Painting your interrior Options

[sincerelyseb]

so ever since i got my celica ive wanted to paint my interrior plastic but everyone around me keeps detering me from doing so...now ill be soon be finishing the exterrior and itll be time to get the celica on the road, so i need to make but my mind, so if anyone could share their experiences with painting the interrior, any tips tricks or anything to help me make up my mind...
thanks everyone

[GriffGirl]

I painted my center dash radio trim thingie and I'm still not sick of it. I think part of it is the color - I actually chose a very silvery bronze color for mine. I had first painted it silver to match my exterior, but that I found to be obnoxious and it just didn't flow well with the rest of the interior. Of course the bronze contrasts with the black, but as a color in and of itself it's subtle and tasteful. It also looks more like silver than bronze, unless you compare it to the exterior, then you can see the warm tones in it. I also purposely did NOT clear coat it, as it was important to me that the texture of the painted surface matched the texture of the non painted surfaces. Rather, I primered it really well, and then sprayed probably 5-6 light coats over the course of a day, allowing the coats to dry well in between.

On the other hand, I personally don't like interiors where like everything including the oval thingie on the door cards has been painted. I definitely think less is more, especially with a small interior.