Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
Back to the garage:
Finally have things just about cleaned up and painted. Here's how it went down. I had picked up 3 gallons of nice Dunn Edwards paint in a pretty medium taupe color at a garage sale for $20. I was thinking I could use it for the bottom section of a two tone.
A few reference pics of the general effect I was going for...
Well, went to break out the paint and found it was a lot more tan than I remembered. Too dark to be the top section and too light to be the bottom. I did use it in the entry hallway as is though. My 4 year old helping out. Maybe somewhere in the latte spectrum?
Dragged a gallon over to Home Depot to see if we could tint it further (nope, they don't tint outside paint). They could however sell me water based paint that I could mix my own, so I decided to blow an extra $8 on a quart of black and give it a shot. Ended up using my garage sale paint as the base color and adding white up top AND black on the bottom. My sister and her family were in town (kinda a big deal since they live in Kenya), so had some more little helpers as well. Nephew working on the gray I mixed up. Kid was STOKED to be helping.
The mess always gets worse before it gets better, but at least the walls are coming along. Big *** sheet of carbon fiber peeking out that might be cabinet door someday.
Once I had that roughed in it was time for the stripe. I didn't want something super loud so I used some of the same hammer finish bronze I've use a few other projects and was pretty happy with that. Just enough interest when you look at it up close, simply and classy from afar. Bronze seems to work with my crazy floor anyways.
Couple tips on painting stripes... It'll try to run under your tape a bit so there are two methods I found online to compensate (I'd give props to the appropriate folks on pinterest but I can't remember exactly where I read these). First you can paint the edges in your base color BEFORE painting the strip to seal the seam. You have to wait for that to dry however, so I used option 2: for your first coat painting the stripe do it was a super dry brush so it's thin thin thin and doesn't have any appreciable volume to wick under the edge. I did a dry coat and two heavier, working ended to end in continuous laps.
Pull the tape before the paint fully dries. Bingo, nice crisp lines.
Oh and just in case I ever need to mix more, I did my mixing with relatively precise ratios so I could repeat down the road if it comes to it. Had a fun little science experiement with all the kids on volumes and ratios to pick the colors.
Winning ratios were 1:12 white and 4:1 black. Since they're all based upon the same tan paint as a base they're naturally complementary.
Solid! and cheap... which is a double win in my book.
-Joel
Back to the garage:
Finally have things just about cleaned up and painted. Here's how it went down. I had picked up 3 gallons of nice Dunn Edwards paint in a pretty medium taupe color at a garage sale for $20. I was thinking I could use it for the bottom section of a two tone.
A few reference pics of the general effect I was going for...
Well, went to break out the paint and found it was a lot more tan than I remembered. Too dark to be the top section and too light to be the bottom. I did use it in the entry hallway as is though. My 4 year old helping out. Maybe somewhere in the latte spectrum?
Dragged a gallon over to Home Depot to see if we could tint it further (nope, they don't tint outside paint). They could however sell me water based paint that I could mix my own, so I decided to blow an extra $8 on a quart of black and give it a shot. Ended up using my garage sale paint as the base color and adding white up top AND black on the bottom. My sister and her family were in town (kinda a big deal since they live in Kenya), so had some more little helpers as well. Nephew working on the gray I mixed up. Kid was STOKED to be helping.
The mess always gets worse before it gets better, but at least the walls are coming along. Big *** sheet of carbon fiber peeking out that might be cabinet door someday.
Once I had that roughed in it was time for the stripe. I didn't want something super loud so I used some of the same hammer finish bronze I've use a few other projects and was pretty happy with that. Just enough interest when you look at it up close, simply and classy from afar. Bronze seems to work with my crazy floor anyways.
Couple tips on painting stripes... It'll try to run under your tape a bit so there are two methods I found online to compensate (I'd give props to the appropriate folks on pinterest but I can't remember exactly where I read these). First you can paint the edges in your base color BEFORE painting the strip to seal the seam. You have to wait for that to dry however, so I used option 2: for your first coat painting the stripe do it was a super dry brush so it's thin thin thin and doesn't have any appreciable volume to wick under the edge. I did a dry coat and two heavier, working ended to end in continuous laps.
Pull the tape before the paint fully dries. Bingo, nice crisp lines.
Oh and just in case I ever need to mix more, I did my mixing with relatively precise ratios so I could repeat down the road if it comes to it. Had a fun little science experiement with all the kids on volumes and ratios to pick the colors.
Winning ratios were 1:12 white and 4:1 black. Since they're all based upon the same tan paint as a base they're naturally complementary.
Solid! and cheap... which is a double win in my book.
-Joel
And that's a very creative solution for the attic door, very cool.
