Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Tissue Paper Walls and Other Ramblings...

Well, you'd never know, today, that there was that much snow yesterday! It's pretty much all gone and I'm not in the least bit sorry. It's waaaaay to early for winter to hit considering we're planning to stay home through most of it.

Jack said he hit a patch of ice and went sailing down the road sideways for a bit. Luckily he didn't tip over! Obviously nobody got in his way! But other than that, the roads were fine.

I've got big but boring plans for today and tomorrow. Painting our bedroom is tops on the list. Including the woodwork which is white. I've had trial patches of paint here and there on the walls for a month, now, and it looks like the walls are coming down with something. I don't know why choosing a paint color is so intimidating for me. Takes me forever. As I've told many a friend and child, "don't worry about it...it's only paint!" I wish I could get that through my own head.

Several years ago I textured the walls with tissue paper...yep, I did that. I went to a workshop that cost an arm and a leg and learned all sorts of faux painting techniques thinking that it would be a great business. I've done a mural or two since then but the business didn't really get off the ground. Our little town is wonderful but there's little room for that type of business.



As it happens, I learned this tissue paper technique from a magazine. And it was free, of course! Go figure. It's a pretty cool application, actually, but it took for.ev.er! It's very subtle. Here's a picture that I just took five minutes ago. Not sure if it shows the texture very well. You've gotta look close. It's a good thing that I like it because peeling all that tissue off the walls would not be fun.

So I'm off to buy my paint. It's a color called Bon Bon from Pittsburgh Paints. Hope I like it.
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Posted by CherylK at 10:23 AM

4 comments:

  1. So.

    When I read your colour choice, I found Pittsburgh Paints' website and clicked through until I found the colour (I wanted to do that before I commented).
    I have the same problem when it comes time to choose a paint colour. It took me forEVER to choose the colour for my living room, then, once I started painting, I was in tears because it looked so PINK! It was fine once it dried.
    I like the colour you chose. It is very similar to the colour I have in my living room. (I can't remember what it was called, but it's in that same pinky/mauve/beige palette).
    And the tissue paper technique looks really nice - I like that, too. Now I want to paint my bedroom...... one of these days!
    (And if you don't like the colour once it's on the walls, you can always change it! It's only paint. *teehee*)
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  3. Impressive, I'm not crafty like that at all!
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  4. Hi BL, I'm glad you like the color. I was looking for sort of a rose-beige because my daughter says that our bedroom is in the romance area of the house according to feng shui and that area should have reds or purples or pinks...so, trying to please the feng shui goddess(es), I decided to do a rose-beige. We'll see...

    And KK, thanks for stopping by - loved you story about the elevator!
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