Decided on my studio color and flooring, picture here...

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Not an ACTUAL picture... but at Pergo they have a thing where you can try different wall colors with different flooring, etc...
here is what I picked http://www.pergo.com/PergoDesign/US/US_Room_View/1,1033,USA,00.html
It should take you to the burgundy colored walls and cherry inlay floor. I am even going with the white trim at the bottom of the walls, and probably with a matching LENRD bass traps in the corners, and recessed dimmer lighting. Classy, I think. Best garage I have ever seen. :)
Gonna be killer. Cant wait.
 
I am kinda torn between that one and the New England Burled Walnut flooring. Man thats some good looking shit.
What do you guys like better?
 
Well they both look cool.
Usually, you want the floors and walls to contrast. I think your first choice does a better job of doing that.

The Burled Walnut looks good, but it might be just a tad too busy for my taste.
 
Cool. I think I will still use the Burled Walnut somewhere in the house though, maybe the dining room. I like it.
We decided on 9 foot ceilings, since bass freaks at at 4 foot intervals, and 10 foot will be a bitch to work with during construction. With the flooring the height will come down like 1 inch.
What color bass traps and stuff do you think would go well?
 
You have the burgandy walls right?
Burgandy and "Hunter Green" look great together.

Have you thought about doing like a rag rolling technique when you paint? Dude, it looks SO cool!
Its a bitch because you basically have to paint the room twice (once for the base color, , and once for the technique) But damn!! Its worth every bit of the effort!

I did that technique in my current studio here.
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How do you do that, exactly?
Any suggestions on some cool, dark mood lighting? I'd like to have some kind of light stationary system that makes just a cool pattern on the walls and stuff.
 
It takes 2 colors. In your case, say a light burgandy, and a darker burgandy.

Paint the walls just as you normally would, using the light burgandy.
Let it dry for 2 days. (After 24 hrs its dry, but still kind of... soft. So its best to let it dry for 2 days.)

Take the darker burgandy, and mix it half and half with whats called glazing. Its sold at your local Home depot. It looks like liquid starch.
The glazing thins out the paint and keeps it from drying out too fast so that you have time to work with it, and also keeps the paint from... gumming up as you work with it.

Take a rag, (you'll need a BUNCH!) and like grab the corners and twist it up. Kinda like you used to do with gym towels! ;)
Then dab the rag in the paint/glaze compound. Cover it well, but don't soak it in the paint.
Go over to the wall and "roll" the rag over the wall using both hands. You'll see the intricate patterns it makes in the wall with the darker color!

Best to have 2 people doing it so you don't end up with a "seam" when you go to re-load your rag with paint. So the two of you kind of "switch off".

When the rag becomes saturated with paint, throw it away and grab a new one.

Wear throw away rubber gloves.

Its SO easy to do, and looks so good!

Home Depot's got pamphlets and even seminars on how to it.
 
Tube,

Cool link there! Just picked out the colors for my new place with it... I'll be painting right after the holiday so that was great timing. Thanks! Your room should look sweet with the colored auralex up as well . I've done some rag/sponging effects michael is talking about. very easy, with awesome results.

The best part is- you know when the paint is going on that you're getting close to being done!

DAN
 
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