The paint colours are a bit of a problem for me. We don't have the brand of paint here in Australia that Debbie used and when I looked up the paint chart on the web the colours that I could actually find were nothing like the colour the house looks like in the picture on Debbie's website or on the box.
Doesn't that look like a soft brownish colour to you? Like a pale milk coffee almost? The walls and stucco are Sherwin Williams Bunglehouse Grey and the shingles are done in Sherwin Williams Roycroft Bronze Green..
The first step was to lay the floorboards on the two floors. These are laid individually, and it took all evening to do them. Today I sanded them using several grades of sandpaper. That took a long time, because the boards are not all the same thickness. Only small differences but it is noticeable in quarter scale of course. After a lot of work they have ended up silky smooth. The photo below shows one sanded ((on the right) and one before it is sanded (on the left).
I don't have any 400grit paper though, and I need that to finish them off. If I can get it - last time I went looking for it the best I could find was 320 grit. And the starter motor on our car has packed it in, so we are without that until it is fixed, which will be an expensive business.
Tonight I have to decide what to do next: I don't have the stain pens I ordered here, if they have arrived they are at home. So if I do go ahead and do the floor with paint instead of waiting for the sandpaper and stain pens I'm not sure if I'll be happy with the result.
There's not a great deal I can go ahead with until the floors are done though, so it is a bit of a problem. But at least I have made a start :)
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This is a fabulous house!
ReplyDeleteI'm curious to see the progress.
Bye Faby
Thanks Faby, I think it's a great house too, and quite different from my others.
DeleteI really love that house, can you mix a color close to that milky brown?
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Marisa
Yes, I'll do my best Marisa. It's the colour of the shingles that has me at a bit of a standstill, can't work out what it should be. Still, I guess I'll just find something that seems to go with the house colour and settle on that. Hugs, Sandie
DeleteThe shingles look burnt umber to me, with dabs of darkbrown and yellowish . Can you find burnt umber ?
ReplyDeleteThe house looks lovely !
Cheers,
Elly
I have burnt umber Elly, about 3 different versions of it lol! That's a great suggestion, thanks - I'll definitely try that out. Lovely to hear from you Elly. Hugs, Sandie
DeleteHi Sandie. I'm looking forward to your progress with this beautiful house. You may be able to find the color paint if you speak to a house painter. My son is a painter and he seems to know every color of paint that was ever invented! You would hopefully, be given a very close match.Also you might be able to get the sand-papers too.
ReplyDeleteHi Vicki, you're right - and it just so happens that my son-in-law is a painter too! I will be discussing just that matter with him tomorrow if I have a chance. And since the stain pens haven't arrived yet, I think I'll paint the floors and just go on with it.
DeleteYay! The Avalon! Mine just came today and I haven't even had a chance to look at it yet till I get of work. Love the difference in flooring, amazing what a lot of sanding can do.
ReplyDeleteSo pleased you have yours too Kabrina, are you starting it soon? It would be such fun to do it at the same time! In my email to you this morning (my time) I said I'd be really interested in seeing what your take on the colours is, if you have access to the brand of colours to see what they are in reality.
DeletePS Yes, it was a LOT of sanding, but it was really well worth it. I still have to get the 400 grit sandpaper, so it's not finished yet. Tomorrow I will be in the city so I'm hoping to get it plus the spray varnish for it. Now all I have to do is see whether my stain pens arrive or whether I paint it.
DeleteI've just started this adorable house. I've gone on the Sherwin Williams paint website and printed off a good quality print of the paint chips to take to the hobby store so I can match the colors.
ReplyDeleteHi Gayle, I'd be interested in seeing what the colours look like to you when printed out. What fun that we are doing the house at the same time - you will love the way it goes together, everything fits like a dream, and it is so well cut from good timber that it doesn't take all that much sanding to get a great surface. Love to follow your progress as well.
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