All Dressed Up for Dinner!

 

In the last newsletter,  we featured a large project in Ruby Hill, where we created a cracked finish for the entry walls and a number of adjacent rooms. The second part of the project involved the dining room, which is what this story is about. 

We needed a finish that would work well with the cracked finish we had done throughout. Our client wanted to use black and red in a striking way. The dining room had a high ceiling, and three walls to do, the back wall being glass leading out to the swimming pool. What this meant was that we had considerable light coming in during the day. 

We needed to create a more defined space and the look had to be sophisticated. Many samples were created before we came up with a few that we thought would work. We settled on a black background, and in order to create a really special space we opted for a metallic red plaster material over the top of that as opposed to plain red. The iridescence against the black background gave a very unique look. The first thought was to create a strie (striped) look, running a brush thru the plaster. However this didn’t transition well to the finish in the other spaces. We then came up with a textural effect using the metallic over the black in a two-layer process. 

The ceiling needed to tie into this finish, but we didn’t want to incorporate the black into it, as we didn’t want to close the space in as much. So we applied a two-layer process of metallic red to the ceiling, which tied nicely to the walls. The look was unique and quite stunning, and our clients were tickled, well, pink.

Dining rooms are especially fun to do when given some license with color and texture. Many of our clients do quite a bit of socializing, dinner parties, etc., and so a finish in a dining room becomes a conversation piece. Since we ensure the clients are very involved in the project all the way through, they take personal satisfaction in contributing to the end product, which gives them a story to tell visitors when they comment on the space.

 If color and texture are as important to you as they are to us, call 408 448 1683 today or email at molto@earthlink.net for an appointment to talk about working with us on your next project.

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