Sep11Written by:Will
9/11/2009
A while back, our house sprung a leak in the form of allowing water to enter the attic through the ceiling. The water does what all water does on earth, it made its way down until it found ground. On its way down, it made sure to soak the dry wall, and destroy the floor in my sons room. Fixing the roof was quite simple, as it just needed to be resealed at a joint. The room however needed a new wall and floor.
Both the floor and wall were going to be taken care of for us, but I decided to do the painting of the wall myself. And since one wall was getting painted, all of the walls needed to be painted. Here’s what the room looked liked once everything was torn out.
Since my son is just as much of a fan of the San Diego Chargers as I am, I decided to make his paint job something he’ll never forget. I got Chargers colors, and executed my plan to make his walls reflect his passion for the team. I began with taping up the walls of course…
Before I can paint, I need to make sure that know where the bolt logo is going. I used a projector to trace the lines where the bolt was to go. Unfortunately, I already had a stripe of blue there too, that I’d have to paint over later.
Now it’s time to begin painting. I started with the white parts.
Now that the white sections were done, I began with the dark blue on the bottom of the wall.
I have the bottom blue done, so I can move on to the top part of the wall, where the lighter blue was planned to be.
With the blue and white sections done, it was time to do the hard part, the bolt. This was going to require extra special attention to get it right, as it was going to be the most visible thing in the room. Everyone would notice if it was wrong. So I began to use great attention to detail to get the painted sections just perfect.
Once I got the yellow part of the bolt done, we had to leave town for two weeks to handle some family business. The room made no progress by itself. once I returned, however, it was back to business. I finished the bolt, and then did the yellow outline on the rest of the wall.
With the major details completed, I was able to finally begin removing the tape on the wall for the last time. At last, I would be able to see the wall as it was intended to look. Everyone that saw it before could not see what I was able to, since I knew what the end product was going to look like.
You might be able to tell from the above pictures that I had some paint bleed through the tape. That’s easily fixed with some touch up work later. Needless to say, my son loves the room. We get his floor installed tomorrow. I cannot wait to put his room back together for the final pictures.
I will post more pictures when the room is completely moved back in.
10 comment(s) so far...
Hi,
Like your room. How did it turn out? Final pictures? My son is a huge charger fan and I want to do something similar. How did you get the bolt that big to trace? What size was it?
Thanks! Good Job!!
By Andrea on
10/20/2009 |
I did a search on images.google.com to find pictures of the San Diego Chargers Bolt. I would have made it myself, but that is a very custom bolt. Then, I projected the bolt onto the wall using a projector, outlining the different colors with a pencil. The final part was to paint the bolt in color phases.
I haven't taken the final pictures yet. Sorry. I will post a comment as soon as I do. Thanks for the compliments! It was my first time for a painting job of this scale.
By Will on
10/20/2009 |
Hi,
I painted my charger room for my son. I am finally getting around to doing the bolt. Have you posted any pictures of your son's room completed and decorated?
thanks!
By Andrea on
6/5/2010 |
What was the size of the stripe? Did you center it to the wall? How large is the actual bolt on the wall?
By Breezy on
6/5/2010 |
@Andrea: The room has been a mess lately. As soon as we get our son to clean it up, I will post pictures. Unfortunately, this is bad timing, because we're in the process of a cross-country move.
@Breezy: The stripe is about an inch wide. To keep things easy, I used painters tape to mark in the inside and outside of the stripes, depending on the color I was working on at the time.
By Will on
6/5/2010 |
I finally have those pics up for you in a new blog post. Sorry for the LONG delay. :)
By Will on
6/13/2010 |
My son is 11 years old he saw your son's room and now he wants to do the same to his room we were just going to paint it with the light blue and trims in dark blue, how wide did you do the Dark Blue and the Light Blue also did you also did you paint the celling white or did you take the light blue all the way up to the ceiling.
By Liz on
7/25/2010 |
We repainted the ceiling, but left it white. The thickness of the colors was either determined by the width of the tape (because I knew of no easier way), or it was due to the logo itself. In the logo, I didn't predetermine the widths. I just traced out the logo itself, so the width is variable, depending on which part of the logo you're looking at.
By Will on
7/25/2010 |
You have no clue how helpful this site has been to us! We started painting our basement with a color match of the Glidden Chargers throwback blue but when it was converted to Behr it came out PURPLE. So back to Home Depot (returned the paint-- that was a miracle in and of itself!) and followed your pic of the color "isle of Capri". PERFECT MATCH! We're also planning to do the same white band and dark blue on the bottom of the wall (on just one wall behind the couch) as well as the giant lightning bolt. Do you have any ideas for the stairway leading to the basement? All white just seems a bit boring... but we don't want to make it look like a circus. PS: we're painting over paneling in the stairway because it's just too difficult/time-consuming/GLUE-covered to remove. Thanks!
By Sue on
7/29/2010 |
To me, the stairway would be cool if you used a similar color pattern, maybe omitting the white stripe, and opting for the gold instead. Then, get a few of those wall graphics from fathead. A couple of framed goodies from your local memorabilia shop would look great there too! :)
I am happy to help. Just post some pics when you're done to share with us!
By Will on
7/29/2010 |