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Hi,
I'm painting my room, and I have a slanted wall. What color do I use? Wall color? Ceiling color? Here's a cross sectional image of my room, including intended colors. Any help is greatly appreciated. http://www.webrex.net/room.jpg Thanks. |
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![]() wrote in message oups.com... Hi, I'm painting my room, and I have a slanted wall. What color do I use? Wall color? Ceiling color? Here's a cross sectional image of my room, including intended colors. Any help is greatly appreciated. http://www.webrex.net/room.jpg Thanks. a nice fuchsia or mauve. |
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Can be either wall or ceiling, depending on what you like. Could even
be different if you like it. If it were me, I would let the slope and knee wall height determine. If the knee wall were taller than about 5 or 6 feet then i would do ceiling. I would also say that if the slope were more perpendicular than horizontal I would paint it wall colored. So, if it was a toss up on slope I would let the height determine which I would use. If its a low knee wall I would use wall paint, if a tall knee wall I would use ceiling. Clear as mud huh? |
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Thanks for all your comments. I'm still thinking though.
Here is a cople of 3D models of the room to be painted. I'm painting on Saturday morning, so there's still time to think about it. http://www.webrex.net/room.html Any more suggestions? |
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![]() wrote in message oups.com... Hi, I'm painting my room, and I have a slanted wall. What color do I use? Wall color? Ceiling color? Here's a cross sectional image of my room, including intended colors. Any help is greatly appreciated. http://www.webrex.net/room.jpg Thanks. To make it less cave-like I would use a creme on the slant to lighten the narrow portion of the room as well as open it up. |
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Elemental Blue, followed by a rag-rolling of three successively
darker shades of green. |
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![]() wrote in message oups.com... Hi, I'm painting my room, and I have a slanted wall. What color do I use? Wall color? Ceiling color? Here's a cross sectional image of my room, including intended colors. Any help is greatly appreciated. http://www.webrex.net/room.jpg Thanks. Based on the colors you showed I would paint the slope the ceiling color. That dark green is going to close in on you. Buy a 39 cent piece of poster board, paint it the wall color, tape it up there, drink a beer and stare at it for a while. Colbyt |
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I liked the whole idea of drinking a beer while staring at it...
Doug's idea was also quite good: paint it with the lighter ceiling color, and if it looks bad, repaint it with the wall color. ... |
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Thanks for all your comments. I'm still thinking though. Here is a cople of 3D models of the room to be painted. I'm painting on Saturday morning, so there's still time to think about it. http://www.webrex.net/room.html Any more suggestions? Do you want the room to seem higher? Use the wall color. Lower? Ceiling color. -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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dadiOH wrote:
wrote: Thanks for all your comments. I'm still thinking though. Here is a cople of 3D models of the room to be painted. I'm painting on Saturday morning, so there's still time to think about it. http://www.webrex.net/room.html Any more suggestions? Do you want the room to seem higher? Use the wall color. Lower? Ceiling color. Don't you have that reversed? -- Joseph Meehan Dia duit |
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wrote:
Hi, I'm painting my room, and I have a slanted wall. What color do I use? Wall color? Ceiling color? Here's a cross sectional image of my room, including intended colors. Any help is greatly appreciated. http://www.webrex.net/room.jpg Thanks. I would go for the ceiling color or the ceiling color slightly tinted with the wall color. -- Joseph Meehan Dia duit |
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Personally, I'm leaning towards wall color, because of the shape of the
room and the placement of the angled portions. The 3D view is what really did it for me. The angled portions just look like they're part of the wall, not the ceiling. Painted ceiling color, the would look weird extending halfway down the wall, particularly in the the narrow section. The narrower slanted part should definitely be wall color, otherwise you have a little ceiling colored rectangle in the middle of an otherwise solid colored wall. For illustration, here's a photo of a room in a house I manage: http://houseonhawthorne.com/masterbed.JPG Granted, this is not exactly the same arrangement, and the moulding does provide a clear wall-ceiling demarcation (and who knows, maybe that would be a nice solution for your room). Still, the walls definitely do not feel like they are falling in on you. Further, if the narrow section on the left were painted white (even without moulding), it would look really out of place. My two cents. Of course, the idea of trying the lighter color then painting over with the darker sounds pretty good, too, just in case. |
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![]() I think you should do it the same color as your ceiling. Then you've got alot of flexibility to hang some art of something else up there. I had a slanted wall in college and hung a tapestry on it and i LOVED it! -- citygirl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ citygirl's Profile: http://www.homeplot.com/member.php?userid=166 View this thread: http://www.homeplot.com/showthread.php?t=60658 |
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