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Offline Sugar

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Sunfading Pretty Parlour: Update!
« on: June 29, 2012, 09:21:21 AM »
Hi!

I found my camera (its too small, it gets lost easy), so I thought I'd post some photos of a work in progress: the restoriation of my childhood Pretty Parlour!  After a lot of thought and experimentation that led to nothing, I decided to just let the sun have at it.  here are the results so far:

Here are the two side panels, the left one that has been sitting in the unseasonably warm Canadian sun for a couple weeks, the right one straight out of the basement.
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See how the stunning shade of blech has faded somewhat?  That's from a non-smoking house, too, just years of neglect-grot.

Here are the door and stage, again the left one has been sitting in sun and the right not.  A bit blurry, but the colours are true.
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Again, all yellowing is just age and sitting in a cardboard box for years.  Meh.

Well, they're now all on my windowsill and waiting for el sol to do its magic.  ^.^  More photos will come as further developpements, well, developpe! :biggrin:
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Re: Sunfading Pretty Parlour: Update!
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2012, 09:28:26 AM »
Wow!  Look how white that door is!  I've always been hesitant to try sunfading the harder plastic pieces, like the playsets.  It's awesome to know it actually works!  Good job!  I'm interested to see if there's going to be any after-effects down the road.
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Re: Sunfading Pretty Parlour: Update!
« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2012, 03:18:38 PM »
Fantastic work! I ll need to give his a go at some point [maybe just need some sunlight here at some time!]
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Re: Sunfading Pretty Parlour: Update!
« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2012, 03:51:51 PM »

Wow so it actually does work! :)

Fantastic work! I ll need to give his a go at some point [maybe just need some sunlight here at some time!]

Haha yeah me too :P
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Re: Sunfading Pretty Parlour: Update!
« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2012, 04:34:48 PM »

Wow so it actually does work! :)

Fantastic work! I ll need to give his a go at some point [maybe just need some sunlight here at some time!]

Haha yeah me too :P

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Re: Sunfading Pretty Parlour: Update!
« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2012, 08:24:49 AM »
Oooh! I see progress! :nod: good job!

 

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