Blobs!

G'day all!

Plenty happening at the Modest Manor at the moment.

Nathan has to blog all about his rainwater tank and the greenhouse at last in real progress.

But I have to show off this:

Yep, that is one of the walls of the fibre room, with wet smears from being washed with sugar soap and two sets of green blocks from me testing colours direct on the wall. I had been told to paint board with the colours but I couldn't get a real sense of how they worked so I painted blocks on the wall.

As it turned out, I didn't like any of the colours in particular. I did like the idea of having blocks of colour on the wall, so I bought more sample pots. I think I have 8 or 9 now.

I taped up part of the wall with not very straight lines, and discovered that I should've bought the ultra delicate wall masking tape, not the delicate stuff when i repositioned a line and took a chunk of paint off. I also discovered that the previous paint job was peachy pink. I have a feeling that the previous owner had moved back home to help his Mum out as she finished her twilight years, and he painted what was his study a more masculine beige.

Then throwing caution to the wind, I started randomly applying blobs of colour to the walls with a little roller. This is what happens when you blob it on:

Not very even and it doesn't line up all over the place, somewhat deliberately. Next I want to see if I can make some sort of tree trunk like lines, but that means buying some darker brown. Also I can start using the smaller roller, the 10cm one, and overpainting blobs and layering it up some - if I am lucky, it will look like an abstract forest. If I am not lucky, it will look like some gooberhead attacked the wall with lots of green blocks and not much skill.... Still if worst comes to worst, I now know which green I like best - leaf green (I think but am not sure that it is the green that is top left in the pic). I can paint the whole wall that colour. Plus we are still considering knocking that wall out to make a larger living/dining sorta area.

I blame Purplexity for making me finally start painting. She painted most of her place with her DH's help before she moved in. We've been here for four months and have only just started. But we are looking at kitchen places and bathroom places cos we need some renovations happening!

Soon we will show some pics of the garden and then hopefully the greenhouse being built. It is started but has a ways to go yet...

anon!