A design and aesthetics question for you all.
Can a vertical stripe paint scheme work above white beadboard wainscot? Think soft pastel colors (for a nursery) and a wider spacing pattern for the stripes.
Thanks for your help.
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Hey, you're asking (mostly) guys a question about aesthetics??
funny huh? I'm a guy and I have excellent taste! sort of... ha ha. This is for my own house and I have seen some really sharp finished rooms on this forum.
I'm asking because I have already done my part and installed beadboard, but now Mrs wants vertical stripes on the wall above it. Not really sure about how that will look against the vertical orientation of the beadboard though.
Ryan:
I'd think twice about that. The whole point of the beadboard is to break up the wall space and provide interesting shadowline. Now she wants to fight that with stripes up top? I dunno.
Maybe you could mock up something with paper or cardboard?
John Painter
I've seen such in the magazines my wife buys. Of course, 90% of the stuff in those books is stuff neither of us would ever want, but I can kinda picture what you're talking about, and it MIGHT not be too obnoxious. (Certainly no worse than the frilly cushions on wicker furniture, eg.)
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I don't see why not, but you will want to maintain either a exact multiple of the beadboard groves, centered precisely, or a not even multiple so that you don't have an annoying pattern with the stripes and groves.
Just don't put up plaid wallpaper!
I think it would be great. I like vertical stripes; have 'em several places in the house. Not above wainscot, but that just hasn't come up. They're both vertical, so go for it.
Just don't do stripes and plaids!
Forrest - aesthetic pretender
Like this master bath paper over the sewing room wainscot
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Someone ought to be able to Photoshop that.
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Thanks to all for the replies.
Attached is a photo that she found on the internet of a paint scheme that she really likes. So just imagine this paint job over white beadboard. Going to look okay?
Edited 4/3/2007 8:36 am ET by Ryan1
Going to look okay?
Probably.
But, I'm not the one who's likely to notice any dis-rhythmia between beads and stripes while attempting to comfort a colicy child and build up a good head of "someone has to fix that," either.Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
If you'll forgive my unknowledgeable intrusion here I can say that there seems to be a common consensus among the masses of the married that it is her house and you get to live there,
thus keeping peace and providing an environment for contentment transcends one's own view of the matter if it's what she desires.
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That looks great to me except for those closet doors. They aren't worth the paint used to hold them up. should be raised panel ones.Oh, and the left of the pair needs to be re-adjusted to plumb;)
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Thanks again to you all for the help. Rez, so true, so true...
Oh and Piffin, ditto on the closet door. Every time I open or close an interior door in my house I wish that my raised panel hollow-core doors were solid raised panel doors. I guess others out there would just be happy with some cheapy hollow core raised panel doors. Grass is always greener as they say.
Thanks again.
I think it'd look fine.
Vertical over vertical, nothing wrong with that.
The only thing I'd caution against is the upper vertical looking too busy. Go with wider strips rather than many narrow ones.
Mongo
Thanks to all for the help. Looks like my wife will get her striped walls. Just wish that I enjoyed painting as much as installing trim.
Ah!! There's your problem. Painting is the wife's job!
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With painting, I hate the prep and hate the cleanup, but I don't mind the actual painting. Oh well though, she would never take on a paint job like vertical stripes knowing that I will be looking at it later. One of the many downsides of being a perfectionist...
My wife's a quilter. I'm hoping she never gets it in her head to try striped paint.
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Just wish that I enjoyed painting as much as installing trim
Got any mini-blinds or curtains that are "tatty"? You might, accidentally, stop in at the wallpaper-n-blinds place and be able to save time painting (and if the paper won't line up to the b.b., it's the paper's fault, not yours <g>).Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)