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WALL: Follow the grain Always drag in the direction of the grain or the length of the moulding. This technique also works for furniture. Tape off panels on drawers and on the sides of a dresser, or highlight the centre panel of a dining room or play table. Question: In my basement the bottom half of the wall panelling is mid-green. I would like to whitewash over the panels. Can this be done? Thanks. Answer: Whitewashing wood with diluted paint is one way of colouring the wood while allowing the wood’s natural grain markings to show. It is applied to raw wood, and wood that has been sanded to open up the pores. However the same process can be used over wood that has been painted if you want to see some of the colour showing through, in your case, the mid-green. Latex paint will not cover oil-based paint, so check first to see what type of paint is on the
panelling. Then clean and sand the panelling lightly to prepare it for the wash. The whitewash recipe
is equal parts white latex paint and water. Apply the wash with a brush, moving in one direction. Question: We painted one bedroom yellow with a bit of an orange hue. The floor is medium
shade of hardwood, furniture is mahogany. The room looks like a big bright lemon. What would you suggest for curtains and bed linens that would help? I’ve put up gray/blue picture frames and they seem to work. Answer: Yellow can be a difficult colour to work
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