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| That is beautiful. Do you have pictures of the rest? Are you done? I love the way it looks. Byw, which room is this? Are you doing only certain rooms or all of them? |
We're not done yet, there's still going to be a bright-ish yellow coat and then a pale yellow coat if we don't get too lazy. This room is the bedroom, soon to be family bedroom. We also have plans to do the office/workroom/eventual kids room, but could only handle painting one room at a time.
All of the walls in this house are recently painted-plain white. At first, we thought we'd leave all the other rooms just as they are, but after finding this, I can see painting EVERYTHING. No plans yet, though
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Now I just have to choose colors.
I am thinking....
green and blue
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terracotta and yellow |
One thing that I read when doing research is to do at least three colors. I don't think it's totally necessary, but you can tell the difference from the pink/peach wall to pink/peach/orange pretty well. You could also just mix the two colors you want and make that the third color. BTW, I love your handprint idea!
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| Oh hey, is htis easier or mor ecomplicated than setting up for a regular paint job? I assume I still have to go through all the pita stuff of taping off doorways and all. I hate that part |
We put a dropcloth on the ground, and taped everything off. We also found it was easier to get color on if the wall was wet beforehand, so we kinda washed the walls. The hardest part is getting it even-looking in the corners, and we actually ended up tearing one of the sponges apart to get a sharper angle. Since uniformity doesn't matter AT ALL, it made it really easy. I did coat #2 by myself, and although it wasn't a large area, I was done with the whole thing plus clean up in about an hour or less.
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| Also, do you think it is really necessary to do the top glazeor is that just if you are using special paints |
The only reason I'm doing the top glaze is because this clay paint has such a matte finish, any fingerprints will show. They claim it's washable, but I don't want to take my chances. My original plan was to get tinted glazes and use that for everything, and no top coat, but the store didn't have them. I would think any paint that you can thin with water would work fine. The only issue would be making sure that it sticks to the walls
Hope this helps!
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for you. His memorial service looks like it was so beautiful and so fitting for your family. 
) with mop n' glo. I've not tried it yet, but hers looked great 
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