The 90s was not a prime decorating decade. I stuck with cottage style and stayed away from the ugliness of that period, but many friends had feather-duster and sponge painted walls. I've always gone with more natural colors. I don't know why anyone would want grey walls or furniture. The only grey walls I ever loved were the outside walls and front porch floors of an old cypress cabin I saw while driving down a back road in Florida.
I have ca 1955 red oak parquet flooring (glued down with mastic), and I didn't want to get the yellow-ish color that happens after applying a clear finish. Without my knowledge the contractor used minwax pickled oak stain, which seems like just a thinned out white paint. Are my floors going to turn pink?! Help! I still have time to refinish them because they scraped up the LR moving appliances and trash, that we have to re-do it. (He is out of business now). The rest of the apartment floor looks good still, approx 3-4 months after it was finished. No pink-ish coloration.
The 90s was not a prime decorating decade. I stuck with cottage style and stayed away from the ugliness of that period, but many friends had feather-duster and sponge painted walls. I've always gone with more natural colors. I don't know why anyone would want grey walls or furniture. The only grey walls I ever loved were the outside walls and front porch floors of an old cypress cabin I saw while driving down a back road in Florida.
I have ca 1955 red oak parquet flooring (glued down with mastic), and I didn't want to get the yellow-ish color that happens after applying a clear finish. Without my knowledge the contractor used minwax pickled oak stain, which seems like just a thinned out white paint. Are my floors going to turn pink?! Help! I still have time to refinish them because they scraped up the LR moving appliances and trash, that we have to re-do it. (He is out of business now). The rest of the apartment floor looks good still, approx 3-4 months after it was finished. No pink-ish coloration.