Interactive Rooms

Bit of a random post today... As I mentioned in the last post, due to my beloved computer with all my software going boom, my attentions towards creative summer projects have shifted.

They have shifted towards decorating my best friends house, where I happen to be living to now. :)

Now aside from the normal decorating and us mixing paints to achieve the EXACT pallet we want / need I have been allowed a lot of creative freedom. So it looks like her sons will have an interactive bedroom in terms of paint.  This means: glow in the dark, U.V. reactive and thermocromic paint!

Thermocromic paint and indeed ink has been a passion of mine for a fairly long time now. The basic concept is you have a pigment and a regular acrylic, these are mixed resulting in a paint that at room temp is the pigment colour and when heated changes to the colour of the acrylic. Meaning that for instance little hands will make things change colours, thus making a bed room far more interesting
Here is a bit more science...

There will also be glow in the dark paint to brighten the rooms up at night and UV reactive paint, well, just because I can really :)

Also the hallway may have glitter on the lower half of the wall. In an effort to bounce a little more light around the very dark hall, glitter does move the limited light around a little more and actually gives a really great effect on the walls.

So in short the house is transforming into a interactive, changing space that is very conductive to creativity.