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Bunny
02-09-2006, 05:59 PM
Finally getting round to redecorating this house, the woodchip wallpaper in the hall way was really starting to annoy us, so we're halfway there to ripping it all off. Now we're going to try and do this house up in a 1930's style but with a modern twist. The one thing I'm having trouble with is finding out what paint colours were popular in the mid 1930's.

We know what sort of light switches and electric sockets we're hopefully getting http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/VLXCT1.html?utm_source=shopping.com

Just need some more 1930's inspiration
tigeress
02-09-2006, 06:06 PM
Finally getting round to redecorating this house, the woodchip wallpaper in the hall way was really starting to annoy us, so we're halfway there to ripping it all off. Now we're going to try and do this house up in a 1930's style but with a modern twist. The one thing I'm having trouble with is finding out what paint colours were popular in the mid 1930's.

We know what sort of light switches and electric sockets we're hopefully getting http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/VLXCT1.html?utm_source=shopping.com

Just need some more 1930's inspiration

you think wood chip is hard to get off walls try getting it off bloody ceilings what a nitemare
Bunny
02-09-2006, 06:13 PM
luckily it's not on any of the ceilings, what up there now is in quite good condition so we're not touching that
tigeress
02-09-2006, 06:18 PM
luckily it's not on any of the ceilings, what up there now is in quite good condition so we're not touching that

thats good then i had it in 2 of the bedrooms and a complete nitemare to move it it was like it had been glued on got it in the living room to but not touching it as i want to move
Bunny
03-09-2006, 07:28 PM
Now is it going to be Dulux Willow Green or Homebase Smoothie for the hallway and landing, willow green looks nice and grown up, but smoothie will make it look bigger
Whassat
03-09-2006, 07:40 PM
sounds great, hard work but...
do we get before and after pics?
Bunny
03-09-2006, 07:48 PM
I'll take a piccie of it now with the walls mostly stripped, it had woodchip wallpaper on that had been painted with white gloss paint, will post it another day when i have more time
Bunny
03-09-2006, 08:13 PM
Smoothy it will be, other colour looks crap next to the carpet
Whassat
03-09-2006, 08:17 PM
lol...have you waited for it to dry and looked in different lights (daylight etc)..paints are a nightmare aren't they..our hallway now looks like its baby blue walls and baby pink skirting!!...its meant to be egg shell and grey!!
Bunny
03-09-2006, 08:18 PM
will be a few more weekends before we start painting so I'll keep looking at the test patches we've done
Whassat
03-09-2006, 08:22 PM
lol we got a garage full of tester pots...we had a multi couloured wall for months!...in the end dh decided he didn't like any of them and went and bought a colour in the full size pots and plastered it on without testing to see what it looked like!! men lol..
its just a shade up from the blooming magnolia we had up there in the first place! what colour is the smoothie like??
Bunny
04-09-2006, 07:18 AM
it reminds me of a banana smoothie