I love this woman, and her business.

While there are many great ideas, check her June 30th entry for the look I was talking about: pale blue with silver textured damask. It could be a fun project, we’ll talk.

Thanks for the offer! Ok, when do you want to come by?

Ok, white wainscot, light blue walls. Done.

Back to you – I like the idea of white wainscote with a light wall color, very light blue, sea foam, or spring green. I would then jazz that up with a stencilled jacquard pattern, perhaps adding texture by using joint compound to make the patterns, and washing them with a subtle silver glaze. I’m very much into texture and pattern these days, and like doing the unexpected. Just putting a single color on the wall never seems to be deep enough. I want people to look at the walls and try to figure out what’s going on. (Hopefully that will distract them from the other things not done, or miss the dust monsters rolling by.)

If you want to do something a little differnt, you could try using the blue as a wash over the white to bring up the detail, but since you’ve salvaged the natural wood in the rest of the house, have a little paint fun here.

Of course you could also bleach the oak or use a white stain so you see the grain but the wainscot is white.

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