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I predicted a few weeks ago that metallics would be the faux finish to replace chalkboard paint this year. The metal (or faux-metal) look is definitely gaining popularity, but chalkboard is still holding strong, so there might be a fight to the finish! It’s okay — you can cheer for both. One big bonus for [...]
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Continue Reading →We painted our hallway. I *may* have had a minor panic attack the day before the painting began, but thankfully it all turned out great.
Painting a hallway is a big commitment. Its not like a small room that’s easy to repaint if you aren’t …
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I never thought I would write a post about white paint.
Seriously.
But then again….I never thought that I would move to the middle of the country.
Or drive a John Deere.
Or watch a tortoise cross my back yard.
Or wear colored jeans.
Or stop using Aqua Net hairspray.
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Last Saturday evening, a huge rainstorm swept through Atlanta. I tell you this because Sunday morning, there was a very large POP sound (like a shotgun, so I assume it was a transformer) and the power had gone out. Considering that I had been planning on spending my morning using a shop vac in the [...]
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Continue Reading →I will be starting a weekly blog post to help answer all your questions about products, finishes, brushes & helpful hints you may have. To submit a question, email me at dooziescorner@gmail.com.I have had some customers ask me what I prefer using o…
Continue Reading →I’ve been itching to repaint the master bathroom. We painted it Benjamin Moore’s Tapestry Beige before we moved in. Don’t get me wrong. I love Tapestry Beige. It’s in our living room, kitchen and hallway. But in our naturally dark {boo} bedroom and bathroom it looks dingy. It’s not that noticeable on the blog because [...]
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One lucky day I was contacted by the sweet people at Modern Masters to review some of their products. I could choose from their metallic paint collection or try out their metal effects kit. You all know how much I love to paint everything&n…
Continue Reading →So you saw my new favorite project last week, the Swedish clock that has been my dream to make for the last 3 years…. well, it wasn’t the only part of the project that I am really happy about. Right next to it was this little baby(see below)! A lovely grey painted storage console table that [...]
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Continue Reading →So the goal is to build all the furniture for my son’s bedroom, as explained in Part 1.
Here’s a reminder of where we started:
I listed all his bedroom furniture on Craigslist: headboard, frame, mattress, bedding (including the pirate quilt I made—that was hard to part with!), dresser, desk, and chair. It sold all as a set, so he ended up with a bare room pretty much overnight!
That was OK by me, though; it’s much easier to paint an empty room!
My boy wanted stripes, and this was the quilt we were able to agree on for the basis for his room.
The first thing to get painted, though, was the CEILING! In this house the walls AND ceilings are all the same beige. I am NOT a fan of beige ceilings, so someday they will ALL be painted!
It’s amazing how much a just changing the ceiling color lightened up the room (I used Sherwin Williams Eminence Ceiling Paint in Creamy).
We decided to pull the green out of the quilt for the wall color. Again, we were trying to lighten things up a little (color is Sherwin Williams Super Paint in Rice Paddy). Sorry for the cell phone picture here!
Next step was the give the walls a little character. I taped off a wide stripe and painted it the same white as the room trim…
…the I used MORE tape to divide that large white stripe into some smaller stripes. I looked really good climbing around the room with three rolls of tape on my arm, like bracelets!
And this is how it turned out! I have to tell you that the paint bled LIKE CRAZY on the red and blue stripes, and I have no one to blame but myself. You can get good results if you really seal the edges of the tape well with a plastic scraper or credit card. You get GREAT results if you do that AND paint over the edges of the tape with your base color. You get lousy results if you skip step one, even if you do step two. Ugh. I had a lot of touching up to do…
…but you can’t tell now!
Next step….I promise I actually BUILD something!
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