{"id":179,"date":"2008-07-21T02:42:26","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T09:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/archives\/179"},"modified":"2008-07-21T02:42:26","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T09:42:26","slug":"rate-my-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/rate-my-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Rate my space"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"condo_living2a.jpg\"<\/a>I live in a small, 1 bedroom condo – less than 800 square feet.\u00c2\u00a0 But after living in apartments for several years I was so sick of white walls that I went color-happy<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Living<\/a>With the help of Benjamin Moore (and my sister), I painted the living\/dining\/kitchen\/hall (all connected in some way) a combination of Henderson Buff (a pale yellowish green), Monroe Bisque (beige), and Plum Raisin. It sounds like a lot of color, but it looks really cool with the asian feel of my furnishings.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Kitchen\"<\/a>My bathroom is a lovely taupe\/stone color, and my bedroom is Dijon (mustard yellow).\u00c2\u00a0 There is nary a white wall in the place, other than inside closets.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It took me several months to complete and my right shoulder has never been the same.<\/p>\n

While at the\u00c2\u00a0Benjamin Moore paint store, I noticed some really cool shimmering metallic glazes<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Mind you, I have a\u00c2\u00a0love of all things sparkly, opalescent, irridescent and metallic and my mind started racing with possibilities….\u00c2\u00a0 unchecked, I could turn my place into a tacky, gawdy nightmare \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 But I restrained myself and recently\u00c2\u00a0came up with an elegant\u00c2\u00a0plan.<\/p>\n

\"Wall<\/a>I don’t have a headboard, and so decided to make an entire wall a lovely focal point for the room using metallic glazes.<\/p>\n

I started by designing the general layout for the wall. \u00c2\u00a0 Then I started taping off the squares.\u00c2\u00a0 I could only do one layer at a time, because the glaze has to dry before taping\/painting over the corners with another color.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I used a combination of a small roller brush, a dry sponge and a rag.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m still not sure which method I like best.<\/p>\n

\"My<\/a>It took me about 2 weeks, painting a portion nearly every evening, to get this far.\u00c2\u00a0 I still have a few of the most sheer\/pale squares to go – but this gives a good idea of how it looks.\u00c2\u00a0 (Click the photo to enlarge)<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a sublte effect, and doesn’t really show in the photos, but some of these squares really shimmer – especially when the light hits them just right.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Once all the squares are done, I’m will probably sponge over the whole thing with a sheer, shimmery gold glaze so that it catches the light even more.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"My<\/a>I love it.\u00c2\u00a0 It looks great with the beaded curtain (real, hand strung amber and gold glass beads – and shimmery gold ribbon)<\/em> \u00c2\u00a0that leads to my closet.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Did I mention I like sparkly, shiny stuff?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0So what do you think?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Are you inspired to create your own shimmering (or other) wall?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I live in a small, 1 bedroom condo – less than 800 square feet.\u00c2\u00a0 But after living in apartments for several years I was so sick of white walls that I went color-happy.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 With the help of Benjamin Moore (and my sister), I painted the living\/dining\/kitchen\/hall (all connected in some way) a combination of Henderson … Continue reading Rate my space<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-style-fashion","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}