Making choices on the Village front

Well back to the building project with the EXTREME MAKEOVER - VILLAGE EDITION. The yarn Shop we are redoing has some classic finales and a fair amount of metal roofing. I decided to do it in a copper roofing. The neat thing about copper roofs is that they get a great green patina after a decade or so of being exposed to the elements. One of the most beautiful examples of this I have ever seen is on the Parliament buildings and the Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Colombia, Canada. But for the meantime back to the Yarn Shop. In order to get a shiny copper look I will be using copper leaf on top of a copper metallic stain. If I was doing this piece from the ground up I would apply fired copper to these areas but that is not possible on this remodel project. If you have never used metal leafing, this is a fun time to learn this great technique. You will paint the copper stain in the beginning stage. But the copper leaf will be one of the last items you do.

EXTREME MAKOVER - Village Edition pt 1

OK, the village shop is dismantled, the window casing masked and the inner components gutted. Hmm, sounds kinda like a pumpkin. Now it's outside where I have plenty of ventilation to completely erase the painting scheme of someone in some little Chinese factory somewhere. I guess you could say I should feel like someone who is going to spray paint the Mona Lisa. . . actually i feel more like someone who is about to spray paint over a off margin printed Pokemon poster.
Now if I can only find where I put Ty Pennington's phone number, I know it's around here somewhere. I really want to borrow his megaphone. I think Kathy and the others will probably kill me. Oh here's the number . . . (to be continued)