Amazing Kitchen Decorating Ideas: whitewash

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8QZwj3tE4uSIg4UjcDKdEyah3vARdTnTKSxuIaLIjJZ6Ytnn1J2EiDWOksfvF6kR9MpRyElwnJ6zJFbDn8QjrK8iZ8twSjhyphenhyphenNiTT6mY3vtIHlVqRlUMRwys5NCLibINNaO0nUuyfF61-M/s1600/nJuly_1909.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8QZwj3tE4uSIg4UjcDKdEyah3vARdTnTKSxuIaLIjJZ6Ytnn1J2EiDWOksfvF6kR9MpRyElwnJ6zJFbDn8QjrK8iZ8twSjhyphenhyphenNiTT6mY3vtIHlVqRlUMRwys5NCLibINNaO0nUuyfF61-M/s640/nJuly_1909.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />Well, I finally went ahead and whitewashed the brick late one night last week. I held off doing it for the first couple of months we lived here because I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do. The longer we lived here though the more I knew I wanted to go with something lighter for the bricks. Although I actually thought the bricks themselves were pretty, I didn't love how they looked once the mantle was painted and I felt like they were kind of distracting. I was unsure though, if I wanted to paint them or whitewash them so I decided to try whitewashing them first because I could always paint them later. If I went ahead and painted them then I knew I couldn't really undo that. Anyway, I do like how it looks whitewashed better but I don't necessarily love it so I am not sure if it will stay this way or not. I am hoping it will grow on me. I definitely don't NOT like it. It's just that I don't feel as excited about it as a lot of the other painting projects we've done so far in this house. I plan on leaving it this way for now though. Maybe it will grow on me the more I stare at it. 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I'll be back tomorrow.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioCbFFnCV0jWt6gELsz0PcXkWPbDL5iNn8r5HwYPad3lPWHfybTKwi_uV_3QaB__EoLjxUWyKA8Wb9z1mvpPzaJkRiQoh-SkDP7lshK0u4dmKbVFVOc1Vty8t667qBZb2zlyaR-9uc8Cok/s1600/NewSignature.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioCbFFnCV0jWt6gELsz0PcXkWPbDL5iNn8r5HwYPad3lPWHfybTKwi_uV_3QaB__EoLjxUWyKA8Wb9z1mvpPzaJkRiQoh-SkDP7lshK0u4dmKbVFVOc1Vty8t667qBZb2zlyaR-9uc8Cok/s1600/NewSignature.png" /></a></div><br />

Our Whitewashed Brick

Well, I finally went ahead and whitewashed the brick late one night last week. I held off doing it for the first couple of months we lived h...

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I THINK I COULD LIVE IN THE SOUTH</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu8RwUAtniOcbxi-OSTTjBd2Fq18YEwt78iGRreg9bTLfoyYcBJiwEVPrd8T0tGw1KAFC3wkfkbm6FStygwS5TRsKkGFr_KSyianLnhjIMa6IK8myipqT6rq-oA0Re1mHshnVqxqjJTxw/s1600/0531a0d90fd67816_5592-w406-h406-b0-p0--traditional-exterior.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu8RwUAtniOcbxi-OSTTjBd2Fq18YEwt78iGRreg9bTLfoyYcBJiwEVPrd8T0tGw1KAFC3wkfkbm6FStygwS5TRsKkGFr_KSyianLnhjIMa6IK8myipqT6rq-oA0Re1mHshnVqxqjJTxw/s640/0531a0d90fd67816_5592-w406-h406-b0-p0--traditional-exterior.jpg" width="640"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Prior to this, when anyone said 'whitewash' I thought of Tom Sawyer whitewashing Aunt Polly's fence.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: start;">Whitewash</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: start;">, or </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: start;">calcimine</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: start;">, </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: start;">kalsomine</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: start;">, </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: start;">calsomine</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: start;">, or </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: start;">lime paint</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: start;"> is a low-cost type of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none;" title="Paint">paint</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: start;"> made from </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaked_lime" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none;" title="Slaked lime">slaked lime</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: start;"> (calcium hydroxide) and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalk" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none;" title="Chalk">chalk</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: start;"> (whiting). (Wikipedia)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: start;"><br><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">While researching painted brick homes, I came across this treatment for transforming nondescript red brick into something else entirely.     </div><a href="http://yournestdesign.blogspot.com/2013/04/white-wash.html#more">Read more »</a>

WHITE WASH

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