Painting Walls

I just moved into an old 3 bedroom house which is too big for my own good. The walls are made out of wood and are destroyed by marks, scratches, "Latino Pride" stickers and so on... so I decided to paint the shit out of them. I want to draw on them, not just paint them in single colours...

What would be a good paint to use on them that would stay on and so and so and so?

Also... what the hell can I fill my house up with?... I do not own practically anything... A light traveler I am!

I might have one room as the "music room" where I shalt keep my guitars, amps, keyboard, and so on and on... but then I am still left with another room, a huge living room, a big kitchen, my bedroom (less of a problem), a front and back porch, and so on.

Any great ideas?

 

if ya smoke, you can have a "smoking room", comfy chairs and couches, have a small centered table. put a hookah on top of it. cool posters and such

 

Listen If you're moving into a house which has Latino Pride stickers covering the walls, I'd first start off calling a good exterminator and pest control service before deciding what paint to use on the walls.

Because whatever is living in the walls might not take too kindly to being closed up :leaving:




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Aye, a hookah is a good idea... smoking room may be nice... but I do not really know any people here yet, so it wouldn't be used too often right now... but I should hit up Goodwill and the Salvation Army for some cheap furniture.

...and pest control... nahh, I do not touch the bugs and critters... They have just as much right to live as I do... so I let them roam!

 

what a sweet man

 

model railroad! that would be my obvious answer. without even thinking about it. or workshop space of some kind. on the other hand, well you said you've already got a ''smoking" room, but since 'living' rooms are defined defacto after all as, ritual space, why not go for putting a prominent tokanoma (/'alter', NOT TOKE-a-noma) against the east wall. another basic thing i do, any wall space that isnt window or has something else shoved against it, and why do that, becomes bookshelves.

if i were going for a multicolor paint job the thing i'd have in mind would be hard edged graphic, like a section through a geological chart. you know, to make it look like, it was actualy carved out of underground rock formations.

another really cool idea is to use carpet tiles. run them accross the floor, up one wall, and accross the cealing. panel the remaining three walls with easily cleaned dark wood paneling and paint all the interior trim in that room a bright neon yellowisn olivish lime.

for a 'command center' you might consider carefully papering one or more walls with contiguous geodetic survey contour maps. accurately lining up the edges with each other so the resault is seamless. you know, with the ones that go next to each other on the sides that they do, actualy lined up that way.

you might even consider free standing edge lighted plexi panels that you can write on with colored grease pencil, wipe off and write on again, to keep track of your secret missions. the light sources built into their bases. also maybe an arch shaped desk console for the center of the room. with all sorts of colored lights and lighted push button switches and a 'comand chair' like the captain's chair from star trek, or maybe one of those acoustic isolation chairs with a really good set of speakers mounted next to where your ears would be. being careful to limit the volume so as to not turn your brains to total mush.

for another left over spare room, have you considered a photographic dark room or some such?

or a home imax, with one of those projection moniters. even making a hemispherical screen arround the seating space and projection through a fish eye lense 'footage' recorded that way so as that have a completely emersive experience.

or you could get datagloves or even databodysuits and 'watchman' headsets for a totaly emersive v.r. gaming experience.

construct temporary/rearaingable mazes of light weight partitions/materials for playing lazer tag. ...

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check out freecycle (well, find your local one of course) to see if anything there catches your eye, they have some good finds sometimes

 

Just prime the walls first, and then you can do whatever you want with it.

 

Haha, a model railroad would be great, I had a lovely one as a kid, practically my only toy... my only problem was that I made it crash alot.

How do I go around in doing hard edged graphics... you must undestand that I know next to nothing about multi-colour painting.

I love the carpet tiles idea... I'll probebly actually do that.

The command desk would be great, but I'm looking for something a little more perminant... if I write on the walls, I want it to stay in it's lovely place.

A dark room or home imax would be way too expensive, I am working on the budget of a person that gets 7.30 an hour working full time.

The light patterns are a good idea, I can get a lot of old lamps and crazy christmas lights and just rig up the place to glow glow glow so much that you could see it from space!

Thanks for the great input

 

Freecycle? What exactly is that? ( I am not too familiar with americans stores and such)

 

What should I use to prime wooden walls? Is it safe to paint on them with whatever kind of paint afterwards? What is a good cheap kind of paint which comes in lots of colours to use?

 

It's not a store... http://www.freecycle.org/

basically, it's a way of givign away things you have no use for and don't feel like reselling or tossing out... and getting things if you have no money to spend

 

Carpet the floor, walls, and ceiling of the music room... it'll acoustically "deaden" the space and make recording attempts sound better.

 

you could make a sex/torture/dungeon/bondage room. you'd want a paint on those walls that is easily hosed off though

 

too many rooms scare me... Other than to house my piles of musisc, my instruments, and a computer, I really don't need too much space...

How is it you found such a big ol' house Pavel??

 

Well it depends if you want to use latex or oil based paint. And yes you can buy cheap latex paints in any color. Primer is labeled as primer, and you can use it on wood. Flat (egg shell) wall paint isn't as durable - if you get it dirty you can't just wipe it off with a damp rag. Semi-gloss is more durable.

 

The Freecycle thing sounds wonderful, I will rape the website for everything I need... lots and lots of users in my area. I would have given away lots of my stuff in Arkansas through it if I knew about it, but I gave it to Goodwill, so that works too.

Carpeting everything does sound good, I could do that with some very cheap carpet if I can find some around dumpsters or off that website.

The bondage chamber, as appealing as hanging by my skin from hooks sounds, would be too expensive.

The house is owned by my stepdad, he rented it to Mexicans who worked in his company for a good 10 years and they completely trashed the place... now no one other than me would live in this place

The paint, I'll probebly get the cheapest kind of latex I can find. How expensive is prime?

Thank you all for the lovely input

 

remind me not to show up for tea until you've fixed the place up a bit...

 

Haha, it's not nasty or anything... no rats yet... It's just...ehh... not pretty

 

I think it'd be steller to have a room filled with pillows, floppity couches, lava lamps, and a terrerium (sp?) with a lizard in it. The crickets it eats would chirp and have a nice sound to it. It'd be pretty sweet, I think. I would if I had the space and the cash to take care of a lizard.