Dear Chicago House,
Oooh you have had some really lovely comments (HGTV and Facebook) on the makeover of one of your yuckiest basement rooms now magically transformed into a teenage pent house. I hope you are blushing!
One of my favorite things about that room is the skyline I painted on one of your paneled walls but before I daubed your freshly painted white walls with grey and black painted I needed to make sure the concept worked (and was approved by the teenage whose space this is!)
In real life I am a web and graphic designer so I had a few sneaky tools up my sleeve to "virtually decorate" the room with the skyline.
First I designed the skyline in Illustrator. It was then imported into Photoshop and superimposed a photograph of your blank wall I After a bit of color tweaking, playing around with different shade of gray I settled on a simple black and gray color palette, again with approval of said teenage.
Using my photoshop image I sketched the skyline on the wall with pencil, your panels were actually a plus for this as it enabled me to reproduce scale wise exactly what I had created on photoshop. Yippee!
But then they let me down. Because your paneling has a pretty rough surface my initial plan to carefully tape off and paint the skyline failed so I ended up painting the whole thing free hand. It's a good job I have a steady hand. I was a bit of a cheap skate when it came to the paint. I bought a small can of black and did some home mixing with white to achieve the grey.
It is fun a decorate a teenage space.
Love from
Creative In Chicago
XXX
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somewhatsimple | ShabbyChicCottage | addicted2decorating |
Oooh you have had some really lovely comments (HGTV and Facebook) on the makeover of one of your yuckiest basement rooms now magically transformed into a teenage pent house. I hope you are blushing!
One of my favorite things about that room is the skyline I painted on one of your paneled walls but before I daubed your freshly painted white walls with grey and black painted I needed to make sure the concept worked (and was approved by the teenage whose space this is!)
In real life I am a web and graphic designer so I had a few sneaky tools up my sleeve to "virtually decorate" the room with the skyline.
First I designed the skyline in Illustrator. It was then imported into Photoshop and superimposed a photograph of your blank wall I After a bit of color tweaking, playing around with different shade of gray I settled on a simple black and gray color palette, again with approval of said teenage.
Using my photoshop image I sketched the skyline on the wall with pencil, your panels were actually a plus for this as it enabled me to reproduce scale wise exactly what I had created on photoshop. Yippee!
But then they let me down. Because your paneling has a pretty rough surface my initial plan to carefully tape off and paint the skyline failed so I ended up painting the whole thing free hand. It's a good job I have a steady hand. I was a bit of a cheap skate when it came to the paint. I bought a small can of black and did some home mixing with white to achieve the grey.
It is fun a decorate a teenage space.
Love from
Creative In Chicago
XXX
Linking with
somewhatsimple | ShabbyChicCottage | addicted2decorating |
I can tell you had fun with this one! :-)
ReplyDeleteit looks great! nice job. thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThe skyline mural is great!
ReplyDeleteJust love it!
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