Trying to create a clean scandinavian style kitchen
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Comments (5)Hi Carmin! So nice to "meet" another fellow color addict! Sounds like you and I have very similar tastes. Your favorite colors are among mine as well, and I cannot live without a touch of turquoise in every room! I love the photos you've posted here -- OMG, those chairs are simply to die for! I've never seen anything like them, but now I want one! LOL! Love your artwork -- those exuberant colors just really put a smile on my face. (Oh, and you really have a 10-year old fish? WOW!) As for paint color suggestions, gosh, I'm not very good at offering specific ideas to others. My game plan thus far has been to just to go a paint store (Sherwin Williams or Lowes/Home Depot most often), and browse through the sample cards until I find something that appeals to me. It's kinda like I know it when I see it! I can see how you might feel intimidated about doing a color wash or similar aging technique, but definitely practice on your boards. I found it pretty easy (and actually fun) when I did it in my breakfast room and bathroom, but I'm not a perfectionist and I'm sure it would show to a professional! I'd love it if you'd post more pics of your home. I adore older houses, and I'm sure yours just oozes charm! I'm also going to check out the blog you mentioned. And it just so happens that I do have my own "color blog" -- actually I started it intending to talk mostly about color and decor, but I've found that I just enjoy writing about other things that come to mind as well, so it's a mishmash. Ya know, with your lovely things and your eye for color, you should consider blogging too. It's addictive! ;-) Here is a link that might be useful: Technicolor Cottage - my blog...See MoreWhat makes a kitchen easy to clean /easy to keep clean?
Comments (42)Quartz countertops are, for example, very easy to clean and maintain, but everything actually depends on how do you use your kitchen (how often, do you clean right after preparing a meal, etc.). Also, new kitchens are easier and faster to clean than old ones. Hiring a cleaning company once every two weeks is ideal if you regularly clean your kitchen. Once a week is best if you don't like to clean up often. Practicing this routine will make any kitchen as clean as possible....See MoreScandinavian cottage + French country + Bohemian beach
Comments (234)Update! Hello! I hope everyone is safe in this crazy times that we are living. I wanted to give an update in what's been happening in our home since last year. I hate when people vanish ;) After a few months we got the permission from the city hall to open another window in the livingroom, after that we put our money and focus on the outside. We build a garage, a wall (fence) around our backyard and renovated the front of the house + we finished the gas system in the kitchen and painted the walls and ceiling of almost the whole house but then winter came and we had to stop. This went from October until March, we had to stop a few weeks here and there when it was raining but in the end was great. Quarantine came and we stopped all our plans and we just focused on being save and no spending money. In August I started again with plans for decoration, I bought the first painting for the house, we already put some instruments on the walls, we made a new island, new wood counter in the kitchen and we just finished a diy chandelier idea that I had from looking on Instagram. It's from a cork tree that a friend gave us. I will post some pictures that I have now and I promise to post more this week. I'm working a lot and have to find the time to take pretty pictures 😉 I hope I can post the pictures in this post now because this site isn't working so well with me. Take care xx The wall Counter Island...See MoreFlooring for Scandinavian-Style Condo
Comments (15)The reason the kitchen and baths are allowed hard surfaces for flooring = the baths/kitchens are stacked one on top of another in an apartment building. That means noisy kitchens only bother people in their kitchens. As soon as you have noisy flooring in 'living' areas the noise transfer becomes a sore point. It happens ALL the time. In fact we have a thread here where the owners of the downstairs apartment complain about the noise of the TILE from the UPSTAIRS apartment. The tile was extended past the kitchen. The downstairs owners now have to fight the HOA AND the upstairs owners. The HOA didn't notice when someone put in the extended tile. And now the downstairs owners are very upset. They feel they need to move....See MoreStan B
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