Painted and Stained Two-Toned Cabs: Wood and Painted Crown Meeting?
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caligirl5
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoNot directly to your question: I have white uppers and stained lowers, and I did the tall cabinets in white. I prefer that way, with all the eye-level cabinets being the same, but I've seen the tall cabinets in dark look fine too. I'm having a hard time visualizing some tall cabinets stained and some white...but it sounds like maybe they're in different areas in your kitchen.
To your question on crown, my parent's house has stained crown in the room and white cabinets. The transition is very inconspicuous.
Edit: I found a pic from their house
I'm guessing your transition will look something like the photo above with the gray tall cabinets, with the white uppers recessed. The transition will be back in the corners, so seems like solution like my parent's would work well? I think it's call a coped joint. Their GC initially recommend plinth blocks, but my dad didn't think it would look good and found this solution online. The carpenter was concerned that it wouldn't come out perfect, and the GC ended up doing that part My parents felt like even if it wasn't perfect, it was a less conspicuous solution than plinth blocks, and they're very happy with how it turned out.
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Comments (10)I have definitely seen this look, especially to highlight a certain area. For example, I saw a whole kitchen of wood cabinets, with a painted wood hood, stove surround cabinets, to set off the range. It looked great. Sorry I don't know where I saw it. I considered this look in my kitchen but I think that having different colors/finishes will make my small kitchen look smaller. If it were one of those big grand kitchen I'd probably go for that. Also I often see the island in a different finish from the rest of the cabinets and it looks really nice....See MoreAre these cabs cherry? Paint? Glaze? Med.brown gel stain?
Comments (18)I think I would try changing out the hardware and painting the background wall color above the cabs something dark like a rich chocolate brown. Or a deeper green. That would allow the lighter cabnets to really pop and take center stage. If that doens,t make enough of a change in the room for you then glazing may just be the right thing to do. I think with those cabs glazing could well be the answer your looking for if they were done with a base color thats opposite on the color wheel it would really help to cut the orange your not liking and glazing would be a easier option than a major allover color change. To get a solid color change that matchs on that many cabs would be more difficult then a glaze. I would def. try painting that upper background color first though. I think it would give that kitchen the pop of color it needs to really stand out....See Morequick ?: most effective paint tone to de-orange red oak cabs?
Comments (29)I LOVE you guys! :) So much good stuff in here, and some hilarious stuff too :) igloo, I agree -- it can't hurt--and at this point, it's pretty much necessary. I actually mixed a color that DH and I LOVE -- we mixed some Copley Grey, believe it or not, some Pratt & Lambert Carolina Gull, and a touch of Pearl Grey. To me it reads like an F&B color, for some reason -- definitely greyed out but with depth*s* -- almost prismatic. It makes the oak look golden rather than orange! I have *no idea* how it works scientifically, though. I guess there's enough blue to neutralize the orange? But it doesn't look too blue--which is hard in that all-incandescent room, but BM Pewter did. When I get the paint up I'll try to take pics, which of course won't come out well at all since there's no natural light in the little cave...and it's just a yucky pre-remodel powder room anyway...but I could see liking this color enough to use it post-remodel too. I love when a thread broadens out to consider larger issues, like why surgical scrubs are blue-green...that was really interesting, spring. OUCH, kjmama...We've watched that happen around us. Our estimated value is a LOT less than it had been. We were almost thinking of selling anyway, because we were able to buy this before the real-estate rush back in the mid 2000s, and there are so many good deals out there now. But we *like* our house! The only problem is the location. We may have to move in the spring anyway, if DD doesn't get into particular schools. But we're refi-ing in order to live on our hopes (that she'll get into one of the two schools) and as insurance in case the world goes bonkers and inflation comes storming into town. cmama/Carol, how about telling us more about what's in the room? Or were you joking? If not, please say more. And the last time I stared at a wall for 5 minutes was in 10th grade while listening to "Dreamweaver"...and it wasn't alcohol making me do it......See MoreDoes this color scheme make sense? Two-tone cabs.
Comments (27)Oh, Marcolo, that picture makes me laugh because I had been teasing DH that our daughter's play kitchen would be a perfect color scheme for a 1940's house. He just gave me that look. I know exactly what you mean by putting in the wrong decade and I agree with you for the most part, but then our neighborhood houses' original finishes were I think closer to the '30's than the '40's (maybe the builder was using up stuff left over from before the war) -- though I don't really know. All the kitchens I've seen on the street have been redone, or at least repainted, at some point in between and the new ones all look very much like 2000-2010 kitchens. Granite as far as the eye can see. Christine and mama_goose, thank you for the input! I've looked at Barker Door and I will check out DoorStop too. I will have to go sniff some Cabinet Coat and see if it would work for the resp-sensitive family members. Unfortunately (or not), we don't have a garage or other separate enclosed space for painting. Mama_goose, I remember your kitchen and it is just charming. I love how you have made it all your own. I believe our house's original cabinets were much like yours except with slab doors, from what DH tells me (he was the one who replaced them with frameless melamine in the late 80's)....See More
PROMarkJames & Co
6 years agoWhat works best depends on the layout and the client preference. With current software it isn't unreasonable to expect to can't be shown a decent representation of your choices. Photo-realistic is another story, but a general idea of the relationships should be easy enough unless you're still working with a pencil or 2D CAD.
My preference is that it is ok to change modling color at an end of a run but it is always up to the client.
First one shows two options of the 4 that the client was shown and a photo of the result. Second is flat molding-again client was shown multiple options to make final choice.
Then something we are working on now. Very little of this is actually settled as the client is having difficulty settling on colors. Because of the color issue I did the first image which is more realistic but far more time consuming to produce so not as reasonable to expect (requires a render specific software program that I am just learning-the rendering was done with the gracious help of a professional renderer Rene from Rabbitt Construction). The other images were done within our standard design software but still need work on lighting (backsplash also needs to be resolved)
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