OT painting question
maryd
decide whether to paint the wall with windows the eggplant or the opposite
wall. Ideas?
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Toni Schneidt
What is going on the walls? I mean furniture wise.
What wall do you see first as you enter the room?
Does the wall with windows get first sun or last?
Okay, so I am anal about color. I still need to paint my living room......
Toni
frood
opposite the window the eggplant. That way, the light shines on it, and you
see the gorgeous color. If you paint the wall with the window, then it is
always in shadow, and just looks dark.
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Kellie J. Berger
what direction are the windows facing? will the eggplant look better with
the light hitting it or framing the light?
In our last house, DH wanted a darker blue for the bedroom. I didn't want
to have it that dark. so the 3 walls you faced when you walked in the door
were blue and the wall i saw when i woke up was white! lol
Kellie
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maryd
laurel outside these windows. First wall seen has a single door way to the
bath (painted a sage green) and no furniture. The window wall has a chest
of drawers.
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maryd
blue and making a blue and yellow quilt for the bed.
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Toni Schneidt
across from the windows eggplant.
Does that make sense? Or did I just confuse you? LOL I confuse myself
sometimes, LOL
Toni
maryd
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Taria
I am the last one to ask about color and paint. I am
working on a bathroom and had two qts. of colors I was
interested in. Neither worked when put on the wall in
a sample block. I started mixing with some other stuff
I had around. I now have a room the color of a
pale pumpkin, excluding the ceiling which is a yellow
that isn't working for me.
I should not be let in the paint store alone.
I'd love to see the photos of the eggplant room when you
are done mary.
Taria
maryd
can move most of the furniture outside and cover it so I can paint and clean
carpets a bit easier. Right now I'm looking at colors.
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"Taria" <taria...@verizon.net> wrote in message
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Kate Dicey
> I want to paint our bedroom eggplant and yet-to-be-selected green. I can't
> decide whether to paint the wall with windows the eggplant or the opposite
> wall. Ideas?
>
I have pale walls and darker woodwork. Does that help?
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Boca Jan
much better to have the windows within the 3 wall color and save the
contrast for a "clean" wall with no windows or doors.
Just my opinion.
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Polly Esther
Now and then, one of them would have the urge to do a wall or room in
something deep and dark such as eggplant. I was always very uncomfortable
around such a heavy dose of color and was glad to leave those rooms. Don't
suppose I could persuade you to simply use a few accents with that eggplant
. . . pillows, swag, lampshades, flowers, table cover? Polly
"Kate Dicey" wrote >> > I have pale walls and darker woodwork. Does that
help?
>
Kathy Applebaum
The one wall that's different will become the focus of the room. Where do
you want the eye to be drawn when you're in the room? That's the eggplant
wall. Is there some architectural feature you like? Furniture? Artwork? Just
the way you use the room? Those types of things should determine which will
be your accent wall.
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maryd
probably want to stay with one color.
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"Kathy Applebaum" <Kat...@KayneyNOSPAMQuilting.com> wrote in message
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Kate Dicey
> Nope. <s> We have no "wood" work. Window frames are white vinyl.
>
Even if we ever double glaze the windows here, they'll be wooden framed!
:) I just don't go for 'Tupperware' window frames! ;) And while I
like the outside to be white, I like the inside to match the rooms.
Thus the sewing room has very pale pink walls and gray shelves,
skirting, door, and window frames. The curtains are trey and pink...
The dining room is blue with bright blue woodwork. James's room had
navy blue woodwork, and big navy panels painted on the wall, stencilled
with glow-in-the-dark space ships! The main parts of the walls are
'spaceship trey', naturally.
The new conservatory will be the only place with coloured walls and
white woodwork! :)
This house it a 1928 terraced cottage. Plastic windows look slightly odd!
maryd
we bought this house. Nor was wall color. They taped windows and cabinets
and spray painted everything white.
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Kate Dicey
> I would much rather wood frames too but that was not an option at the time
> we bought this house. Nor was wall color. They taped windows and cabinets
> and spray painted everything white.
>
That's a LOT better than here! The living room looked like the Ambrosia
Creamed Rice school of decorating: wood chipped walls and ceiling,
painted magnolia, just as if they'd put a 5 gallon can of rice pudding
in the middle of the floor, and a stick of dynamite... BLEARGH! The
dining room was worse... That had one wall with pine tongue & groove
boards up it... complete with fairy footprints where the kids had walked
on it before they'd got it up, and they'd never sanded/cleaned off the
evidence! It went a foot or so across the ceiling too - where they'd
removed an old chimney breast and not properly replastered the ceiling.
When Alan took it down a couple of pounds of soot and a dead bird fell
out on his head! We removed the remains of the chimney they'd made into
a 'feature' and had the wall properly replastered!
Oh, and for many years there was a bit of carpet under the wall dividing
the back end of the living room from the kitchen. I'm *almost* sure we
got the last of it out when we had the kitchen refitted, but I ain't
gonna go looking too close!
Sandy Ellison
Thanks, Kathy.
Btw, if it doesn't work out first time around,
paint it over. After all, It's Just Paint!
Ragmop/Sandy--and it's just quilting, too ;-)
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Taria
newer homes don't have much trim here.
We have aluminum windows here with a minimal wood product windowsill.
I have lived with double hung wood windows
and I have to say I fight a lot less with the aluminum ones.
Styles vary a lot here by age and location and cost of home.
You have to remember what dad the builder says about homes
these days, "they stand at the curb and throw everything on
the foundation and that is the house you get". Most homes
here are built by labors not even craftsmen. Few even speak
english here in So. Cal. except the foremen.
Taria
Taria
Special 'blend' for California and that was
with a discount. I had it mixed before I asked
what the cost was. (It has gone up around
$10 in 3 years) Painting over is a bear
since it is in a very large tall skylight
area!
Taria
off kilter quilter
> Putting on my paint store owner hat here...
>
> The one wall that's different will become the focus of the room. Where do
> you want the eye to be drawn when you're in the room? That's the eggplant
> wall. Is there some architectural feature you like? Furniture? Artwork? Just
> the way you use the room? Those types of things should determine which will
> be your accent wall.
>
Okay, Ms. Kathy.....give me some advice here.....I think I mentioned
that the MBR is olive green with white trim, and 2 dark wooden beams
going across the ceiling. I'm not a monochromatic person, so I have a
dilemma. DH picked out the curtain fabric - olive green with
embroidered swirls (when neither of us could remember what color the
room was!!). I was going with antique golds, orangey reds, olive-dark
greens with a few lighter greens in the quilt top that I am working on.
Do these colors, in your professional opinion, work well together??
Larisa, *still* trying to figure out the colors for the MBR (but
thinking I like the colors chosen), the family room, the stairwell and
upstais landing, and having second thoughts about the wall color for the
kitchen/dining room areas
Kathy Applebaum
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> Okay, Ms. Kathy.....give me some advice here.....I think I mentioned that
> the MBR is olive green with white trim, and 2 dark wooden beams going
> across the ceiling. I'm not a monochromatic person, so I have a dilemma.
> DH picked out the curtain fabric - olive green with embroidered swirls
> (when neither of us could remember what color the room was!!). I was
> going with antique golds, orangey reds, olive-dark greens with a few
> lighter greens in the quilt top that I am working on. Do these colors, in
> your professional opinion, work well together??
That's a classic split complement color scheme. That's the fancy answer for
sounds like it should work. :)
off kilter quilter
> "off kilter quilter" <spam...@somewherequiet.net> wrote in message
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>
>
>>Okay, Ms. Kathy.....give me some advice here.....I think I mentioned that
>>the MBR is olive green with white trim, and 2 dark wooden beams going
>>across the ceiling. I'm not a monochromatic person, so I have a dilemma.
>>DH picked out the curtain fabric - olive green with embroidered swirls
>>(when neither of us could remember what color the room was!!). I was
>>going with antique golds, orangey reds, olive-dark greens with a few
>>lighter greens in the quilt top that I am working on. Do these colors, in
>>your professional opinion, work well together??
>
>
> That's a classic split complement color scheme. That's the fancy answer for
> sounds like it should work. :)
>
OKey Dokey, just wanted another opinion as all DH says is, "I just sleep
there, I don't care what color it is!"
L
Denise in NH
about using it all around the bottom of the room, then install a small
wooden chair rail molding with a lighter color on the top of the walls.
Denise
Elizabeth Young
> I want to paint our bedroom eggplant and yet-to-be-selected green. I can't
> decide whether to paint the wall with windows the eggplant or the opposite
> wall. Ideas?
Uhhhh
I'd have to see the room.
BUT ... may I suggest (if you have the paint already) painting eight 8.5
x 11 pieces of paper with the 2 paint color, four for each. Then you can
hang BIG (*compared with the tiny paint chip) examples of each color on
each wall. Then you can at least tell what the color will look like at
various times of the day in various locations.
A friend of mine has no fear of the paint roller and just rolls some of
the colors she is considering on each wall. She figures she can always
paint over.
liz young in overcast california
Kathy Applebaum
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A word of warning about painting paper -- I've yet to see someone bring in a
sample painted on paper that actually covered (ie was solid enough to
represent the true color). Same for cardboard. We tell our customers to use
either art board or foam core board -- you can pick up a 2' x 3' piece for
just a couple bucks at the art supply or hobby store. And use at least two
coats, if not three. :) People always think they can decide on a color based
on a poor sample, and it doesn't work.
Painting the walls is popular, and has some merit because the texture has an
effect on the appearance. Unfortunately, a good minority of customers find
that area becomes well sealed compared to their existing paint, and it shows
as a texture difference even through multiple coats of paint. :(
All that said, large paint samples are an excellent way to choose paint
colors. Some stores sell small test samples, but usually only in a couple
hundred of their 1000+ colors. Some stores (ours included) have quarts made
up in every color we have, and let customers check them out. Either way, I
can't recommend highly enough that people try colors out first on a bigger
surface and in multiple lights.
Kate Dicey
Do you do 'match pots'? These are sample pots that will cover a couple
of square feet with two coats, and we use them to test the colours on
the walls: they cost just a few pence, and you can buy two or three
different colours and paint a bit of the wall in the room and live with
it a few weeks before making the final selection of colour.
It might be a good idea to paint the walls white before using your
colour, especially if there's a dark or strong colour on the walls now,
and you want to lighten up! :) I once painted a deep purple wall
white: took seven coats on the anaglypta, but I got there in the end,
and the room looked several feet bigger!
Kathy Applebaum
> Do you do 'match pots'? These are sample pots that will cover a couple of
> square feet with two coats, and we use them to test the colours on the
> walls: they cost just a few pence, and you can buy two or three different
> colours and paint a bit of the wall in the room and live with it a few
> weeks before making the final selection of colour.
These are commonly called 'testers' here. We don't do them because the
colors they are made in are limited (often only 200 or so) -- with our
quarts we allow people to do 10 square feet, and they're available in all
1400+ colors. Plus we charge less for the quarts that people check out than
most testers cost. :)
Judi
And I wanted a kind of teal in a room and then hated it and had it
painted over with an Arizona like more neutral color. so my answer is
until you put it on the walls and live with it for a few weeks, you may
not know how you will ultimately like it. Judi
maryd
I will be changing my choice of colors. I wanted something "rich" but the
colors I had in mind are looking more "dark".
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Polly Esther
Kate meant about 7 coats on her anaglypta. Polly
"maryd" wrote > Thanks for all the discussion. I have picked up some paint
Pat in Virginia
alligator ... needs seven coats every winter.
;P PAT
Kathy Applebaum
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>I enjoyed the discussion too. Of course, I still don't have a clue what
>Kate meant about 7 coats on her anaglypta. Polly
>
Anaglypta is a paintable, embossed wallpaper. The second picture here
http://www.fromtimespast.com/homes/wall.htm (NAYY) shows either anaglypta or
lincrusta, which is very similar. They're both available in lots of styles,
from Victorian to Art Deco to modern. Cool stuff, lots of fun.
Sandy Ellison
Dang, that's a picky gator;
what, does s/he change coats every day of the week?
Today is Monday: Monday cammo day, every gator happy? Well I should say!
Today is Tuesday: Tuesday leopard skin day, every gator happy? ...
Anaglypta is sold in the home décor/DIY store around here.
http://tinyurl.com/pkdmz (sans gators; you gotta' supply your own)
" anaglypta, which is a Greek word meaning "raised ornament." When speaking
about wallpaper, it refers to a type that is embossed."
http://www.urbanrevivals.com/walls/walls_lincrusta.htm
Ooo, I love this stuff!
Pat, what's in that chocolate today? *hic*
Ragmop/Sandy
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frood
Mine's unpainted - for now anyway.
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Sandy Ellison
Can we do some in your house, KathyA?
That might get me out there... mid-summer... . <g>
Ragmop/Sandy-- anaglypta, anaglypta, rah-rah-rah!
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Kathy Applebaum
I'm not in the mood to start smoothing walls. Now if you're volunteering to
develop those right biceps of yours... :)
I knew an old plaster guy who could tear a phone book in half when he was in
his late 80's. You wouldn't have wanted to arm wrestle him! LOL
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