Painting the livingroom / colour advice

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/livinngroomredstallion1.jpg

The rest of the room...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/IMG_0244.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/IMG_0345.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/Places/IMG_7635.jpg

And empty, with big windows...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/Places/IMG_6885.jpg

What do you think?

1. print off wall-o-gina.jpg
2. wallpaper wall

TV unit inside = http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/Picture1-26.png

The sofa's a boring brown colour. Ignore it.

Our backroom = http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/IMG_0171.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/IMG_0153.jpg

Ignoring wall-o-ginas idea.

I guess we want a bit of impact, style, but not garish. Modern, bright, sumptuous. I am in the mood to go and buy a pot of paint like RIGHT NOW and get it done.

depressing

why not some wallpaper?

Your cat should go on a diet.

Thanks for that, conrad.

I guess neither Em or I like the idea of wallpaper. Neither of us have ever hung it so we'd probbaly have to get someone in to do it which means expense and waiting. Em's an art history graduate and a modernist at heart - she'd have us living in a white box if possible, but it's not, so simple colours it is.

Bedroom = http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/IMG_9192.jpg

Bathroom = http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/Places/IMG_7616.jpg

BOB'S NOT FAT, just very furry.

The mirror so artfully added in MSPaint is a white, molded, decorative frame thing.

i'm actually considering repainting my entire flat brown. I am not convinced by the trend of single colored walls

you should paint it the color of that locker thing in your bathroom.

What colour would match Bob?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/IMG_0401.jpg

Bob's back looks like RAL 1014

bob would look good in red

http://www.gingerbreadhome.co.uk/files/items/8ef331cf-25d0-474b-bb3a-68a9ed13ac8b/ab56bc56-b861-4c1b-b2fc-a2e631b6dbe2.jpg

This is the mirror.

shop of walloginas as nick's wallpaper, nsfw

THANKS FOR THAT

Kind of works, though.

CAN I GET A 'NSFW' ADDED TO THIS THREAD TITLE NOW, PLEASE?

Painting one wall of a living room, or one corner, in a fairly bold colour works well. I rather like the green. You can use mirrors to throw the colour onto other walls and make the place seem bigger.

lol sry

^hero

u should totally do some photo wallpaper of trees or whatever like was in that one thread there tho

are you seriously doing it yourself?!

There is plenty of good modernist wallpaper out there. This is from the south bank centre, their carpet design IIRC.

http://www.absolutezerodegrees.co.uk/images/251.jpg

Wallpaper does take soem time and effort to get right but is not beyond DIY by no means.

are you seriously doing it yourself?!

-- lex pretend, Monday, June 30, 2008 2:50 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Who's this directed at, Lex? Because, like, painting a wall is a piece of piss?

That wallpaper does look good, Ed. Hmmm. MORE TO FRET ABOUT NOW, THNX.

Hanging wallpaper is not at all difficult, so don't let that put you off. In fact, it's far more fun to do than painting walls.

Our parlour wanted papering,
And Pa says it was waste
To call a paperhanger in,
And so he made some paste.
He bought some rolls of paper,
Got a ladder and a brush
And with my mummy's nightgown on,
At it he made a rush.

Chorus:
When Father papered the parlour
You couldn't see him for paste
Dabbing it here! dabbing it there!
Paste and paper everywhere
Mother was stuck to the ceiling
The children stuck to the floor
I never knew a blooming family
So 'stuck up' before.

The pattern was 'blue roses'
with its leaves red, white, and brown;
He'd stuck it wrong way up and now,
we all walk upside down.
And when he trimm'd the edging
off the paper with the shears,
The cat got underneath it,
and dad cut off both its ears.

Chorus:

Soon dad fell down the stairs
and dropp'd his paperhanger's can
On little Henrietta sitting there
with her young man,
The paste stuck them together,
as we thought t'would be for life,
We had to fetch the parson in
to make them man and wife.

Chorus:

We're never going to move away
from that house any more
For Father's gone and stuck the chairs
and table to the floor,
We can't find our piano,
though it's broad and rather tall,
We think that it's behind the paper
Pa stuck on the wall.

Chorus:

Now, Father's sticking in the pub,
through treading in the paste,
And all the family's so upset,
they've all gone pasty faced.
While Pa says, now that Ma has spread
the news from north to south,
He wishes he had dropped a blob
of paste in Mother's mouth.

Who's this directed at, Lex? Because, like, painting a wall is a piece of piss?

i wouldn't know where to start! it's just one of those things which is so obviously something one would pay someone else to do, like plumbing or computer repairs.

or listening to music from before 1980

i wouldn't pay anyone to do that

Who's this directed at, Lex? Because, like, painting a wall is a piece of piss?

i wouldn't know where to start! it's just one of those things which is so obviously something one would pay someone else to do, like plumbing or computer repairs.

-- lex pretend, Monday, June 30, 2008 3:00 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Surely you're joking? Get a book, read the instructions, get some advice off your folks / friends? It's a piece of piss. I'm far from a DIYer but aside from the TV unit (which was expensive, so i got my neighbour who's a builder to do it) and the integrated washing matching door (he did that too, cos it was tricky), everything else in the house / flat we've done ourselves - plumbed the washing machine in, put the fridge/freezer in, painted the back room, put all the furniture together, hung pictures. Painting a wall isn't hard, Lex, you just get a brush and plenty of old sheets and paint!

Wash the wall with sugar soap first for a good finish

plumbed the washing machine in, put the fridge/freezer in, painted the back room, put all the furniture together, hung pictures

!!!!

it would never occur to me to do these things myself. this is what workers are for.

b/c it looks really unenjoyable/boring/frustrating as well as being something i'd have no clue where to start with

b/c it looks really unenjoyable/boring/frustrating

this is actually true

actually i could deal with hanging pictures but not hammering the nail in beforehand

There's quite a considerable degree of satisfaction to be found in the dirty duties of the proles, Alex.

HAMMERING A NAIL IS VERY VERY QUICK AND EASY.

Good fucking grief.

b/c it looks really unenjoyable/boring/frustrating

this is actually true

-- ledge, lundi 30 juin 2008 16:11 (8 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

True but I find setting up an appointment with workers, having to get up at some ungodly hour, etc. even more frustrating

trying to hammer a nail myself = pretty much asking for a sore thumb. that is not how i roll.

There's quite a considerable degree of satisfaction to be found in the dirty duties of the proles, Alex.

i highly doubt this! but it seems like an even stronger argument for letting someone else do it all.

x-post

surely the american footballer should be facing the vaginas?

http://i29.tinypic.com/2119bav.jpg

painting can be fun if done on a sunny day with friends to help you + beers to help you

if you have friends + beers + sun why go and eff it up by trying to paint a room indoors?? i'm trying to imagine what it's like and it seems endlessly hellish

My Red corner:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/56/107796267_1c3c7cd831_b.jpg

How about wood panelling? I'm dreaming of having that at home but this seems way out of my DIY league

Em would rather go on a murderous rampage than have wood panelling, I suspect.

Nice bit of wainscotting could look really good in the right place.

I would just save the paint money for a bigger teevee and better furniture around + about the tv/hi-fi

but that's some american pottery barn bullshit I know

Ed, did you choose the print or the paint first? Either way, good choices. Love those 'people will always need...' things.

i don't dig accent walls.

Paint came way before the print.

didn't the guardian do just this at the weekend? yes:

http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/homes/story/0,,2287417,00.html

made more sense with pictures.

"Elephant's Breath"

i'd really recommend you avoid farrow and ball paint unless you're a professional decorator. in fact, most pros hate it too since it's quite labour intensive. it has a good flat finish but you can't apply it with a roller only a brush and each brushstroke has to be basically ceiling to skirting in a single stroke or it looks bad. also if you need to touch it up you're f'cked basically. touching it up sometimes results in it going a completely different texture or even colour.

i like fired earth paints which are about 50% more than dulux etc but have a really nice chalky finish and a good colour range.

in the u.s. the only choice is BENJAMIN MOORE

Genuine practical advice: Avoid picking too bright or intense a color. If you haven't painted much in the past, be aware that a color that seems overly drab when viewed on a tiny paint chip or sample will seem less so when spread on an entire wall. I spent several years doing painting work and this was a common error among my clients.

cork tiles is my serious suggestion

cock tiles

cork tails. there.

our rented flat walls are the worst color - a v washed out peach kinda thing. a bit like sick.

jhoshea, make it happen

http://www.maggiejonestiles.co.uk/6tile_cock.JPG

You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant.

btw hanging pictures is hammering the nail in

To further blow Lex's mind, I once painted a wall while the French Open final was on, out of view of the TV. I then flayed myself with loosely-bound twigs for an hour and stuck my head in a vat of boiling oil.

(When we moved into this house we had a budget for all the stuff that needed doing and paying people to do it all would've blown that budget; rewiring/laying hardwood floors/fitting boiler & radiators/replumbing the bathroom/removing gas fire/plastering/new kitchen worktops we left to the experts, most everything else we did ourselves. Which is why it's not finished. We may even have attempted some of the tough stuff if we didn't have kids.)

Deep, bottle green is usually good for an accented wall, I find. Not that I've ever done that.

Em read this thread and was all "I don't know The Lex but he's being ironic, I can tell that, surely?" I reassured her that he's really, really not.

i would like my walls to be just vast arrays of diodes that light on/off depending on my mood and also in time to whatever music i'm playing

I just wear tinted sunglasses.

I quite like that funky 60's style wallpaper design Ed posted upthread, I thnk it really suits Nick's furniture and general style. Minimalist and interesting.

Wallpaper doesnt seem to be done much here like it is in the UK. Dunno why.

why not just banksy your wall?

sorry i meant goatse

also, i don't think not liking/wanting to paint walls make you a bad person or an unbelieveable person who lives in fairyland

Not wanting to paint a wall is quite understandable. Not wanting to hammer a nail into a wall isn't.

Describing painting a wall as "endlessly horrific" and suggesting that it's a job for "workers" rather than the rarefied gentry that make up your average pop music journalist is the main issue.

omg ok yeah that's retarded re nails.

but painting walls seems too much work unless maybe if it's a new empty flat, and the carpet hasn't been laid, and you're doing the painting with some cute girl who you then have paint fights with and then end up sexxing, and messing up all the paint work and then get someone in to finish the job anyway.

otherwise dud.

someone in to finish the job i.e. another hot chix0r for the moneyshot

fairyland

Trayce, wallpaper has been out of favour for a long while and I guess it has only just been making a resurgence in the last couple of years (once people got over rag rolling their paint just as they got over artex).

I am waiting for artex to come back as a design trend so I can laugh.

Wallpapering isn't really that difficult - we did our kitchen last year and it was surprisingly easy for two complete klutzes to manage. Painting is a piece of piss.

Ed: ah fair enough, I suppose wallpaper in general's a fairly 60s-70s thing. I still occasionally see rental places here with it, and it is so jarring to see such violently patterned walls in this day and age. I never really got the appeal: why let the walls shout over everything else so loudly? I'd rather my prints and rugs and chairs do the talking.

Kinda wish I'd got into interior design sometimes, I like thinking about it.

Painting is totally a piece o piss if the painters we had in last week are anything to go on. They did our entire flat in 2 days. Mind you they made a god awful mess, got paint and plaster all over everything, broke stuff, and made US move our furniture, but hey they "finished" it. Fuckers.

My dad put some wallpaper (or rather had someone put up) on the chimney breast as a highlight in his dining room (my old bedroom). It looks really good although the people who did it hung it upside-down and had to re-do it.

I can't help but see lex as mr sweater from the ragged trousered philanthropists.

Has no one really said "paint the whole place black" yet?

Has no one really said "paint the whole place black" yet?

I'm white, btw.

In some kind of pampered-lex-princess irony thing, I came home yesterday to find my house sparkly clean and my living room and bathroom freshly painted. (Only the painting was a surprise to me, tho.)

man something bad happened in your house...

Well, OK, that's only a bit of the story. We had been talking last week about painting the house. She asked for my assistance in choosing colors, so we settled on 3 possibilities for each room, and she went out and bought 3 small cans of paint for the living room so's we could paint swatches and decide which color. That careful planning and diplomacy and cooperation was basically all my idea, but she's not like that at all: If something is worth doing, it's worth doing NOW. Batten the hatches, full steam ahead, and quityrbitchin' pussyface, etc. So since she has this week off, she just decided to call our handyman and ask if he could paint the living room and not tell me he did it until I got home and kissed her in the smoocher and she says do you notice anything diff HONEY??? That's all 100% OK with me, really. First marriage is 4 years old now and all but I'm 40 and I am a total fuckin' PRO at navigating this stuff, most def.

Today, I got home and the bathroom tile had been regrouted.

A good friend has suggested muted olive greens,which i think may be the winner.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/livinngroomjunglefever2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/livinngroomenglishmist2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/livinngroomwildolive.jpg

Painting a wall isn't hard, Lex, you just get a brush and plenty of old sheets and paint!

So OTM. It is unfortunately time-consuming and I haven't had the chance

Wash the wall with sugar soap first for a good finish

This is a good tip. Also make sure wall is skimmed and smooth before putting on wallpaper. I cannot emphasize that enough.

The lex is being very boring on this thread.

painting can be fun if done on a sunny day with friends to help you + beers to help you

Not any more. Everyone's on to this trick!

Amen, painting party, beer and tunes = lovely. xpost

Obviously I need better and less lazy friends :(

Or do it naked.

Dumb idea what with paint drying in pubes, turps near delicate bits.

I'd like to try one of these electrostatic spray gun dohickies which si meant to be ultra quick and ultra even.

YES!

i would like my walls to be just vast arrays of diodes that light on/off depending on my mood and also in time to whatever music i'm playing

Like that Daft Punk table?

Wallpapering isn't really that difficult - we did our kitchen last year and it was surprisingly easy for two complete klutzes to manage. Painting is a piece of piss.

This was not my experience. We blame the original walls but the fact that we didn't have a plumb weight, proper plastering/cutting table and had trouble lining them up means that the back room will have to be redone a lot sooner than originally thought.

A good friend has suggested muted olive greens,which i think may be the winner.

This sounds like vomit.

I hired painters only recently. We got sick of coming home, fixing things up, moving boxes and painting. Yes, we'll have to do without certain luxuries (bye bye future xbox/ps3) but so far it's been a wholly positive experience. So far...

As another Lex on this forum, and a girl at that, I would like to proudly proclaim that last night I hung a curtain rod in my living room all by myself, after having sanded and painted two items of furniture earlier in the day, and took the money I saved and spent it on dinner with my dear down by the lake, watching Fireworks.