Here’s a closeup of the graining effect. Not only does it look pretty realistic from normal viewing distance, but it also hides most of the surface defects that were present in the wainscoting, mostly from layers and layers of paint …
Today Larry Martin started woodgraining the wainscoting. We painted the base coats for the woodgraining and when people saw the colors they wondered what we were thinking. When they see the finished product, they’ll understand.
Today while I was finishing the checkered side in the studio, they finally started working on refinishing the fir floor in the gallery side. They were supposed to start last Friday, but the space smelled so bad from the painting …
I haven’t shown the studio for awhile, because basically it was a big white box. But Lori and I did get the flooring in today, and as you can see from the picture, we couldn’t quite agree what type of …
Here’s what I spent last weekend and the first part of this evening doing. Painting the ceiling white. Because of the texture of the tin, it had to be painted by brush, and painting it gloss white over the white …
Lori and I went to the shop tonight to do the final prep and cleanup before they start painting. We were joined by our friend Lowell, and Mark from Del Biaggio Construction. While Lori was cleaning the plaster dust off …
Here’s the back wall of the gallery, showing more trim, and the Eastlake pocket door that we made out of a door that was in the back portion of the shop. After a bit of clean up, the shop will …
Here again is why there weren’t too many updates this month. This is the front of the shop, after we installed some of the redwood trim that I carefully stripped. Some of you may remember helping me move this trim …
The other night while I was photographing Fernbridge for the second time (you’ll have to wait for the pictures, I used actual film this time) I noticed that we were getting close to a full moon. I thought that would …
This is why there haven’t been too many updates lately. I’ve been spending a lot of time dealing with issues related to getting my shop ready. So much for opening July 1st. I’m now hoping we will be ready at …
The weekend ended doing a session with a mother and her two children. She had seen one of the photos of Jessica and Maren and wanted something similar. Between 2 days with Alissa, and the family shoot, I took over …
I think I’ve mentioned before the contruction of our walls in our 1888 Victorian, that they are made up of redwood 1″x10″. No lathe and plaster here. Well the commercial buildings on Main Street take that a step further. Instead …
Most of yesterday was spent doing demolition in the shop on Main Street. Peeling back the layers was fun, but the new owner got her first lesson in owning a historic building; things are usually worse than they look. Case …
This is the inside of the building on Main Street that Aesthetic Design & Photography will be moving into. This will give me room to have a studio and gallery. There will be lots of work done on the interior, …
