Designer to help pick finishes: tiles, paint, cabinets etc?
sarahbr2
8 years ago
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Nursery fabric picked , now need advice on paint,etc etc.
Comments (15)Lovely combination of fabrics and colors. Just a thought - are they stain-resistant, and are they washable? Babies are known for messes from both ends, and dry-cleanable fabrics could be an issue. The one other thought I have on the fabrics is that I would do the window seat cushion in the darker coral solid, with perhaps the polka dot for welting, which will create nice continuity with the insides of the cubbies and bulkhead. Then I would use the polka dot, stripe, and floral for the throw pillows, doing one side of each in the prints, and the other in a solid, for more interest. The flat plane of the window cushion wonÂt give you the same impact in the prints that the pillows will. I would do the crib skirt in the stripe, with box pleats inset with the solid fabric. As for the wall color, I would be inclined to go for a very pale shade of the coral or the green, rather than white....See MoreUsing PAINT to manipulate fixed objects,,cabinets etc.
Comments (10)I would paint the ceiling red. I think the "customer" would view the ceiling and properly ignore the countertop, customer as in someone using the bathroom. I once had a decorator tell me "some things we can do nothing about, they are there, they are as permanent as our limited budget, and we live with them, like the cream countertops, when we want taupe. We paint the wall taupe and we live with the cream countertops. We can find plenty of pretty items to put upon the counter to distract the viewer." Actually I did find a bathtub refinisher to change the countertops but the point is, sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do. Do you think that fits your situation? Reverse the taupe and make the statement above red....See MoreNeed help picking Kitchen Cabinet Paint Color
Comments (27)Laurie, I too love your inspiration picture. No one I know can afford to renovate their home every 10 years and keep up with the latest trend. I have found the key is to pick out what I will be happy with in 10 years or 20 years or longer and getting what makes me happy. I wish picking the perfect cabinet color was as simple as saying BM Simply White or SW White Duck, but to get just the right white is a bit trickier than that. If you have a sample of your back splash I would take it to the BM store or the SW store and look at all of their whites next to the back splash. Pick out a bunch that are close to the lighter colors in your back splash. Then go outside in the sun and look at them again - eliminate the ones that are not quite right. Sunlight will give you the truest vision of the color. Whites are quite funny and can appear too blue or too green or too yellow or pink next to other colors. If you will be using a satin or gloss finish the cabinets may appear lighter than you expect because light will reflect more from shinier finishes. Keep this in mind when selecting the color samples. Get a pint of your final selection and paint another sample before committing to the color for all the cabinets. After you find 6 ish good candidates order a few samples from https://samplize.com/ or buy a few sample cans and make your own samples. I like using 140 lb water color paper for samples from Michael's. Heavy enough not to curl or warp. Get a pint of your final selection and paint another sample in the same gloss you will be using for the cabinets before committing to the color for all the cabinets. You can always use this paint as a first coat if you decide that it is too light or just a bit off....See MoreKitchen Help! Granite, cabinet, wood look tile etc.
Comments (7)OK...here's the thing with real wood vs. fake. When you put both of them up against each other you will cause EACH of them to look 'fake'. Yep. Even the real stuff looks fake. You really should be looking at stone or tile looking vinyl. Or you go with lino or cork. Do NOT use fake wood floors in the kitchen! Don't. Do. It! You will calmly and firmly tell your partner to STAY OUT of the kitchen floor decision. #1. You already have a hardwood floor that will be REFINISHED (not replaced...refinished) later #2. You have wood grain cabinets chosen = two different woods visible to one another #3. You have a VERY busy slab picked out and that slab reads greenish-gray You already have TWO woods that are within just a few feet of each other (cabinet wood and flooring wood). To add a fake wood means you want to add a THIRD wood-look/tone into the same space. That's WAY too much. IF you want wood-look in the kitchen then use it EVERYWHERE. Rip out the real wood (please don't) and throw down the fake stuff throughout the level in your house. And please use painted cabs rather than wood cabs....cause it can be very difficult to get real wood (the stained cabinets) to look "OK" with fake (not even 'good'...just 'ok'). So...tell partner that you can have the fake wood in the kitchen SO LONG AS everything else changes. Snort! That will cause MASSIVE upset in the house hold. I guarantee it. Then calmly state, "OK. So that's not an option. The easiest way to do this is to pick stone-looking products. It is much easier. Everything else stays the same." Go ahead and google "travertine look" vinyl or tile. You will see HUNDREDS of them on line. Pick one that allows the COUNTER TOPS to be the star...You can only have ONE DIVA in a kitchen. Right now that DIVA is the counter tops. Everything else needs to be part of the back-up cast....See More
sarahbr2
8 years ago
Angela Zuill
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