Posted in Colour Schemes, Interior Design on May 18th, 2012 by admin – Be the first to comment
Carpets and colours
Whether to nave patterned or plain carpet is often debated. From the standpoint of colour scheming, plain carpets may be easier to furnish around. A costly item that may have to last for years, a carpet is less easily changed than the more versatile curtains and other soft furnishings.
However, plain carpets, especially if pale, do show specks and mark more easily than patterned
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Posted in Colour Schemes, Interior Design on May 17th, 2012 by admin – Be the first to comment
Proportions
In a narrow room, where one exists, leave the picture rail and bring the ceiling right down to it. Concentrate colour on the lower part of the walls; this will bring the eye down to the colour level and give an impression of width.
Paint the long walls in cool, receding colours and the short walls in a warm colour. Cool colours, like blue and green, make the walls appear further apart.
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Posted in Colour Schemes, Interior Design on May 14th, 2012 by admin – Be the first to comment
Two homes, externally identical, may look totally different within-as a result of the varied use of colour, textures, furniture and fittings. The use of colour in home décor and furnishing schemes is a way of expressing individuality. Do not be too hesitant in experimenting with colour; while there must be rules, these should only be regarded as general guidelines.
Natural light, or white light,
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Posted in Interior Design on May 13th, 2012 by admin – Be the first to comment
Experimenting in colour
One needs to experiment with colours. Try, as far as you can, to see how colours will mix and blend. Obtain colour cards of paint colours, get samples of wallpaper and swatches of material to give you some idea of the finished effects of blending colour. Look at the colours in artificial and natural light and appreciate the fact that some colours, in proximity with others,
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Posted in Car Restoration, Classic, DIY Car, Featured Articles on March 24th, 2012 by admin – Be the first to comment
Attention to the smaller details in the interior will finally set off and complement all the hard work you have put into refurbishing the seats, carpets, headlining and trim panels. In some cases refurbishing the details is just a simple matter of cleaning but in others you have to replace.
Weather strips round the edges of door apertures usually need replacing as they will have been kicked and rubbed
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Posted in Car Restoration, Classic, DIY Car, Featured Articles on March 24th, 2012 by admin – Be the first to comment
Many home restorers fight shy of making a complete new headlining. However, provided you go about it in a methodical way there is nothing particularly difficult, if you have access to a heavy duty sewing machine which will handle the material.
Various ways of fixing the headlining have been used over the years, ranging from a metal framework to which the headlining is fixed (before it is sprung into
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Posted in Car Restoration, Classic, DIY Car, Featured Articles on March 24th, 2012 by admin – Be the first to comment
Cars which have armrests and pockets in the doors are a little bit more awkward to deal with but, provided you take the old trim panel apart carefully and make a note of how each piece fits to its neighbour, you should not have any real difficulties.
Some armrests are fixed directly to the trim panel and in most cases where the trim panel has begun to buckle the armrest has helped it to promote this.
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Posted in Car Restoration, Classic, DIY Car, Featured Articles on March 24th, 2012 by admin – Be the first to comment
The parts of the trim most likely to be in bad condition, and most likely to need replacing, are the interior door trim panels. They take many a kick from people getting into and out of the car, and the water which inevitably finds it way down past the window tends to rot and warp the bottom of the panel itself, which in many cases is made from a cheap compressed cardboard. Sometimes, in trim shops,
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Posted in Featured Articles on March 24th, 2012 by admin – Be the first to comment
The upholstery and side trim panels, once cleaned and repaired, will probably need some extra treatment to bring them back to their best condition. Broadly speaking, upholstery can be divided into three main groups or types; cloth, hide and PVC or Rexine.
Of these, cloth upholstery is probably the most difficult to restore to anything like as-new condition once it has become stained and worn. Probably
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Posted in Car Restoration, Classic, DIY Car, Featured Articles on March 24th, 2012 by admin – Be the first to comment
Repairing and revarnishing wood trim
To restore real wood trim strips and dashboards is very different from trying to imitate a photo-printed grain pattern, and—thank goodness—considerably easier. Most original finishes deteriorate, due to the effects of sunlight and condensation, and in some cases they tend to develop white streaky patterns, where the grain
filler, which was inserted to fill
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