Stairwell Painting

[firstfrost]

So, I've been slaving away in the dust mines, painting the stairwell. You may remember the old stair to the third floor, as seen here: harrock drywalled it, then I painted it white. But white is boring, so now it's getting frivolized into a paint garden. The ceiling got sponged with light blue "sky" and the treads got painted light brown, with darker brown spongies. The plain light brown would probably be fine for a nice sensible stairwell, without getting too silly, but the eventual plan is to add some stencils on the risers and along the edges, like so: Some imagination must be used in that last one. :) More pictures when the stencils finally start going on.

Comments

[kelkyag]

Squeee! Charming madness! :)

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

Neat! I was just looking at stairwell painting in the Globe magazine and thinking I might like to do that to my backstairs.

I think that you should do swords and spaceships since it leads to the gaming room, though.

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

tirinian's mom suggested stars and spaceships and things, but that would kind of require having the whole thing be Dark, which seemed like it could be more oppressive. :)

[marcusmarcusrc.livejournal.com]

Maybe a pixie or two peeping around the flowers? Tiny dragons? Tree octopi?

[merastra.livejournal.com]

I wonder if you get email for late replies like this... :)

Anyhow, if you sponge over more, but some of it with a light hand, that helps. You may also want to rotate the sponge, otherwise it looks tiled (a la videogames.)

Also, the risers need mushrooms.

Ooooh, it just occured to me that white-on-offwhite might be cool. Ghostly figures on the white walls. Or birch trees! Or subtle off-white feathers on huge feathered wings (think gulls or swans?)

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was noticing the tiling, but I was secretly fond of it, because I know in my heart all textures are tiled. The sponge is rotated some, but not frequently enough (so I ended up with multiple overlapping tilings).

The walls are actually pretty severely white, so it'd have to be off-white-on-white. :) I haven't seen any good birch patterns, though. :(

(Curses! My larger crop of stencils arrived, and the wisteria vines are about half an inch too wide. I was optimistic in my space estimation. But they might do scaling, I'll check and see how expensive that is.)

[merastra.livejournal.com]

>>I was secretly fond of it, because I know in my heart all textures are tiled.
Hee! :-) ;-)