Painted kitchen and family room gray, need help with cabinets!
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Comments (2)I like the woodlawn at 50% but five areas of the same color are a bit much so maybe a nice taupey gray would work or a nice tan like SW hush. I'd go in the tan direction....See MoreNeed help in my tack room with Benjamin Moore Annapolis Gray cabinets
Comments (1)Why would you need to start over? What is your favorite color?...See MoreWhite and gray kitchen with rustic brown tones family room?
Comments (17)We had lots of inspiration pictures from Houzz, but these 3 pictures from the same house helped to guide us the best. This is the living room of the Inspiration House. You can see there are warm tones especially with the rocked fireplace, wood floors, and furniture, but also there's some white cabientry and trim, and light paint colors to lighten things up. We didn't care for the yellow accents and chose rusty orange and blue for our accents. This is the other side of the same house. You can see that the sectional sofa is a deep mushroom color rather than just brown. You can see the dining room has a brown table and a black lighting fixture. Then you can see a white kitchen beyond. This is the kitchen in the same house. This kitchen has whiter counters than what we chose. But it is similar with white cabinets, stainless appliances, dark counter stools, dark metal on the pendants. It's fancier and bigger than ours. No room for an island in ours, we lowered the bar height penninsula and made it a flat penninsula with the Taj Mahal Quartzite. This is the color palette we used in my Dad's remodel. We were totally in charge of this remodel, so I put together this board for my Dad so he could see/approve what we were planning. Here is what I showed him: We haven't purchased the Pottery Barn Swivel barrel chair yet and will probably go darker than the leather sample shown here. It can be done. You just might have to carefully consider your paint and fabric/rug choices to make it all come together. Here is the reveal I posted after we finished the project. At the time of this posting a lot of the art was not back up yet, so it looks a little bare. My user name has changed because my email changed and then DD was setting up ideabooks for herself and changed my name for some unknown reason and I never changed it back. https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/5647113/reveal-of-whole-house-remodel#n=11 Good luck!...See MoreNeed help with family room update - please help me shop and paint!
Comments (2)I think your first task is to find a rug to set the tone for the room. You could have carpet bound in the size you need if you want to stay mono-chromatic. A tone on tone rug in cream, tan and chocolate might add a neutral but interesting touch. It only needs to be a couple of feet wider than the sofa unless you add new end tables that you want to sit on it too. I would keep it 12" away from the hearth though. Once the rug is found, if it has a variety of tones in it, use the darkest shade for your chairs. Be sure and take your tape measure with you so you can determine the right height on them. I don't think they should be taller than the sofa. I don't think the two chairs have to match, and it would be nice if one of them had a pattern to the fabric. Here is a mono-chromatic room, but with a touch of pattern and texture....See Morepeony4
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