Would You Like to Share Your Colorful Rooms?
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natesgramma, would you share your paint colors
Comments (4)Thank you! That really is beautiful. It feels so calm and soothing. Saybrook Sage was definitely on my short list. Painter was there this morning and we ended up going with a different combination of sage/greens. After seeing your photo, I hope I don't regret not going with Saybrook. Otherwise, I'm afraid the painter will be back yet again, or worse yet, I'll be breaking out the rollers to do it myself. Thanks for the link too. I can't wait to see what others have done....See MoreWould You Be Open To Sharing Pics of your Kitchen?
Comments (150)Lars, accessibility is pretty much catered to the individual disabled cook. You will find this is true when you talk to different people with disability. I had lived in this home & kitchen for 4 years. By the time I had the money to modify it, I knew exactly what I needed more and what I needed less. ie: A kitchen designer advised me to take some floor cabinets out to yield feet area. It would have been nice but my kitchen was so small that I needed cabinets more than I needed room for my feet. If I modified this kitchen right when I moved in, I would have done it all wrong. I wouldn't have had enough time to learn its unique spaces and surroundings (location of appliances, cooktop, sink, etc.). A full wheelchair accessible kitchen can be very expensive! I had looked into moveable wall cabinets or hardware and they were very pricey. I had so much kitchenwares that I needed to keep all the cabinets. Since I could kneel on my power wheelchair to give me height, I could reach the lower and middle shelves of the wall cabinets. As for the upper shelf, I put items that I use a few times a year. To reach that top shelf, I use a drafting chair. For everyday items, they're all stored in the floor cabinets and in the dishwasher. Yes, the DW makes a good cabinet too. I do use the DW daily but instead of taking all the clean dishes out and put them away every day, I just leave them in there. Take them out when use them and put them in the sink after usage. At the end of the day, they go back in the DW for a good shower. If there are still clean dishes in the DW, then, they get to be cleaned again. The plexiglass did not go over the DW. The lines you saw were scratches from the old wheelchair. I have since replaced the front panel of the DW and replaced the wheelchair. Since it's inexpensive to replace the panel, I figured it didn't need plexiglass. With the pullout shelves, kitchenwares became more accessible. However, the pullout were only done to the center shelves. We couldn't do much with the bottom/floor shelves. So, I store my items in rectangular shape baskets with handles. I can pull the baskets out and push them in like pullout shelves. That's something you may want to try. When talking to kitchen designers, one tip I give that I know can be very useful to all wheelchair cooks is to have 180-degree (or more) hinges on all floor cabinet doors. When the door is opened all the way, the door does not take any hallway spacing for wheelchair to move back and forth. My house was built in the mid 70's. At the time, these were the type of hinges installed on kitchen cabinets. Unfortunately, these useful hinges are no longer used in today new built homes. Or at least, in the new homes that I've seen around here. That wallpaper was not bad but it was too busy looking. It made the small kitchen and the small breakfast area looking even smaller. Decorating was even hard. The wallpaper was very intact after 30+ years. So, my handiman texturized it with plaster (to match with the rest of the house) and painted over with a neutral color. It was inexpensive to do and made a whole lot of difference. In the end, money dictated which modifications I could live with and which I couldn't live without....See MoreWould you share pics of your painted furniture pieces?
Comments (44)Sorry, left out the paint recipe: I use latex paint in Satin (one was Valspar, one was Sherwin Williams). Both look lighter in the pics than in real life, they're dark cream colors. I mix hot water with Plaster of Paris to make a smooth and creamy consistency, then mix it with the paint. It goes on very nice, and has a wonderful feel after waxing. I don't like my pieces to get too flat or chalky, so waxing is important, as is sanding between coats. I lightly distressed both pieces. I use less Plaster of Paris than most people. I used too much on a practice piece once, and it was like pure plaster, a total nightmare. I did not prime either piece, just cleaned them first. I want to say, I used to cringe in horror at painting old wood, but I'm really liking this chalk paint recipe, and how it turns out. And I only paint if the wood is too damaged for us DIYers to restore. My partner did strip and restore both tops here, the wood grain came out beautiful. We're currently working on a sofa table.....harlequin pattern on the table top. I'll post pics when it's done. :-)...See MorePOLL: Would you move from a house you like because you're bored?
Comments (66)OK. I admit it. I am a secret wannabe moveaholic. I am an Air Force brat who moved every two years while growing up and came to love it. I crave change just for the sake of it. New views, fresh perspectives, wide-open opportunities. Alas. I am married to (and in love with) a content-where-he-hangs-his-hat man. So... I paint rooms, make drapes, work on many projects at once, refinish furniture, create oil paintings. But, I do not feel totally satisfied with where we live. I want to move. The house we are living in is 10 feet away from our neighbor's house---we live in a historic district in a small, Southern city. I CRAVE a view and a lot more privacy. So, yes, cricket0828, I think it is fine to move if you are bored, if you can afford the move and your DH is in agreement. paint chips, you came very close to how I feel when you said, "Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that sometimes you just have to let life pull you along for a ride."...See MoreRelated Professionals
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoHere is my teenager's mint green and navy bedroom.
edited to add - It rarely looks this tidy. This photo is for our real estate listing.
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoOh, gosh, such beautiful, colorful rooms! I've loved looking at each and every one! I can't help thinking that my own home, from all the pics I've posted of it over the years, would be considered one of the serene, neutral ones. And, it is . . . all my adobe walls are painted a warm cream, but I do have colorful art and rugs and accents everywhere. So, can I play, too?
This is my powder room, and yes, the walls are painted the same warm cream, but here's the rest of it:
Punched tin mirror has woven inserts from Chimayo, New Mexico (pronounced chee-my- YO). Mirror and punched tin light fixture, here and all of it throughout our home, were custom created for us by the famous Romero Family tinsmiths of Santa Fe. Talavera tile and sink are from San Miguel de Allende in Mexico.
Santo reverse painting on an antique window, basket with pinon pine branches and cones off of one of our hundreds of trees. Carved San Francisco santo (Hispanic St. Francis, not from the city of San Francisco- LOL!) along with a fetish bear. BTW, this is a Native American inspired powder room, and most of them are Christians, so the santos are just as much a part of their culture as the fetish bear. At least here in NM, and in our NA friends' homes.
Close-up of this well-known signed poster by New Mexican artist, Edward Gonzales. Years ago I took a class taught by Edward and he signed this for me. I love it and designed this room around it, all the way down to the Talavera tiles. He cracks up every time I remind him of that (LOL).
More art:
And on the short wall next to the door. The small bowl on that top shelf holds some favorite small Native American artifacts (pottery shards, arrow heads) that I've found over the years on our land here. I collect crosses, and this is one of the first I purchased out here. It was made by a very well-known Santa Fe artisan whose name escapes me at the moment. Simple, but it works well in here. Top shelf also holds two hand-carved NA kachinas. I'm not sure which Pueblo they came from.
Towels, greenery, and a one of my many Indian Storyteller statues.
There's also a small, colorful, NA woven rug on the brick floor in there, but I don't have a pic of it. OK, so the walls may not be painted a beautiful color, but I do think that this room of mine is pretty darn colorful. Thanks for letting me play ;- )
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8 years agoSuch pretty spaces! This is the feature entrance area we just painted blue in our grey and white kitchen:
Maroon/burgundy above den fireplace with sage green dining room in background (disregard the sewing cutting board on the table- it is also our craft space!):
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoBeautiful rooms!!! This is the most colorful room in my house. It really isn't particularly colorful. Really just a few pops of color.
This is a colorful room from a previous home.
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoDeep rust paint in our kitchen.
Guest room in yellow and blue.
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8 years agoSuch beautiful rooms! I know some of these pictures have already been posted.
Back of LR, excuse the bad lighting.
Front part of LR. BTW, for those who saw my topic on getting a new light near the FP, I did, and I love it! Unfortunately, it's not in the picture. lol
I've never shown the wall behind me where I stand to take pictures, but here it is during the build. Very bad picture. The right is the booknook with matching built-in's. The left is the entryway. Entryway floor is checkerboard tile, in rust and brown.
Kitchen. Accessories change constantly. Floor is deep red and cream checkerboard tile.
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8 years agoI love color. Hence, I love this topic)) and the rooms in it
I posted this one already..the rest of the rooms are pretty much like it (I mean the amount of color. lol), but the photos are much less recent, and have so much more going on since then-or are recent but spoiled by my presence in the room..))
Actually this one is also might be older than I think-judging by the tree height..Wow. Much older. Maybe couple years ago, a year and a half? It's scary how time flies.
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoI love color! We will need to re-do our hall bath maybe next year and are seriously thinking about colored retro tile. Of course, DH says then we are not moving because anyone coming in would rip out the "dated" bathroom.
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8 years agoI love color as well, so many beautiful room on here. I have to say that aprilneverends yellow room is one of my all time favorites.
Here's my LR, which is still a work in progress (no artwork yet etc.).
Hard to photograph because I have so much natural light!
ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9 thanked aimeekm- 8 years ago
I love colorful rooms. I had them in my last house and I loved them. I tried it in my current house and it was a terrible fail :P we currently have an accepted offer on this house so who knows what will be up next :) I have gotten used to the solid color in most rooms now in my current house. it was really alot of time and effort to find the perfect "cream" color I had in my head.
Old house - a few pics - (they seem so dark!) I can't believe it has been 9 years since I moved out of this house.
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I forgot I have *one* colorful room. It's one of the guestrooms, very girlie, but when my oldest son comes to visit, it's where he stays. Rasberry/ivory/black.
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8 years agoSo many beautiful rooms! This is my dining room (at Thanksgiving). I fell in love with the drapery fabric and it inspired the pretty green paint color.
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So many beautiful rooms.
Our main living spaces - living and dining rooms, kitchen and sitting area, are all somewhat open to each other. I don't know how it would work, or how I would feel if we had used strong colors in these areas as we have a lot of large windows which frame a lot of green, especially this time of year:
Of course now I realize that you can't quite see the all the green beyond the windows. And it's actually a lot more lush in May (especially) and June.
I do have one room with some saturated color. It's a guest room, and gets used only 2 or 3 times a year. All the bedrooms in our house are fairly small, so forgive the scrunched up furniture:
We also remodeled our mbr 2 years ago and used a bold glass tile in the shower and as the backsplash for the vanity:
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8 years agoWhile I have seen many beautiful homes painted in beiges and taupes, those tones simply don't suit my personality. I love color and it makes me happy to be surrounded by happy spaces. :)
This is our basement movie room. We've since added wall decor and accessories, but this shows the color. It's Benjamin Moore's Pale Avocado.
This is my home office. It's a Martha Stewart color that was matched in Benjamin Moore paint called Plumage.
And this is my daughter's bedroom, being used by our 9 week old goldendoodle puppy in this particular picture. It's painted in BM's Quartz Stone with gold vinyl polkadots from Etsy added.
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8 years agoI am low to medium energy and like color for my living areas but prefer subdued in sleeping areas.
This is my living room in shades of olive, rust, and pumpkin, walls are SW Jersey Cream. Murphy on his chair, looking quite grumpy, and Princess KoKo on the floor looking cute!
I loathe the behemoth of a coffee table but the side to the sofa lifts and DH likes to sit there with his laptop on the table and play solitaire. I would also like to replace the current Karastan that has the ivory background to a darker more colorful version.
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoSo much fun to see these beautiful rooms full of color. I think of most of my rooms as neutral with accents of color but I do have a couple of rooms where I went more bold.
Both guest rooms are colorful. I used a couple of antique pieces in the first one (not all really shown) and a colorful PB bird duvet
Some fern pillow shams were the inspiration for this room.
The copper sink & a print we bought in Hawaii mostly inspired the half bath color.
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..found my dining. also an old pic-because since then I found a hutch on Craigslist..
ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9 thanked aprilneverends - 8 years ago
I'm loving neutrals and soft, soothing colors now more than ever before, but my artwork is still vibrant and so is my rug. This is probably the most colorful space in our house. These pics are from a few months back ... the "sitting around décor" has been tweaked slightly since then.
ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9 thanked User - 8 years agolast modified: 8 years ago
OMG, the deep purple in Annie's library is gorgeous and perfect. And I've always loved her tangerine powder room and the orange in her kitchen. Brave use of two tough colors which turned out perfectly.
this is the children's bunk room in my house, but I want to paint the woodwork white and the walls and ceiling BM Lemon Ice, a "lighter" (weight-wise) yello
My favorite room in terms of color is my living room
ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9 thanked User - 8 years ago
This is our old condo in Florida which we just moved out of late last March. When
we go back to our new winter nest this fall, I look forward to the task of finishing our decor using the same furniture
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