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Purple Haze
One of the keynote updates on the Kennington house is this upstairs bonus room created in what had been an unfinished attic space. The space had original car-siding wood paneling (not to be confused with shiplap!), and Karen got creative with using a special tinted stain solution to give the wood a purple cast with a gradient ombre effect — darker at the bottom and transitioning to lighter at the top.