Q & A – Blue Bedroom Door & Pine Tar Front Porch Update

I didn’t get far sufficient on the storage room to share an replace right this moment, so as an alternative, I believed I’d reply a few questions which have been recurring during the last couple of weeks. First up, a number of folks have puzzled what it might appear like if I paint the outside bed room the darkish blue shutter coloration, so I took a couple of minutes to do a fast mockup in order that we are able to see if that is an choice. I additionally added some steps in entrance of the door, however I simply copied and pasted the steps from the entrance porch, so the actual steps received’t look precisely like this. No less than we are able to get a basic thought, although.

Right here’s what the entrance of the home appears like proper now with the bed room door white…

And right here’s the mockup with the bed room door the identical darkish blue because the shutters…

I’ll admit that it appeared like a loopy thought to me, however I form of prefer it. The one factor I don’t like is that my home windows with shutters have a number of white trim exhibiting, and the door is simply all blue with no white. I assume I may attempt portray the primary a part of the door darkish blue and leaving the inside grid across the glass panes white. That may be extra according to the home windows and shutters. It would look one thing like this…

What I had in thoughts was simply utilizing some huge, blue planters to convey the blue to that finish of the home. That might look one thing like this, however you’ll need to ignore the planters that I copied and pasted from the entrance porch…

I nonetheless don’t know. I’m not offered on both thought. It would require some trial and error to search out the correct thought.

The second query I’ve gotten a number of instances is concerning the pine tar on the entrance porch.

I completed the pine tar on the cedar entrance porch about ten days in the past, and thus far, it solely has one coat on it. Sooner or later, I might want to add a second coat, after which subsequent 12 months, I’ll most likely want so as to add a 3rd and remaining coat. I learn that every coat would take 72 hours to dry, so I blocked off the porch in order that nobody would stroll on it for 3 days. After that, I attempted to be very cautious once I walked on it.

The primary day I walked on it after giving it three days to dry, I did discover the slightest little bit of tackiness to the end. It was very slight, and I’d think about that most individuals wouldn’t even discover it. I observed it as a result of I used to be hyper fixated on it. However even with that tiny little bit of tackiness, I wasn’t transferring the colour to every other floor like the ground inside my door or the concrete on the sidewalk. And nothing from the underside of my sneakers was sticking to the porch. I did discover grime from my sneakers tracked onto the porch, nevertheless it wasn’t sticking to the porch.

After that first day of strolling on it, the tackiness went away utterly, and it appeared to be utterly dry. So if I needed to do it once more, I’d most likely block off the porch for 4 days as an alternative of three simply to provide it that one additional day for the entire tackiness to go away earlier than strolling on it. However apart from that, it has been implausible! I nonetheless love the deep, constant coloration, and I’m very anxious to see the way it will put on over the subsequent 12 months.

I believe the time that it takes to dry is totally depending on the local weather. I did the pine tar on my porch throughout some actually scorching and dry days. The temperature was at or above 100 levels throughout these days that it was drying and curing, so I believe that helped to hurry up the method. So if you happen to’re contemplating pine tar and linseed oil, simply understand that linseed oil is a really gradual drying, gradual curing oil, and if you happen to don’t have the recent, dry climate to hurry up that course of, it would take lots longer for it to treatment.

However thus far, so good! I do know it’s solely been ten days, and it’s laborious to suggest a product once I haven’t had extra time to see the way it’s going to face as much as the weather over time. And once more, I do nonetheless must do a second coat, and I’d like to do this through the month of August in order that the recent, dry climate will velocity up the curing course of. However as soon as that’s completed, I’ll preserve y’all up to date on the way it holds as much as the climate right here in central Texas.

Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and enhance the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.