Great looking (and huge!) job Mssr & Mme Inside Out!! It will be fun seeing comparison objects against your final job. Penguin time... Without correction, automatic camera exposure will turn both a dark object and a field of snow to 18% gray value.
Yeah the colors are way off on my computer, too. The trailer inside looks good, but the new "sample" piece (must be a cover plate of some type because of the rivet holes), appears 10x darker than "before" and nothing like the trailer interior photo. If the interior shot is the correct color, it will be great.
Good Work!
The "real" color is much more like the interior shot, it is darker than the "original" but not as dark as it appears in the scan. It looks like coarse beach sand in real life.
Good guess Joe! It's a cover plate for the access to the truck wiring harness - it's up front under the kitchen cabinet so the PO had never gotten to it with her sponge painting. I wanted to keep a sample of the old, so we made a new coverplate to use instead.
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Great looking (and huge!) job Mssr & Mme Inside Out!! It will be fun seeing comparison objects against your final job. Penguin time... Without correction, automatic camera exposure will turn both a dark object and a field of snow to 18% gray value.
I know photo variations occur, but it's disappointing not being able to portray the true feel of the color. I scanned the coverplates at work, and took pains to get the colors "right" there and then they are so different at home and I assume on everybody else's computer - who knows what you all are seeing! Oh well...
We stripped off all the masking last night and I've got a late meeting this morning, so I'll be home in the daylight (for a change!) and be able to take some more pics...otherwise, it'll be about two weeks before I get another chance - I leave town Friday for 10 days.
Shari
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I agree with Bill, I think you have it backwards. Aluminum screen is pretty readily available - galvanized is more difficult to come by. It's the used is what you need to use in the 50's Hehr windows. The aluminum is not strong enough to hold the crimp to stay in the frame. There isn't anything else that holds it in, just the screen itself. We were able to find the galvanized screen at our mom & pop hardware store before when VTS carried it - but it would have been a lot easier to have just ordered it - we ran all over town before we found it, big box stores only had aluminum & fiberglass.
Shari
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Now that the Zolatone is done, I've ordered our linoleum. It will be installed next week...we decided to go with Marmoleum's "Artoleum" Mineral - Color: Tiger Eye #5713. It'll blend really well with the Zolatone and all the wood cabinets.
In the meantime, we are going to be starting the cabinet work this weekend. We will be re-building the dinette, building the twin beds from scratch based on the "hacked up twins turned double" that were there and re-veneering most of the cabinet doors to get rid of the white paint and water stain remnants. Then re-finishing everything to match the original birch interior as close as we can.
I'll take pics as we get into it and along the way - stay tuned!
Shari
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by the way, where are you sourcing both the marmoleum and laminate?
-Marcus
I'm a Commercial Interior Designer...so I am able to get alot of the materials at cost from vendors I use. The linoleum we are having installed by the same guy that did our '64 GT Gerry Lynch - Lynch Floorcovering. He did a fabulous job on the first one...so we're having him do it again.
We haven't yet purchased the laminate - so I'm not sure exactly who we are going to get it from.
Shari
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...it has a real "retro" look to it, very similar to laminates of the 50's. The color is a spot on match with the background color of our Zolatone - a "light chocolate milk" color and kinda looks like fabric. Nevamar Vision Vava #VA-2002
Shari
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It's been a couple of weeks since I last posted to this thread...but we have been busy, Busy, BUSY working on Birdy!
We got the linoleum installed...we're really happy with how it ties the Zolatone & the cabinet finish sample together. There is woodwork between the floor and the walls everywhere in this trailer and the grey & orange-ish flecks in the linoleum are a perfect blend of the walls and the wood.
Shari
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We also decided on the wood finish and got to work on the first batch of cabinets. Being that we are doing this whole thing in our garage instead of an oversized shop, we figure it will take about four or five batches of finishing.
We have two different formulas for the color-matching of old birch and new solid &/or birch veneers. For the old wood (which is oxidized with age) we are using one coat of a 4:1 ratio of clear to amber Shellac. The new wood (which is lighter) we are using one coat of straight amber Shellac. Then each are coated withe four coats of General Finishes Arm-R-Seal Urethane in a Gloss finish.
Shari
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Without correction, automatic camera exposure will turn both a dark object and a field of snow to 18% gray value.
I wanted to keep a sample of the old, so we made a new coverplate to use instead. 
Oh well...
It will be installed next week...we decided to go with Marmoleum's "Artoleum" Mineral - Color: Tiger Eye #5713. It'll blend really well with the Zolatone and all the wood cabinets. 
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