Painting–the inside of the house, part 2
So here was the really big change and paint job: The basement has a long rectangular area in the center, with rooms off of it: a utility room (housing the furnace, oil tank, etc), a wood room (to hold all the wood for the winter heating by woodstove), a workroom, a space they used as a family room (with NO windows and painted an icky dark green with drab taupe on the ceiling) and we use as storage), and what has become my studio. This area was painted a “roasted pumpkin” color…think the color of pumpkin pie, but a tad more orange-y. Not a bad color, but not on walls of an area with no windows! The stairs down to the basement were the same color.
So last summer, I took a gallon of leftover sky blue (from the boys’ bathroom) and mixed it with a gallon of white to lighten it somewhat, and painted the walls in the center area. First, it needed a primer though to cover up that dark pumpkin:
Next, Blue:
The stairs down (see on the far left in the photo just above) was just as awful. So I tackled that about two weeks ago:
And getting rid of the last of the pumpkin just this past month:
March 6th, 2012 at 7:52 pm
That’s a pretty blue and will be a fine color when you need to expand your studio to that space!
March 6th, 2012 at 9:42 pm
Unbelievabley transformation! You must be so happy when going to your studio now!!!
March 8th, 2012 at 9:11 am
Yea, that pumpkin had to go or it would have changed the look of every quilt. The house we moved into in Valpariso (years ago) had salmon pink in the room for my sewing! Took several coats of white to tone that down, then did the light blue, like you did. This sewing room I have now is also blue. Just a nice quiet color. Very restful! I think you need to have a favorite color up when you are going to be in there so much.