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Post by DawninCal on Jun 12, 2022 12:17:46 GMT -6
That's what I was thinking too, Cat. Sort of like bringing the forest indoors. That redwood lath is 100 years old and came from an old growth tree back when redwood logging was done with no thought to the future. To be able to honor the tree by using that beautiful lath in my special space means a lot to me. I also think that the reddish color of the wood will give the room a lot of warmth. I'll drink to that! Dawn
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Post by caeterle on Jun 12, 2022 12:43:26 GMT -6
I think the redwood's different color tones would also go nicely with the trim.
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Post by DawninCal on Jun 12, 2022 14:10:41 GMT -6
Cat, do you think having two different colors of trim would work? I have to decide on a color for the baseboard (trim that will put on at the bottom of the walls and go around the room) and I know I don't want orange trim. I was thinking about using the dark brown for the baseboard color and am trying to decide if the window trim should match or if leaving it orange would work. Usually all the trim is the same color. Hubby has been no help as he says it's my room, my rules. Dawn
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Post by michelle on Jun 21, 2022 21:48:40 GMT -6
Had to catch up with this thread… The green you chose is lovely, Dawn. I had to giggle about the paint names. The blue in our bedroom is named Undercool. LOL! Anyway, if it were me, since you know that you don’t want orange on the baseboards, I’d paint them whatever color you choose, then see how you feel about the orange window trim. I can’t wait to see the mural!!! 😄
And whatever happened with this Pat person certainly sounds…, interesting? 😳
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Post by DawninCal on Jun 22, 2022 10:36:04 GMT -6
Thanks, Michelle! Just imagine having a job where you could sit around drinking coffee/tea, spend your day looking at paint colors, coming up with names for those colors and getting paid for it! Ahhh...Pat. Well, back when I worked for the school, our maintenance person was cleaning out a storage shed and came across an anatomy dummy. It was plastic and its innards could be removed in order to teach kids about our various organs, their functions and where they were located in the human body. This dummy was a head/torso model; it had no legs. Anyway, she was going to throw it in the trash, but then she asked if I wanted it to use as a mannequin for my jewelry. I said I'd take it and then started thinking about what to do with it. I ended up covering it with several layers of papier mache and then spray painting it with a product that looks like rough stone after it dries. Oh, and I used orange halves as molds for breasts - draping strips of papier mache over the oranges until they were thick and sturdy enough to attach to Pat. Pat's name came about when one of our members suggested that the mannequin reminded her of the adrongynous Pat character from Saturday Night Live. All of this was posted on what turned out to be a very long thread - we had a lot of fun with it. Pat came to a sad end. Pat kept in my basement type studio and I guess it was a little too moist in there because one day I noticed that Pat was covered in mold and I ended up throwing Pat in the trash. I would post a pic of Pat, but my photos must be on my old computer. One of these days, I'm going to put all of the photos on that computer on to a thumb drive, but I haven't got around to it yet. Dawn
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Post by DawninCal on Jun 22, 2022 11:23:31 GMT -6
Oh, I forgot to respond about the trim color. That's a good idea, Michelle. I think I want to paint the baseboard trim in the same dark brown I used on that one wall. I already have the orange paint, so no harm in putting a second coat on the window trim to see how it looks. That still leaves the dilemma of maroon furniture with orange trim, but I guess I can see how that looks and then go from there. I think we will have fun with the mural. That will be the last thing I do, so down the road a ways. I think Cat is right that the mural project should be a separate thread. Dawn
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Post by michelle on Jun 23, 2022 21:43:43 GMT -6
Poor Pat! But it sounds like she had a long life for a mannequin. 😄 I think maroon, orange and brown sounds like a pretty combination.
In Las Vegas, the developers would come up with the oddest names for streets. I told Dan when it came to thinking up names, they all got high first. LOL! Maybe the paint namers use the same method?
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Post by DawninCal on Jun 24, 2022 10:11:23 GMT -6
The more I try to picture that color combo, it's starting to grow on me. Ha! I always said that the crew involved in making Disney's Fantasia must have been higher than a kite - that's one wild production there. Dawn
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Post by DawninCal on Jun 24, 2022 10:20:27 GMT -6
OK, now that the walls have been painted, we still have that blue ceiling that has to be dealt with. Hubby says the ceiling should be painted first, but for some reason I always like to do the walls first and save the ceiling for last. The ceiling was a pale blue, much paler than the blue walls. Again, wanting to use what I already had rather than buy new paint, I used the nearly full gallon of paint I had leftover from the living room and dining room ceilings. It's a very pale tan, although in these photos it looks more white. While this paint is a pale tan, it looked quite pink as it was going on. It wasn't until the very end, that the pink tone disappeared. Seeing that happen was almost like magic. It has something to do with the light and the eye's perception of color. Don't mind my clothes, I had to take the closet doors off so I could access the floor when it comes time to strip the paint. Next step - stripping the nasty gray paint of of the floor. It's going to be a messy job, but I'm excited to have reached this point! Dawn
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Post by caeterle on Jun 24, 2022 10:26:04 GMT -6
Nice job, lady, I'm proud of you! Looking good so far!
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Post by DawninCal on Jun 24, 2022 15:13:33 GMT -6
Thanks, Cat! I'm feeling really good about how this project is coming along. Dawn
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Post by michelle on Jun 24, 2022 21:35:50 GMT -6
Really pretty, Dawn! It’s a good color combination.
I haven’t seen Fantasia, but Dan agreed that it was one weird movie. LOL! He said you could sure believe the writers were high.
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Post by DawninCal on Jun 25, 2022 10:33:35 GMT -6
Thanks, Michelle! I think we're getting closer to that foresty feel. Ha! And, not just high on weed either! Dawn
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Post by michelle on Jun 25, 2022 17:17:04 GMT -6
Ha! And, not just high on weed either! Dawn 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Post by DawninCal on Jun 26, 2022 21:36:11 GMT -6
Ready to see how the floor is coming along? I've been looking forward to stripping the paint off and dreading it at the same time. Part of me wants to see the wood underneath the paint, while another part of me knows it's going to be a messy, time consuming, labor intensive job. Oh well, that floor isn't going to strip itself - let's go! First, a reminder of how the painted gray floor looked. Oh, and let's not forget there was dated and dirty 1970's shag carpet on top of that painted floor. It was pure joy removing that gross carpet! I stripped the floor in sections so that I'd have room to maneuver and not end up getting myself stuck in a corner. You can see the wet stripper that had just been applied in this photo. And, in this photo taken about 3-4 hours later, you can see the wood showing through the paint. After scraping off the sludge which results from the stripper doing its job, wiping down the floor with a wet sponge and then applying mineral spirits, we now have natural wood showing. I could have rented a machine to sand all the scratches and dents off, but it was always my intent to end up with a distressed looking floor. Funny thing - I've read about people beating their new wood floors with chains and hammers to get a distressed look. Between the few steaks of gray paint that remain and the dings/dents from 100 years of living, my distressed floor is the real deal! Stay tuned... Dawn
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