Bradford Hall Tudor brick - complimentary paint?
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1928 Brick Bungalow Kitchen Thoughts Please!
Comments (70)hi all - i'm back. this time finally finishing the backsplash in the kitchen. we tried to save as much of the original tile, to hopefully incorporate into the "new" backsplash. 'ive been told this will be hard since the new tile are made differently. i know i can buy more historical tile, like heritage ceramics - not sure of costs - so that i can integrate the old with the new, or at least try. otherwise, i've been told it would be hard to do otherwise since the sizing would be slightly off. another thought would be to do something different on the new part of the kitchen. still subway tile, but maybe a different color or type of material. thoughts? have you guys seen any pics of two colors in a kitchen? thanks!!...See MoreHELP! Need paint color to coordinate with brick fireplace
Comments (9)Trying to find the ONE color that works with the light in 3 rooms, finds the right degree of contrast with a particular room component like your multi-colored fireplace, and still manages to push the right buttons for you in terms of happiness and color satisfaction, can be very hard. I just painted my master bath in Alexandria Beige, and let me tell you........that color came at great cost in terms of paint samples, runs to Sherwin Wm's, Ben Moore, Home Depot, and Lowes......not to mention delaying the re-install of my toilet, which waited on the wall to be painted behind where it needed to sit. I am pretty good with color. I can almost always see the undertones--whether a brown has red undertones or green, whether a green will look more green or muddier, almost like a taupe, and I know what I like. Some people are very surprised by what actually appeals to them in terms of color. I am almost never surprised, since I lean to the same things over and over. But the thing that confused and frustrated me in this small bath paint job, was the lighting and the tile. The tile is mostly taupe/beige, but the tumbled stone liner above the vanity leans into almost a golden tinge on the beige. Painting the bath any shade of gold or golden brown, looks sick. The lighting is also a mess.........fluorescents above the sinks with no other light source, and a window in the shower area that changes the tone of color completely. So, the color that looks awesome in the shower/toilet area looks mucky in the vanity area. The whole thing is offset by oak cabinets that tend to the golden oak tones, with the flooring in a red toned oak. I used maybe 50 chips as possibilities and bought 4 test quarts of SW paint. I had some quarts of paint that look good in other parts of my house that I tried too, but none of them look right under florescent light only. Why am I going into all this excrutiating and not-helpful-to-you detail??? Hopefully, to let you know that your inability to pick one great color to do all that you need it to do, is completely understandable. I have several good paint brands housed nearby where I can get chips and samples. I even sent for a strip from Farrow & Ball, just to complicate things. Some people live only near a Home Depot or only near a Sherwin Williams. That makes it much, much, harder in a difficult situation. I think you really need a color that looks good in your kitchen, with your cabinets and flooring, and that also does justice to your living room, setting off your furniture and fireplace. Don't worry overmuch about your dark hallway. Most of us have dark hallways. And people don't really look at the hallway. It's merely the path to the loo. Or to the bedrooms. People/Visitors in the hallway are on their way to something else. So, choose your color for the other rooms and just let it flow down your hall, not worrying about the feel. It will work. Are you more interested in a shade of brown, a beige or taupe? Or are you willing to consider a neutral green? I've found Ben Moore's Baby Turtle to be a very useful sage green. It can look more brown green in some light, softer sage in others. It does a good job contrasting with cabinet woods as well as most brickwork. I warn you though, when you splotch it, it looks ucky. You almost need to roll on part of a wall to get a feel for the color. I'm sure there are a number of other shades of green that might work in your space, probably some nice browns, and maybe even a color I haven't thought about. I am eliminating all reds, since most of us don't want red throughout our house, (I have it in entry and kitchen) all yellows, (since I can't see your brick, but it sounds like it wouldn't be pretty with golds or yellow) blues, (like red, blue--unless it's subtle and murky, won't travel well from kitchen through LR, down hallway) and maybe creams & ivories, since they seem like such an absolute. Taupe will probably not work unless you do something with some real color like Restoration Hardware's Flax. It can be dark, but it's dark and cocoon like. See some of it's pictures on the Gallery in the brown thread. Red...See MoreRemodeling kitchen in 1920s Tudor-style home
Comments (55)Ha, Becky...you are not wrong. At this point I think that I’d rather have multiple root canals while touring colleges than ever, EVER do another kitchen renovation. I should have known from reading the posts here that it wouldn’t be smooth sailing, but I’ve been surprised by how much I’ve disliked the process. Mostly due to our own poor planning but also some unforeseen complications, we’ve had to have the plumber and electrician out countless times over the past week. The appliances were installed today, but because of the position of the gas line, the slide in range sticks out an inch beyond what is called for/looks reasonable. The only solution would be to have our cabinet installer come back out to re-set the two small base cabinets on either side of the range, but he is booked out til infinity and I can’t even imagine how bummed our cabinet designer is going to be when we reach out with this request (she’s gone so far above and beyond for us on this project that I feel dreadful even asking). We obviously can’t have the counters templated until we deal with this situation, so we’ll have plywood counters for eternity. My husband decided that they needed to be more water resistant so he bought fake marble contact paper to add to the plywood and at least that is making me LOL. I’m just kind of down in the dumps and questioning my choices again (this time appliances). I have to head out of town on Thursday for work and honestly I think that it will be good for me to have a bit of space from this. I intend to take some stellar naps when I’m not at the conference....See MoreCurb Appeal: Spanish Style Brick
Comments (81)OK Scott, since you just became the homeowner, I have a change of advice. While it is great that you are focusing on the curb appeal, I suggest you should direct your attention to the heating and building envelope since this will be your first winter in the house. Although it looks like the rehabber did a thorough job, many skip or skimp on the stuff that can't be seen, like aging insulation (or 100 years ago NO insulation), drafty corners, rooms that are burning hot and others that are freezing cold, etc. Save some $$ for resolving this. But I wholeheartedly agree that now is the time to plant a tree or 2, but I will reiterate that unless you are in a Sun State, really good windows remove the need for shade from trees, awnings, etc, and it looks like that work got done already. The trees really are only needed to dress the lot, unless your interior walls were burning hot from afternoon solar exposure. As an aside, I profess to know nothing about early 20th century interior surfacing techniques in Ohio, but I wonder if that heavy stucco was a more modern fast fix to deal with the naturally imperfect walls that come with building technologies of the time. IOW, I personally would look into whether that stucco should even be there at all....See Moreelcieg
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