Community Theater Green Room Discussion Board: Arsenic and Old Lace walls (Flats)

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lucyvanpelt04
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Topic: Arsenic and Old Lace walls (Flats)
Posted: 9/21/05 at 8:13am

What can be done to the flats to make them look "Victorian" for Arsenic and Old Lace?

Thanks.

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Posted: 9/21/05 at 11:36am

Fancy wallpaper.

http://www.victorianweb.org/art/design/wallpaper/hikim10.htm l

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Posted: 9/25/05 at 12:23am

The drector I worked with on a show wanted a "vistorian look and we just used a real rich wine colored paint, then used a wall paper border. Sometimes those deep colors can give you the look you need.

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Posted: 7/21/06 at 1:03pm

Purchase or create a stencil pattern that can be used over and over on the flats to create the look of old-fashioned wallpaper. Space the stencil in regular intervals either in a stripe or diagonal pattern.

After it is dry, use a wash or a glaze in a brown shade to "age" the walls, giving special attention to the corners and near the "ceiling" where dust and grime typically gather.

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Posted: 7/21/06 at 11:08pm

From memory of Victorian times & decore. It wasn?t so much Regency as being rather sombre, when it came to wall furnishings, however as it not set in Pohmy land. It would have been more plain colours, like stippled 2 tone duck egg blue for the walls & the set dressed in victorian style with a lot of antimacassars & doleys on the furniture. The only accented colour was with the odd Aspidistra majolica Jardinieres &/or willow patern Delf ware displayed.
Use the odd Sepia [milk chocolate] gels to give the musty atmosphere with the lighting wash.

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lucyvanpelt04 Player Joined: 8/11/05 Online Status: Offline Posts: 0	Topic: Arsenic and Old Lace walls (Flats) Posted: 9/21/05 at 8:13am
	What can be done to the flats to make them look "Victorian" for Arsenic and Old Lace? Thanks.
	"When I grow up, I am going to be the biggest queen there ever was..."

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POB14 Celebrity Joined: 7/01/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 349	Posted: 9/21/05 at 11:36am
	Fancy wallpaper. http://www.victorianweb.org/art/design/wallpaper/hikim10.htm l
	POB Old Bugger, Curmudgeon, and Antisocial B**tard
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Aimee Celebrity Joined: 8/31/04 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 156	Posted: 9/25/05 at 12:23am
	The drector I worked with on a show wanted a "vistorian look and we just used a real rich wine colored paint, then used a wall paper border. Sometimes those deep colors can give you the look you need.
	Aimee
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Zmurgist Walk-On Joined: 7/20/06 Online Status: Offline Posts: 0	Posted: 7/20/06 at 10:30pm
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Topper Celebrity Joined: 1/27/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 543	Posted: 7/21/06 at 1:03pm
	Purchase or create a stencil pattern that can be used over and over on the flats to create the look of old-fashioned wallpaper. Space the stencil in regular intervals either in a stripe or diagonal pattern. After it is dry, use a wash or a glaze in a brown shade to "age" the walls, giving special attention to the corners and near the "ceiling" where dust and grime typically gather.
	"None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public." -- Keith Johnstone
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JoeMc Celebrity Joined: 3/13/06 Location: Australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 832	Posted: 7/21/06 at 11:08pm
	From memory of Victorian times & decore. It wasn?t so much Regency as being rather sombre, when it came to wall furnishings, however as it not set in Pohmy land. It would have been more plain colours, like stippled 2 tone duck egg blue for the walls & the set dressed in victorian style with a lot of antimacassars & doleys on the furniture. The only accented colour was with the odd Aspidistra majolica Jardinieres &/or willow patern Delf ware displayed. Use the odd Sepia [milk chocolate] gels to give the musty atmosphere with the lighting wash.
	[western] Gondawandaland "Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!}
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