During my most recent work in Finishes and Finishing, in addition to laying down primer, I had several boards to paint with the metal flake bronze and then a poly top coat. But I also applied another color - for the propane cabinet.
While waiting for paint to dry in between coats and over about three days, I worked on finishing the propane cabinet (tomorrow's post) and the work you've seen so far on the bathroom, plus a little more. But while working on the propane cabinet I decided I'd rather have a less vivid final color than the stark white primer. As is, it would be easy to look up into the cabinet and see things, but being a flat primer finish, I knew it would also get easily marred and dirty, especially back here where the dust would enter and collect.
So I went looking in our paint cabinet for a better choice. I didn't really want a dark color, but I wanted it dark enough to not glare out annoyingly whenever I opened up the door. DW had chosen a quart can years ago for a project that subsequently changed, so when I came across this can I thought it would work. It's only draw back being a satin, whereas a gloss or semi-gloss might have been better. But the color was earthy, and downplayed, and looks like it will be a nice hard surface, being an acrylic enamel and all.
So the first thing I did was get the bronze onto the primed boards in the right places. Then I gathered the used gimp (cream color) and the new white gimp, and planned it out. The used gimp I obtained from the box side boards where they met the floor. I'll replace those areas with a brown I found locally. The now available cream gimp gave me some replacement supply for the front box wall where the jack corners had pretty much destroyed the gimp in those locations.
Then when the bronze was dry I applied a new technique. I had seen a paint stir stick with the maple tinted poly over the dark bronze and kind of liked it. After showing DW we agreed to try it on our bronze surfaces. It brings out the metal flake and gives an aged look and a comfortable, warm feeling.
And then I got the gimp stapled onto the front box wall. Note the uneven gather will be trimmed a bit more once I decide just where the joint might best be as associated with the cabinetry cleats.
The front box wall (bulkhead) is now ready to install, but before that I'll have to sand and finish the front interior panels of the camper ceiling/side-wall assembly, probably all the way over the bunk as well. Thereafter I'll be able to come back to panel section repair and replacement in the bunk while installing the bunk floor, and be able to work with finished wall surfaces as I do so.
