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What color to paint slanted wall?
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| adrianevasquez@gmail.com 2005-11-09, 2:21 pm |
| Hi,
I'm painting my room, and I have a slanted wall. What color do I use?
Wall color? Ceiling color?
Here's a cross sectional image of my room, including intended colors.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
http://www.webrex.net/room.jpg
Thanks.
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| Can be either wall or ceiling, depending on what you like. Could even
be different if you like it.
If it were me, I would let the slope and knee wall height determine. If
the knee wall were taller than about 5 or 6 feet then i would do
ceiling. I would also say that if the slope were more perpendicular
than horizontal I would paint it wall colored.
So, if it was a toss up on slope I would let the height determine which
I would use. If its a low knee wall I would use wall paint, if a tall
knee wall I would use ceiling.
Clear as mud huh?
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| Charles Spitzer 2005-11-09, 4:21 pm |
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<adrianevasquez@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1131556830.555394.299590@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> I'm painting my room, and I have a slanted wall. What color do I use?
> Wall color? Ceiling color?
>
> Here's a cross sectional image of my room, including intended colors.
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> http://www.webrex.net/room.jpg
>
> Thanks.
a nice fuchsia or mauve.
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| adrianevasquez@gmail.com 2005-11-09, 5:21 pm |
| Thanks for all your comments. I'm still thinking though.
Here is a cople of 3D models of the room to be painted. I'm painting
on Saturday morning, so there's still time to think about it.
http://www.webrex.net/room.html
Any more suggestions?
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<adrianevasquez@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1131556830.555394.299590@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> I'm painting my room, and I have a slanted wall. What color do I use?
> Wall color? Ceiling color?
>
> Here's a cross sectional image of my room, including intended colors.
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> http://www.webrex.net/room.jpg
>
> Thanks.
>
To make it less cave-like I would use a creme on the slant to lighten the
narrow portion of the
room as well as open it up.
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| NickySantoro 2005-11-09, 6:21 pm |
| On 9 Nov 2005 09:20:30 -0800, adrianevasquez@gmail.com wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm painting my room, and I have a slanted wall. What color do I use?
>Wall color? Ceiling color?
>
>Here's a cross sectional image of my room, including intended colors.
>Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
>http://www.webrex.net/room.jpg
>
>Thanks.
ceiling
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| Goedjn 2005-11-09, 6:21 pm |
| Elemental Blue, followed by a rag-rolling of three successively
darker shades of green.
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| adrianevasquez@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm painting my room, and I have a slanted wall. What color do I use?
> Wall color? Ceiling color?
>
> Here's a cross sectional image of my room, including intended colors.
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> http://www.webrex.net/room.jpg
>
> Thanks.
My issue with slanted or angled walls that have solid colors is they
can come off very contemporary or modern. To me, it can seem almost
cold. I always do a slight color wash of walls in modern room layouts.
You still get the basic color scheme you want but you also get walls
that while are different shades, they tie in together.
Ex: Try a tone darker of your wall color then rag off or drybrush a
light glaze over it. I would do the same on the angled wall but wash it
with a glaze near the ceiling color. Try to blend more ceiling color as
near the ceiling. You'll be left with a wall that seems to blend right
into the ceiling yet is not really different than the walls.
Google "color wash" for more info.
--
Bill
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| Colbyt 2005-11-09, 7:21 pm |
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<adrianevasquez@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1131556830.555394.299590@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> I'm painting my room, and I have a slanted wall. What color do I use?
> Wall color? Ceiling color?
>
> Here's a cross sectional image of my room, including intended colors.
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> http://www.webrex.net/room.jpg
>
> Thanks.
>
Based on the colors you showed I would paint the slope the ceiling color.
That dark green is going to close in on you.
Buy a 39 cent piece of poster board, paint it the wall color, tape it up
there, drink a beer and stare at it for a while.
Colbyt
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| Doug Miller 2005-11-09, 8:21 pm |
| In article <1131556830.555394.299590@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, adrianevasquez@gmail.com wrote:
>Hi,
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>I'm painting my room, and I have a slanted wall. What color do I use?
>Wall color? Ceiling color?
You paint it whichever way *you* think will look best. How *I* think it looks
shouldn't make any difference to you, since it ain't my house. I'll offer this
suggestion, though: since ceilings are generally painted a lighter color than
the wall, paint it the ceiling color. Then if you don't like it, repaint it
with the wall color. Easier than doing it the other way around.
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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)
It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.
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| adrianevasquez@gmail.com 2005-11-09, 8:21 pm |
| I liked the whole idea of drinking a beer while staring at it...
Doug's idea was also quite good: paint it with the lighter ceiling
color, and if it looks bad, repaint it with the wall color.
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| dadiOH 2005-11-10, 9:21 am |
| adrianevasquez@gmail.com wrote:
> Thanks for all your comments. I'm still thinking though.
>
> Here is a cople of 3D models of the room to be painted. I'm painting
> on Saturday morning, so there's still time to think about it.
>
> http://www.webrex.net/room.html
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> Any more suggestions?
Do you want the room to seem higher? Use the wall color. Lower?
Ceiling color.
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dadiOH
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| Joseph Meehan 2005-11-10, 10:21 am |
| dadiOH wrote:
> adrianevasquez@gmail.com wrote:
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> Do you want the room to seem higher? Use the wall color. Lower?
> Ceiling color.
Don't you have that reversed?
--
Joseph Meehan
Dia duit
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| Joseph Meehan 2005-11-10, 10:21 am |
| adrianevasquez@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm painting my room, and I have a slanted wall. What color do I use?
> Wall color? Ceiling color?
>
> Here's a cross sectional image of my room, including intended colors.
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> http://www.webrex.net/room.jpg
>
> Thanks.
I would go for the ceiling color or the ceiling color slightly tinted
with the wall color.
--
Joseph Meehan
Dia duit
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| houseonhawthorne@yahoo.com 2005-11-10, 6:21 pm |
| Personally, I'm leaning towards wall color, because of the shape of the
room and the placement of the angled portions. The 3D view is what
really did it for me. The angled portions just look like they're part
of the wall, not the ceiling. Painted ceiling color, the would look
weird extending halfway down the wall, particularly in the the narrow
section. The narrower slanted part should definitely be wall color,
otherwise you have a little ceiling colored rectangle in the middle of
an otherwise solid colored wall.
For illustration, here's a photo of a room in a house I manage:
http://houseonhawthorne.com/masterbed.JPG
Granted, this is not exactly the same arrangement, and the moulding
does provide a clear wall-ceiling demarcation (and who knows, maybe
that would be a nice solution for your room). Still, the walls
definitely do not feel like they are falling in on you. Further, if
the narrow section on the left were painted white (even without
moulding), it would look really out of place.
My two cents. Of course, the idea of trying the lighter color then
painting over with the darker sounds pretty good, too, just in case.
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