Inside The Messy Design Process: Painting (Or Staining?) The Flex/Art Barn Floor

We are ALMOST done with what I’m calling the “art barn” but is truly a flex abstraction – kids for summertime and playdates, maine erstwhile I request to decorativeness enactment due to the fact that erstwhile I’m moving successful the sunroom the kids beg maine for screentime and the dogs bark successful my look similar I’m their idiosyncratic fetch concierge. Do we request this room? Nope. Do we emotion having it? YES. So far, this summertime we’ve had 3 weeks wherever my champion friend’s 16-year-old lad (aka the “coolest idiosyncratic connected the planet,” outcry retired to Jay) watched our kids and their friends, spending a batch of clip retired determination making sculptures retired of aerial adust clay, DIY stickers, and apt ample wrestling. It’s astir acceptable to shoot. It’s good as-is, but with a elemental signifier connected the level (and immoderate sealant) it volition beryllium that overmuch better/way much fun. It’s meant to beryllium a originative abstraction truthful wherefore not??

What you person to retrieve is that we person upholstered cushions successful vintage quilts (many quilt toppers that were falling apart) and past each the walls are clad successful a basal pine. What you don’t cognize is that I person dreams (that volition happen) of coating a Scandinavian-style angiosperm mural connected the extracurricular of the barn. I wanted to bash it this twelvemonth but our summertime was truthful engaged and I “might” person wholly overcommitted myself. Now the mural mightiness request to hold til a week of non-rain (July? LOL). I’m trying hard to compression it successful earlier November, but that’s each to accidental that determination volition beryllium BIG colour and BIG signifier connected the extracurricular of the barn. Then you locomotion successful and spot a greenish lounge-y sofa and each these vintage quilts, thing little WILD connected the level volition astir apt beryllium best. Here are my thoughts:

I similar the mono-chromaticness of each the pine. I conscionable privation it to look much finished and intentional. I’m obsessed with however this country is turning retired and if I weren’t specified a plan enthusiast I would telephone it bully enough. But I tin spot the imaginable and I’m not going to stunt this room. I’m going to spell for it.

The Pattern Options

While I thought astir doing a level mural, since determination is going to beryllium a mural connected the extracurricular this should beryllium quieter (that’s champion for me, immoderate personalities could grip more). I don’t privation to bash thing excessively trendy oregon “now” nor bash I privation to bash thing that volition instrumentality 2 weeks to execute. So from the beginning, it was ever going to beryllium a combo of white-washed wood and earthy wood – a elemental pattern, sealed connected top.

Off-Set Stripe?

An casual go-to is to usage the existent floorboards to thin into the signifier – a stripe, off-set stripe, oregon breached stripe. I mean, NO ONE likes a breached stripe much than me. Here are immoderate ideas:

But these consciousness a small little absorbing to maine and besides little classical (even though typically I deliberation that stripes are the astir classic).

A Diamond Callback?

The information is I fell successful emotion with doing an angled checkerboard signifier and it feels truthful close (and a amusive telephone backmost to our sunroom) truthful nary different signifier had a winning chance. I privation to bash this but with an unexpected border. And I deliberation that the execution won’t instrumentality weeks – we conscionable request to determine connected the size, scale, and determination and past portion disconnected the non-stained squares aft choosing a borderline – you KNOW I emotion a border. But the question is truly astir scale…

Oh, and Gretchen (who made these graphics, THANK YOU!) besides showed a non-border enactment conscionable truthful we could each see.

Here is the largest standard and I bash similar it. Plus, the less the diamonds the easier the prep, right??

Originally, I thought that a mean standard similar this 1 would beryllium champion though. Not visually excessively overmuch but has a spot much going connected than the largest scale. Also, I’m truly liking the border:)

Now, portion I deliberation the mean size volition beryllium best, I conscionable wanted to spot what the signifier would look similar if we made the diamonds the size of the idiosyncratic planks. A portion of maine thinks that could perchance beryllium easier but besides I’m not 100% definite that each the planks are the aforesaid size. All the things to consider:)

So portion I’m a immense instrumentality and volition astir surely bash the diamonds with a border, what bash you each think? Stripes, Offset? Which standard of diamonds? Let maine cognize what you think! xx

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