What wall color tones down ugly tile? -pics
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What color paint to tone down the cherry cabinets?
Comments (9)Green will enhance the color of the cherry not tone it down. Neutral that goes with the other elements in the room works best. It looks on my screen like your walls have slight green hue? Try a more true neutral but one that goes with the other elements in your room. If you do go gray it needs to be a warm greige....See MoreUsing wall color to tone down yellow, solid oak floors.
Comments (6)Consider a cream or a green with gray undertone or gray with green undertone. Cool grays with warm woods are often a miss, but green grays, which are usually warmish, seem to help bridge the cool / warm divide. A warm wood kitchen combined with lots of white can also be a calm place. These cabinets are not alder - but it is calm and would be calmer if the grout was a lighter gray or even white: You don't show the sink wall, but with all that storage along the fridge wall, you might remove some sink wall cabinets and leave more open area. Put up some calm and pretty artwork instead. This kitchen is also not alder, but the increased window and decreased cabinets make for a calm and pretty space: You don't need to tile the walls - just a pretty painted wall with some pretty calm art would work. Before you paint the cabinets, look at the possibility of calming other surfaces, especially the backsplash if it is at all busy. This is one green gray which might work. I might do a slightly lighter shade....See MoreHow to tone down mid-century turquoise kitchen tile
Comments (47)If, however, this is a DIY project and you do NOT want to refinish the wood with poly, you'd still need to clean any part of the cabinets you are going to paint -- and clean it thoroughly -- before painting the cabinets -- otherwise your paint job will not look good at all.. If the dark wood is the problem for you, then lightening up the upper half of the room above the cabinets could well change the vibe and likely make this "beachy" color a better fit within the room. Unless you're changing the floor to a very light floor (I wouldn't) , my inclination would be to NOT paint the lower cabinets at all and paint only the part of the upper cabinets: Paint all of the upper cabinets and doors on the end wall above the stove top the same white as the wall. You could leave the oven cabinet a natural wood as a balance to the glass front cabinet and, if you can replace the doors over the oven with glass doors, consider doing that ... or ... if you decide to paint the solid doors over the oven and its cabinet the same white color, stop at countertop level. For the cabinets with the glass fronts, paint only the interior of the cabinets using that same color that you paint the walls. Once the upper half of the room over the stove top and sink is lighter, would pause before deciding about painting the ceiling....See MoreNew wood floors look pink, what wall colors will help tone this down?
Comments (6)Same problem here. I just had my floors stained today, and they look pink :( They don't look at all like the sample. Shoudl I use an oil sealer to deepen the color? Will that help with the pink?...See Moremitchdesj
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