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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jun 27 2008 : 7:13:24 PM
walls in your home? papers or painted?
when lucas and i visited the Henry Ford historic village .. there was a wonderful little broken down home that had been moved from Georgia to the 'village' .. it belonged to a family of slaves many years ago ... the walls were totally papered with newspapers and pages cut from magazines. i swear .. it was absolutely CHARMING!
True Friends * Frannie
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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| City_Chick |
Posted - Jun 28 2008 : 07:04:14 AM
I live in an old home that was built in 1924. I believe it is in the style of a 2-story four-square bungalow. So I repainted all of the dirty white walls. We chose not to put paper on any of the walls because I love the look of my old plastered ones. Cracks and all! It took me almost 3 years to pick the colors. It drove my husband crazy. But long story short...My living room is a soft golden butter/mustard (it changes according to the sunlight!), the dining room is oat colored above the chair rail and cranberry red below, the kitchen is buttercream yellow and red, the staircase going to the second floor is sort of a patina green which is deep and rich but soft at the same time. My family room in the basement is chocolate brown with oat trim and the ceilings down there I actually made look like a wall tent with sewn together muslin. Each of my children got to pick their room colors from a selection a gave them. So one is denim blue suede and the other is slate grey. My kitchen will eventually change again. I love warm rich colors so that is what we went with. They fit the homes style and our personality. My grandfather was a painter and he always told his clients to listen to their hearts or they would be miserable with the outcome and have to have him come back to fix it.
Christina
Farmgirl Sister #195
Although no one can go back and make a brand new start; anyone can start from now
and make a brand new end.
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| catscharm74 |
Posted - Jun 28 2008 : 06:49:13 AM
Well, I live in a rental, so can't paint, but WHEN we get a house, my walls will all be in shades of the Caribbean- I love the blues and greens with a little FLAMINGO here and there....
Heather
Yee-Haw, I am a cowgirl!!!
FARMGIRL #90 |
| Jami |
Posted - Jun 28 2008 : 06:40:44 AM
I love earthy colors and every room is painted different in our house with a theme connecting the open parts of cream/brown/tan/gold-yellow/red-brown..kind of ranchy looking I guess with leather and pine furniture and green accents...thank goodness my husband is color blind so I have free rein to do as I like! I love wallpaper borders and have them in a couple of rooms...several actually. I also like to stencil but haven't done much yet.
I look through magazines and start thinking of going with an updated color scheme but I can't bring myself to part with my faves.
The museum house sounds neat, would like to see it someday.
Jami in WA
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jun 28 2008 : 12:07:43 AM
My kitchen is off white with stenciled apples (in all colors apples come in) around the ceiling edge, living room is part wood paneling and part wallpaper in cream and green...slated to be replaced but low on the list, since I dont' really hate it. family room is wood paneled on two walls and ugly but at least neutral wallpaper on the other walls. Our bedroom has wallpaper with white background and leaves in shades of browns...sort of detaily and real looking. It is old old old but I kinda like it. Bathroom is perfectly awful...peely off white paint and our next project for sure. Not sure what color yet..but probably something neutral like tan or light brownish..it is a small bathroom and the only one..we can't get too carried away with color in there. The kids rooms are painted off white..the boys have wood paneling halfway up their walls. My laundry/sewing room is painted the brightest possible yellow. It is pretty awful...but I know it won't be repainted for awhile...it is lower on the list than alot of things. Boy..it will wake you up in the morning!
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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| melanie47601 |
Posted - Jun 27 2008 : 11:45:08 PM
I love color, mostly earthtones. My kitchen is a bright yellow, living room- sage green, hallway- beige with lots of Hallie's artwork done in marker uugghh, bathroom - for Mother's Day my mom painted it for me a brick color. At first she thought I was crazy for wanting that color, but it turned out really nice. My room is the only one that's still that ugly grayish white color. I really want to paint mine and kids' room and the hallway again but we're really hoping to move by the end of the year and I'd rather put the effort into a new home.
Melanie
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart." Helen Keller
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| elphie0503 |
Posted - Jun 27 2008 : 8:26:47 PM
The outlying interior walls are all log, but the rest is mixed...our front bathroom is in the process of becoming vintage with a nice mix of greens...our great room wall is so cool though...i saw a project on DIY website where you take and paint one coat on the wall, then take tissue wrapping paper, crumple it up and then smooth it back out...you then press the paper over the wet coat and let dry...once the whole are is papered and dry then you apply a top coat and if you want, a glaze. The idea is that it looks like leather when you are finished...it is the prettiest thing...our color is colonial yellow...I call it pumpkin seed yellow...but it is pretty!!!
Samantha
www.elphie0503.blogspot.com
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort~~Albright
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| ruralfarmgirl |
Posted - Jun 27 2008 : 7:17:38 PM
Mine are mostly cream but my dining room and kitchen walls are a light buttery yellow... My living room has a toupe color in the bottom and a cream on top with a wooden chair railing and then I stenciled Ivy above the rail....I love Cottage Country! can you tell?
Rene~Prosser Farmgirl #185
" Plant goodness, harvest the fruit of loyalty, plow the new ground of knowledge. Hosea 10:12 |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jun 27 2008 : 7:14:28 PM
our walls are LOG .. the outside of each log cabin are interior walls where the 'addition' was added on. the addition walls are 'white'. ha! you can hardly see them though for all the 'treasures' i have hanging on them!
True Friends * Frannie
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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