May 07, 2006
Basement: Painting!
Painting and lights are up! Painting was a comparable breeze in the basement. The staircase, being finished, with trim, and with heavy knockdown texture, was hard to paint and edge the wall-ceiling corners. The basement was great. Unfinished, light orange peel which helped everything roll smoothly, etc.
We still ended up doing a (tinted) primer coat plus two coats of each color for a fuller richness and softer look to the walls. No reason to be lazy now, it'll just hurt more later to paint when everything is installed!
Lighting turned out fantastic. With 16 can lights (recessed ceiling lights), 9 wall sconces and a few track lights, not to mention bath and miscellaneous, the basement is nearly perfectly lit. Just one little corner to work on.
A good sense of the nasty white that used to encompass the entire house. The basement stairs are the last holdout from the old regime. And that tacky brass 'n' glass light fixture. Ugghh. You will notice I've already painted the ceiling. Lavender Twilight was used on the ceiling throughout the basement. Mostly it'll just look white in photos, but here you can differentiate it from actual white.
Basement Stairwell Redux. Now with a java mocha brown color, blue handrail (which is the primary basement color) and a new light fixture. Excuse me, Java Float (tm) color.
Bottom of stairs looking into storage area, brown transitioning to the blues.
Bottom of the stairs, towards the cellar and half wall corner. New light, cellar stained glass illuminated, and the two-tone blue we went with. Blue Symmetry for the main color, Jazz Blue for the accent.
Continuing along the half wall towards the outside and backyard.
Moving along, looking towards the likely future TV area.
Looking into the bathroom and under the stairs into the "Bat Cave" Fuzzy is designing, starting with some dark wallpaper with bats and moons on it. Good sense of the main blue color, with the darker blue covering the soffit and staircase.
Yellow Canary or something like that for the bathroom. Brighten things up a bit. You can just pick out the lavender twilight at top (which will be tiled over for the shower). Sand Dune is the actual color name. All Glidden colors.