Kitchen Paint Disaster - Help please
ejmoore510
14 years ago
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help please! kitchen paint disaster!
Comments (6)Wow! Well, at least you all are giving me some hope that it MAY eventually cover! And I thought $20.00/quart was the expensive stuff. LOL Shows how much I know. I'm using the Walmart paint everywhere else. I've painted 3 rooms so far and it only took 2 coats and I really like the way it looks. The reason I went with the Lowe's Valspar was because I couldn't find a red I liked at Walmart. I'm going to look online and try to find a SW or BM dealer close. I'm pretty rural, takes 45 minute drive to get to Walmart so hopefully, I won't have to go much further. Thanks again for the help. :)...See MoreAck! Bathroom paint color disaster. Help please!
Comments (5)Busybee ... Thank you, I'll check that out. I can't believe I forgot my fan deck today. I carry that thing with me everywhere these days. Caminnc, I did cut the wall color 50% for the ceiling, but now that I'll be changing the wall color we'll have to see how the ceiling looks....See Moremy staircase is a disaster! please I need help
Comments (45)Lots of comments about the shiplap, which is the least of your worries, but I do have one suggestion! If you like the shiplap, continue it up the wall of the stairs. I think it’s amazing how the railing really shifted the stairs from appearing as a mistake to something intentional. It really looks great. Are you concerned about the space because you intended to place something like a table between the island and the stairs? It would be really hard for me to justify such a huge change so late in the game when it really looks great, but hearing you clarify that the changes to the stairs also impacted other parts of the floor plan we can’t really see from the pictures is rough. If this is the home you plan to stay in for many years, and you can swing it financially knowing it won’t add value to the home, I can see why you would consider it. I would be more concerned with underestimating how much time it would take to make those changes....See MorePlease help me avoid paint colour disaster
Comments (5)@tryingtounderstand If you want to be safe, pick a color as close to the lightest tones in your quartz as you can find, so some version of a white. Ceilings can often be a shade lighter than walls without too much problem if you pick the standard "ceiling white" and walls are fairly close to it in hue. Be aware, however, that a pure white can turn gray on you if you have a lot of shadows in an area. You might want to put a touch of beige or hint of green back into the color to keep the white from leaning gray. You have so many other colors going on in your new kitchen that I would be hesitant to take you in much more of a color direction than that for fear of making it clash. It sounds like you've already selected your other finishes, but if I may suggest to not have the cherry wood stained, I think you might want to consider that option. I'm getting cherry cabinetry for my own kitchen renovation, and I can tell you it's not considered a "modern" wood right now for kitchens. Hardly anyone is really using it in substantial numbers, and I've heard that over and over again from many suppliers. However, I like the look and the properties of cherry wood and so am going that direction. Cherry is one of the higher-end woods that looks pretty with just a clear top coat. It will also darken in time. If your manufacturer is discouraging you from a clear top coat on cherry, it could be because they know they won't be color and grain matching your wood very well and thus may want to throw a dark stain on everything to disguise it. Your shadowy weather days won't be counteracted too much by putting such dark wood in your large kitchen. Compared to your old kitchen, the new one will seem darker even though you have a light counter. Even if you were to do cherry wood with a clear top coat, I am thinking you may be unhappy in time with the look of oak floors next to cherry wood cabinets. It might work, but then again, I'm not sure you'll be truly happy with it. Just take some extra time to be sure of these decisions and look up photos on Houzz or Pinterest to see if you can find all those finishes together in one kitchen for inspiration ideas. It sounds like you'll be putting a lot of expense into this work, so we want to make sure you're happy when it is all finished....See Moreejmoore510
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