Studio Painted Flooring Fail – Addicted 2 Adorning®

I had one thing like this in thoughts.

However seeing the design in actual life versus a small mock-up made issues very totally different. First, having the big primary checkerboard design simply lifeless finish on the cased opening appeared actually unusual and unfinished, in all probability as a result of the precise grey that I used is way lighter than the grey proven on them mock-up.

After which I acquired to the design on the again entry ground, and I simply couldn’t see extra checkerboard wanting good in that space. So I racked my mind (and likewise spent fairly a little bit of time on Pinterest) attempting to give you a design that may coordinate with the checkerboard ground. I additionally wanted to discover a strategy to finish the big checkerboard design within the cased opening as a substitute of simply stopping the design, which appeared form of random.

For the again entry ground, I thought of nearly each two-color painted ground design I might consider and discover on Pinterest. In fact, I thought of stripes, however I additionally thought of so many others.

I lastly landed on a sq. two-color sunray design. It appeared simple, and since I used to be utilizing the identical two colours that I used on the checkerboard ground, I figured it will coordinate. And to create a stopping level the place the primary checkerboard design ended, I made a decision to do three easy stripes going the entire width of the opening in white, grey, and white.

Effectively, the stripes within the cased opening appeared terrible (I forgot to take an image), so I painted the middle grey strip white, which simply left me with one 6-inch-wide stripe. I wasn’t thrilled with that, both. After which I painted one part on the sunray design, and that didn’t look nice. So all of it appeared like a fail to me. Right here’s what it appeared like after I determined to cease.

That stripe within the cased opening nonetheless wants a second coat of white over what was the middle grey stripe. However I could find yourself sanding it down and doing one thing totally different altogether.

After which I made a decision to make use of my photograph editor and fill in the remainder of the sunray design to get a greater concept of what it will appear to be. My mock-up isn’t good, however we will not less than get an concept of what the completed design would appear to be. I’m positively not enthusiastic about it.

So that basically took a number of the wind out of my sails. I used to be so enthusiastic about ending the ground this final weekend, after which simply as I acquired the final little space, nothing appeared to go proper.

I actually can’t envision any separate ground design wanting good within the again entry. The one possibility I see is constant the big checkerboard design straight via from the primary room to the again French doorways. The one problem is that I positively do NOT need the checkerboard design within the studio lavatory or the storage closet reverse the toilet. So I’m nonetheless going to must discover a strategy to formally finish the design. In any other case, I’ll simply run into the identical downside that I had with the ground within the cased opening.

I’m wondering if doing a really skinny black wish to “end” the checkerboard flooring would possibly work. That will tie in with the entire different black accents in all areas of the studio. So the brand new revised design would appear to be this…