anymore except to take showers. No one can stand to go in there - it seems to be laughing at us, taunting us with our failures! Will we have to cut out all the walls and hang new drywall to fix this mess? Short of doing that, is there anything we can reasonably do to remedy the situation? Money is a huge issue here - we're just starting out and blew most all we had into just purchasing this darned place. We are KICKING ourselves for not priming in the first place. Please don't make it hurt any more than it already does by telling us "I told you so..." Best, Julie & Steve

Helping a guy paint his living room, however we can't seem to find the 'right' color. It is an open room so we were thinking of painting the 3 walls that are connected. The furniture is Navy Blue, 2 chairs and 2 couches. It is a Modern room with glass tables and brushed aluminum accents. The area rug is rectangled with a 2-tone border, tan and brown with a smaller rectangle insert that is an off-white with a little brown in it and 7 by 11 mini circles within that, their color is beige. There is also 2 mini palm trees in the room and a large dark bookshelf. As for colors he was thinking of soft denim walls with a little grey in it with the sponge look. I thought that would be a little busy and thought maybe a beige that matches the mini circles and the trim in the off white color of the rug. Any ideas would be helpful.