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Here's kinda the sage I was thinking, although it looks a little more grey here than green. Maybe I can get more time to play with it, and try some of the other color options later. Be advised, Photoshop isn't in my area of expertise - barely a casual acquaintance.

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docellis wrote:I love your vision. You need to be on HGTV. I was equally moved by the unemployed drunks as decor - as well as sprouting greenery that might eventually attract ghost baseball players.
The ivy walls attract the unemployed drinkers, not ghosts (ghosts aren't real). Not the good kind like Geen either.

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KyCardinalFan wrote: Here's kinda the sage I was thinking, although it looks a little more grey here than green. Maybe I can get more time to play with it, and try some of the other color options later. Be advised, Photoshop isn't in my area of expertise - barely a casual acquaintance.

you did a better job than I did and Photoshop is actually like my husband. (sorta)

but yeah the sage I was going for was hard to replicate over that photo also. I went and got samples and literally - I was about to leave and get "weeping willow" which is sort of like that grey but with an olive tint.

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haltz wrote: The ivy walls attract the unemployed drinkers, not ghosts (ghosts aren't real).
The ghosts are going to be really p!ssed off that you said that.

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haltz wrote:
docellis wrote:I love your vision. You need to be on HGTV. I was equally moved by the unemployed drunks as decor - as well as sprouting greenery that might eventually attract ghost baseball players.
The ivy walls attract the unemployed drinkers, not ghosts (ghosts aren't real). Not the good kind like Geen either.
Props to haltz for getting one of the all-time great zings in on Cubs fans.

And yes, I am an unemployed drinker, and the good kind, or so I'd like to think.

/do you know how hard it was to fix all the typos I just made?

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Have you thought about plastering over the wall before you paint? Then no one would know about the brick.

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docellis wrote:I wish it was just the natural color of the original brick...
Can't you sand it or something? I don't think brick takes paint well. Isn't it too porous to be painted?

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docellis wrote:Plastering seems like a big messy job...and I like the brick I just hate the paint job someone else did to it.

I wish it was just the natural color of the original brick...

but it isn't and I think trying to remove the sporadic paint job would be harder than painting over it...?
Are you sure it was sporadically painted and wasn't just originally part of the brick pattern?


If you did match one of the brick colors (Lowe's & Home Depot do that), it would be a lot easier to paint because you can just run a roller along the brick surface and wouldn't need to primer the brick and mortar.

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Arthur Dent wrote:
docellis wrote:I wish it was just the natural color of the original brick...
Can't you sand it or something? I don't think brick takes paint well. Isn't it too porous to be painted?
You just have to prep it really well and use the right kind of paint.

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