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All houses have their quirks. You know, the things that you stare at and wonder "why the flip did the last owners do this" (see also: rouge toilet and oven-less kitchen). Well, here's another one.

We have a, well I'll call it a wall. Although I think it's more of a piece of plywood covering a gaping hole between the kitchen and bathroom. As curious as I am to peak behind it, after reading House of Leaves I know better than to crawl through mystery hallways.

So, rather than mess with it, we opted to simply make it fit in a bit better with the rest of our house.

We considered wallpapering it, but that didn't feel right after the weeks we spent tearing down the world's ugliest wallpaper. Instead we decided to paint it, and for fun rather than regular paint, we used:Here's an almost before. I got a little excited to start, and forgot to take a real before picture. Bad blogger. You can see the side of our kitchen cabinets, which hopefully will be white someday, a bit of our metallic backsplash, and then the bathroom door in our gray hallway.

The application is pretty simple. Tape off anything you want to protect, then apply the first coat with a paint brush--the paint is a bit goopier then regular paint, and won't really stick to the wall if you use a roller to start with. Once dry, apply further coats, this time using a roller for the smoothest results. It took us three coats to be happy with the results.

And here it is finished, and serving as the menu board for our Housewarming Party!