Bathroom Murals Recap

It has been a bit since I updated you all about the murals I was working on, as the bathroom mural painting hit some road bumps.  I do not know all of the information, however I had to stop painting the bathroom murals due to conflicts with the school district’s union painters and a misunderstanding of the rules. At one point, we thought the murals would be completely painted over, however the principal fought to keep them and won.  The catch was I could not finish, and it left one bathroom mid-mural and incomplete.  

As a parent of kids in the elementary school, I am happy that they will be able to see these positive messages and the bright colors really took these bathrooms from old and outdated to something fun.  Here is where the bathroom murals were left off, as well as the supplies I used to hopefully help others spruce up their bathrooms (but please, investigate the rules first!).

Here is the mural in the first girl’s bathroom.  I was going to add some black line detail similar to the second bathrooms, but here is where it needed to be left.  The bathroom doors were also painted solid colors. 

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Here is the first boy’s bathroom with the incomplete mural.

I did complete the bathroom stalls in the second girl’s bathroom, and they look so bright and colorful!

I had also finished the stall doors in the second boy’s bathroom: 

Here is a video compilation of how the murals ended up:

For the while coats of paint on the stall doors, I used oil-based Rust-oleum Semi-gloss white.  I chose this paint because I wanted the most durable coverage that would cover the exisiting brown.  I was having trouble in first girls bathroom coating the existing brown stalls with yellow, light green, and orange paint, so I was hoping to use this underneath the solid color stall doors as well, but didn’t get the chance to complete that portion. I found this at Menards.

For the black letters I used this paint, but in semi-gloss.  I thought it would help me not have to do so many coats of black on the letters, but that was not the case.  I still had to do 2-3 coats of the black letters. I chose this paint though for its durability.  I found this at Menards.

For the colors, I used this latex paint.  I knew I would be coating in a sealer, so I wasn’t too worried about the durability, but wanted to do the best I could.  This was from Menards. 

Finally, I sealed everything, including the murals on the walls with this polyurathane sealer, with a flat-surface roller.  Although, I did not use satin, rather semi-gloss.  I found this at Home Depot. I put one coat on everything.  Ideally, I think two coats would have been best, however when I found out we were keeping the murals and they needed to be sealed, I only had a matter of hours to do so before students were in the building. 

I will check back on the murals, and especially the bathroom stalls in a few months and let you know how they are holding up!