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Our Weekend Mural Project
Monday, February 2nd, 2009
After spending the holidays in the Bay Area, with J’s very creative family (see Wertzateria), we come back to Portland determined to have a little more fun with our home’s decor. Buying a Wallpaper magazine at the airport, I’m drawn to a picture of a mural in an asian restaurant. We’ve left a dining room wall bare since we moved into our home. We love our lighting and don’t want to detract attention from that. Could a mural be the solution?
Easy for me to come up with ideas- but having an artist in the house who can actually realize them, is the best of all worlds.
Within a week, J had produced a similar design on his Mac, and after projecting the image on the wall, “we”-the Queens “we”- made a few changes in proportions. J traced out the design, and after playing around with some paint color variations, we decided on a dilution of five parts white, to one part of the existing wall color, to produce what I would call a “shadow” of the asian inspired design.
Once the design was traced and the color chosen, it took us a few easy hours of painting in the lines- and we were done. Our next project is converting one of our kids rooms into a guest room. We’re looking forward to having some fun with that project as well.
More pictures of the mural process.