Bill's Shop Renovation

[steamer]

Or a dark bathroom vanity....oops, those walls aren't any color yet 

Bill

Don't worry Bill old buddy....we'll find something to micromanage......

[steamer]

Doesn't the lodge look require log cabin or a 6" pine wall sort of thing?
Art

No NO NO!!!!   Not 6"!    5.75"!   

[zeeprogrammer]

Time to create a poll my friend. To paint or not to paint.

But that's the easier question. I struggle more with color. I believe I have some slight color blindness...especially when it comes to the darker shades of blue, gray, or green, but even lighter shades of off-white, egg, etc.

My wife's incredulous look when I say I'm wearing my gray socks is priceless.

BTW 'taupe' is a many shaded something or other.

I hate 'taupe'. I don't know what it is. I thought I did.

[Art K]

This is starting to sound like the color charts at a paint store, have you seen the names of some of those thousands of shades?
Art

[steamer]

This is starting to sound like the color charts at a paint store, have you seen the names of some of those thousands of shades?
Art

[b.lindsey]

OMG yes. Been going through that for two weeks regarding the new house!!

Zee, the whole outside of the shop is some variant of taupe 

Bill

[steamer]

We're only pickin on ya cause we love ya!     

[b.lindsey]

I know Dave. I don't mind. Haha, wait till you guys see the valences I got for over the windows....very lodge like.

Bill

[crueby]

OMG yes. Been going through that for two weeks regarding the new house!!

Zee, the whole outside of the shop is some variant of taupe 

Bill

Taupe, thats the sticky stuff that comes on a roll...   

[Don1966]

Ahhhhhh to paint or not to paint!....


 
Don

[scc]

A background colour used a lot is magnolia..a sort of cream...a good friend of mine (Chris Goan) is a poet and has this to say about it:-
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Life is too short for magnolia                                               What is the point of magnolia
Let's splash the old walls with new paint                               When rain is by rainbows replaced?
Mix me purples and blues                                                     It's the space left behind
Like a two day old bruise                                                      When colours go blind
And gold like the robes of a saint                                           It's life being leached from a face."

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Where does it come from, magnolia?                                      and my shed's just dirty white....you takes your choice..
Not from the wild places I've been                                  Apologies for digressing again.                  Terry           
brown eggs in a nest
Bright robin red breast
And oceans of deepest sea-green

[b.lindsey]

I like that Terry, thanks for posting it!

Bill

[Flyboy Jim]

"Put me in the "lodge look" camp Bill.  My shop room is white and I've thought about painting it a darker color."

Or just buy more dark colored machines and tools to put up against the walls?

I like the way you think! 

Jim

[bent]

A white sink in a machine shop...hmmm.  Maybe paint THAT a dark brown? 

[b.lindsey]

Would have gotten off white or tan but not available😊 The laundry sink will be used for really dirty hands.

Bill