{"id":1527,"date":"2014-01-26T14:27:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T19:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dragocolosus.dyndns.org\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2017-02-05T09:41:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T14:41:10","slug":"the-new-playroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dragocolosus.dyndns.org\/?p=1527","title":{"rendered":"The ‘New Playroom’"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been a while since my last post but I a determined to improve. The last project in the house was out play room for the kids. On the long run we want a nice wood floor and possibly even redo the wall right under the roof but that is a major project and needs time and money both of which are not available in abundance these days.<\/p>\n

So, I looked at the situation to see what could be improved with some time and some money and it struck me: the wood paneling and all the build-in furniture are all super dark stained wood. The dark color combined with the small windows in those two rooms takes away all the light. This is why I thought let’s lighten this room up and just paint over the dark stained wood in white color, typical New England style and much against all I learned from my father, to leave the wood in it beautiful natural color. To set some nice accents and as those are the future rooms for our oldest Ana and I decided to paint the window frames in a strong color. We choose green for the back room and orange for the front. In the front we were also going to paint the build-in shelve in orange, it had this really awful color: a light red going towards pink, how could anyone choose this color in the first place?<\/p>\n

This is the shelve after Seb and I had inserted the TV<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Anyway there we were, the painting was painful, the grooves between the panels clearly require a brush and no rolling and the dark color clearly required two passes for a good fraction even three passes were required to avoid the dark color to come through. Painting the doors for the build-in shelves was dreadful with all the blind style which has remarkably many spots you can miss :-).<\/p>\n

So many spots to miss on these blind style doors.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first real hick-up though was the choice of the green color for the back room accents. Ivan and I went off to ACE hardware to make our choice with Ana giving us her trust. We went for the beautiful ACE color F34 ‘Dragon Lair’<\/a> but it did not meet approval with the boss: it is easy to pick the wrong green I had learn. Ana and I had to go again and we converged on F31 ‘Hearty Hosta’<\/a>. Thanks to this little back and forth our<\/p>\n

First try – F34 – Dragon’s Lair<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

window has now about six layers: three Dragon’s Lairs and three more Hearty Hostas.<\/p>\n

F31 – Hearty Hosta our second try. Much more froggy. I like it!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Luckily, for the orange tone Ivan and I succeeded on the first try with the somehow obvious F19 – Juicy Orange<\/a>. Here is a sequence showing how things developed. The painting of the shelves took some time and I had to decommission the video system (including TV, DVD and video consoles) for a week. Our kids dealt with it but not without Markus reminding me every day that I had to complete the job, which I did yesterday night, one day before the deadline I had promised them.<\/p>\n

F19 – Juicy Orange – a first pick success. Markus loves it!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The remainder (the orange skylight and the left wall in the front will still take me some time but it is already now clear that the project was a resounding success. The new playroom has so much more light and looks so much more friendly.<\/p>\n

The take home message for today is: Never underestimate the effect of a (decent) paint job!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has been a while since my last post but I a determined to improve. The last project in the house was out play room for the kids. On the long run we want a nice wood floor and possibly even redo the wall right under the roof but that is a major project and … <\/p>\n

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