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| brightmeadow |
Posted - May 06 2006 : 1:53:02 PM
The wallpaper is curling off my kitchen walls, so I need to think about redecorating.
Although I enjoy redecorating, some of my former projects have had varying degrees of success, so I am a little worried about the results. This will be the first project I am attempting since I got remarried and moved into my husband's house.... so I am even a little more nervous.
I have been looking at wallpaper patterns on line. I think I would like a country theme, maybe something like yellow gingham with a sunflower border.... or maybe stick with apples and pears like on my everyday Corelle dinnerware.
I am a "mary engelbreit" type of cluttery person, when it comes to decorating, but my husband is a chrome and steel and sleek surfaces type minimalist, so I am aiming for something of a compromise...
Does anyone have any favorite sources to go to for decorating ideas?
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| westernhorse51 |
Posted - Jun 03 2006 : 05:59:54 AM
Im not a wallpaper kind of gal either but I like chair rails and borders. Paint you change at a whim which is great for someone like me. Good luck.
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| LJRphoto |
Posted - Jun 02 2006 : 8:14:05 PM
The best advice I have for making your painting experience a successful one is don't "cheap out" on your rollers and even more important buy a good brand of paint. I use American Traditions because I think it gives a nice, even coverage, but there are more environmentally friendly options out there. Someone else probably has suggestions for those. I like eggshell finishes because they are very scrubbable without a lot of sheen.
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| Libbie |
Posted - May 27 2006 : 8:48:42 PM
I have white beadboard in the kitchen and bathroom, halfway up the walls, with the kitchen walls painted a taupe (but not a dirty-looking one) and the bathroom walls painted a soft green. I just love it - it's high-gloss, so it's easy to wipe little fingerprints and muddy tail-swipes off of it. Isn't it strange how difficult it can be to mesh two decorating tastes? My husband SO wanted an "accent" wall in a bright color, so we did one in red in the dining room, and it was okay, but then the little devil perched on my shoulder like in the cartoons when he was on a "guys only" trip and I painted the wallback it's original "tortilla" color. I figured it was sort of "even-" he gets the vacation, I get the visual relaxation....
Our entire house is painted - including the stairs and two of the floors - the kitchen and mudroom. I love, love, love it. On the walls, I'd use a roller and just be okay with the little bit of texture that it leaves, but on woodwork (cabinets, beadboard, furniture, floors...) I'd use a roller and then use a brush to "brush it out" right after you've rolled it on. That way, you get the look of brush painting without the total drag of using a brush for everything. That's my best hint - aside from being sure that you've done the prep work - filling nail holes, sanding, etc. That's the boring part, but it sure does make a difference in the finished product.
How fun to remodel a room or two!!! Enjoy it! The great thing about this is that if you do it and end up not liking it, you just change it!!!
XOXO, Libbie
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| theoanne |
Posted - May 27 2006 : 7:54:49 PM
Brenda,
Congrats on the new hubby. I also married(2nd for both of us) 2 yrs ago and moved int o his house. The first thing he taught me was it is OUR house. He prefers contempory and earth tones. I like casual country with pastels. Strangely enough he's the clutter person and I'm not. Weird huh? Any way I have also tried to meet half way. The public areas are neutrals in beige with color accents on curtains and pillows etc. We are lucky enough to have 2 guest rooms so one is girlie the other more male. I am with the others on the painted kitchen. use a scrubbable paint. try a sponge technique they come out mottled on purpose. If you go with a light color you could still stencil too. Good luck and have fun.
Teddie |
| brightmeadow |
Posted - May 24 2006 : 04:18:14 AM
Wow, I just got back to this thread, seemed I missed it on the "active topics" that I look at. You all have been giving me lots of good ideas. Thanks so much for the suggestions. I am not a very good painter, it always comes out looking mottled and I seem to splash a lot. I have been looking in the magazines, though, and it seems that you all are correct about paint being more "au courant" than the wallpapers. Any hints for techniques of painting to make it easier, and look better when done?
I painted and stencilled my kitchen cabinet in one of my previous houses. I really liked the effect, kind of a Pennsylvania Dutch look. Later on, after I moved, the house sold again and I went and took a peek to see what the new owners had done - she had stripped all the cabinets back to the original wood finish! (It looked like she had some trouble with the one cabinet with stained wood where a previous owner had evidently hung a wet cloth over time, which is why I painted the cabinets in the first place!!!)
Nancy, I always seem to be drawn to the photos of beadboard in kitchens in magazines. I like the painted look, though, it reminds me of the farmhouses in my childhood. You are very lucky!
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands - You shall be happy and it shall be well with you. -Psalm 128.2
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| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - May 18 2006 : 06:07:55 AM
My kitchen and entry way are all oak bead board from floor to ceiling, I love it,the contractor and friends tried to talk me into doing the bead board only part way up then either paint or wall paper the rest, I said no it would look to cut up. So got my way and it came out so nice the contractors had other customers come look at it.Its not dark at all, I have windows all across the back with lace curtains. and the oak is a light oak. very log cabin looking, and great for anything you want to hang up.
NANCY JO |
| jpbluesky |
Posted - May 18 2006 : 04:47:29 AM
Hi Brenda! Seems like wallpaper is on it's way out of popularity. My daughter recently bought a house and she used paint in all the rooms. Lovely colors of yellow, soft green, light blue and khaki for the living room. I have heard that painting in wide stripes is really nice and not too hard to do. Pick two colors close to each other (say two colors of yellow that blend) and paint the wall in the lighter of the two colors, then go back and measure off vertical stripes about four to six inches wide and paint the darker color in a strip pattern. You can use painting tape to keep the lines straight. This gives the room more than just a blank wall look, but you do not have to paper and have a mess while doing so.
I stencilled most of my rooms, and did it in the mid-80's. The stencilling is dated now, but still true to the colonial type house I have. We recently took down the wall-paper in our bath downstairs, and painted it. I am slowly going to get rid of the paper in my kitchen and other bath, too, when I get really tired of looking at it!
Check out HGTV - they certainly have a lot of programs that give good suggestions on how to compromise on decorating ideas.
Good luck!
Peace |
| Mumof3 |
Posted - May 18 2006 : 04:24:23 AM
Brenda- I painted yellow gingham in my hall bathroom. It was very easy to do, and really fun! The hardest part was measuring the walls and dividing in how many squares I wanted. Not very difficult at all. A lot of painter's tape and a level are all it takes. Paint the horizontal stripes first and then the vertical ones with a thinned-down paint- you want it to be translucent. The overlap is what gives you the gingham-effect. If you want teeny, this is not the way to go, but I would think with a 4-in. square or bigger it would work just fine. Good luck!!
Karin |
| Juliekay |
Posted - May 18 2006 : 12:08:51 AM
Try mixing the yellow color of the gingham (not the paper, just painting with the yellow color) with the chrome appliances. You might like them together. Try looking at some of the new country looks in the magazines to get some ideas first. Also try to rethink your style of the cluttered mary engelbreit look. You might like the ease of taking care of a less cluttered workspace, plus you'll just have more workspace period.
Julie |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - May 17 2006 : 10:37:17 PM
I am slowly eliminating the wallpaper in this old house too. I painted the kitchen navajo white and did an apple border ( I stenciled it) with different color apples..green yellow and red and streaky ones too..I love it and if I get tired of it I can paint right over it and stencil a new border. I want to go with a more bold color in the living room..that is my next room to do....to get rid of a green and sparkly (ugh) floral stripey wallpaper from the 60's I would guess. And the bathroom is on the list after that. Then maybe the family room. I actually sort of enjoy the old papery leaf nature like wallpaper in my bedroom but it is in bad shape so it will eventually get replaced. The kids rooms we painted when we moved in here nearly 4 years ago and so far they don't need repainting..but I bet it won't be long!
Good luck with the kitchen project. The yellow gingham would be awfully cute..but I don't see how a comprimize (which I won't do in the kitchen..haha) would work with such country wallpaper.
Jenny in Utah
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| therusticcottage |
Posted - May 17 2006 : 8:27:29 PM
Personally I don't like wallpaper. Had my days of loving it but hated when it came time to change. Paint is so much more fun -- if you don't like it then just paint over it. And most of the major paint companies have the little samples that you can buy to paint a test area on your wall. That way you can "live with it" for a little while to see if it's really the color you want. I had 3 different small stripes of color in my living room for a while until I decided on the color I wanted.
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| LJRphoto |
Posted - May 17 2006 : 3:50:31 PM
Also, in my experience, in a kitchen if you replace your wallpaper with wallpaper you will just end up with wallpaper curling off of the walls again because of moisture from cooking. Paint is more frugal and easier to change if you end up not liking it.
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| sonflowergurl |
Posted - May 06 2006 : 1:55:38 PM
Personally, I'd strip it all down and paint it a neat color. A solid color might do well with your "conflicting/complimenting" styles. Just a thought.
Katee
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