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New bedroom in our circa 1901 loft apartment. Designed and built the whole thing myself with the help of a friend. It was just a big cavernous room without any of the closets or fancy trim. Made all of the plaster heads and other ornamental trim myself. There are closets for folded clothes, hanging cloths, washer and dryer, and one for my old lady’s shoes. The room is divided by a long and narrow closet with a door on each end. You can see the ends of it in some off the pictures. Painting is still in progress. My own den of sin. Whaddayathink???

freekin amazing.

howd you do the sponging? rather, what did you use? looks like a big cloth. i suck at that stuff.

is that just the ‘closet’ area? do you walk through it to enter and exit room?

how did you make the closets?

A business contact that does paint restoration in historic buildings like State Capitols, theaters, train stations, etc is doing the faux finishes. The wall color is a creamish yellow with gold metallic paint sprayed on it in a random fashion and then glazed with a raw sienna and a burnt sienna glaze, that is then lifed off randomly with a crumpled piece of plastic sheeting. Te cornice is painted a different shade of metallic gold and still needs to be glazed. The glaze on the cornice will be close to the same shade of red as the trim. This room used to be a one bedroom apartment with a low ceiling. It is 21 X 26 feet with a 13.5 foot ceiling height. The corner closet with the door on a diagonal leads out into the hallway and used to be the entrance to the apartment. Below the leaded glass window is the opening for a set of french doors. Right now it is covered with plastic sheeting. The closets are regular 2 x 4 construction covered in drywall and then trimmed with trim we made ourselves out of 3/4" sheets of fibercore that has been cut into strips and routered. Some of the trim is made out of poplar. The crown molding on the closets is store bought. The crown molding up at the ceiling is made out of strips of partical boad with ornate embossed paper border cemented to it. All of the trim matches the original trim of the building except for the cornice that I invented myself. More pictures to come as the job progresses.
A pic of the front of my building. My business is on the first floor.

great info… thanks.

cant wait to see more pics!
did you buy or rent the scaffolding? I can see it in the right in one of the pics, I need to get some for my home projects.

Scaffold belongs to the faux finish guy.
Before we started primering and painting and before the free-standing room-dividing closet was built. Closet is about 10 feet from the windows.

Paint update: glazing the cornice

yeah thats amazing!
not my style however, but still awesome. great stuff man!
more pics are welcome as well….
hate to be in the bandwagon, but even though its totally not my style, i can appreciate real talent, that is an awesome job!

yeah, but it fits the style of the house/bldg really well

Very nice.

You wish. I can give long-distance remodeling tips, though.
You say you made the plaster molds. I am assuming it is the faces on cornice? If so did you mold them in place or did you do them seperately and then mount. How are they mounted to wall? Is there some kind of wire mesh nailed or screwed to wall with plaster cast around it? Is there a mechanical fastening or just glued to surface?

The original head was a concrete corbel off of an old building that I bought from an architectural salvage place. It was very damaged and the surface had eroded over the years. I repaired it with clay and then made a polyurethane rubber mold of it. The heads are cast seperately and then glued and screwed to the wall with very long screws and construction adhesive. The plaster rosettes between the heads were made from the mold of a lamp part. Those are glued and nailed with finish nails. The crown molding is embossed paper glued to stripes of particle board. Top and bottom trim are several small moldings stacked together.

Eggcellent
Finally got the room cleaned out and detailed. Still have to change some plugs and switches to black from white. Mounted the peacock headboard (supposed to look like and old theater prop) to the wall a couple of days ago and wanted to share the photo. Also, here’s a pic of one of the old theatrically related advertising posters that will be installed in the room once we build a marquee for it. Original 9′ tall stone lithograph circa 1910. This poster was in sections and would be applied to the side of a structure with paste much like modern billboards. It was found in an old printing plant about 20 years ago before I purchased it. Had it mounted on canvas and have been saving it all these years for eventual use. Have saved other theatrical related original posters over the years and they will also be housed in that room. We slept in there for the first time last evening.

but he didn’t really do all of it himself

I designed it and my friend and I did all of the work except for the decorative painting. Solid red color on the trim was painted by myself. I also refinished the floor myself, installed the huge double hung window units myself, did all of the electrical myself, ran the heating ducts myself, and will be restoring the antique chandeliers myself. Sounds like a do it yourself project to me.
That’s gangsta as fuck, you don’t see much like it, my friend who does int design just did a pretty similar wall finish

Amazing work! Love it!
as i mentioned earlier, its totally not my style, but its amazing work nonetheless.
that is absolutely gorgeous…. SOOOOO in the vein of what i’d love to do in my own home someday

Takes a bit of elbow grease as well as cash but it was really worth it in the end. It’s like staying in a 5 star hotel room.
Awesome work.

What color is that red? Ive been looking for something like it to replace the light blue and light green the previous owner did in my living room.
wow I wish I talent like you.. you are very good at what you do.

It’s a Benjamin Moore color. Pearl finish aquapearl ultrabase 310 4b

Then it has these numbers written on the top

1×24 2x
20 bb
2x ma
9×12 rd (this number could possibly be 4×12 rd. the person who mixed the paint wrote it on the top of the can in felt tip marker and that 9 looks kind of squirrly and may be a 4)

Also, if I’m not mistaken, the color we picked was off of an exterior paint chart and they crossed-referenced it and made it in an interior paint. I believe that the exterior color was redwood or country redwood.

Thank you. Not bad for an amateur

i’m diggin’ it big time…

mind if i and then hang out in the room while the faces on the wall stare at me?

They watch me and my wife fucking and sucking all the time.

Face #1: Look, they’re at it again. How disgusting
Face #2: LOL
Me: STFU Noobs!!!

I can’t get over how well everything turned out – great job!

My cosmetologist wife traded haircuts with one of her clients that is an artist
who keeps bumping this piece of shit remodel

kidding…any other pics of the apartment as a whole?
Hung some fixtures. They originally hung in a bank lobby in downtown Grand Rapids Michigan.

i am VERY jealous.

thats the kind of setup i would LOVE to have, with me being self employed

*Baroque.

I’d have to say it has some roccocco mixed in there.

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