Zircon retro music room: RESENE
Have a special spot where you like to rock out?
Visually frame your favourite armchair with a soundwave-inspired floor design in your jam space. Start with 2-3 basecoats in Resene Walk-on flooring paint tinted to your colour of choice.
Once dried fully, return your armchair to its place and use a few tiny pieces of masking tape to mark where its outer corners reach. Move your chair back to a safe, clean place.
Use your masking marks to find the approximate centre of your chair. Using the pin and string method, use a chalk pencil to mark five to eight concentric circles, making the largest one slightly bigger than the size of your chair. You can do this by anchoring one end of the string to the floor in the spot you determined was the centre. Tie your chalk pencil to the other end of the string. The length of string will be the radius of your widest circle. While pulling the pencil tight on the string, draw your first circle.
If the string was kept taught, the circle should come out perfectly. Re-tie your chalk pencil a few centimetres shorter on the string and draw another circle. Repeat until you’re happy with the number and position of your circles.
Using a steady hand, work slowly to paint the rings of your ‘soundwave’ using a testpot of Resene Alabaster in a single thick coat.
For your piano bookcase, first, paint it in two coats of Resene Lustacryl semi-gloss waterborne enamel tinted to Resene Alabaster. Next, measure the height of
your bookcase.
Figure out how many white keys you would like your piano to have, then divide your measurement by that number. Use a ruler and a pencil to mark equal increments along the front and back edge of your bookcase and use a straight edge to connect your marks horizontally.
Your black keys will rest centered in between most of your white keys, with one black key ‘missing’ following a 2-3-2-3 pattern. The vertical ‘width’ of these black keys should be approximately half that of the white keys, and they should only be approximately 2/3 as long. Use a ruler, pencil and straight edge to mark their placement along the back edge of your bookcase. Then, use painter’s tape to mask along the outside edges of each black key. Paint these masked areas in two coats using a testpot of Resene All Black.
Once your black keys have dried, use a small artist’s brush to paint the lines in between your white keys using a testpot of Resene All Black.
Get inspired at your local Resene ColorShop, www.resene.co.nz/colorshops
