Down Pipe - a Perfect Dark Gray

  

 

Check out my dark side.

It's Down Pipe and I love it.

We used it on one large wall in the lobby of my husband's new/old office.

The building was built in the early 1920's as our town's original post office, so we wanted to incorporate a nod to the history of the building. 

 

 You can see I rolled up some of the building's original

blue prints and tucked them into a wire basket.

You might remember when I blogged about using these original

blue prints here and here. 

 Here's a glance at the lobby 'before'.

A little bland, there, wasn't it? 

 I really like how this light, distressed piece looks against the dark wall. 

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We framed and stacked some blue prints in the adjacent conference room.

And painted the conference room ceiling Down Pipe, too.

Made a huge difference.

 

Farrow and Ball

Down Pipe 

 

Big thanks to Bill Bates and Barry McElreath of Antiques on Augusta for helping me through.  

Down Pipe is their go-to and they knew it was just what I needed.

 

C'mon over to the dark side...I'd highly recommend it.

more on blueprints

 

new york social diary 

 

 

I was fascinated by the way this old blueprint was framed in Lewis Miller's apartment.

Love that it isn't matted.

 

I'm looking for just the right framing for the vintage blueprints of my husband's new (old) office building...

 

Here are a couple of my favorite ones...

 

Incredible detailing of the light fixtures for the building, which was the original Post Office in our town...

 

 

 

I especially love that lamp.

 

Most of the prints are dated 1915.

 

 

And this one - the side elevation of the building.

 

This is gonna be fun!

a jumping-off point - framed blueprints

(excuse me, is that a gray wall behind those blueprints??)

 

 

 

 

My husband will begin renovations soon in his 'new' office space - the original US post office, built in 1923, in our small town. He has asked me to help a little with the interior decor. I was a little overwhelmed, to say the least, until we found the original blueprints for the building, drawn up between 1915 and 1918.

 

The blueprints were just the jumping-off point we needed. After flipping through page after page of the beautiful indigo sheets, we both knew that a few choice prints needed to be framed and featured in his offices.

 

Hope to have some photos to show you soon.

 

Have a wonderful weekend!

 

donna