Design Dilemma: Painting with Perfection the Sippican Cottage Way
Many of us take the week between Christmas and New Year’s off. So while we have an extra-long Holiday this year, why not take the time to spruce up a couple of rooms with a fresh coat of paint? Not only will your bedroom look beautiful, it’s also an excellent way to rid yourself of unwanted guests. Just ask them to help and they’ll be gone in a flash
I have long considered myself to be the world’s best painter, which is why it kills me to hire anyone to do it for me. But time is time and I’m too busy hiring painters for other people’s houses to paint my own. All that being said, I think I’ve met my match with Gregory Sullivan, master furniture maker and expert painter.
Sippican Cottage’s Admiring Shelves, $229
Gregory writes a fantastic blog, Sippican Cottage (he actually has three blogs). It’s all about – well – it’s all about all kinds of things. But mostly it’s filled with fun stories related to his fine furniture company, Sippican Cottage Furniture. Occasionally he writes about how to do things. Like how to paint a room to perfection.
These are the kinds of people I typically hate. “Hey honey, I’ve got an extra spare five minutes, I think I’ll tile the kitchen floor!” They make the rest of us look lazy. I don’t understand how that could be. But then again, I am writing this from bed while I’m watching A Haunting on The Discovery Channel (it’s educational).
Sippican Cottage’s Console Table, $499
Anyway, I’m finally winding around to the point of this post. If you’re in the mood to freshen up the living room over the holidays, read Gregory’s most excellent How To post on painting. It’s actually a series of posts. And trust me, this guy really really knows what he’s talking about.
Here’s an excerpt from the first:
Okay, First Get 200 Gallons Of Paint
The bedroom walls are a sort of light buff color, with vertical stripes in a sort of light rose. The stripes are ragged. Not “ragged” as in Raggedy Andy, “ragged” as in “applied in a broken color glaze with a rag.” The wood trim (there’s a lot of it) is painted Ben Moore Antique White, a sort of pale, pale peach off-white. It’s kind of like an Edwardian drawing room motif.
In short, it’s @#$%ing pink, and I hate it like poison.
Instant decision: It’s going to be dark. Green. Warm color though, nothing acid. Not all the way to the olive everybody loves these days that will depress them in a few years. But a quiet, sort of somber green it is.
Read the entire post here.
I recommend reading these posts about painting before you tackle a project. Oh, and if you can add some built-in headboards that would be great, too.
What project is on your list this holiday?
