Help! Need Paint Color for Kitchen (Cross Posted in Decorating)
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Comments (3)Choose one basic color -- basic white china. Then choose an accent like clear glass. JUST an example. Remove everything else. Step back and look again. This is important to give you a viewer's perspective. Vary the heights by creating stacks -- and add interest with shapes. Think of a round white teapot. Or a gorgeous white soup tureen. Or a white platter or large plate standing on end. Check pages 34 and 38 in the latest Southern Accents magazine (March/April 2009) -- excellent visual on open kitchen shelving with all white china. LOVE your canisters -- perhaps consider adding a couple more -- and I love the way you vary contents by color. Ideas for variations: White china and wicker White china and pewter White china with black accents White china with a dash of red (or spring green or Easter yellow) accent Also see Country Home (March/Arpil 2009) (their last issue!) pages 40; 42; 44. More ideas. Alo check House Beautiful's website -- click on their "Gallery" -- and then on kitchens -- there are a number of photos that might help out too! Hope this helps! :) Jan at Rosemary Cottage...See MoreNeed to make a ceiling decision - cross posted on Kitchens
Comments (10)If you're not sure...go with the flat ceiling and the beadboard. It's a small space and you don't want to overshadow the table and chairs...the main focal point, of the room. I like your idea for the built in hutch...but the shelves, between the space will be dust catchers. The beam between the two spaces would look nice and I'd paint everything white/cream, since it is a small space and you want as much natural light, as possible. I would think country cottage with a few rustic touches. If you wanted a few beams on the ceiling, I would paint them, white wash or keep a lighter wood tone. It's nice to have some ceiling details, but it's so easy to go too far and there's no way the rest of the room can compete. I'd emphasize the china cabinet, windows and find some really pretty chairs with upholstered seats of slipcovers. A pretty, but sturdy table, some flowers and maybe some of your blue and white dishes, in the hutch. What more could you want? :) Here's a pretty picture I found the other day. It might be nice to have something like this in the dining room and another display in the kitchen, to tie the two areas together. From Kitchen plans Is there anyway you can paint those cabinets? Maybe even just the uppers? A soft creamy yellow might be nice and it would look great with the blue, too. I know I posted this on the other thread...but I just love it! From Kitchen plans...See MoreCross post on decorating forum
Comments (11)In answer to Steph, this is the problem with painting the whole house one color. This is the original brick, a tan with some white on it, flat on the surface, a little crazing, and the edges are a little worn looking This is the brick dh bought for the front of the new garage and to fill in the doorway on the house where the old double garage door was. It's called tumbled, but it's wavy and not at all flat. Dh bought it because it had the same three main colors, although really, the rusty red was a brownish red and the dark brown was too dark, and there was a lot more white than than the original. This is the brick I bought this time, because Acme didn't have any more of the brick dh bought. I couldn't find any brick anywhere with the right colors, so ended up buying this brick because it had the same body color as the original brick and was the right size. Bricklayer said size was most important. Then, we ran out of brick. I don't remember now who told us how many brick to order, if it was the bricklayer or if we gave our design measurements to the brick company and they figured it, but we ran out. Called the brick company and they didn't have any more of the brick I bought. I called everywhere, went to every brick yard within 100 miles and finally found this brick. This is the back side of a brick that has white sand on the front. But it was my only choice unless I wanted to order a pallet of brick and we only needed 100. It's a little darker than the other brick I bought and it has a groove in exactly the same place on every brick. So if we paint the whole house, the wavy brick are really going to show, where they aren't too conspicuous being different colors and separated by the mortar color. The last brick I bought would be noticeable too, but they are all in the back, so not a big deal....See MoreHelp my son decorate a basement apartment (cross post)
Comments (7)My brother had a basement apt. in DC too years back. He got a lot of stuff on sale, but what I remember liking most was the black and white photos in black or silver frames. Definitely get a lot of lighting, and my feeling is not to be afraid of some color in a dark space, just add enough lighting to offset it. To me, deep color in a dark space looks better than off white which ends up looking dingy. Here is a pic of my almost finished basement family room in RH Dusk, a mid tone denimy blue. Ceiling will be black, trim will be a light tan, floors are light and carpet is light. It feels very cool and cozy. We still need to do the ceiling, trim and add the overhead lights. All the furnishings were things we had. (The crazy lamps were bought at Target for $5 each and the rug was $125, it's wool and 8x10, from Home Decorators OUtlet!) (Excuse my clean laundry on the couch)...See Morecplover
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