Help coordinate wall color to antique glass and exposed brick
joel_garfinkel
8 years ago
Hello,
I am not very good with design and often have a hard time choosing paint colors. In my living room I have exposed a brick wall and just found some cool antique glass that had been painted over. I was thinking about painting a lighter green pastel with a hint of blue but with so many other factors I'm a bit overwhelmed. Please let me know your thoughts.
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Yayagal
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pls help with backsplash/countertop/peninsula wall coordination
Comments (4)Have you taken the Sweeby test yet? You have a lot of wonderful ideas but definitely need to arrive first at your blurry unfocused final picture, then add in all the elements that belong there, where they belong, and pass regretfully on others that don't work in that picture. Maybe like coloring in outline drawings of your kitchen with pearly tile and copper and stainless, or stainless, with or without brick, hmmm, or let's see what it looks like with this.... "1970s faux spanish ranch house theme" "love the look of rustic against "blingy" ? BTW, I love the idea of tile on your island, and likely your backsplash. How about a handcrafted tile, perhaps a fusion of old rancho with pearlescent? Regarding having the underside of the eating counter a "focal point" from the FRM and entry, my reaction is a knee-jerk noooooo. With stools/chairs in front, that's an area the eye should skip right on past--to settle on something genuinely handsome. Even with no stools, that area should only bea contributing portion of the entire view, with focus moving right on past to something important. Wouldn't dark walnut with a scrubbable finish be great for hiding shoe smudges? It would be for allowing focus to keep moving to...what will your focal point be? Regarding lighting up your counters, I sure don't think it's "too much" if done right. But, since this would create a rather dramatic effect of a horizontal band of light each evening, is a horizontal band what your room needs? Does it echo a horizontal effect elsewhere? Will your counters describe a very pleasing continuous shape, length of band in proper proportion to the rest of the area? Is focusing attention on that portion of the kitchen the best option or is there something else that might be lit up to better effect? Lighting is a major design tool and feature, but it does need to fulfill a design purpose....See MoreHelp coordinating an antique chandelier ?
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Comments (30)Mad_gallica: central Colorado All: The brick half wall goes into the brick about 8 inches at the points that are truly attached. It stretches across the left portion of the house where it becomes unattached again. At that point, It serves as a fence for the left 4 feet of the house in front of the dog run on the side. There is actually a real fence behind the brick wall there, so that's no concern if we were to decide to take it down. Attached are some additional pictures. The 3rd picture has an arrow showing where the wall is not attached again. To the comments about the downspouts we actually had gutter work done to correct gutters that were hung incorrectly. Out of 3 quotes, they all gave us two options either having the downspout where it was originally (running across the porch as you see in the first picture, which drove me mad) or moved along the side of the house in front of the wall as you see on my previous close ups. Running across the porch was awful and there was no way to paint it to disappear so I went with moving it. The middle pictures are old. The cedar is gone. The right cottonwood is also dead and removed (part of the reason for our working on the exterior)....See MoreWhat to do with exposed brick?
Comments (21)Thanks, Allison! I love that! Right now I actually have a bookcase on the left shoulder because I needed a place to stash my cookbook collection since I'm using this as my office temporarily. There can never be too many shelves for books in our house. When we moved here one of the movers asked if I'm a librarian. And one of my daughters pointed out that owning so many books is not "feng shui" but the heart wants what it wants. There is an odd little room at the front of the house that is lined with bookshelves now and overflowing. This would allow me to spread them out a bit. (and add more books) I'm visualizing some beautiful custom shelving in here, filled with cookbooks and gardening books and more plants. The fireplace is centered in the living room and there is no way hubby would agree to having it removed. He had a remote-controlled gas insert custom fitted. That remote controlled flame is his favorite thing in the house....See More
IdaClaire
8 years ago
ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
8 years ago
nosoccermom
8 years agoOh, my, that's gorgeous. I also really, really like Sherwin Williams Cream.
However, I could also see SW Sea Salt or maybe Benjamin Moore Healing Aloe, or maybe the lightest color in that glass window.
What furniture and furnishings, etc. do you have?
powermuffin
8 years ago
DYH
8 years agoUser
8 years ago
robo (z6a)
8 years agoI agree with kswl as just by accident I painted my walls Benjamin Moore Sea Pearl which is a very greyed out off white and it happened to match the mortar of my bricks perfectly. They look fabulous together. Your mortar looks warmer than mine so you would likely end up with a warmer cream.
tibbrix
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