ISU paint colors
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This is correct - I used SW's ISU cardinal (can't remember the name) on a wall earlier in the year and it came out pretty close:
I did my theater/man cave in cardinal & gold paint from Home Depot. I might still have the cans at home. I'll try to remember to check the paint names, but I think it came out pretty close.
Rather than do a solid wall, I'd consider breaking it up. Cardinal on top, gold below, and a bright white chair rail in between. Or the "helmet stripe" idea that you posted. The helmet stripe would allow you to put a huge I State vinyl on the wall later, where a chair rail would limit the size you could do.
Btw, I'm totes jelly of you guys that have media rooms. I've got 5 to 8 more years of kids before I'll be able to do that to one of their current bedrooms.
Btw, I'm totes jelly of you guys that have media rooms. I've got 5 to 8 more years of kids before I'll be able to do that to one of their current bedrooms.
Don't use the colors that Menards has. Their red turns out maroon. I found out the hard way this summer.
Like the area rug idea too. I need to look for something. Found this...I did my theater/man cave in cardinal & gold paint from Home Depot. I might still have the cans at home. I'll try to remember to check the paint names, but I think it came out pretty close.
I got in touch with ISU licensing dept. years ago about putting the older McCarney era logo on my garage door, and they granted a one-time usage contract and also sent me info that included all the available logos that included the Pantone colors that corresponded with each logo so you would know exactly what to use.
I presume anybody that handles paint professionally would be able to mix the colors as the Pantone guide has color formulas for essentially every color in that guide.
Beat me to it but I would think maybe the bottome third or half on cardinal and top portion in gold would look good and wouldn't darken the room as much like solid cardinal walls would. Could even do some kind of stripe or find some ISU trim/border to separate the colors too
I did my theater/man cave in cardinal & gold paint from Home Depot. I might still have the cans at home. I'll try to remember to check the paint names, but I think it came out pretty close.
I was gonna recommend doing one cardinal wall, probably the one with the tv, then do the rest with memorabilia, posters etc, but this looks nice. Not to dark in the room. Our lighting would suck for it though
I did my theater/man cave in cardinal & gold paint from Home Depot. I might still have the cans at home. I'll try to remember to check the paint names, but I think it came out pretty close.
Ok, now all you guys posting stuff are just making me jealous, but in a good way congrats to all of you.
I don't find that the screen on the gold wall messes with it's brightness much, mainly because I hung the curtains on the side. This is in my basement and the only window is an egress window I hung a black out curtain over, so it gets plenty dark for the screen.
However, if you really cared about the quality of the picture, you'd probably want to do darker paints across the whole area, which isn't really an option if you want to do an ISU room, unless you go all cardinal.
One thing that did help was that I got flat paint for everything, which really cuts down on the projector light bouncing off the walls.
