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Enlarged by a previous owner, the bedroom was left with a low
beam across its width. Wallpaper and scrim had been removed leaving
bare sarking walls. Julia and Mark's son had decorated the walls
with posters and had lived in the room like this for several years.
Wanting to reduce the size of the room, a builder was contracted
to construct a dog-leg wall in order to optimise the size of both
the bedroom and the room next door and make the best of an awkwardly
positioned door and window. The beam was also raised up into the
ceiling; the result being aesthetically pleasing and giving the
room a more spacious feel. Once this work was complete, the ceiling
battens, scotias and skirting boards needed to be reconstructed.
Stripping the Rimu architraves and skirting boards, removing
nasty blue carpet to expose the matai floorboards and replacing
fixtures with brass (window sash lifts and catches, curtain rods,
light switches and power outlets) ensured the room complemented
the period feel of the villa. Painting the walls with Resene Enamacryl
Metallic - the subtle Resene Bedrock for three walls, Resene Time
Warp as the feature wall and Resene Enamacryl gloss waterborne
enamel tinted to Resene Half Spanish White - enabled their son
to fulfil his wish of having a metallic blue room and Julia and
Mark's desire to keep the room in harmony with the rest of the
house. For an added touch of uniqueness, the blue wall incorporates
a paint effect creating interest when the light shines on the
metallic paint.
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