Lighting for library with poor natural light
linnea56 (zone 5b Chicago)
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Poor natural light and paint woes! Please HELP!!!
Comments (3)I feel your pain. It took me months to pick the correct color for my dimly lit foyer and stairs. Door open -- one color; door closed, another. Light on? another color. I ended up going with a deeper color than I thought I would because of the differences in light. Also, like palimpsest says, grab color samples that you never thought would work....See MoreWhat colors worked in your NW-facing low-natural-light rooms?
Comments (31)Thank you for your help everybody, I finally found one color that works in both rooms. It is a BM Gentle Cream which is in the off-white collection. I wanted more color but it looks like with the northern exposure combined with the low ceiling and narrow rooms there is just no visual space for anything more intense. Gentle Cream actually lives up to its name, it doesn't look pink or peach in either room and not too yellow either (Papaya was a little too yellow). And yes, the type if bulbs makes a big difference. We have some kind of "true light" in the DR, similar to Reveal and this particular color looks more yellow there. The LR has halogen recessed lights and the color has a slight green tint to it in that room. I also encountered this issue in my kids' bathroom. Picked a countertop which looked beige-cream in the showroom, almost exactly like the color of the tile we selected. I did cheked the sample at home but during the day, the lighting wasn't istalled yet in the bathroom. Once installed, the counter looked almost yellow in the bathroom with the regular flood bulbs. I couldn't believe I was so off with the color! However, after we switched the bulbs to white light it looks a lot closer to what I thought I picked...See MoreShow your AV growing area - natural light or artificial
Comments (43)Treat it like any other tropical, light regular feeding. Do keep bumping it up in pot size and make sure it has plenty of water in warm weather (but not staying wet). Likes bright light but full sun will burn the leaves. Takes about 5 years to reach blooming and fruiting size. By then you'll want them in at least 30 gallon bins or pots. Blooms are white and fragrant like Jasmine. ;) Mine go outside from spring to autumn on my back deck. They /can/ reach as much as 8 to 12 feet tall but I keep mine trimmed easily at around 5 to 6 foot tall which is typical to keep the beans easy to reach. They tend to flower around June i the hot rainy season, then produce fruit which ripens in late winter through spring. Each coffee 'cherry' holds 2 to 3 beans. Here's a shot of mine growing on my back deck, near right side. I should start some new seedlings for our hoped for greenhouse later. You can get about 1 to 1.5 lbs of beans per mature tree depending on which variety you have. Hmm, I seem to have hijacked the thread. Pardon....See MoreGrowing by lamp light is very poor form...
Comments (19)Of course there's no hope of a cure for the bug now. I fell into the nest when I found you all at GW! Judy, glad you asked -- the red plant is Rumba Red. And Joanne, this is the club Project Plant, aka our Mystery Violet, you tried guessing earlier. The culture contest judging takes place this week and I hope the blooms will last. Here's a better pic of it taken with a flash on top of a pizza box, where it takes on more of a pinkish cast, probably from the pepperoni. This was windowsill grown....See Moregraywings123
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