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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Paint and wallpapers


I have painted and painted.. like a thousand times ;) I hate ground work and wants everything to go quickly, but I painted all the kitchen parts with one white layer, and it looks better and I don't have to paint several layers of the actual colour, grey-green =)
 

I also started painting the bathroom parts. Here is the mirror. Like I said I thought it took to much time to sand off the decor, but I think painting it will do. The mirror looks good anyway, I hope the rest will look as good with paint too =)

And I got a tip that I could use wallpaper glue and paint the walls white and put the napkins right at the wall. Tried to glue it to a paper, but it was too hard, I couldn't get rid of the wrinkles in the middle. I used a regular gluestick, that's what I had at home.. but placing it right on the wall like this turned out quite well.

But when I did the same thing to a thin wallpaper it went all bubbly and ugly! =(

I just gave up yesterday and tried fixing the kitchen floor instead. I thought I choose an easy way, I thought of doing tiles at first, but I did that in my last house (Santa's house) so I wanted to try something else and I got this beautiful floor from Anna. (I think it used to be a table cloth) =) It was a bit short on one side and long at the other, so I had to cut it and I thought it was going to fit even do I turned it 90 degrees, but it didn't =( But I didn't have any more so I glued it on like this, you can see the seam at the right, but since I'm going to place my furniture there I hope it wont show =)

Today I continued to do the wallpapers off the napkins and then I made a new attempt on putting up the wallpaper in the kitchen. I took a new wallpaper, a yellow scrap booking paper and "painted" the glue on to the paper and let it rest a bit and then I put it up to the wall, and it was so much better then yesterday =)
I will cut out the windows when the wallpaper has dried =) And later I will have to make some window frames. 

I forgot to show you my strawberry cane before, so here it is. It's far from perfect, but it's so much better than I've ever done before =)

And I'm still working on my carpet =) But I'm the master of unravelling it seems and had to unravel all my work of today =( I most be more careful how I count, I don't want to unravel any more now!!
Take care!
Hannah



12 comments:

  1. Oh I know well to be result-oriented. I like to paint, but hate sanding.
    It looks good with napkin directly on. I also had problems with the curls, your result has been good. It is a major patient care work. But well done.
    Hugs
    Wyrna

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    1. Just because I got to try my new multi-tool for the sanding this time it was quite fun, but now I've tried it once its not that fun any more ;) But I will sand more furniture later and repaint them too =)

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  2. Hi Hannah! Thank you so much for leting me know about that silly virus thing! I will see to get rid of that tomorrow with the help of friends !! :)
    I simply LOVE your idea of the napkin-wall...i hadn't thought of that!! I have used the method for other things...and just as you describe, sometimes it works well..other times not!! Using a DRY sponge might help to press away some wrinkles...but it is always very tricky with these very thin napkins!!! :)

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    1. I should have thought of it before and told you, but I didn't know if it was only your blog or my computer or some other blogs too, hope you will be free from problems soon =)

      Thank you, I tried a dry sponge, but maybe the fingers were even better to smooth it out =) There are so many wonderful napkins so I'm glad it worked on walls =)

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  3. thank you so much for showing how to use napkins for wall paper Im always on the look out for something new to use...I cant wait to see how it turns out and I too hate doing the groundwork

    Hugs
    Marisa :)

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    1. Thank you. Maybe you can try napkins for wallpaper too, its best to try the technique first before you do it on the wall, if it gets all messed up first time.

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  4. Oj så mycket du hunnit med! Det blir jättefint med ommålningen av möblerna och dina tapeter blev väldigt bra. Tycker om spegeln. Fint när det blev vitt mönster också.

    Lil på Lilsdolls

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    1. Tack! Ja, jag har legat i ett par dagar nu när lillan har sovit =)
      Jag gillar mönstret på spegeln mycket bättre nu när allt är vitt =) Får se om det blir lika bra på handfatet och badkaret.

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  5. You have done a great job with the furniture. I love the napkin wallpaper. Fantastic idea. Great cane :)
    Hugs Maria

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    1. Thank you, I will keep working at the furniture someday, I'm not done with the painting yet, but I got a bit tired of it so I have to do something else for awhile now =)

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  6. Muchas gracias por darnos la idea de las servilletas.
    Has hecho un gran trabajo con esos muebles, enhorabuena.
    besitos ascension

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    1. Thank you! There are so many napkins to choose from so I thought it would be great if they worked on walls too =)

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Thanks for reading, I love to read your comments =)
Hannah