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Saturday, July 01, 2006 A MISH MASH OF THIS N THAT We've been busy. Very very busy.PROJECT COMPLETE (Well, close enough) John finished the ceiling and all the shelving...  ...laying slate in the Kithchen/Dining/Livingroom/Hallways... (take a mental note of this picture as you will need it as reference later on in the post)  ...and exclaimed "This room is now yours." Meaning, time for me to finally make a decision as to what to do to the walls as we've been looking at nothing but primer on them for the last 3 years. We decided on a color wash glazing technique, because I just can't simply paint a room, that would be rediculous. I've done many painting techniques but I have not done the color wash. If you are thinking about color washing here's how to do it: 1. Ponder over a million color/glaze options for 3 weeks. Realize there are a bunch of samples of different color washes with exact colors listed and pick the most difficult one of those. 2. Prepare walls. Patch holes, sand walls, wash walls, tape trim - approximate time 2 days. 3. Apply base coat. Realize every other room that happens to have a wall intruding into this room that has already been painted doesn't even remotely go with new paint. Sigh heavily realizing you're probably going to have to repaint other walls. 4. Apply first coat of glaze in a criss-cross motion. Realize you can't seem to get your left arm to manage this function. Feel the burn in your right arm. Have a war of will with your right arm. Kick your right arms ass! 5. Take a day off because your right arm is now refusing to function. 6. Apply second coat of glaze. Curse your left arm for not functioning like your right arm and threaten to cut left arm out of your will. 7. Apply wood sealer, per store expert advice, to finished walls. Realize wood sealer is not what you are supposed to seal faux painted walls with. Watch wood sealer cloud up lovely paint job. Cry and drink a six pack. Go to bed. 8. Go back to start. With a hang-over. 9. Pay $70 a gallon for the proper sealer. Watch it take all the color off your walls while making it completely impossible for paint to ever stick to your walls again, but you don't care because the fumes have gotten you higher than you've ever been, even back in high school under the bleachers at the football game. 10. Remove tape. Watch tape take a majority of the paint off the walls with it. Get a marker and color in lost paint. Contemplate becoming a professional faux finish painter as you move on to the "other half" of the room. Decide to hire it out next time. But I think it turned out o.k.  DAMNIT! SHOOO CEMENT TRUCK! SHOOO! Another visit from the cement truck...  Remember earlier when I said to make a mental not of the kitchen floor. Well this is why. John liked the slate floor in our kitchen so much he wanted to figure out how to make concrete look like it. And here is what he came up with. A damn fine job to be sure.  JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU'D SEEN ALL THE CREEPY CRAWLIES YOU'D EVER CARE TO SEE See that? In the middle of the floor...right there...see it?  WTF is it doing in my house?!  FOR FAMILY WHO HAVEN'T SEEN THE KIDS IN AWHILE  Aren't they cute?! FOURTH OF JULY/ZOE'S BIRTHDAY GET TOGETHER A FEW DAYS EARLY There was hoola-hooping   And for you Planet Dan Fans I just had to post this:  And my pic for cutest picture of the gathering: Zoe and her cousins Kacie, Miranda and Marissa  Have a Happy and Safe 4th Everyone! posted by me | 9:30 PM | 5 comments Comments: Post a Comment Awesome projects! He did an amazing job making the concrete match the slate. Gorgeous! To make the cement look like slate... You are indeed so hot. Back to Blog |
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