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Post by Tumbleweed on Oct 12, 2007 0:36:15 GMT -6
I just watched a show the other day and these people, who had a very lovely home, ran out of money so they just put plywood down and put several coats of porch paint on it. It looked great. I'm not sure but I think they must of added a few coats of polyurethane too because it was really shiny. I love shiny.
Speaking of polyurithane....My basement has some REAL Wainscoting going all the way down that stairs and on one wall floor to ceiling and I'd like it except it is made out of pine and I hate pine. I don't have big windows down there so to make it brighter I painted the wainscoting white and then put several layers of poly over the paint. It REALLY reflects the light nicely and looks good too.
Now the next guy that wants to paint it a different color will hate me. Not easy to paint over or get off. ROTFL
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Post by barb on Oct 12, 2007 23:32:10 GMT -6
We are getting ready to paint many rooms in the house. I have seriously considered using polyurethane over the paint behind my counters and stove since I have no back splash.
I may put some type of wallpaper behind to make a fake backsplash and polyurethane that.
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Post by Tumbleweed on Oct 13, 2007 1:17:02 GMT -6
I don't have a back-splash either and I need one and want one. I do have some left over tile...maybe I'll make a mosaic or something....not that I like mosaics.
I like your idea though. Could work just fine and make cleaning the wall so much easier. I say go for either of those choices.
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Post by barb on Oct 13, 2007 10:26:12 GMT -6
I'm thinking that I can find a tile look paper or something that will look good, maybe one of those pressed papers designed to look like tin that you can get for ceilings. If I only polyurethane the paper it could be pulled off much more easily than someone could paint over it if I covered paint.
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Post by Tumbleweed on Oct 13, 2007 10:36:21 GMT -6
I have some of that embossed paper that looks like tin. I was intending on putting it on my kitchen ceiling but I may copy your idea and use it on my back splash and maybe even around my counters. I'll have to do a little test to see how it looks.
I hope you won't mind if I steal your idea? ;D
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Post by pdoo on Oct 13, 2007 13:56:55 GMT -6
I don't have a back splash either. My stove is free standing, so it has a little one that is part of the stove. I think a good Kitchen and bath paint which is very durable like Behr would be plenty. I would worry that polyurethane may discolor with the heat of the stove. I'm not sure, but I would ask someone about it.
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Post by Tumbleweed on Oct 13, 2007 15:56:42 GMT -6
Hmmmm, You may be right Pdoo. I know some Poly can yellow. If I was doing the wall paper one I'd probably just put it in a frame of some sort and just hang it so if the poly ever yellowed really bad I could just take it down and make a new one. Or maybe by then I could afford a real backsplash. I have so many things I want to do and I can't seem to get any one of them completely done.
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Post by pdoo on Oct 13, 2007 18:53:02 GMT -6
sounds like a familiar delima I have, never totally completing everything I start. We used a polyurethane that was suppose to be a marine varnish on an outside wooden planter, so you would think that being a marine varnish it wouldn't yellow, but it did. I was really mad.
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Post by barb on Oct 13, 2007 21:19:21 GMT -6
You can get non yellowing polyurethane. If I do it, I'll use that. If we used paper and it yellowed it could easily be stripped off and replaced.
I put clear contact paper up behind my stove once and that worked out fairly well. You could tell it was there but the grease spatters wiped off more easily which is what I was hoping for. I'm a messy cook and use a lot of high heat so anything is better than not being able to scrub when I need to.
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Post by Tumbleweed on Oct 13, 2007 21:57:28 GMT -6
I think it will work. And nothing is permanent anyway. Hey, I could even take some of my embossed tin looking paper, roll it up and send it to you Barb. I have 3 rolls that I'm not going to use except maybe like we talked about. If I sent it the cheapest way it may save a little money - ya think?
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Post by barb on Oct 14, 2007 23:12:55 GMT -6
It probably would save money but are you sure you aren't able to use it anywhere? You would still have enough to do a bathroom ceiling or part of another room ceiling as a decorative accent. Lets see, you could also use it to cover a piece of furniture and polyurethane or decoupage it so it looks like its made of metal.
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Post by Tumbleweed on Oct 15, 2007 2:53:07 GMT -6
LOL, I'm sure there are oodles of things I could do with it. I promise to keep what I know I'll use.
I'll scan a piece of it and post it so you can see if you like it. No sense sending it if you don't like the pattern.
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