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Comments (23)Hi Rhodium! I got your email, but I decided to correspond with you, instead on the forum. I've been pressed upon quite heavily in the week leading up to Hanukkah. Everyone wants their projects completed before the holiday season. The red-twigs in the photo have already experienced fall leave drop, so they are not as noticeable. The red-color in the sericea is not quite as dramatic as the on-line nursery marketing photos would lead you on to believe. The color is of a tone that is in tune with the season and other plants that darken during the lower lighting of winter. Actually unless you know about the nature of these plants, most people don't notice them at all. Everyday the color seems to change, so I enjoy finding out what is the new color of the day. The hose is not a pathway, just for watering the establishing plant material, which today is under a blanket of snow fall. A pathway will be installed leading to a small arbor seating area off to the left, between the redbuds. The fence is built half-way up the slope and curvilinear to aid in establishing a focal point half-way up the slope. The break in the plant material, rhodies on the botton and Red-twig up slope combined with the fence are designed to create an artificial horizon to keep the eye in the grotto area. It'll take a few years to grow in, but time is on my side....See MoreLight Fall-off from Wonderlite?
Comments (6)Standard mercury vapour lamps decrease in brightness more quickly than metal halide lamps. Wonderlite specs show a lamp life of only 10,000 which is far less than other mercury vapour lamps, less even than most fluorescent tubes. Looks like the coatings for the special spectrum are not very robust. I would imagine you could be seeing decreased brightness after 2,000 or so hours....See Morefull spectrum paint
Comments (45)Paintguy, I know we disagree on a couple things, but you rock. You have established a paint/color point of view, you stick with it, you are consistent and you express your thoughts with respect and sometimes even a cute little sense of humor. ;-) You have a gift of saying a whole lot with few words. You are confident in what you've done, seen, and what you know and I for one appreciate your sharing that insight very much. kashka - that's it exactly! How DOES what you learned in art class apply to coloring the built environment? What CAN you take away from the theory books and use, and what parts of theory are just that, theory? My history with "color theory" is somewhat amusing. I can tell you that while in the midst of it, it really wasn't very funny. When I came out the other side from those experiences :-) and ventured in to this realm, we know as wall color, I was confused. I was trying to take what I knew about color before and make it fit in my new color world. It didn't work. I know that I have a unique point of view on color and those experiences are why. This is the best way I can describe what I've experienced. There is no one to ask, nothing to reference, no comprehensive studies just floating around on the www that speak to what happens to color on three-dimensional structure -- that amalgamation of subtractive color, form, light, and people. That's why I'm always asking tell me what you know, tell me how and why you know it, show me what you've done. There's some stuff out of Sweden from the late '90s, there's some stuff going on in the UK today, but nothing to go get and use NOW. Instead, all you will find repeatedly is various interpretations of two-dimensional color theory forced on the three-dimensional. It's like trying to make a square peg fit into a round hole. Pound hard enough and you can probably get that peg wedged in that round hole to the point that you can say it fits. The square peg will be battered. Corners clumsily whittled and splintered. By no means a good fit in that round hole, but it made it in none the less. Just talk about color theory and it all *sounds* reasonable, plausible. But.... go DO it. Execute to those ideals three-dimensionally. What happens? What works? Then add in another important factor, human beings. What changes? What parts of conventional, two-dimensional color theory flies out the window and leaves you standing there with nothing but your own set of eyeballs to figure it all out. Books about color are great and the more you are exposed to the better, of course. Personally, I'm to the point that all the color theory books are the same -- none of them speak to the challenges that I face. I need information, data, guidance that will facilitate forecasting how a particular color will *appear* in a room, on a house, etc. I have developed my own process, made my own observations, solved some of those challenges on my own - just by trial and error and paying attention. I know what works for me, but what about everyone else? This is why I am so passionate about what color options are made available to the color consumer. Those options increase the odds of the average consumer of color being able to make a successful partnership between the light that the have to work with, their stuff, and their color expectations. With a myriad of options available, the actual mixing of the color (or having it mixed) and deciding on the paint are the easiest parts of the whole process. There are harder questions to answer. People are the main priority. Light is boss - always. Stuff (design style, furniture, art, window treatments, etc.) matter too. How do you take the essence of those three major points of criteria and translate it into a single color. That's asking a lot out of something as simple as color, isn't it? However, that's not all we're looking for. That's not all we want color to do. We want cohesiveness. We want harmony. We want color to create atmosphere. We want color to organize and define. We want color to customize, individualize and make sanctuary out of empty, blank walls. There is much work to do. There is a lot to discover. When I say that color is a journey, I'm not kidding. And theres always an alternative -- lower your expectations of color and just pick something off the shelf and be done with it that certainly can work too. :-)...See MoreMy husband is always sleeping or falling asleep.
Comments (77)Maifluers, I believe you. I’ve heard horror stories and have procrastinated on taking care of something that needs to be done, it just isn’t a task we look forward to doing. ”I have no words right now.....” wantoretire, welcome to our world. It’s a world where someone (and we all know who) thinks he is smarter and has much more experience than anyone else here, amazingly that includes things he has never even experienced before! And since he KNOWS it all, he believes it’s his job to control threads by correcting and belittling anyone who posts something that he doesn’t feel is correct; especially with women. His behavior is nothing short of misogynistic so ignore him. With any luck, he will eventually get the hint and leave....See Moreeditionk
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