What colours do you suggest?
7 years ago
Converting what used to be tacky basement playroom. Please help us choose wall and rug colours. We would like to keep the couch and the turquoise table. Have to keep the carpet. Not my ideal colour palette, but can it work? Looking for window treatment, area rug, accent pillow colour, above the couch (wall) decor suggestions. Since photo, a live edge walnut slab on the white shelves with grey baskets (no purple table with blue bins). Facing couch, a very old beige brick fireplace that hubby refuses to paint, but that actually warms up the room...
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7 years agoi will ignore the carpet, it is just one more floor you can not change. Your hubby is right about not painting the fireplace, you can not really use afterwards. I am going to ignore the rest of what you said, you did not really say that part well. I am going to work on a rug that goes with a turquoise trunk and dark gray sectional. along with other things you need or it looks like you do. once we have the room done then you can work on a paint that goes with it all.
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I was told not to do it...what do you suggest?
Comments (15)Call me a believer; I suspect fly2cast could do it. I think there is a self-selection process at work here, where there are only some people whose mind it would even cross to do this themselves, and the idea tends to occur to them only because they have the capacity to figure out how to do it. I do wonder if you need to think about why you are sure you want the wall mortared. I'd keep an open mind on that. You could always make a test section without mortar and see if you think you really need it. I have two fairly good stone books in the house (and a couple not good enough to mention). One of the good is David Reed's "The Art and Craft of Stonescaping" and the other Charles McRaven's "Stonework: Techniques and Projects." Neither deals with mortar, nor with fieldstone to any significant extent. McRaven's chapter on walls includes some good information on buttressing (which I don't think you'll need at the height you have), while Reed's has some pictures and discussion of old Irish walls that ... well, to a rock person, the pictures are like water on a hot day, and the info on how they were built is also interesting, but those walls would be less relevant to you. From both books you do get the idea of communing with rock, so to speak, and I think that may be why you don't find a lot of info on working with fieldstone. Relative to wallstone, working with fieldstone must be much more a case of "reading" the rocks, assessing where their natural "faces" are and understanding how their weight will make them behave and settle, and ultimately "marrying" the rocks to each other. At least, that's how I'm finding my current work with boulders in the front yard, relative to work we've done with wallstone in the back yard. Wallstone is much more a simple case of puzzle building. Something that you're going to feel your way into is much harder to explain in a book. But check your local libraries and maybe the nearest landscape supply/stoneyard bookrack... that's where I found these. I do suspect that books, rather than the internet, will be your best source. I mean, stone = ancient material = luddite = print materials, you know? And again, the worst that could happen sounds like you get into it, find your results unsatisfactory, and go on to hire someone instead. That sounds better than spending the rest of your life wondering if you could have done it. So much depends on the rock that you have, again to echo Laag. KarinL...See MoreWhat kind of window treatment do you suggest for Living Room
Comments (4)Thanks guys..Maybe I'll put this project on hold since it seems it's not as bad as I thought. I was thinking a valance of some sort, just to add some color to the area. I lived here for 9 years with no treatments really throughout. THanks for your input...See MoreWhat do you suggest for lemon yellow blooms?
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Comments (1)I like the neutral color scheme of your house, it looks quite nice, so I'd stick with the same color as the siding or a soft cream that harmonizes with the rest of the exterior. Personally, I wouldn't do anything flashy here to upset the softness and calmness of the rest of it....See MoreRelated Professionals
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New carpet or not - this would look nice, imo. H 22.44" / D 3.54" / W 42.13" metal for $75.
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Youthful buy 2 or more, not sure at 24" for $35! Pillow / throw in a color:
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Art has the colors, including this branch-y look -- is it ok?
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Put the chest under toy house - buy a round golden coffee table for adult liking, with bit of gold in art...
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Then add textured to your current pillows, and I'd think you're about there...
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