01 March 2012

gingham walls, update.



so do you remember, way back when, me saying i was going to paint our vestibule gingham?  it's finally happened.  there was a lot of thinking and researching and painting and repainting.  and after, um, ten coats of paint i think we've got it, and more importantly, i think we LOVE it.  we are toying with the idea of taking the almost black down to the light grey, to be actual gingham, but i'm not sure.  thoughts? 

also, fucking gingham painted walls.  i cannot tell you what a hassle they were.  i mean, seriously.  at first i was certain that one made such a pattern by adding glaze to half of your paint and then subtly layer one coat over the next.  boy was that WRONG.  it turns out that if you use glaze you get this horrible consistency that shows every last brush stroke.  it took four coats of the glazed black paint to start looking decent, and at that point it was no longer a glaze.  it was a straight up solid - waste of time.  

but then, it was magic, while eating with our friends (at their new and beyond wonderful eating establishment, bell street farm, in los alamos) one of them let me in on a little secret.  a little secret that made me want to bang my head on the most perfect farm house table.  that layering technique is really just a third, or in our case fourth, color.  so simple, so smart, so easy.   i'm such an idiot.  

14 comments:

  1. WOW! These look amazing! I'm so impressed!!!

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  2. Oh wow! That looks amazing! So crazy how you ended up figuring out how to do it- trust me, it looks worth the almost head bang :)

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  3. a) don't touch it any more. leave it alone.



    b) you sure you don't want to be an interior designer?

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    1. not touching. not touching. not touching.

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  4. Wow. Those are effing incredible. PROPS

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  5. I'd pay you to do this in my house.

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  6. You are completely insane in the best way possible.

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  7. OH. P.S. - We ate at Bell Street Farm when we were driving up to SLO in January. It was awesome.

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  8. I will need more photos of this. Love it!

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  9. holy shit, c! this is unreal. was there crying involved? if i took on a project such as gingham walls, there would be TONS of crying involved.

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  10. I can't even fathom... but it looks GREAT!

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  11. holy crap. they really are incredible. i agree with esb - don't touch.

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  12. gOrgeOus - don't touch ...but mAybe ... use what you know nOw on anOther space to make 'real' gingham?

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