More furnishings and next on the agenda

Yesterday, I received the TV and the calendar...both very cool!  More furniture acquired...

the kitchen table and chairs...right out of the 1950's!

and an old wooden rocking chair...doesn't it look like you would find it in an old lady's farmhouse?

Tonight, we start painting. The stone is carved into the walls of the cellar. Now I need to work a little painting "magic". Start with a base coat of medium to dark warm gray, then dry brush and dab a couple of more colors on for depth and hilight.  Then I will use a little drywall compound to feather in the edges where the luan is cut away and paint the wall surfaces to look like mildewed and cracked plaster with rust running down from an old pipe protruding from the wall.  

For the walls in the living room, we have chosen a fairly dark olive as the base, that gets texture rolled with a much lighter tint of the same color. Sherwin Williams SW6187 "Rosemary" to be exact. This combination should help to disguise the wall surface that is scrim to allow the band to see out.

Below the chair rail, will start with a putty color, then brush the "bead board" texture in off white.  Same technique on the window and door frames, 1x4 base, crown, and chair rail. Should look whitewashed when it is done.

Door leafs will start with a dark cherry brown, then dry brushed with blood red for grain.

For the "wallpaper" upstairs and in the kitchen, we will start with the same plaster wall technique with the two tones of green, then add a pair of vertical stripes every 10" or so in a pale pink. Then between the stripes, stencil on tendrils in green and large roses in red, pink and salmon. 

That should be enough to keep us busy for a few work sessions... pix to follow.