Day 17- My House in August: Paint
The master was the last room with its '70s floral wall-paper. Last year I finally got the opportunity to set it right. The stripes are the exact same color--just different sheans.
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Bonnie
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoI painted the door, shutters and window boxes with eggplant and blue.
Curbside find, recently painted to go next to garden shed:
I painted the front door this color blue, replacing the eggplant from PO's and also painted the window boxes white (from eggplant.)
DH and I gave the DR a new coat of paint:
And the LR too. LR new paint-BM Gray Cloud:
Curbside find in our neighborhood, a 3 piece wicker set, which after 3 coats of paint and new cushions is serving us well under the pergola:
maire_cate
6 years agoPaint! I have lots of paint - both old and new in our current renovation.
out of sequence here - but this is our bedroom closet wall after paint and while the new floor goes in....
and this is the lovely rose from the before photo.
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Bumblebeez SC Zone 7
6 years ago
gsciencechick
6 years agoFrench doors and deck. The cocoa brown hides a lot of dirt. It is porch and floor paint from Lowe's. The deck had been previously painted, so we were stuck with paint vs. stain.
Storage shed, inspired after a trip to San Francisco. We have no HOA so no one says I can't paint it purple. Our neighbors really like it. I actually added a little bit of trim and gingerbread to it, LOL.
I painted the front door black. I put window film on the windows. You can see the old fabric on the sofa.
Bumblebeez SC Zone 7
6 years ago
nosoccermom
6 years agomaire_cate
6 years ago
Lars
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoWe have not done any interior painting in our house yet, although I very much want to change the color in the dining room/art studio, as I have never liked it. We moved in June 2009, and one of the first things I did was to stain the concrete patio, as it was glaringly bright white before and hurt my eyes whenever I went outside. I picked a color that I would never use indoors, but I wanted it to resemble dirt:
We painted the cinder block wall also, but there is now not much of it that you can still see, as the creeping fig vine has covered most of it. When we got the house, the little girl who lived there had tagged that wall with hideous paint, and I'm not sure why her parents left it. We painted over her name almost immediately. Here's more of the patio:
Another reason for choosing this color was that I thought it would go with the terracotta pots that I planned to put out there. I would have preferred to cover the patio with Saltillo tiles, and I still want to do that. We could not afford that when we first moved in, but now we can. Staining the patio was a three-day (long week-end) job for the two of us, but it cost us very little to do it ourselves and I got immediate relief from the glare
aprilneverends
6 years agoI have more samples..like multiply it by some number under ten,.I'm not even showing, it's crazy. It's also in the garage so I'm not risking my day going there...
Frankly I don't know what to share..all these wall colors rarely come through..let me show you our master bedroom dresser (before it started looking better lol...that's very shortly after we moved). It also strangely looks much smaller than it is
It was bought refurbished like that on Craigslist 7 years ago..we buy on Craigslist a lot, and only couple times it was a story of something being not quite right..so that dresser is one of these stories. Suffice to say I nearly escaped..so happy ending. Strangely, the silly dresser reminds me more of the happy ending, so I'm very attached to it lol
this Victorian painting of a little girl -obviously bored by having to pose- has an uncanny resemblance to one of my very favorite little girls (now she's in her teens but I knew her when she was two-three years old)..the resemblance is so striking I had to get this portrait..it's crazy someone in 19 th century looked exactly the same as somebody I knew in 21 st. When I showed my kids the painting they immediately were able to say who's the girl I have in mind. It's just mind blowing, and so very funny. The paint is already flakng a bit..well I don't care
Here's the painting..the listing pic shows it better, being taken in much better light
ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
6 years agoDining room before and after. My husband painted it and I added the gold decoration because it looked too starkly terracotta red to me. New windows, drapes and French doors were also put in before it was painted.
aprilneverends
6 years ago
dedtired
6 years ago
Loving all of these, especially the sheds. Here is a bedside table I painted with Annie Sloan chalk paint.This is my blue porch ceiling.
And here is the paint I have been scraping off a wall of the porch!
dedtired
6 years agoSueb20
6 years agoApril, funny related story...when DH and I were gallery hopping in Charleston a couple of years ago, we turned the corner in one gallery and came face to face with...ME. I gasped and DH started laughing at the same time. There was a painting that looked so much like me! I posed next to it and he took my picture...a couple of weeks later it arrived at my house. He bought it for me for Mothers Day.
PS I have never looked this glamorous IRL and I'm probably 20 years older than the subject.
raphaellathespanishwaterdog
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoThanks April :) I covet your Victorian girl painting!
Bumblebeez - it does match, yes. Here are a couple of (bad, ipad) pics of the doors/windows, many of which are metal Crittall ones installed when the house was extended in 1924.....
aprilneverends
6 years agoingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
6 years ago
LynnNM
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoWell, as most of you know by now, every wall in our adobe home is painted the same warm cream color. Very pretty from my point of view, but very boring to feature on this thread (LOL)! And, our doors, inside and out, are all unpainted as well. Hand crafted, but still plain old wood color. Our wood furniture is (yep, you've got it) stained, not painted for the most part. So, here is one of the fireplaces in our home. It's called a kiva (KEY-va) and they are very common out here in New Mexico. Three of our four fireplaces are kivas, and one day I just got a wild hair of an idea to paint a design on this one in our family room (the one in our MBR is painted the same color as the walls, while the kiva on our front portal has the same stucco as the exterior does, a dark tan, with embedded Talavera tiles around it's opening).
Anyhoo, I painted my fireplace by hand one day while DH was a work. I used new kitchen dish sponges, that I cut into concave and convex shapes to get the smoke pattern the way I wanted, As for the primitive Indian petroglyph animal designs along the hearth, I ended up painting them freehand, lying on my side on our very hard brick floor. Ugh! But, all these years later, I still love my painted kiva. BTW, the first pic show the things I have on the mantel now.
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6 years agoMore wallpaper than paint at Linderhof . . . but our porch ceiling is painted that beautiful blue called "haint" which has a history as to why a blue porch ceiling. I love tales of "why" whether they are correct or not.
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6 years agoLars
6 years agoBonnie
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoLynnNM
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoBumblebeez SC Zone 7
6 years agoaprilneverends
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6 years agogsciencechick
6 years agoLars, I like that look on the patio. What type of stain is that?
SueB, I have a similar painting. It is NOT me, but that is why we have it. It is in the LR, so I have gotten used to it, but it is clearly visible to any service person who comes in the house. It is called Sofa. I apologize for the pic. I just snapped it last night. I do try to edit it out if we have our Christmas tree in that corner.
raphaellathespanishwaterdog