Weekend of paint...

A lot of hours this weekend, mostly painting.

Saturday, we spent 6 hours painting wallpaper for the upstairs hallway and the kitchen wall.  In a previous post, I included a pic that I found with the kind of character I was looking for in wallpaper.

The colors needed to be consistent with the rest of the farmhouse but lighter and more textured.  This helps to visually anchor these much smaller spaces against the large living room.  Also by going a little lighter than the living room walls, it pushes the living room farther upstage, forcing the perspective and helping to separate it from the the other parts of the house.

Also because it is scenery and not a real wall, the colors needed to be brighter so that the detail carries to the last row.

This morning, we assembled the front door and window flats with the kitchen wall and painted it all together.  With a little furniture in front, it starts to pull together.

The wallpaper for the kitchen wall wraps the corner, the pattern disappears and the colors get darker.  Accentuates the corner and makes it clear that they are two different areas, yet visually consistent.

So, when it was all done and before we quit for the day, Patrick had to finish his breakfast on set...  No matter what he says, he still prefers to perform. :)

The scrim is due to arrive tomorrow, so Monday or Tuesday evening, we will paint the two sections of wall that run up the back of the stairs and then stretch the scrim out on the floor and paint it.  Then it can lay there flat and dry so that it doesn't deform or stretch.  

We are closing in on finishing all that we can do before loading in on Sept 21.  This is probably good as Melanie's schedule is picking up on Les Mis and one of these days I need to do some architecture...