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Painting the Victorian's Exterior

Bob checks out painter Mike Suarez spraying water-based stain on the exterior. In a counter intuitive approach Mike starts out low and works his way up the side of the house. This is to get the bottom side of each shingle. They put on two coats of the water-based stain from Sears. The first one thinned down so it deeply sinks into the wood. Bob takes a tour of Martha�s Vineyard with paint consultant Sherry Hiller to look at local color schemes. Bob visits the most often photographed house on the vineyard, the Wooden Valentine, in shades of pink. These are not traditional Victorian colors but are historic to the Campground area�s �Ice Cream Shop� colors.
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Painting the Victorian's Exterior

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" You're doing a nice job here, but shouldn't you start at the top and come on down?"

" Not necessarily in this type of application. What we want to do is start here low and then we angle up like this so we get underneath the shutter and get all the butt ends."

" And you hit the butt ends like that. Yeah."

" Yes. Exactly."

" Now I wonder about the stain itself. Don't you have to worry about overspray and dripping and all of that?"

" Well, no. We've got it thinned down just a little bit and what happens is this is gonna saturate directly into the wood."

" After that, our second coat, our finish coat, will lay on top and provide the final protection, but we really want to get it right into the wood so it seals it nice and tight."

" What kind of a stain are we using?"

" We're using a water-base stain, a Sears product."

" Let me have a try."

" Would you like to? Yeah."

" Is that alright?"

" Yes. Sure."

" You just press and you go, right?"

" Just. Right. The trigger's right here and you just. Yeah. See how easy that is?"

" Oh, yes. It can turn into."

" Very easy."

" A lot of fun."

" Yeah."

" Well, while I'm laying with this spray paint sprayer, I think I'd like our viewers to take a little stroll to Martha's Vineyard with Sherry Hiller, our paint consultant, and you'll get an idea how we chose these colors. I don't know. I don't really like yellow houses."

" Well, Bob, a lot of people do. In fact, the Victorians loved yellow and everything in the oaker family from the yellows and to the browns."

" This house has a little brown, too. Yeah."

" Yes, it sure does. The green makes a great accent and it's always used in this type of color combination for a Victorian."

" I love the green and I also like the green roof shingles. "

" Isn't that nice?"

" Most people think that you have to have a great roof for a Victorian, but gosh, greens and reds are acceptable."

" Yeah. Let's look at some other alternatives."

" Sure."

" Well, what do you think of this?"

" Well, Bob, here we've got a traditional Victorian scheme gone astray I think. The oaker, the green, and the white are beautiful for a Victorian architecture."

" But, boy, that violet sure stands out."

" Yeah. It's really fighting."

" Yes."

" Some might say it's clashing. Well, I'm sure is this the most awesome photographed house on all of Martha's Vineyard."

" That's exactly right. In fact, that's called the Wooden Valentine to say it's appropriate."

" Yeah. Is the color scheme Victorian?"

" No, not at all. In fact, it's more of the colors that are quite appropriate for the campgrounds. They're the seaside, summertime, almost cotton candy or ice cream colors."

" Well, let's see if we can find something that's really right for our house."

" Let's see that. Bob, these next 3 houses make a very interesting story."

" Here we have one very Victorian. Again, that oaker that you're not fond of."

" The yellow there."

" Plus the brown and the green as well. Very Victorian."

" That's a neat."

" That's earth tone color."

" Neat little house. I like this."

" Yes. This softens those colors somewhat. The green is very nice and I like this rose and beige and contrast with it."

" Yeah. If you'd said pink and green house, I wouldn't have thought, but I like that."

" It's nice."

" And what about this?"

" How do you like this one? Not Victorian at all, but it certainly shows those ice cream colors that we saw earlier. Quite appropriate for the campground."

" Yeah. The colors individually I like. I'm not sure that the combination is as Victorian as I want to go."

" No."

" This I think is more in keeping with. Do you have any chips that. Yeah."

" What? Yeah. We'll take a look at some colors here on my."

" The green is a pleasant green. It's not a celadon, but it's a nice view."

" Well, we've got some things that are very nice. In here, we could do for a body color."

" To the body of the house and then for the trim."

" Why don't we accent that? How about this cottage pink? Would be very Victorian."

" Well, you know that our windows are burgundy."

" And that would be a nice combination."

" Pinks and burgundy and greens, and then what about our verge board and other details like that? The white lace concept that."

" That's right. We want to keep that lacy look. Something like this corner chip here that's very light and white would be perfect."

" Very light gray. Well, let's get to work on that."

" Alright."

" Sherry, thanks for your help."

" Oh, certainly, Bob."

" I'll tell you, Mike. All these little details are really gonna make a difference here. It's looking so good."

" Yeah."

" Now we're making it change from a shingled wall to a clapboard wall."

" Right. Yeah."

" Do you have to make any change?"

" No, not at all. We'll spray the exact same way that we just finished spraying the shingles. The same thing including spraying underneath."

" Like this so we get all the butt ends right underneath all the way up."

" Okay."

" One straight fluid motion. Very easy. Very simple."

" So it's the same nozzle setting?"

" Exactly the same thing. The same consistency of the paint. Everything is the same."

" And again, it's a water-based paint so that it's."

" Yes, it is. It's gonna soak right directly into the wood for the first coat and the second coat will lay right on top nice and pretty."

" And cleaning the nozzles and everything must be pretty easy."

" It's a snap."

" An absolute snap."

" Now why are you using a brush stroke over here? I noticed that Nancy is the trim there with a brush."

" Right. Nancy is putting on the first of 2 coats, the first being the primer base coat and the second being the finish coat. When I spray, in other words, I can spray up to here."

" Nancy's coat will come and cover right over that first coat. Second coat will any overmiss or any spray that like that will finish it off."

" Yeah."

" And that will be your finished product."

" Okay."

" We'd like a nice brush stroke, a nice finish stroke on the trim."

" Yeah."

" Of course you can't do that with a machine."

" Exactly. So she cuts in first and then she puts in long strokes."

" Long brush strokes. Let the paint float right on and then smooth it right out."

" Wonderful."

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