OK the medallion for the foyer came in white, and the first coat I put on was chocolate brown. It was a latex wall paint. Before you start, you wipe the surface with paint thinner so it will stick. The surface is smooth, not sure if this is why, but I did it because it said so. This surface also takes stain, so i could've had the trim guy stain it to match the woodwork if I'd wanted that.
The next coat of paint was the lighter color of wall paint. I had two colors Latte, which is what is actually on the foyer walls, and Nomadic Desert, which is in the bedrooms, bathrooms and hallways. I painted the medallion the lighter color, even though the ceiling is the latte. Carl said "why'd you paint it brown if you just were going to cover it up with beige?" I guess that's a valid question for a man...because I knew I was going to take sandpaper and sand the high points of the medallion and I wanted the brown to show through. This is that step:
I started with fine sandpaper and believe it or not, that took it down to the white in some places so I switched to a coarser grade of paper, and that took off just the beige.
Next, i mixed 1 part Sherwin Williams Clear Glaze to 5 parts satin latex paint...the color was Kraft Paper. I used a medicine syringe from Target and filled it once up with glaze and 5 times with paint then mixed it.
Next I took an old soft T-shirt cut in a rag, and dipped it in the glaze mixture, rung it out and rubbed it all over the medallion, careful to only pick up the recesses and dips and crevices. The glaze keeps the paint "wetter" longer so you can work with it. You can easily wipe off what you don't need. It took me about 15 minutes to get all the glaze on. After I did that coat, it wasn't quite dark enough, so i added a syringe of that dark brown that was my initial base coat and did the same thing with the rag. This was the final result:
I love how it turned out and I love it even more because I didn't have to pay high dollar for it just because it was distressed. I scurried to the house this morning to meet the electrician to see what it would look like in the foyer up against the paint and the light fixture. I held my breath....especially when he told me that sometimes the light fixture and the medallions just don't fit together...at that point I told him that I might just cry if it didn't fit, but I would be okay...eventually...
And it fit beautifully. I love it!
I bought two smaller plain bevelled ones for the master bedroom and for my scrapbook room and painted them with that fabulous ORB (oil rubbed bronze spray paint) by Rust-O-Leum...and they turned out great too. I will be repainted a bunch of stuff with that paint. It's a great metallic finish that's not too shiny but goes great with oil rubbed bronze fixtures. I'm betting if you have old ceiling fans that are chrome or brass, or picture frames, you could use it for that too. Love it! The chick at the blog link below loves it too..that's how I found it. Read her blog post below to see how she used it.
The living room light/fan and can lights were installed today, and the ceiling medallion wouldn't fit in here because of the diameter of the fan base and the medallion base, so if you attempt this, before you spend a lot of time preparing your medallion, check that it will fit with your fixture first. I think that I just got lucky. I put it in my scrapbook room instead. I have the same fan in there that I have in the master, so I knew it would fit and look okay.
All vanity lights are in...this is mine in the master bath...and this is ....
HIS.
If you visit, this will keep you cool in the guest room. :)
I picked this for over the island...at the last minute, I found it to go with the light over my table...it's not made by the same company, but it matched perfectly.
My light over my kitchen table...i do hope all these bulbs don't burn out at once...it takes 16. Yikes.
Isn't this cute? it's a funky little contraption that the electrician was using to roll around on and install plug ins. I'd like to have one of those to clean baseboards personally.
And I thought the painters were messy....
Yea! I microwave!
The in laws couldn't wait for a tour. They are here for the weekend.
Back porch lights for my better half to stay cool under....
Exterior carriage lights...and let me just say that these lights are huge...right in front of your face they look ginormous...but far away on those columns, they look so tiny. Maybe one day when we hit the lottery, we'll buy some huge ones, but these were the biggest ones we could find. There are 6 smaller ones on each side of the garage doors around back.
Mathew 6:26
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
yep, still beautiful today.
5 comments:
I am loving all of this! Gorgeous!!!!!!!
Your lights are gorgeous and I LOVE that medallion idea! may have to try that!!! And, I love how you stained all of the molding brown. very pretty! I have never seen that! You can tell that you have had this house designed forever in your head and now to see it all come to life! I can just imagine how excited you all are!
hugs!
oh, forgot to ask...did your PB light fixture work? I was waiting to see it through the whole post and never did! I hope you were able to use...I'm dying to see it in someone's house!
oh Destiny, Destiny, No, the light fixture did not work out actually, and i'm going to have to return it. There is a light above the sink on the electrical plan but neither of us caught that also above the sink is a cabinet and not enough space for it to hang...so, back it goes :( Oh well. it was very cute, but it was a little too rustic for my kitchen but it waould look great in a mud room or a laundry room i think.
Also, you can buy the medallion at Lowes and after much searching, the rule of thumb is that the medallion shouldn't be bigger than the light fixture is wide. You'll find all kinds of crazy formulas...take the width of the room times the length and divide by something and if I'd done that for my living room, I'd have ended up with a 65" medallion!
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