paint that somethin'
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 9:18PM 
I'm not going to even bother to make excuses for how long it's been since I've updated here, but suffice to say, life has gotten in the way of renovation (mainly getting ready for two separate gigs). However, my friends Myke and Steph came in a couple weeks ago and offered a hand painting (four hands, actually), so most of the walls in there are done.
Most noticeable is the "accent wall", which is a pale turquoise ("Tide Pools" is the silly paint color name). It wasn't decided so much by what color I wanted as much as what I didn't want- I wanted to keep it light, so that eliminated all manner of deep blue, purple, etc. I wanted it cool, so that eliminated yellow, red, etc. And I considered light gray, but the room is so monochromatic that I actually wanted a splash of color, so pale turquoise it was (it's a little more saturated in person than in the photo). Since then I've decided I'm gonna do a pale orange for the back walls of the shelves- aka the former "granny cabinet" and "not-wet bar" for those who've been following. That'll happen pretty soon.
Everything else is white, and I didn't go nuts taking pics because in photos it looks relatively the same as when I primed it all (also white). But this is where photos don't do it justice- the difference between dull, chalky white primer and fancy-pants Behr satin screaming pure white is like the difference a flashlight and a 5,000 watt spotlight. Compared to the previous brown pukiness, it's as if the room has been permanently illuminated.
Notice the still-brown HVAC intake vent. I searched all over ye internet and can't find one that big. I want it to be silver, but that one is dented and thus kind of unfixable. I suspect I may just have to have something made and I'll probably pay dearly for it.
In the meantime, I STILL haven't textured the ceiling. I was waiting because there's a big crack in it caused by a beam in the attic that's er, coming apart, but it's not nearly as tragic as it sounds (no imminent danger of the house collapsing). My handyman discovered it a month or so ago. The beam in question consists of a couple of pieces of wood put together and it's severing from old age. He's gonna literally jack it up and repair it tomorrow... not only will this make things more stable, it'll also make the ceiling less sunken and let me seal the visible crack. When this is done, I can texture it, then paint it... which will still probably be a few more weeks because I'm all kinds of busy with work...
BTW, Myke also delivered my nifty Sputnik chandelier, so as soon as the ceiling is ready, that guy goes up where the wires are hanging down in the pics.
Reader Comments (1)
Yeah, but wouldn't it be cool to have a Deep Purple wall somewhere?