Oregon Through Utah to Texas Keith

SK on Elderberry
by SK on Elderberry
Texas Keith Red, White and Blues
Decorating a little boys domain on the fly and on the cheap with Chef Darcy of Silver Spoon Cakes in Salt Lake City.
The Route 66 sign was built from old wood scraps. Bolts and hinges were painted and rusted with the iron paint from Modern Masters Metal Effects Paints


Texas now has a great place to hang coats and his backpack.
Harsh hot lime green was trouble for this amazing little boy.
Old, out of date and a dizzyingly awful color.
I painted the upper walls with a denim paint technique. You can find lots of "How To's" on Google and Pinterest.


I have used several of these techniques in the past. Most use a first coat of butter yellow and then the brushed blue glaze top coat. I painted the room dark blue and then glazed with a light blue. As I rolled the glaze on the painted wall, I used a wallpaper brush to make the cross hatched pattern of rough denim.


This is a Ralph Loren tutorial
The bright white wainscotting makes the room look bigger and is easy to clean little boys grubby fingerprints.
Texas loves old tin toys. Antique cars, trucks and airplanes. So we designed the room around found and gathered treasures. Some of these cool things were salvaged from the hundred plus year old basement, so no costs were incurred.
I played with Modern Masters Metal Effects Paints for all the rust and tumble, making a a true to size licence plate with his name and date of birth.


I modeled the lettering with Durham's Rock Hard Putty and then painted with Modern Masters Metal Effects Paint. Iron and copper.


Just think of the possibilities. Any name, state, date of birth. They are painted on light weight wood and look and feel like rusted metal. I can create one of any state, year or theme. Just give out a shout and we can figure it all out. Hmmm. Rhymes. It's late I guess.
The old dresser was dressed in my custom red, white and blue chalk paint.


The start of The Pledge of Allegiance is hand painted on the left side of the dresser.
I sketched the moon and quote on the side of the closet wall. Ta Da! Chris aka Monkey found it.
The old replica Airmail postage stamp shelf was built from old leftover wood and chalk paint. Texas loves his old tin police car showcased.
Using an old cardboard container and old brass lamp parts, I built Texas an replica Texaco oil can lamp with an Edison lightbulb.


You can see the details here:


http://sksartell.blogspot.com/2015/04/oregon-through-utah-to-texas-keith.html


Thanks for visiting. sk
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