Studio Bathroom Progress - Unedited

Studio bathroom wall adventure… It’s ALWAYS an adventure!

“Keep this little token to show I love you….”

Well, with all the aqua, rust, cream, and black going on in the Studio Proper, I thought it would be fun to add a little bit of pale pink, cream, and chocolate brown to the mix via the bathroom space.

So, I headed to my local paint place and picked out a lovely, pale shade of pink. Not TOO pink-pink, just a soft, muted pink…. or so I thought! You see, in the small bathroom, after painting two walls, they looked a bit salmon. So, I changed the lights out… and then they looked all Bubblicious. Still… not my fave.

Ok, so then, I tried to tone them down with a wash of cream paint glaze. Better, but still boring. Add another layer with darker glaze? Nope. Not feeling it. Just looked dirty.

White paint swirl stencil test. Um…. How about the chocolate brown paint using the swirl stencil. Wow. Still not my thing. Have I ever mentioned that I LOVE to experiment with paint, color, glazes, finishes? I do, but I REALLY need to get this bathroom finished (no pun intended!) and move on to other parts of this studio build.

So, right before our holiday break, I decided, why not just add sheet music? Like the book-type sheet music. The main studio has dictionary pages. The back storage room has smaller dictionary pages. A guest room in my house has dictionary pages. Clearly, I like the look of dictionary pages on a wall. Although, they all look a bit different than each other.

That got me thinking … how about the vintage rolls of player piano music? Hmmmm. Hello, Ebay. I ended up making an offer on like 45 or 50 rolls, with free shipping. Crazy, I know, but not all music is created equally… and I’m glad I did, because….

Next, was the decision on what color I wanted on the wall. Some are creamy-white background paper, some are kraft-color. I went with the kraft rolls. After narrowing down to kraft, I then had to decide on ink colors. Blue, Green, Black, Red… Who knew??? I decided on the black. I like the kraft-black combo (like my dictionary pages!) So, from that pile began the reading of lyrics. SOME of these rolls are SO sad and depressing - I don’t want those up on the walls in my studio bathroom.

Death. Sorrow. Loss. War.

Really. There’s even one that is MAN-bashing! Yeah, No.

Then, I had to choose what configuration. Obviously, vertical, because the music reads BOTTOM to TOP, but with gaps? Without gaps? Overlapped? Cut into sections?

I created a couple of graphics, and this is the one I settled on - with 1.5” pink stripes. So, I still get a bit of the pink I wanted, but not a whole wall of in-your-face-pink.

I like it.

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Three.

Five.

There will be 7 total with approximately 1.5” stripes. Then, I’ll be able to add the molding trim.

Keeping it real? I’d dictionary-page 1000 Sq. Ft. of walls than drop SEVEN player piano sheets onto a wall !!! But, I DO like it better….

Wish. Dream. Create. Laugh. Play. Connect.