The REAL Apocalypse Zone...

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The Chronicle of Home Improvements...

Well, we've been in the new house for just over a week now, and the decorating has already started. We're - that is to say I am - doing one room at a time, and since it's the worst looking of any room, we're - meaning I am - starting with the small third bedroom.

This is the smallest room in the house and was formerly occupied by a teenage boy. Clearly he had some weird sight disorder, characterised by blue/green colour-blindness and was no doubt agoraphobic...

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Yes - horrifically blue walls with all the woodwork (and curtains and radiator) picked out in green. It could be worse - closer inspection reveals the woodwork to be formerly red. Unsurprisingly, I'm currently painting this room white to cover this crap up and form a base for any colours I decide to put on in it's place.

And yes, the ceiling is being whited too. What the hell is that supposed to be anyway?


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This wall, opposite the window, reveals another green curtain, behind which is a cupboard of some variety. This cupboard is also accessible from the landing, but the door has been bolted up. I use the past tense - have electric screwdriver with 100 piece accessory kit, will demolish tat.

This hole WILL be plasterboarded up, leaving the landing door as access to the cupboard.


Anyway, as I said, I'm currently painting the whole room white - picture to follow once that blue is gone (3 coats and counting). Suggestions are invited - the room will be used as a computer/PS2 room and I will be replacing every single interior door with 4/6 panel unpainted wood doors (I like unpainted wood). Feel free to spill forth your ideas for colour-schemes - including paintshop efforts. I'll be keeping a journal here of how the place is looking - does anyone else remember when weekends were relaxing? :D


*Anyone who doesn't know, my full online nom de plume is "Famine, the Third Horseman of the Apocalypse", and my website is called "The Apocalypse Zone" - hence my house being "The REAL Apocalypse Zone". Hopefully this short paragraph should stall any stupid questions.
 
My, those are nice curtains. Can you paint the room "Reflex Spice"?
 
I could run it through photoshop to see what I can come up with (although adjusting the lighting will be the biggest issue, it shouldn't be too hard). My comp/PS2 room is kinda an off-white with light-tan blinds. Makes it easy to see, and yet not so light that the TV with the PS2 is drowned out. I recommend something like that (it's kinda a bleached salmon. My mom says it's "peach-pearl").
 
my parents painted their office in a very very very pale green with dark green wood work. It looks awesome - a lot better than white anyways. They should have used a pale orange with with dark green trim though. It looks better
 
You'll have to put on 10 layers of white paint just to cover that damnable bright blue color.

White works fine as a color for a house... our entire house is white (inside and out), and it looks fine, and doesn't get boring (for some reason, colors seem to get boring after a while).

BTW, is it just me, or are the other rooms painted "light turd" brown?
 
I love those curtains. They're so boss. How much do you want for them?

You should paint the room black. It should go good with that carpet you've got on the floor.
 
Shut it, slag! :lol:

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Famine, will you be painting one room Indigo?
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You can guarantee it.

I was thinking of an indigo bottom half, and a very light purple colour for the top half for that very room, oddly.
 
Ew. Famine, just a word of advice; bright colors like Indigo never do well as primary colors. My opinion is that if part of the room is going to be indigo; make it some of the stuff that was left green by the former owner (the trim and stuff). My dresser is painted bright Indigo; I've been wanting to change it for years (something about waking up staring at purple has given me a sort of anti-purple sentiment, you know?)
 
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Ew. Famine, just a word of advice; bright colors like Indigo never do well as primary colors. My opinion is that if part of the room is going to be indigo; make it some of the stuff that was left green by the former owner (the trim and stuff). My dresser is painted bright Indigo; I've been wanting to change it for years (something about waking up staring at purple has given me a sort of anti-purple sentiment, you know?
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Indigo isn't bright - that's the exact reason it's perceived so well on light backgrounds. Perhaps you're thinking of purple or violet?

By "primary colours" I trust you mean "main" - I'd never put an actual primary colour on my walls.

Besides which it won't be a main colour - it'll be the bottom third of the walls at most. The majority of the room would be a white-hinting-at-purple colour (there's one called "ghost" we quite like). But that smegging blue must go first... :D

The radiator will be either painted white or replaced with a new, unabused white radiator. The woodwork around the room will be sanded and woodstained.
 
Famine
Indigo isn't bright - that's the exact reason it's perceived so well on light backgrounds. Perhaps you're thinking of purple or violet?

By "primary colours" I trust you mean "main" - I'd never put an actual primary colour on my walls.

Besides which it won't be a main colour - it'll be the bottom third of the walls at most. The majority of the room would be a white-hinting-at-purple colour (there's one called "ghost" we quite like). But that smegging blue must go first... :D

The radiator will be either painted white or replaced with a new, unabused white radiator. The woodwork around the room will be sanded and woodstained.
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By brightness I'm referring to the saturation of the color. Purely there is nothing bleached about the tone you're using; it's saturation is at 100% (although I'm glad you mentioned the slight purple tint in your wall as opposed to downright purple). My suggestion would be to maybe make it a little bit lighter, but I can see where you're going now. With making the top of the walls that offwhite, you might be able to get away with a layer of pink paint, to make the wall purple, and then bleaching it with the white. That way you won't have to make so many passes with the brush; and you'll get just the effect you want. Good luck with it; and if I don't see you around I think we'll know why.

By the way, are you going to be changing the carpet in that room?

Edit: Here's what it should look close to when you're done, if I'm reading you right (you never said anything about the carpet nor the curtains I don't think):
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Yes - the curtains and carpet are going straight to robot hell.
 
I finally finished laying the carpet on Christmas Eve.

I'm just awaiting the opportunity to put a new light up (I've got a nice spotlight assembly, but it's a bugger to put up) and install a blind (probably carpet colour) and then I can move furniture in.

And yes, that's my Christmas present from my dad. It's a 4.5 inch catadioptic Newtonian reflector.
 

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Famine, your "Ooooh, one of those..." matches the Edison radiant emanater quite nicely. Personally the lilac is a little too eye gouging for me, where’s the hideous beige on beige people?
 
Ooh, ahh...skywatcher? And, isn't it catadioptRic? Ok, so I've got too much time and google set as my homepage. But what's that lace-looking stuff on the window? I'd agree that it's still a pretty bold color for interior paint, but it's your house. I prefer white, though I'll venture over to eggshell every now and then. But, are any new curtains in order? How're the other bits of remodeling coming along?
 
The "lace" thing in the window is a light net for Christmas. A roller blind will be screwed into the hole in the wall the window currently occupies alone (save for some power tools and the light-net) and it's an awful lot lighter in the real world.

The killer was the wood. Ever bit of wood - skirting boards, window, architrave - had to be stripped, sanded and stained. They were all cream, upon which had been applied white, upon which had been applied red, upon which had been applied green. Same goes for the radiator, but that was pretty much painting some stripping crap onto it and running away before my eyes melted.


And it probably is catadioptric. But it says "catadioptic" on the box, and who am I to argue with badly-translated-from-German literature? :D
 
Famine
I finally finished laying the carpet on Christmas Eve.

I'm just awaiting the opportunity to put a new light up (I've got a nice spotlight assembly, but it's a bugger to put up) and install a blind (probably carpet colour) and then I can move furniture in.

And yes, that's my Christmas present from my dad. It's a 4.5 inch catadioptic Newtonian reflector.
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WOW that room looks pretty nice and I love that carpet!
 
All my own work - which explains why it's taken since July.

The shelves may go up (right-hand wall) tomorrow, upon which will be placed "the cars" (I have 20 1:18ths - all road cars), then "the computer" (although a new corner unit will be purchased to allow computer and two different PS2 stations) soon after...
 
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All my own work - which explains why it's taken since July.

The shelves may go up (right-hand wall) tomorrow, upon which will be placed "the cars" (I have 20 1:18ths - all road cars), then "the computer" (although a new corner unit will be purchased to allow computer and two different PS2 stations) soon after...
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So you collect model cars too huh? Have you posted your collection on GTP yet? Are they all Indigo?
 
Astonishingly, no, none of hem are indigo.

The collection currently features:
Ferrari F50 (red)
Ferrari F40 (red)
Ferrari 360 Modena (red)
Ferrari 250 GTO (red)
Ferrari 550 Maranello (silver)
Bugatti EB110 (black)
Lotus Elise (yellow)
Lotus Esprit Type 79 (yellow)
Porsche 996 911 (red)
Porsche Boxster (silver)
McLaren F1 (silver)
Ford Mustang (1999) (yellow)
Mercedes CLK-GTR Road Car (silver)
Shelby Cobra 427 (silver, black stripes)
Dodge Viper GTS (blue, white stripes)
Honda S2000 (red)
Nissan 350Z (blue)
Ford GT (white, blue stripes)
TVR Tuscan (slate grey)
Jaguar XK180 (blueish)
 
I wanna get one of the Bugatti EB110. Its a pretty nice and fast car.
*EDIT* OMG You made a grammer error!
:lol: This proves you are human!
BTW I cut off some of the bottom and such to make it a smaller file and so I dont have to wait on imageshack to take forever.
 

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