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July 23, 2008
Top Floor Apartment: Painting in the Hallway
The hallway at the top of the stairs is hard to photograph because the space is tight. It's hard to tell the complete story. On the wall on the outside of the bathroom, we took down the cracked bulging plaster, left up the lathe, and resurfaced with new sheetrock. This had to be primed, along with some other cracks and holes I had patched. Then all surfaces in the hallway - except for the stairs and railings - were given two coats of white. Out here we also painted the baseboards white.
As I mentioned in the previous post, there are 5 doors in this hallway (kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, second bedroom, and closet with ladder to roof), and G selected 5 different colors, one for each door. The door in the last picture shown is to the bathroom, which we painted with a semi-gloss black (I think called blackberry?), which we had also used for the baseboards and mouldings in the bathroom downstairs.
Comments
The painting looks great! I have a question about the photography: how did you create that composite shot? Photoshop?
Posted by: BrooklynButler at July 23, 2008 4:18 PM
I painted most of the doors in our house a satin black and I love it. The missus was unsure when I brought the idea to her, but after I finished the first one she was sold.
Reno looks great -been enjoying your blog every step of the way.
Posted by: houseowax at July 29, 2008 11:21 AM
Thanks for the positive words.
Yeah, the black comes out looking great, very polished and pro looking.
As for the composites, I use photoshop to put those together.
Posted by: P at August 4, 2008 8:57 PM
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