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Creative Spirit Found Through My Friends
I'm on hold for a new building project until we sell one of our Timber Frame Homes on the market. So, helping my friends, David & Bonnie Pickartz with Goshen Timber Frames, create their personal dream home has helped my stagnant creativity lately. As I have mentioned in previous blogs. I love the construction process, each and every step it takes in creating the dream home.
Bonnie & David have allowed me to help them choose their color scheme, tile and flooring selections and contribute to lighting choices. As discussed in my previous blog about "compromise", they both have done an outstanding job. Both have felt strongly about certain items and other areas they easily compromised, communicating what's important to both of them was the key. And, how fun it has been (for me, anyway) to work with friends on a project. Knowing their personalities, their lifestyle, hobbies, etc. has made it easier. Now, I know they might not agree with the fun factor, they are after all paying the bills and I am helping to spend the money. But, they will have someone to blame if they decide later they hate a particular decor choice. Ha Ha
They wanted their new house to have that old farmhouse look. Achieving that was easy with a wonderful design and David's desire to use metal roofing from an old chicken house. So the roof is already weathered a beautiful rust and that itself creates the impression the home has been there for years.
Two decisions were already made, the beams were to stay a natural color (by just using a penetrating oil) and they wanted to re-create the distressed hickory wood floors we used in our "Pond at Featherstone" house. So, based on those two important choices, we created a pallette of colors they both liked. David painted samples of the colors on cardboard (you can also use inexpensive poster board), and those samples were hung on the exterior and interior of the house. I highly recommend this so you can actually visualize what the colors will look like. Exterior wise, it's important to see the color choices in sun and shade. The Interior choice samples should be viewed in natural bright light and in areas with no natural lighting. Some samples worked perfect, others we went up and down in shades, lightened one by 25% and have achieved a color pallette that works beautifully inside and out.
Painting is done on the exterior, and the interior is in progress as is floor installation and tile.
I'll blog more later, as I am sure Bonnie will do too, with tile and lighting choices, photos and our complete Sherwin Williams color pallette.
Bonnie & David have allowed me to help them choose their color scheme, tile and flooring selections and contribute to lighting choices. As discussed in my previous blog about "compromise", they both have done an outstanding job. Both have felt strongly about certain items and other areas they easily compromised, communicating what's important to both of them was the key. And, how fun it has been (for me, anyway) to work with friends on a project. Knowing their personalities, their lifestyle, hobbies, etc. has made it easier. Now, I know they might not agree with the fun factor, they are after all paying the bills and I am helping to spend the money. But, they will have someone to blame if they decide later they hate a particular decor choice. Ha Ha
They wanted their new house to have that old farmhouse look. Achieving that was easy with a wonderful design and David's desire to use metal roofing from an old chicken house. So the roof is already weathered a beautiful rust and that itself creates the impression the home has been there for years.
Two decisions were already made, the beams were to stay a natural color (by just using a penetrating oil) and they wanted to re-create the distressed hickory wood floors we used in our "Pond at Featherstone" house. So, based on those two important choices, we created a pallette of colors they both liked. David painted samples of the colors on cardboard (you can also use inexpensive poster board), and those samples were hung on the exterior and interior of the house. I highly recommend this so you can actually visualize what the colors will look like. Exterior wise, it's important to see the color choices in sun and shade. The Interior choice samples should be viewed in natural bright light and in areas with no natural lighting. Some samples worked perfect, others we went up and down in shades, lightened one by 25% and have achieved a color pallette that works beautifully inside and out.
Painting is done on the exterior, and the interior is in progress as is floor installation and tile.
I'll blog more later, as I am sure Bonnie will do too, with tile and lighting choices, photos and our complete Sherwin Williams color pallette.
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Comment by Bonnie Pickartz on July 7, 2009 at 12:01pm -
Pam has been more than a friend throughout this process...she has been a Godsend. Her eye for color has made things easy (since I would choose any color of white) and when the walls were finished ...interior and out...the transformation was amazing. When you stand in one room and look through the door the colors just melt together. There is nothing that doesn't just "fit".
Making this a new "old" house has been a challenge, but Pam has made it all happen. Without her guidance there might have been a divorce (or worse) at the Pickartz home.
Pam still has much work to do. When we designed the home we thought about spaces and how they would be used...but furnishings weren't in our field of vision. That is the next step to making this home live as large and as well as it should.
If we are typical clients, Pam may need counseling to continue to help people.
We will stay on target with photos and posts and I'm sure Pam will do the same because this is definitely another of her success stories.
Visit our building blog at http://www.buildingatimberframe.com to see the work in progress.
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