[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: painting walls

[Iggy McSnurd]

> Oh, *man!*  Accent walls and everything!  I've always wanted an accent
> wall (or even a ragged wall), but that would require actually finding
> two colors that coordinate, and that will never happen.  ;-)

Iggy:

My mom actually painted most of the rooms in her house on her own.. with
some help from me on the base-coats.  She then went over the walls with a
sponge-dab technique to layer other colors over it lightly to add depth and
contrast to them.  They look great.  (I'm going to see if I can get my wife
to let me do that with the bathroom at least.  I want to use light blue and
aqua over a mid-range blue.)

If you do it right, you can put a base coat of a mid-range color, then
accent it by dabbing on paints that are both lighter, and darker.  (How much
of each you use is determined by the end effect you want.)  My mom has found
it easiest to do this with shades of blue in one room, yellows in another,
and tan/light brown with slight yellow ocrhe highlights in another rom...

>
> And Tyler has the courage to use *red,* too!  And here I was thinking
> that the fact that someone was able to pry that can of white paint out
> of my hands was a huge accomplishment.  I would love a red room
> somewhere, but I've rather run out of rooms.  Most of my rooms and
> halls are butterscotch, which is OK, but hardly inspiring.

Red is ok, but it's been proven to have an odd psychological reaction with a
lot of people depending on the specific red used.

I once lived with some roomies in a condo for about a year... I had the
master bedroom.  The landlord (who used to have that room) has painted the
walls burgundy, and the closet's sliding doors burgindy.  It sounds like an
odd color combo, but it worked well enough that I didn't bother asking to be
allowed to repaint.  (Of course, it also wasn't a color set I would have
chosen, m'self.)

>
> Has anyone had the guts to do a ceiling in anything other than
> "ceiling white?"

I wish I could, but the ceilings of virtually every house I've lived in has
had that "spray on" ceiling coating that comes off if you even rub on it.
(Personally, I can't see why they put it there.  I hate the stuff, m'self.
I wonder if I can ask my landlord if I can scrape it off our ceiling so we
can paint it... Either that, or get permission to just paint over it if we
get one of those spray guns.)

>
> Cindy -- wondering what it would feel like to wake up to a ceiling
> color like lavender
>

If I paint my ceiling, I'd like to do an intricate job of it...  Light blue
paint with some carefully painted on clouds to make it look like the morning
sky... then, over that, speckle some of the "invisible" glow in the dark
paint in patterns so that it looks like a starry sky at night when the
lights are off.  Kinda give you the feeling you're under the bewitched
ceiling of the dining hall at Hogwarts.  *grin*


Iggy McSnurd
the Prankster


*laugh*  I just got a call from one of those "robotic telemarketers" as I
was writing this.  (I download my mail and answer offline to free up the
phone in case my wife needs to contact me about something.)