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Lime Wash - here in Aussieland you can buy it ready made up but I once asked a painter to use it and he made his own. It's basically a clear varnish with slaked lime added. As at your local paint store.

cheers
john
 
Cool John, love lime finishes. It looks good on pine, great on clear fir, and oak too!
I've got a box of wood samples with lime finishes, that I collected at work over the years. We had to match a designers sample almost every macys job. Each one of them were different, with a touch of some other pigment. I love Lime finishes!!!
Most bizzar finish I've seen, was last year. The designers used a giant diagonal checker board design, on walls, fixtures etc. Some were dark mahogany and light anigre, some with the mahogany and a painted mdf, that was pewter colored. Some in Maple stained with Analine dyes. Wow!!! You can see them in Macys flagship stores. It was last years theme. But what a hassle machining all the parts. The squares were about 3' square.(meter?) Every square had to be perfect, and edge routed for splines to join the pcs. These were fastened from the back side to framing.
Gawd was it beautiful finishes. Some of the walls were 40' long, and took up about 200 pcs. The pattern had to return on the ends, which meant lock mitering each peice. Talk about a mind fuck listing all the parts and numbering them. Plus the grains had to match in flitch number and grain direction, as the veneers were custom sheared from flitches in New York, and each flitch had a little different color. Plus, the veneers had to be custom laid on MDF, at a DIAGONAL to save waste. Ha! Bet ya never seen diagonal grains on a panel! I made a bunch of little boxes from the cutoff and sold them in the park behind my house during craftshow days. I love to do that kind of stuff too!! Used to have a big shop in my city, that I would build everything for resturaunts and other types of business. But I really get off on crafts and custom fixturing.
I've done a lot of Audio/Video fixture work for a company in Texas called Sound Vision. They provide Audio/Visuall packages for studios, merchandising, and other types of business's. Even jails. Ha! Built a GIANT console for the Sacramento jail one time. Wow, talk about equipment. Sheeeeeze! Also built a instore DJ console for a big electronics store, that ran a six screen, surround sound, audio visuall extravaganza marketing tool. Man, talk about cables from hell!!! Six panasonic GIANT multiscreen vidio monitor arrays. And amplifier rooms. Crap. The cableing schematics were 23 "E" sheets big. Bla bla bla. Sorry.
fitz
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OOPS, damn DD, started to thankyou for the pics, and saw Johns post, and naturally if you talk wood and stuff, I'm going to bla bla my .02

So what are you going to do? build out the framing to match the sheetrock? You say your going to use adhesive for the trim to sheetrock connection. That should seal it pretty good to. But are you going to fasten it to the jamb with nails or adhesive too.
Just tryin to find out how other people are doing these details. I'll be facing them myself by summer if I have it my way:D But crap, I haven't even found a house yet.
Ha! What ever I find, its going to have either a prebuilt seperate building or room for me to build one myself, which I would prefer. I'm going to be looking into that material knightfly was talking about for the exterior shell. Seems pretty interesting, but thats a while off. Well thanks again DD. That helps. BTW, how come your jambs are narrow?

fitz:)
 
Rick - Not being a construction guy I figured I would use non-hardening silicone adhesive between the trim and door jamb. I figure the liquid nails sets up pretty hard so the silicone would help decouple the sheetrock - trim - door jamb connection. Every little bit helps I guess.

Not sure what you meant by the door jamb being so narrow. What you see is the 2"x4" framed opening then the 1"x4" jamb ready to install hinges and door. Are you talking about the distance from the sheetrock edge to the door jamb?

I'm sure the trim thickness will be a little wierd because of the RC holding the sheetrock out from the wall. Then again, I guess I could use a standard size trim butted up against the sheetrock then place half-round trim over the seam (sheetrock to trim seam). See, ya got me thinking. reaching for the Motrin :D

DD
 
Then again,I guess I could use a standard size trim butted up against the sheetrock then place half-round trim over the seam (sheetrock to trim seam)
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Yep, thats what I meant. Hindsight is usually 20/20 It SEEMS that the standard jamb would be 1/2" narrow with RC on one face. IF you had a table saw, you could cut custom jambs from wider stock, to match the sheetrock face to sheetrock face dimension. It would come out cleaner, but if your jambs are already in place, oh well. However, two layers of trim might look good. I personally hate 1/2 rounds like that. It always looks like a mistake cover to me. Actually, thats what its for.:D With 2 layers of trim, you can offset the second layer and will look like its machined that way once it has a finish.
Are you painting the jamb/trim or sealing it au natural? (lime?) I've got some of the details at doors and windows worked out for mine. I'm not using wood. I'm using special aluminum extrusions, that will be siliconed to the sheetrock, and exposed Stainless steel flat sockethead screws to hold it to the jambs, which actually will be laminated with chemetal(brushed peweter) Most of my studio will be detailed with metal type stuff. I have source books for products never seen in a studio. Thats why I want to use them.
Nobody else will have the same type detailing as mine. I'm a detail freak. Ha! Thats my job. I'm a detailer. I even have a couple of sheets of stainless tambour. Cool for curved stuff(polycylndrical diffusers). And I've collected tons of special store fixture hardware, that I've saved for 10 yrs for my studio project. Plus multi layer translucent colored plex diffuser/lighting/de'art objects(actully large custom lava lamps:D Goofy, but fun!!! And thats what this has to be for me, fun, fun, fun!! I even have a console frame that I welded up 2 yrs ago that looks like a floating gullwing. Only one leg In front of it. Its a 8" square steel I beam that will be bolted to a cable chase in the floor.
In turn bolted to the underside of the console. Well, enough of my bla bla bla!
Thanks again DD, and good luck with this. Its looking WAY TOO COOL!!!!
fitz:p
 
Hey DD, just had a thought. Now, IF you have a tablesaw, you could rip two standard jambs, with a seam about the middle of the door stop. The stop would cover the seam.
Might be a pain, but simpler than multilayer trim. Just a thought.
fitz:)
 
Does it ever stop? :D DD, what are you using for doors?
fitz
 
I think it's more like does it ever END :D
Yeah I had thought about custom trim too. The guy who built my walls for me could easily do it. The doors are solid wood. Got them at Home Depot. Don't remember the price but it wasn't too bad. I'll have drop down sweepers on all doors too. They're about $30 each at McMaster-Carr.

DD
 
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