house-holiday week 1: house is colorful and patterned:) Our house vacation began on 14 August. Two days before I (Rina), however, already our new favorite store in Leopoldshöhe hit: Colors Prüßner offers everything you could wish for homeowners heart, namely, wallpaper, laminate / hardwood floor, paint ... In addition, the owners are just so incredibly nice that they always come back. Due to various visits of us knows in their business of one of them was our house now is probably better than we
is exactly the kind people I interviewed on Thursday on the topic: How should I prepare the walls, if they, or I paper only wants to paint (such as the HWR)? There followed a detailed treatise first class ... Tailored to each material and each end use (wallpaper or color only) me the necessary steps have been mentioned. Vorkleistern time, sometimes primer, primer time ... this time, mixing ratio, the time ... Yikes! At some point I interrupted him to fish out the first time my faithful companion the notepad to record all important. Who knows what else I would have told Paddy after. ;)
In the end, all this was not complicated. At the time the final one is just still so packed with information that you will sometimes not quite as receptive. Above all, shortly after the heating instruction. :) And now we have to paint in the apartments only. Ok, I was once at a wall papering assistant, but was heard then also on the knowledge already. Accordingly, it horrified us in front of wallpapering.
But that was then so bad! right on the first weekend we had strong support from my parents and two colleagues from Paddy (one on Saturday, the other on Sunday). Since my parents have built twice and have papered the first house completely by myself and my mom always has a strange pleasure in decorating - and I say: Oh, long Easter weekend, so we can once again re-wallpaper the bedroom! :) - Their support was just a blessing, after the weekend so we had already done the following: Bedroom (up to the jamb), office, hallway floor, living / dining / kitchen (except for the narrow sloping wall and smaller areas).
Accordingly, it was sobering then on Monday evening for us, as Paddy and I in front of us but only through factory sparkled. They had real feeling you will get nowhere at all! Which of course completely wrong. We papering, laymen were surprisingly quickly found our rhythm and the result looks really good. We find. ;) Although Paddy doubt in certain situations in my mind when he had to tell me something for the third time. I like to keep dreaming even to myself. ;)
Temporary setbacks there was of course still with all the wallpaper lucky Of all of the most expensive wallpaper, namely the pattern wallpaper for the living room, was a role cut wrong. It was only a few millimeters, but that was of course know that it no longer fit. First of you doubt his sanity and then pushes and pushes and wonders. The three roles before but everything went wonderfully!? At some point I just happened to be the wallpaper to look closely and realized what it was. Although, fortunately, not to one, but still * argh *. That was the moment when I had my first little cry attack. Crying can be very liberating be. If you eat anything just in the pure, you get a stomach ulcer. ;)
These wallpaper we had luckily ordered Prüßner, was therefore the exchange on Monday no problem . And then on Tuesday the new role was there. The fit then. :) How are assured even in the same store was. The compassionate owners had the same concerns the role unpacked to see if for now everything was fine. :) The other was
short drop it in the wallpaper in the bedroom pattern, a white fleece wallpaper with various white circles. Which is as nasty to each other then also repeated but in different combinations ... In moving from the left wall of the jamb it happened - I can understand it's not today - that we have somehow cut off the track too short . I can understand it because I stopped before the roll of wallpaper on the wall, so that the pattern also fits perfectly, and I then turned down the role. The kink marked then the interface. Joa ... much so for the theory.
Actually also all wild semi Sun Was there even enough wallpaper, so just cut a new path. And that is the jamb just do not long. But if you still have the feeling that all this time no longer creates, and, the wallpaper sits and wonders why it was so stupid for now and if you know how about no talent for decorating - that can not all! - then can there ever break the world. Because there is so at this moment only for wallpaper, wallpaper, wallpapers. ;)
What we learned when wallpapering also:
first You can also spontaneously the design of a room reschedule if you stumble at the Hardware Visit from a completely different reason, a totally great wallpaper.
second Not all plans to go.
For now guest bathroom, we made such an impulse purchase. A gray wallpaper with silver patterns and remote accompanying a silver wallpaper. So far so good. The wallpaper pattern held without a murmur immediately on the rough cement plaster. Great joy. The silver wallpaper and just did not slipped again and again by the wall. Despite been brushed the wall and orderly Vorkleistern the day before. As well as proper glue for wallpapering. Nothing doing. Aaaaaaber ... we did not have enough white flock wallpaper of living room / dining room / kitchen left. So was there on the wall and has just been painted gray. Jaaaaaa, not with us, we get what we want. In any case, something like that. ;)
The silver is now just a few places in the bathroom upstairs. There, the walls are namely smooth enough as drywall or feingespachelt (behind toilet). Come to us anyway located, otherwise we would have been to the bathroom that is white.
Where we are on the subject are white, I can only say again what I think every Renovating: I hate white deleted. I prefer to underline three rooms in color, as a white. must constantly be looking at where you have already deleted. Some places you find love then not until the next day. And do cause real headaches. When I read the walls in living room / dining room / kitchen had finished, which should remain white, I muttered the real skull. Yes, I'm badly off, I know. ;)
When it comes to color the way we are devoted fans of Prüßner become! (If you will advise you as well, a bit of product placement may be, is not it;))
in living room / dining room / kitchen we have installed on two walls to match the wallpaper pattern accompanying a single-color wallpaper. Our pattern wallpaper has two greens, but there were only the darker as a companion wallpaper. In the kitchen, however, a wall with the lighter green have been painted. No problem, Prüßner has a color scanner and hey presto * * you get exactly the color you want . But is much more comfortable than the typical color cards at the hardware store that fit most exactly.
Per Scanner We have also selected the gray accompanying the guest bathroom. Pattern wallpaper under the scanner and * whoosh * a super matching shade of gray.
And what we find in contrast to the hardware store typical Farbabmischen very practical: One gets the colors already in the small 1 liter pot. needed for the kitchen, we just color that is cute for 4 m². Elsewhere, you have to remove 2-3 l always like so, this would have been far too much. The 1 l are sufficient already for 6-8 oz.
But enough geschwafelt. :) And finally to the pictures this week! Although it's in kind of course is still beautiful and yet sometimes different acts.
On Friday evening (13.08.) we had way more diligent pre pasted so we could take off on Saturday also saw direct ...
super totally out. It felt almost by weeks back, when the walls had just been plastered and still had to dry. ;)
Some wallpapers you wonder then, however, before the through-drying, if anything at all is on the wall. ;) For example, in the white non-woven wallpaper in the living room.
Here you can see Paddy and his colleagues at Rüdi Attaching the accompanying green wallpaper . Only the beautiful
wall paste ... (and throw in the background a critical look at the wallpaper;))
nachkleistern ... then again with the brush the edges, sooooo important ... :)
... finally determined the cause wallpaper to the wall, start up and then turn it. ;)
The almost complete wall then looked after like this.
Almost done, because the border had to be straightened up, of course, still.
Once the green wall was completed, was the project pattern wallpaper on.
tadaaaaaa * * Because it is concentrated in length!
here again in closeup, in which one can see the colors better.
We are totally thrilled. A colleague from Paddy but said already, it could not last long look at the wallpaper, which you would dim. ;)
The wallpaper patterns we have then also on the sloping wall (about 1.20 m wide) mounted toward the kitchen.
on the wall, which is virtually between dining room table and kitchen island , once again finds himself accompanying the green wallpaper. The front wall of the kitchen, to which will be no wall cabinets, we painted the lighter shade of green in the wallpaper pattern.
So much green to our paradise. ;)
In guest bathroom is on the wall next to the shower also has a wallpaper pattern is used. Unfortunately, it affects the pictures are not as good as in kind. The model is silver and reflects a little light. Has definitely more noble than it looks here. And not so restless!
Here the wallpaper up close.
Otherwise we have only used for the drop pipe covering. The wall left of the toilet is painted the perfect shade of gray, the window wall as well. The right wall is painted white.
As you see here: There are not yet completed all work fine, ie, the edges are still cut off.
In OG my parents on Saturday and Sunday (14./15.08) were extremely busy.
The jamb our workroom was dressed in red.
red is also the center of the opposite wall.
This color removal of the center has the following background: the left and right are our desks (we have the same) and in the middle there is a shelf (for all IKEA friends: Expedit a) as a room divider (1.49 m in the room so as to project).
And because you can see the structure of the red and white wallpaper around again correctly only in close-up, here's exactly it.
The slope is the way, still painted in the gray of the cloakrooms. The white is us otherwise but a bit too much.
Our bedroom is a blue lagoon of relaxation. ;) Jamb and slope are blue, the rest remains white. Against one wall is almost complete anyway our closet, in the front of the window or a dresser.
However, here again to approach closer to zoom in to see that not only a vile smooth wallpaper on the wall. :) The window wall and the opposite wall and the jamb namely pattern wallpaper decorated with circles that had moved me to tears in the short term. : P
The children we'll just paint it white just because we see still childless not have the sense to make this more complicated now. To put it then probably not too long ago, will again transform. ;)
The staircase has been prepared by the painter with a sand color. And that pretty wiped, so the whole thing looks a little more interesting. :) Looks up close like this.
Because our hallway with the rather bright white staircase and doors to us so much to clear would we will paint the stairs yet MOSIXLOAD . Yes, can. This work we like to treat someone else. Paddy and co-worker as someone knows ... etc.) We would like a berry tone. In the same tone I will also surround the doors in the corridors, so a little bit more color to the game, is because the other walls are otherwise remain white.
The wallpaper in the upstairs hallway, we have not photographed as it looks basically like painters fleece, that is quite smooth, without any structure. In the hallway on the ground we used a wallpaper that has a plaster-like structure. Adapted quite well to the staircase.
Forgot What? Think not. In any case, there's still more to see. You never know what will come. ;)
Finally, we would like to present our two new best friends and highly recommended to all those of decorating marathon lies ahead:
The wallpaper roll holder that one installs easily at the end of the trestle table.
Replaced at least one hand, which must prevent the wallpaper roll rolling away. :) And ... for quite
Exact ... our love used laser . Thus, the first track and it is also nice just to difficult places and even straight cuts. ;)
developed in-house get-together for perfectionists. And for all the cleverness Meier, who say now that the walls are still watching: That certainly does not mean you automatically installing the rail straight. ;)
addition, the client makes the happy woman says since then nothing, even if another one of Apparillo is purchased. : D (note the client: "Such a device is needed after all not just for decorating!")
adopted in this sense we are in a good mood from week 1 to week 2 and were us, brush and ink and glue and Quast first time to throw in the corner. It called the chainsaw massacre ... How? You do not need chain saw to cut laminate? ;)
the complete success of our first week was our final House Tour on Sunday (22.8).. But ... we'll get noch.Wir please be a little patient. :)