calling all bm linen white cabinet owners
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Cabinet color: BM Mayonnaise and/or BM Linen White
Comments (10)If you are down to just two colors it would be a good idea to buy a sample (even if that means a quart) and paint a good size area of each in the space you plan to use it. I find it helpful when I paint an edge to touch. Check on the colors throughout the course of several days, hopefully with differing amounts of sun. Don't forget to see how they look at night too. I was between two different BM whites and this process made it clear that one read too yellow in my space for my taste. Who knows, maybe this is why so many shades of white are available? Either that or they just have a lot of great names they want to use! I find subtle differences hard to read well on a computer screen. HTH...See MoreCalling all owners of white (painted) cabinets!!! Help needed!!!
Comments (27)For what it's worth, while we don't have white cabinets, we have white everything else in our house---all painted with BM oil-based paint. I spent this weekend battling with it to try to get some spots patched---got new paint, same color, in water-based. Big mistake---different finish, different color! Happily I managed to dig up one last can of oil-based in the basement. I'd go with oil-based or lacquer for kitchen cabinets. So I can say: - Oil-based *does* yellow. Unfortunately for us, we love the yellowed color since it turns the shade into a creamy white---the original mix is too white! Oh, well. - The oil-based finish is (I think) easier to clean and wipe down. I couldn't get the water-based to a finish I was happy with. - White does show dirt, which is probably really only an issue if you have kids and/or pets. Our dog is the biggest offender because he likes to rest his head on window sills, and those get gross. Less of an issue in the kitchen, though. I wipe it down in the problem spots periodically, and occasionally put some touchup paint on. - If the paint chips, you can sometimes see the patch if you look closely. I don't think it's that big a deal, though. - The adjustment thing depends in part on your house and your climate. We do have problems with some of our doors and casework, but it's mostly as a result of an old house settling and things swelling in rainy season, not of the paint per se. (My parents have similar issues in New England with their stained inset cabinets from a relatively costly custom cabinet company.) We're still getting flush inset in the kitchen though---we just know what to watch for. A good cabinetmaker should be able to do flush inset with clearances that will accommodate that with minimal adjusting. We did go with frameless for our most frequently used cabinets for that reason, though. Hope that helps somewhat!...See Morecalling all white oak floor owners
Comments (20)hi Lynn, Thank you!! the stain is called indian summer and is by Carlisle where we purchased the oak flooring from. The widths vary from 4" to 7". It gives a nice look. I was just trying not to have the standard 2-3/4" strip flooring... nothing wrong with it, but I wanted something more unique. Let me tell you a thing or two about staining wood floors. I have learned a lot! First, different woods take stains differently - some better than others. In the front of our house, we put in fir and were trying to match to antique heart pine that was original to the house (couldn't afford reclaimed heart pine so went with fir). This was a bit of a disaster. The fir ended up looking nothing like the heart pine. It is so soft, you can't set anything on it without dings and fir takes stain terribly - the guys did their best but there are many imperfections. I'd have done things VERY differently if I had to do it over. So then, we moved on to the back of the house, where we ended up (mournfully) having to tear up the original heart pine flooring that we matched the fir to. Now I was not willing to put in more fir and as much as I wanted cohesive flow throughout the first floor, I opted for the QS white oak because of its durability and beauty and decided to live with the fact that where the oak meets the fir it is slightly awkward (we did do a decorative pattern in a small hallway to try to minimize the awkwardness but we had the world's worst flooring guys and they didn't quite get what I was trying to achieve so it is a bit of a failure). Anyway, back to the staining issue. We had the flooring guys show us some samples of the stain on our floors prior to getting started and the results were startling. First none of the three schemes looked like the sample from Carlisle, second, two of the schemes would have been horrible!!!!!!! Here is a list of the samples they did: One coat of stain Two coats of stain One coat of enhancer topped by one coat of stain. The third is what we went with... it was the closest to the Carlisle sample. Word to the wise... have them test out your stain prior to starting and google staining wood to be sure if your wood is one that handles stain well or not (I can tell you that oak is very good... takes the stain very uniformly). HTH. Here is a link that might be useful: Carlisle...See MoreBM Swiss Coffee, Linen White or Timid White? Help!
Comments (27)https://www.houzz.com/photos/nantucket-ma-traditional-living-room-boston-phvw-vp~2409487 Pat: This paint is definitely warm and does not read white at all. This link gives a good representation of Maritime White OC5. You can see the different shades. Low light under the windows reads darker and bright light in the corner brings out a yellow tint. Although, I would not say this paint "reads yellow" at all. I think the bright light brings out the warmer hue. I hope the link works for you. If not, google BM Maritime White OC5 and you will get a lot of photos....See Morelabradoodlemom
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