[Muse]

I have a small room that doubles as an office and a home theater. The Gatorboard screen is above the desk, and I view from 9 feet away. The walls are off white and I figure I'm losing significant contrast from my Sanyo PLV-Z2 LCD front projector by virtue of light from the screen illuminating the ceiling and the adjacent wall and coming back to the screen. I figure it's obviously not necessary to paint the whole room black, but I figure the contrast will improve significantly if I paint most of the ceiling and half the adjacent wall. What do people use? Any old cheap flat black paint? I am making a Home Depot run in a matter of days and figured I'd pick up something cheap. I suppose they have cheap gallons of flat black that I can roll on after throwing a tarp over things. Is that the way to go or is there a better idea? Thanks!

 

[sm1]

Yes

 

[bpape]

The only thing with flat black is that you basically can't touch it without leaving scuff marks. There are some 'washable' paints that are matte finish that are supposed to eliminate this problem. While I would never try to wash a flat black wall, if it gets it even to the point can treat it like any normal surface, that would be an improvement.

 

[Art Sonneborn]

My ceiling is Benjamin Moore flat black " twilight zone". Four coatsand you still can see roller marks even using every technique I could find to reduce their formation. I'm the only one who sees them but that's my personality. I will say that having painted my previous theater with a flat plum color that a damp rag just dusting across scuffs totally eliminated them.


Art

 

[ckaudio]

You should try my ceiling technique............ you can't even see the ceiling anymore with the lights on. To take this picture, I had to use a flood lamp aimed up at the ceiling.

http://groups.msn.com/BicyclingForum...o&PhotoID=1708

 

[EscapeRocks]

Best trick for not getting roller marks with dark, flat paint:


Buy or rent an simple power sprayer. I bought a Wagner paint sprayer a few years ago, and haven't used a roller since. Even coats and no roller/line marks.


It also reduces your painting time significantly



Just another idea....

 

[bpape]

I don't have problems with roller marks, but it still scuffs like hell...