I still haven't decided exactly how I want to finish the outside of the structure, but I've got a good idea how I want to inside to look. My first project was the flooring. I wanted a reclaimed wood/barn wood look for the flooring. I decided to use extra wide craft sticks stained and aged for the flooring.
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| cutting the curved ends off of the craft sticks to make planks |
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| the planks dry fitted and cut to fit. Once I had this done I numbered them on the back so I could put them back together the same way. |
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| dry fitted/laid out after I finished staining and aging. I stained each piece individually and without paying attention to what number the planks were so I was pretty happy with how evenly distributed the various tones ended up being |
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| and with two of the walls taped in place to get a better idea |
It's kind of late right now so I'm not going to take the time tonight, but I will post how I did the floors. I'm thinking I'm going to to a shiny finish over them, but I'm not 100% sure yet... I think I may try it on a few planks first and see how it looks..... if I've only done a few I can always gently sand it back to matte if I need to. I haven't glued the floors down yet, I'm letting them dry for at least 24 hours first since the process I used to stain them involves getting them pretty wet so I want to make sure they are COMPLETELY dry before glueing them down or finishing them so that I don't have shrinkage issues.
The walls will be white like you see in the pictures, and I'm going to put skylights in the roof/ceiling. I was planning on painting the ceiling white as well, but now I'm kinda thinking about painting it a high gloss black or dark charcoal gray. There won't be a whole lot of ceiling because of the skylights and I think it could look cool, we'll see..... I'm also on the lookout for the perfect light fixture{s} for this build and I found a couple options that I think I like for it, and they are actually battery operated rather than wired, which I think will work better for this project.
For the outside finishes I'm pretty sure I want a "slate" roof, and I'm pretty sure I want to do a flagstone style floor for the porch/covered patio/whatever you would call it, but I'm not sure whether I want the building to be brick (and if so red brick or white washed brick), or "wood" siding (and if so what color) or maybe almost completely covered with vines/ivy..... but I can do exterior finishes easier after it's assembled than I can interior so I'm not as worried about that at this point
I plan on doing a bunch of tiny art pieces for inside the studio as well, but I'm going to get the interior finishes done and the structure assembled before I really get to work on furniture and accessories.
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