Friday, January 15, 2010

4th time painting

Is 4 times of painting enough to get the color right? This post is about what I think are the finally final living room & kitchen/hall colors, after trying at least four colors per room over the last year and a half. In these pictures that follow, apologies for the mess everywhere but the walls. It will be a couple weeks before I clean these rooms up.


Living Room


Below, I’ve repainted a shade darker than in the previous post. Butterscotch Candy above chair rail, Autumn Gold beneath chair rail. The colors were formulated to go together. They are adjacent in the Ace Hardware brand color series. The effect is sturdy but informal. Finally a room you just want to sink into. After I clean up and move some furniture around.



Darker photoshop version below.

Kitchen, round 4


Above the kitchen/hallway wainscoting, the color is Bedford Brown (Behr paints). It’s reddish brown but looks and feels purple. I’m going for the feel of an old, plush, bustling resort kitchen. A balance of formality, liveliness, and utility. Repose and busyness. Light but dark. Warm but cool. Yin but yang. Perfect. Under the new shelf/coat rack, is painted the next darker shade in the Behr series (Clay Ridge). The ideas for the hallway shelf, and chair rail style and high baseboards in living room, certainly might be recognizable in an early farmhouse on the Cape. I hope you notice that the Brimfield doors were made for these colors. I don’t think the track lighting goes with the style, but the lights might blend in better once I put in shelves or tilt-out bins on part of that large section of bare wall. Apologies for the mess on the table.








Sunday, January 03, 2010

chair rail

chair rail
–noun
a molding on an interior wall for preventing the backs of chairs from rubbing against plaster.
Origin: 1835–45


New chair rail for living room:





Chair rail is 1 x 5 white pine. I have not finished this project yet because I have not finished the usual experimentation with colors. I will probably go with the combination in the picture above(Summer's Tan above, Butterscotch Candy below chair rail). In photo Below, I tried out Butterscotch above the chair rail.



Below, front door framed using antique shutters from Rudy's. $20 each tops.




wind-swept powder

As busy as it gets downtown on a snowy Sunday





Rte 85







solitude




Poetry

the Box Elder blog is written in an economy that just resonates with me which is why I have a link to it on my blog. I stumbled upon it once when googling filigree. Anyways please read her 2009 new years eve wish.

http://box-elder.blogspot.com/2009/12/new-years-eve-2009.html

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