Curse that niggling thought

[stephbg]

Just as I believed I'd found the colours for the bedroom, a thought began to intrude today: it's very brown. It being Taurus Red, destined for the wall initially intended to be festooned with the elusive Bordello Red. Colours. Chatty things.



I now have a sample of the lighter and theoretically redder Tosca drying ever so slowly and I await the final effect with interest. It's still quite an earthy red, but closer in saturation to the olive/khaki swags it will be making friends with, and closer in depth to the Creamed Spinach to go on the other walls. Still deeply in love with Creamed Spinach.

Lesson firmly learned: Suede FX paint charts are pants. Only the real thing will do.

I also treated myself to a nice new 100mm paintbrush, and a tube of something with which to disguise my cornice cracks. Maybe one day I'll publish pictures of them, to add to my how-badly-built-was-my-house collection. Actually, they're pretty ordinary cornice cracks, nothing as exciting as the wiring, plumbing, roofing, paving, retic, tiling, cupboards, doors etc etc. Come to think of it, they may be the most normal thing here.

The other sample pots won't go astray; they're in the right colour neighbourhood for some feature bits here and there. Maybe some stamping around the door frames. Hmmmm...

EDIT: Hang on, it's a Pilbera palette (Tosca is drying orangey). I wonder if I can create an Aboriginal/North African fusion look? Hmmmm... Moorish tile patterns rendered in dots... Gods, no wonder I have trouble shopping.

Comments

[huckle.livejournal.com]

Let me know if you stumble across any nice shades of pink. Jules wants her bedroom painted pink and I have six test pots so far, all wrong. Blue pink, peach pink, yellow pink, apricot pink, true pink....aargh....I know what I like but I can't get it right.

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

Have you tried looking at fabric at places like Spotlight? It's a good way to see a lot of a colour at once, as opposed to little tiny swatches in paint charts. A minimum 20cm section is usually cheap in plain fabrics and easy to drape over walls and furniture. If you find a fabric that works you can take it to a paint place for matching, then work your way from there to allow for different finishes.

[huckle.livejournal.com]

Great idea. Do you know if Bunnings does colour matching?
I have a t-shirt which is my perfect red and I would like to paint the hall that colour.

[huckle.livejournal.com]

Don't answer that, google = yes they do.

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

*opens mouth*
*closes mouth*

[cricketk.livejournal.com]

I wonder if I can create an Aboriginal/North African fusion look?

I rather bet you could.

Though I'm disappointed that you won't be trying the shiny gold paint. I saw a rather awesome copper wall on that BBC renovation show a couple of weeks ago.

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

(a) It was never shiny gold for the bedroom, just very very rich yellow. I did mention possible gold vines for the loungeroom, but that whole concept is in disarray.

(b) Grand Designs Interiors (or GD Inside?). I liked the copper wall a great deal, particularly by candlelight. A great series (all of them) but everyone is completely insane. Learned a lot though, mostly what *not* to do.

Speaking of copper, it's likely I will use copper paint for some of the dot decoration I'm thinking of doing. Did it once on a pair of boots so you get the stud look as well as the Aboriginal thing.

[huckle.livejournal.com]

I drooled over the copper wall, too. It would be a tricky one to pull off in these sunny climes, but in gloomy old england with the small window and the candle light it was gorgeous.