Daydream thread continues.....

lostinrates

Choille, i will think of you and send all my get well vibes to you. You need to build strength before winter....please take care of your self.

The speed the builders have made is amazing. Really amazing. Some things they expeced from precious experience to crack theough have been slow though. They have never done a 'keep it old looking inside too' job, and they are loving it, but, that love got iffy when they realised keepinng the old bendy tImbers and wonky walls meant each and every plaster board piece needed to be scribed and cut to wonkey shapes. A room that would normally take them half a day or less took two whole days.

This week they are insulating, boarding and platerboarding the Cheese room/kitchen, easier as more space and generally straighter walls and timbers, so a few boards can go up as they are, but its a good sized room, so a lot to go up.

The plasterer comes tomorrow to look at the study and practise doing 'old english' round corners because never done them before. Soft corners and edges on the finish are something i will NOT compromise on, because its the very spriti of the place, hard modern edges would be wrong and uncomfortable in this sort of house with this sort of 'realistic' finish.

lostinrates

In less than a month we will be moving furniture. Prep this weekend must include woodworm spraying it before bringing it back in the house.

I need the alfie (and ctc? ) artisits eye. In an otherwise drab painted room (something like elephants breath f and b or a dirty, limey white) think i want to paint my big pine dresser ....alfie the one with the orange plastic prism handles) blue. I do not really 'do' blue.

I am looking at the f and b colour chart for guidance and atm its between three blues.....

Cooks blue, (because its an extention to the kitchen of course, its the utility room) blue ground, because its less dark and might be an easier colour to live with, dix blue, which has a greeny tone, and i do do green.....but my whole down stairs will be green of one sort or another so a dresser is a way to ease myself into another colour

Any opinions?

choille

Thanks LIR.

I feel as weak as a kitten so I have no alternative but go easy. Just over a week ago I was hauling a ram into a vehicle, and out & catching a weder on the hill & losing him again & racing about.

The range on FB is pretty rubbish indeed. I think you should look at a much bigger range. Blue is wonderous when you get into it - knocks green into a tin hat. I used to be green....then I found blue.....green is for those who like being safe.....

lostinrates

choille wrote: »

Thanks LIR.

I feel as weak as a kitten so I have no alternative but go easy. Just over a week ago I was hauling a ram into a vehicle, and out & catching a weder on the hill & losing him again & racing about.

The range on FB is pretty rubbish indeed. I think you should look at a much bigger range. Blue is wonderous when you get into it - knocks green into a tin hat. I used to be green....then I found blue.....green is for those who like being safe.....

Here's the thing with blue and green. I have green eyes, my sister has blue ones. So always, always, blue has been her colour and green has been mine. For a while i actually actively disliked blue, and its only now i find i am disassociating us as people from colours. (my sister in her fifties will notnhave anything green in her house).

So, i am tentaive with blue, but i am talking about potentially paining two ceilings in the house blue and now the utility dresser (a lovely piece of furniture). I need to ay it safe to embrace this new blue relationship

The ceilings however.....

I am considering lapis and gold, like an old christian roman ceiling, and then a more well trod path of softly cloudy skies.....one in the bath room one in the study with its vaulted ceiling. I am not terribly arty, so it might all end up a mess and have to be painted cream anyway!

choille

It's an age thing. I used to actively dislike blue. The snob in me (if you can be a snob in a caravan, but didn't allus live in one, although it may seem so at the mo - I digress) I used to think blue was..........common... there it's out now.

I painted a kitchen ceiling sky blue with clouds once.

There was a marvellous cafe !!! art gallery, !!! antique centre in Edinburgh called Byzantium that had been a chapel. It's ceiling was lapis blue with gilt & it had muroon walls & other lively colours. I hope it's still the same.

I think blue is a right of passage colour. A sign of maturity..........

lostinrates

choille wrote: »

It's an age thing. I used to actively dislike blue. The snob in me (if you can be a snob in a caravan, but didn't allus live in one, although it may seem so at the mo - I digress) I used to think blue was..........common... there it's out now.

I painted a kitchen ceiling sky blue with clouds once.

There was a marvellous cafe !!! art gallery, !!! antique centre in Edinburgh called Byzantium that had been a chapel. It's ceiling was lapis blue with gilt & it had muroon walls & other lively colours. I hope it's still the same.

I think blue is a right of passage colour. A sign of maturity..........

Haha, i think blue is the most poluar colour in my generation, the generation of girls after hit pink and purple like a sort of communicale disease.

Yes, lapis ceiling and gilt. Beautiful. But maybe a bit much? We thought about this for the down stairs ceiling in the study but now wonder if it will be too 'night timey'.

alfie_1

blimey ...its all colors today...:rotfl::rotfl:

are you talking about your pitch roof in the kitchen being blue ?? inbetween beams....??

well ........:eek:
IMO ...it will make it very dark rather than cosy... even a pale blue with no window light will down shade by about 5 shades...
friend found that dove grey did just that on one wall that was dimly lit and had to repaint it twice to make the shades match and she dropped 3 shades.!! on that ONE wall.
its such a stunning room that i think you will have to be very carefull not to bring in the ceiling rather than admire the expanse...
ive noticed a dominant color usually look good on the wall opposite incoming light, it shades off as the light moves rather than just be a matt color that never changes.

well thats me sent to coventry now ....:rotfl::rotfl:

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

blimey ...its all colors today...:rotfl::rotfl:

are you talking about your pitch roof in the kitchen being blue ?? inbetween beams....??

well ........:eek:
IMO ...it will make it very dark rather than cosy... even a pale blue with no window light will down shade by about 5 shades...
friend found that dove grey did just that on one wall that was dimly lit and had to repaint it twice to make the shades match and she dropped 3 shades.!! on that ONE wall.
its such a stunning room that i think you will have to be very carefull not to bring in the ceiling rather than admire the expanse...
ive noticed a dominant color usually look good on the wall opposite incoming light, it shades off as the light moves rather than just be a matt color that never changes.

well thats me sent to coventry now ....:rotfl::rotfl:

Not at all, i only ask for opinions if i want to hear them! Yes, talking about that room. And yes, it will be really dark. Possibly 'worsened' by the fact i want the wals in there quite pale, though its mainly going to be book lined. Pretty completely booklined infact.

And it looks MUCH smaller now that its insulated! Books will bring it in further.

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

Not at all, i only ask for opinions if i want to hear them! Yes, talking about that room. And yes, it will be really dark. Possibly 'worsened' by the fact i want the wals in there quite pale, though its mainly going to be book lined. Pretty completely booklined infact.

And it looks MUCH smaller now that its insulated! Books will bring it in further.

are you talking your OLD kitchen room or your NEW kitchen room to be ??

im picturing books in that huge kitchen to be and thinking thank god i dont have to dust em ...:rotfl::rotfl:

Itismehonest

rhiwfield wrote: »

Bit of nostalgia for you all , when cottages were £45, a greenhouse £10.50 and irish cottagers were hand sewing tablecloths/embroidery

When they're gone, they're gone

Sewing circle

Watcha all the neighbours cry Coopers has long gone, darlin' - but so has much of that part of the Old Kent Road. There's a petrol station on the site now.

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Let's be honest we're a bunch of old (& some not so old) crocks on here. I'm starting to wonder if we could make one decently fit body between us :rotfl:
Rhiw, Choille hope you're both back to 'normal' soon.