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Bob visits with Ron at the Coach House. Ron is installing a railing and newel post on the second floor. He is using 3/8-inch stainless steel marine wire instead spindles to create a unique look. Bob then heads down to the ground floor to meet with Christine Smyth our decorator who demonstrates a rag painting technique.

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Marine Look Banister

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" Okay. Well, most of the works are completed down here and we're really putting in details. Ron's already installed a solid oak newel post here and a rail on the way down to the family room. And this is unusual."

" Yeah. This is an 8-inch stainless steel cable, Bob, the type that you would use on a sailboat."

" On a sailboat, yeah."

" Has the clevis on either end and a turn buckle in the middle."

" The clevis is just a fastening device."

" Right. And all we do is take this clevis pin."

" Yeah."

" Put it right through the clevis, like this."

" And this is it?"

" It snaps right in, sometimes."

" There you go."

" Here we go."

" And then just tighten the turn buckle."

" And you just tighten this turn buckle."

" And you can only get this if you go to a marine supply house----"

" Right. That's----that's why I got it right here in Chicago."

" Or a sailmaker. Yeah, what did you pay for this?"

" This is about a hundred bucks."

" I was gonna say, they're not cheap. It's all stainless----"

" I know."

" but it's a real nice detail. And you would spend that much putting in balusters and painting them and, you know,----"

" Right."

" Spindles or whatever. It looks good. Is this our architect's idea?"

" Yup."

" And it makes code."

" It makes code."

" It looks good. Okay. See you in a bit."

" Bye, Bob."

" Oh hey, Christine! That looks pretty good!"

" Hi, Bob."

" Hi, how are you?"

" I'm fine."

" That's a pretty spectacular color."

" Thanks. Yes, this is pretty bold."

" It is bold, yeah. Now, this is the technique called ragging, right?"

" Ragging, correct."

" Show me all about it."

" Uhm, well it's the one with many painting techniques. This is actually one of the easier ones to do."

" Aha."

" And it creates a very nice [unk] and you tease this by mixing paint thinner with glazing liquid."

" Aha."

" And you add your pigment to add your color lastly to the paint. It sort of like a recipe that you add in and you play with for awhile, so you get the right consistency."

" You couldn't do it just thinning oil-based paint down with some thinner."

" No, you couldn't, you'd need to----"

" You gotta have that glazing compound."

" Right, right."

" What does that do to glazing compound?"

" Uhm, the glazing compound just helps thicken it up and it helps cut the paint thinner so you're not adding too much color because this is a very translucent look and you can kind of see here that I take my rag like this. I kind of scrunch it."

" There you go."

" Until you stab around, right. And it removes the paint from beneath and it----and has a really nice luminous look."

" And that's all there is to it, I mean----"

" That's all there is to it."

" You don't have to come back over this after the stride and put on any kind of the sealer."

" Uhm, you can if you would like. Uhm, you don't need to though."

" If you wanted to give it more depth."

" It's nice to preserve it."

" Yeah."

" That's really what the sealer would be all about."

" Yeah. Well, this is gonna be a pretty fascinating family room that you're doing for us, but you're gonna be back next week with all sorts of----"

" That's right."

" Design ideas, right?"

" That's right. Uhm, I'll be workin in a lot of things this week. We'll see all kinds of furnishings and rugs and----"

" Yeah?"

" All kinds of accessories."

" Good, with lots of furniture moving in, good. I can't wait."

" That's correct."

" I'll let you finish that so because it looks like a little bit of a complex job and I wanna go upstairs and show everybody the second floor. See you later."

" See you."

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