Sentences with phrase «old plaster»

Annie describes Antoinette as the color of washed out roses and the color of old plaster.

She experimented with a golden oak wood stain on the rough stucco walls to give them the look of old plaster.

In the living room, Pat experimented with a golden oak wood stain on the rough stucco walls to give them the look of old plaster.

The old plaster lamps got some new burlap shades and I love the texture they add.

I've had many white walls in my homes but the wall texture usually is so gorgeous by themselves that they don't need a color, like my old plaster walls or wood walls.

My fave two are the one with the pictures mounted on the chair rail... wonderful idea for those of us who live with 108 + year old plaster walls... and the colors of the one after that... the little window seat.Beautiful living indeed.

We love our home — it's a ton of work, but it's really turning into our dream home I'm not sure where you're referencing to in our office, but I think all of the walls are original (they're all the old plaster).

Through the years I've been guilty of «buying into» a few of the more popular trends i.e. ceramic or stone farm animals (often with wired - ribbon bows tied around their necks) 1984, artificial flower arrangements 1980 - something, twig sprays, hunter green carpet (ugh), faux paint effects on walls 1990 - something (I never did the sponge painted walls, but the mottled look mimicking old plaster, I was there!)

We had some very old plaster that didn't always like to be disturbed.

The we hired some plasterers to smooth down all the walls except for the one surrounding the windows, as the old plaster was in such bad nick it would come crumbling off with so much as a sneeze.

My instincts say to plank the walls but they are super old plaster and that's ridiculous:) My favorite picture is the one you put just after the white concrete coountertops picture — it's a big kitchen with those neat wood floors.

We have an old plaster house so we were planning on using flat where we can to avoid highlighting any blemishes and cracks

That is much easier said than done when you live inside a farmhouse with old plaster walls, but it the process was easy enough anyway.

Things I absolutely love about this space: ☆ The adorable hello doormat ☆ The milk can turned umbrella stand ☆ The waves and cracks in this old plaster wall ☆ The old painted door ☆ The yellow rain boots I bought to wear on my wedding day in case it rained (I now wear them when working outside!)

Not exact matches

Customers who are especially interested in history can choose to stay in «original historic rooms,» in the oldest building of the hotel, which have «uneven floors and walls, original plaster and exposed brick, and double brass beds.»

and way more fun than a mustard plaster, as old fashioned remedies go.

Chris Burford almost got his shoulder torn off, but he stuck a little old piece of plaster on it and kept playing.

As they use to say on the old George Plaster listening programs, «It's getting spicy!»

An eight - millimeter movie projector to the left of the ring is clacking and spinning, throwing sepia - tinted images onto a blank area of the crumbling plaster wall: films of the roughly sixteen - year - old Cassius Clay jumping rope and blistering a heavy bag and a speed bag.

The cracks are widening and the plaster used is old It just does not stick anymore and soon falls off the wall

This bill, according to experts and city elected officials, addresses an increasing problem of investors who acquire older properties to flip them for profit without making needed repairs, such as finding the source of a leak rather than just plastering over a water - logged wall.

The crystals act like horsehair in old - fashioned plaster, cross-reinforcing the crack - prone amorphous metal.

But according to radiocarbon dating of burnt wood bits found in the plaster and from surrounding strata, it is by far the oldest known Mayan writing — dating from between 300 and 200 B.C., which is roughly concurrent with the earliest writings of other Mesoamerican cultures.

The 2009 specimen turns out to be a juvenile, just under a year old, judging from its bone growth, and it shows signs of having been coated in fuzz that was plastered against its body after death.

Furthermore, by covering the 150 - million - year - old hindquarters of that giant sauropod in a sturdy plaster jacket — a method that enabled him to safely ship and store the beast's delicate remains — he helped establish a critical collecting technique that is still used by paleontologists around the world.

Researchers used an inexpensive plaster composite material to create heart models of a 9 - month - old girl, 3 - year - old boy and a woman in her 20s all of whom had complex congenital heart defects.

They remodeled their pyramids at regular intervals, burying the old structures in reed bags full of rocks, tossing in sacrificial objects (clay figurines, human sacrifices), and covering everything with a new skin of cut stone and colored plaster.

and i must be older than you because my room was plastered in duran duran....

I didn't expect to like it so much and it seems to have a much better adherence level than my homemade plaster paint, especially on some of the older french provintial furniture that has the almost «formica» type dresser tops.

During a packed performance at London's famed West End Apollo Theatre on Thursday night, part of the century - old structure's ornate plaster ceiling collapsed injuring 76 people.

In playing around with paint this week I decided to give this sweet plaster angel an Old World look, like something you might find in a French Flea Market.

They «force» us (ouch, my twisting arm) to look at the, um, «crotchal region» by plastering the release date right over the old Bond jewels.

If you want to use the Plaster, you will need a paint like Glidden Premium (Home Depot — check label - they still sell the old formula without primer or Easy Care Brand paint sold at your local hardware store or Sears.

Like two of the year's other standout American films, Kelly Reichardt's «Old Joy» and Ryan Fleck's «Half Nelson,» it's a movie of ideas in which the ideas flow effortlessly out of the material instead of being plastered on top with a heavy cement roller (as in «Crash,» «Babel» and «Little Children»).

Faces Places: The great 89 - year - old French New Wave director Agnès Varda, and the photographer and muralist known as JR, who is 34, travel the French countryside creating large - scale photo portraits of villagers that they then plaster onto the sides of buildings.

High school students from Montclair Kimberley Academy in New Jersey have received 150 million - year - old dinosaur bones encased in rock and packed in plaster.

From the back of another drawer I take out a photo of me and my older sister when we were little, the two of us on a beach somewhere with grins plastered across our faces.

This type of policy may cover the cost of rebuilding features of an older home, such as plaster walls, with alternative materials more commonly used today.

Old houses have plaster on the walls and ceilings, whereas new houses are built with drywall.

This means that instead of repairing or replacing features typical of older homes — like plaster walls — with like materials, the policy will pay for repairs using today's standard building materials and construction techniques.

Ornate plaster ceilings tell of legendary parties and infamous patrons of old, while 89 rooms and suites boast of luxury and modern convenience.

17 X 11 X 7 FT Acrylic, plaster, wood, plexiglass, foam, nails, laminate, rope, drywall, aluminum, linoleum, and plastic in the old Morton Hotel Basement.

The participating artists are Nina Canell: Perpetuum Mobile (40 kg)(2009 - 2010), Pavel Büchler: Modern Paintings (1999 - 2000), Johannes Vogl: Untitled (Machine to produce jam breads, 2007, Monica Bonvicini: Plastered (1998), Ariel Orozco: Doble Desgaste (2005), Michael Landy: Breakdown (2001), Arcangelo Sassolino: Untitled (2007), Liz Larner: Corner Basher (1988), Jonathan Schipper: The Slow Inevitable Death of American Muscle (2007 - 2008), Christian Marlcay: Guitar Drag (2000), Roman Signer: Rampe (ramp, 2008), Nina Beier and Marie Lund: History makes a Young Man Old (2008)(rolling a crystal ball), Kris Martin: 100 years (2004)(bomb), Ariel Schlesinger: Bubble Machine (2006), Alex Hubbard: Cinéopolis (2007), Martin Kersels: Tumble Room (2001), Jimmie Durham: St. Frigo (1996), Alexander Gutke: The White Light of the Void (2002), Michael Sailstorfer.

Thomas Eakins Seated Cross Legged with His Palette, 1907, cast 1909 Samuel Murray (1869 — 1941) Plaster, metal and wood, 9 1/2 x 9 5/8 x 8 3/4 inches Gift of Dr. Christine I. Oaklander in memory of Dr. William Innes Homer, a superb teacher and scholar of American art, 2012 In 1886, 17 - year - old Samuel Murray began to study art with the painter Thomas Eakins (1844 — 1916) at the newly founded Art Students League of Philadelphia.

Using materials she has found in and around the South London Gallery building — planks of wood, an old staircase, floorboards, sheets of plexiglass, plaster and paint — supplemented by others inspired by the material and atmospheric qualities of the space observed in the course of making the work, Djordjadze has created an installation which gently but thoroughly infiltrates our reading and negotiation of the room.

Other works relate to the teaching of students in the Royal Academy Schools and include prints from the Renaissance onwards, plaster casts of Antique sculpture, copies of Old Master paintings and the only marble by Michelangelo in the UK.

Although the endgame is high Modernism, including Abstract Expressionists (de Kooning, Frankenthaler, Motherwell, Diebenkorn) and Pop (Lichtenstein), Elderfield first trots out a number of Old Masters, including Chardin, Eakins and Gerome, with a provocatively Pygmalionesque portrait of himself carving a plaster figure of Tanagra.

Hannah Greely's old - fashioned restaurant booth echoes George Segal, but Segal's white - plaster figure has long gone.

The painter's work space, upstairs in her Kent cottage, is positively plastered in old newspaper, all the walls and floors and furniture, a kind of installation in itself.

Materials are used either for their function — screws, felt stuffing, clamps — or for the figurative associations they create: sticking plasters suggest limbs, old motorbiking leathers, a knee or elbow crease.