Dining Room with a difference!!!!!

[ptrott]

Below is a link to a web site with pics of the ongoing renovations (to our re-located 1950's house that we got for free), all of which we have done ouselves with great tips and advice from this forums members.
Go down to the last set and take a look at what the wife and I have been up to for the last few weeks.
Phil & Geraldine

http://members.iinet.com.au/~ptrott/ourcastle.html

[Wood Butcher]

Absolutely amazing work Phill.

Congrats to both of you for a wonderful room!!

[OBBob]

Certainly plenty of effort gone into that place ... not bad for a freebie!!

[ptrott]

Thanks for the positive comments Woodbutcher & OBBob.
It has been a lot of effort so far, but very rewarding.
Its a great help having this forum and a wife with artistic flair.

[mixin]

There's no way I'd have the guts to even consider trying to do something like that, but the end result is fantastic!

Without reading the text, I initially thought it was based on Uluru.

[ptrott]

Thanks Mixin.
It was worth taking a chance on it working out. The atmosphere at night with the candles, kero-lamp and the specially chosen moon-light with its soft-glow compact-flouro globe in the middle of the ceiling is awesome. We open the big blind which lets in the starlight from outside and it feels fantastic.
If you ever feel like taking on something that seems difficult but might be worth it, just bl**dy go for it!!! The worst that can happen is you have to paint over it )
We can't wait to get started on the master bedroom now.

[Harry72]

Its something different, you wouldnt guess it from outside.
Well done guys, even though each room is done in a different style it still oozes Australiana!

[Wild Dingo]

Well mates as Ive sat in that dining room and enjoyed the company of both Phil and his wonderful missus I can tell you that it looks FAR better in person ...The bloody great timbers hes used around the doors looks stunning (you doin anything when I get to doin the doors mate?) and although you cant see it Geraldine has painted several trails of ants up the walls along with some of the most wonderful other creatures of the desert in some glorious colors... looks brilliant up close

The reckon they were planning on doing every room in a theme but the flow through from dining room to kitchen (reversed from original) is amazing!! the mini corrigated iron on the lower walls will always remind me of the water tank we used to swim in back when I was a nipper Australiana in perfeckti I reckon

Very talented couple!! And a pleasure to meet by the way

Once Ive convinced her highness to buy a set of those whoppin ten gallon coffee mugs you drink out of we will invite you down ... dont have any as yet and dont want you dryin up of thirst now do we eeer up I meant to say

Cheers
Shane

oooh and you can just see a corner of his bloody whopperdoozy of a shed out the door!! now thats a shed Id be happy muckin about in!

[munruben]

Excellent work congratulations to both of you. Where did you get your ideas from? Fantastic

[ptrott]

Harry, Thanks for the positive comments.

Shane,
Wow,thanks for the extensive positive comments. We enjoyed meeting you too. Looking forward to your invite. Don't forget to drop in anytime you are heading south. If we ever need an advertisement written for anything we'll call you Shane
Check the pic below, it has furniture in it now.

John, thanks for the positive comments.
The dining room started off from the fact that Geraldine likes dragons witches goblins bats etc. (see pics below) and we both really like Aussie and rustic and raw wood. We also set criteria / guidelines,... It had to be Interesting, warm looking, have an outdoors feel so it flowed out the glass door & window, yet look complete with the blind fully shut, thus the aluminium blind to extend the mini-orb across the doorway. It also had to be DIFFERENT With that in mind we set about designing it all.
After much discussion and drawing (we took pictures of each wall and printed them onto A4, then drew ideas onto them, highly recommend that technique) we came up with what we have now.
We also experimented with textured paints and spraying watered down acrylics (for the sunset and clouds on the ceiling) on old fibre-cement sheets until we perfected techniques.
Where there's a will...... There was a fair bit of and and and along the way, but it was well worth it all.