John cougar little pink houses
After the board had dried, I gave it another light sanding.The evolution of heartland rocker John Mellencamp can be easily charted through the various monikers he’s put on his album covers. I alternated between the two colours to create a layered effect. Using a large craft brush, I did a dry brush technique, wiping away most of the paint onto a piece of paper towel first and then running the brush in long strokes across the board. To give a layered beachy look, I used two similar colours to make it appear weathered – Behr Marquee Celadon (one of the 2016 colour trends!) and Behr Marquee Recycled Glass (leftover from our Kitchen Stool Makeover last year).
This board wasn’t going anywhere!Īfter the stain and glue had a chance to dry overnight, I gave everything a light sanding to add to the rustic finish. Garrett gave the whole board a light coat of stain using a mixture of whatever odds and ends we had in the basement.Īfter it had dried for about 30 minutes and was less tacky, he glued the board back together with heavy duty carpenters glue and clamped it in place overnight. While we were beating it up, the board cracked! Thankfully this wasn’t a big deal, as we could easily glue it back together and it only added to the rustic look. For now, I just beat the board up on top of a folded up drop cloth to keep the floor safe from overzealous hammering on my part.Īfter it was pretty beat up, we took a rasp to the edges to weather them, followed by a quick sanding to get rid of any sharp edges or splinters. We’re slowly working on getting it into a more functional all year shop with a worktable and tool storage.
This half of the basement has become a makeshift workshop for the winter months…and storage for random things we need to fix like that gym equipment on the right. The distressing part is always fun – hitting it with hammers, mallets, screwdrivers, chains – whatever we could find in our basement. I started off with a piece of leftover pine board from one of our projects this summer. This year for his birthday gift, I thought I’d surprise him with a beachy wooden sign with a variation of the lyrics for them to hang up in their own “little pink house”. He’d always liked John Cougar Mellencamp’s “Pink Houses” and now he and my mom had their own. He said he liked having a pink house.įinally he confessed one day why he didn’t want to repaint it. Since then family and friends have all offered to help out to paint it – maybe another nice Florida house colour like green or blue? But he never budged. Coming from a country where you rarely see people straying from the usual neutral exterior colour palette, it seemed like such a whimsical colour choice. When my parents’ first bought their Florida home back in 2012, we all loved to tease my dad about his “little pink house”.