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Discussing the Hallway Walls

Bob shows us the long curved wall in the loft's hallway. The wall serves as a divider between private and public spaces as well as providing a lot of storage. It was made in the shop off site with plywood and masonite and then brought back to the loft and installed. The additional storage allows for fewer freestanding pieces of furniture. The wall effect continues to the front and is accented by yellow paint that is painted from dark to light. Bob meets with TJ the painter who gives us some pointers on painting with a spray gun. He says that to avoid messes you must keep the gun one foot away from the spraying surface, move it at a consistent rate, and overlap passes for complete coverage. For a gradient effect, spraying is superior to rolling. TJ fades the paint by backing off with speed and stepping away from the wall. Bob reminds us to clean the machine, nozzles, and hoses before switching shades and colors.

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Discussing the Hallway Walls

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" But one of the key design elements of our -- project is this. Rather long curved wall which you're looking at here and when you think about the the loft space the ross' face having been nothing more than rectangular. Tall kind of space this really really makes a very important statement. Is it not only. Splits the space into a little -- a private bedroom area and then all this other open area it also provides a huge amount of storage we built all of these units off site. They're all. Basically made out of plywood brought here and then installed up against the existing. -- wall and the curved metal wall that we constructed the doors. Themselves are made out of basically mason like panels that we created some of the storage areas that we put in our full. Florida ceiling areas that will allow us to put in lots of shelf Spirit of the space is you know this is the kind of living where you don't. Bring in lots of furniture when you don't have lots of dressers and cabinets and the like. But it is the kind of space where you want to have as many built in features as you possibly can. And here again as I was saying a minute ago all of this is built in storage including down here including the space which will have a stainless steel top on it. And then of course you get the the the continued effect into the front of the room. We have the whole kind of art. Completed right at this element over here but the key thing to was that the paint and in order it'd get to this kind of subtle different shades of yellow that we've accomplished we used to spray technique. Let's watch."

" CJ yeah. OK good. I don't have a particle -- done this to drop right away and you don't break out. Let me ask you one question about techniques Q and a lot of weekender like the rent us racism and locked news reached out. Can you give us a couple of tips on how you avoid masses -- you get a nice even job like that sure is about what things number one you want to keep your done. About twelve inches away from his -- service at a uniform level that -- that exactly that you don't. Have an inconsistent. Sprayed -- and have you done yeah. You'll also want to move. At a rate -- speed that's completely consistent. So that you don't put more material -- also creating an inconsistent speech is what you're saying is if you if you slow down and stop in one place you're gonna build up any exactly and that's what will cause dripping -- sagging down the side of the exactly OK. Also you want to. Pass. Halfway over your previous pass OK of that your also. Having a complete coverage. Once you've completed your friend okay. And then the big question is why bother why are we spring instead of -- me. Here we've got. I kind of an unusual request we want to go from a dark shade or tone of this yellow to very light one there's three different colors of paint that you're using. You can't really create that same. Sprayed. Color variation with rolling as opposed to. Spring one -- the next. I'm fading out. To the previous -- that was sprayed right now to create that baby back off Kuwait from the from the surface a little bit yes paint on this."

" Yeah -- that -- With the speed and I've backed away more troops 234 feet. Further away from my office -- service therefore. Fading out okay."

" Shades of paint tone very good different color remembers very important to. Fully clean machine the nozzle and not to forget the polls."

" So it's really great. How many -- Be putting up. Formula that entered you have to do two -- three -- spring like that. This is the final finish coat and who's going to fade into the previous -- into a lighter shade that's over here right so here you've been spraying at about a foot distance what do you do when you start to make that transition. -- make the transition we're gonna fade out. Which means we're going to increase the distance away from the springs surface okay let's watch you do that. That that something you never accomplished with a world."

" Very nice very nice saw. It's latex material -- relatively quickly him about a half hour about a half an hour of the -- thanks BJ's the next job."

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