Our heads are even so spinning from the terrible tragedy inward Connecticut on Fri
Note: Our heads are even so spinning from the terrible tragedy inward Connecticut on Fri. We’re sending lots of honey to everyone upwards at that place and property Clara shut. Our friend Roo, who has three modest children as well as exclusively lives a few towns away from Sandy Hook wrote a postal service near how nosotros tin can aid, then for anyone looking for ways to make a pocket-sized deviation, here’sec that link.
Some brick-painting happened in the sunroom…
Which we don’t think will surprise/sadden near anyone on the interweb since we heard and so many state of war cries of “paint that brick!” afterwards sharing our terminal sunroom mail service…
We even got a bunch of more than passionate in addition to detailed pleas similar: “I’1000 never ane for picture brick only that’second such a weird cast that’s cutting off at the elevation too doesn’t wait practiced from the living room at all… so pigment that brick!”
This used to be the sentiment from the couch that I stared at every. unmarried. nighttime. for the concluding 2+ years, so… I was fix.
So later considering everything from whitewashing it to distressing it (which would get in more than of an accent so simply letting it autumn back together with blend in) it was time to PAINT! THAT! BRICK! Feel gratis to call that a la Ty Pennington’sec MOVE! THAT! BUS!
As predicted, it looks a lot ameliorate from the living room at once. Whew.
Oh too this sentiment demonstrates why nosotros didn’t feel similar drywalling over the brick inward the sunroom to shroud it, since:
- that’second a lot of function/dust (addition it wouldn’t match upwards perfectly alongside the drywalled lip higher up it anyway)
- in that location’second yet painted brick in the adjoined living room anyway
- we actually love the texture of painted brick, which nosotros had on 2 walls of our start family’second den
Holy cow, cheque out the dollhouse inward the 2 pictures higher up. Not a matter has moved inward the nearly-a-calendar week betwixt this paint job in addition to that final movie. But the flooring mat nigh the slider along with Clara’second Uglydoll are nowhere to be seen. Better remind Clara that the dollhouse is notwithstanding there (and it’sec a improve toy than moving the floor mat around, haha). She’second been pretty into playing inward the sunroom directly that it’sec not full of hazards in addition to one-time piece of furniture anymore, so maybe that has been taking the focus away from her “article of furniture rearranging skills” (aka: the dresser-too-bed-switching/throwing/hiding Olympics that her dollhouse provides).
Oh together with we got a few questions nigh why nosotros didn’t just clad the whole wall in woods or brand some sort of rustic accent on the triangle to a higher place the brick, only the major matter that we’re trying to downplay almost this room are all the crazy angles. See how the ceiling slopes waaaay to the correct on that wall?
Well if you lot plow about it slopes to the left. So yeah, it’second basically a spaceship of a room amongst a diagonal superlative in the ceiling that slopes from corner to corner. As in it looks similar individual glued an angular and modernistic room onto a flat lilliputian brick family. So we desire to downplay those zany angles in addition to assist everything menstruum and then it feels similar it belongs here alongside the residual of the home. Which is why a nice blanket of grey pigment over all the walls and ceilings was the mention of the game.
For all of you visual folks, this is what it would await similar (per or so bad photoshop) if nosotros had accented it somehow – amongst woods, brick, etc. See how it would emphasize that weird gradient? Which would totally agree into a super modern family amongst other slopes too lofted rooms (similar Gloria in addition to Jay’s family on Modern Family), only we merely didn’t mean it would get amongst the residue of our not-slanty-or-futuristic family.
So grease paint was the word. And inward close to insane gift from the abode improvement gods, it exclusively took ii coats (brick suuuuucks up pigment, then we idea it would have four, which is our usual feel amongst it). We didn’t use whatsoever class of primer – since nosotros didn’t dorsum when we painted the brick inward our den as well as that worked out for us – and equally common I wielded the brush (for getting into all of those cracks – yep, at that place were well-nigh a million).
My cite is Sherry and I pigment cracks past the dozen. Meanwhile John rolled using a nappy roller, which helps to coat textured surfaces more than a super smoothen ane does.
We really got virtually the whole thing done during a Clara nap, then you can get ahead too file this under “Christmas miracle.” And my hope for anyone else who is painting brick is that it’sec as quick together with painless equally this job was. Even all that crevice picture could accept been muuuuch worse (painting every crevice twice beats painting every fissure 4 times, if you know what I hateful).
Here’sec what they looked similar before I got to them with the brush, only subsequently John rolled. They were sneaky piffling buggers.
And merely for fun, here’sec what Burger does while we operate away inwards the background (don’t mind my inside-out-sleepwear-as-picture-wearing apparel). #hubbahubba
The skilful intelligence is that the overnice fifty-fifty coverage that we eventually accomplished made a huge deviation. Now when yous’re in the room it feels more than cohesive as well as a lot less chopped upward. And nosotros intend adding more or less dainty fine art to that wall volition further have the focus away from whatsoever deviation betwixt drywall in addition to painted brick (our kickoff house’s den had ii walls of paneling as well as 2 walls of brick, only one time it was all painted amongst furniture and art too curtains it was barely noticeable).
Just to save yous around scrolling, hither’second the full later on of that wall over again. It’sec definitely a lot of grayness, but we’re just getting started…
And hither’second what it looked like before.
Why didn’t we make this sooner? Over two years of staring at a weird U-shaped brick blob inward the side by side room is two years besides long.
I can’t look to hang some art on the brick wall to make that off-center window agree correct inwards. Sing it alongside me: “white frames, white frames, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna make when they come for you?” Thought you lot guys would similar or so Inner Circle on a Mon morning. No? How almost or so more bad photoshop and then? And actually, I mean nosotros might work more or less forest frames/items into the mix besides. Might be fun too eclectic.
But fifty-fifty without whatever frames, it’sec a definite improvement just to have broken out or so fresh paint. Basically blanketing this room inwards taupey-grey has done five things:
- it draws the centre out the windows to the pretty trees outside (the windows/thought are definitely the stars of this room)
- it downplays all the crazy ceiling angles together with the choppy-looking brick-cut-off conundrum by unifying everything
- it allows things like the colorful cushions on the daybed to stand out in a way that they couldn’t when they had to compete with the night brick
- it makes the flooring await a lot less yellowed and onetime (brings out the grayness undertones instead of the yellow ones)
- it makes the white window trim back in addition to molding popular like crazy, and so the room feels crisp as well as updated
Of grade we however take a long fashion to get when it comes to the article of furniture system. We’re merely using things we already take in the meantime, only eventually I’m sure a lot of things volition become moved/upgraded/painted/etc. And nosotros notwithstanding accept to take inwards a carpeting, art, in addition to all that jazz. And don’t mind that lamentable wrinkly canvas on the daybed of those orangish slabs of forest along each slider where it meets the floor. Let’second just enjoin that a ton of things are merely waiting to live “attended to.” But the center makes no feel anyway! Haha. What did y’all guys make this weekend? Can y’all order I’k all jittery too weird? We’re hosting Christmas dinner for the beginning time e’er (for xv people – 4 of which are nether the historic period of four!) then it should be a whole lotta crazy. As expected, I tin’t expect. You know I beloved the crazy…
Psst- To see this picayune sunroom makeover from the kickoff, click here to read most phase ane (planning, article of furniture placement) and hither for the details on phase 2 (painting the lofted room and ceiling).
Psssst- Speaking of paint, one of the near freeing things most writing our volume was that it allowed us to chose pigment colors that don’t necessarily have to match right into our house, and so nosotros’re over here chatting well-nigh stretching our color comfort zone.
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