Help finding a bright, happy color pallette for living room
Jennifer S. Pedraza
6 years ago
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Jennifer S. Pedraza
6 years agoJennifer S. Pedraza
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Please Help me in finding a fire place for my living room media wall??
Comments (6)Check out Dimplex.com, they have many electric fireplace units as well as many fireboxes to choose from and mount on the wall. You can most likely find a local dealer to see in person. We recently had a custom light natural maple credenza made from an Amish company and had a Dimplex firebox installed in it. It needs no special venting because the hot air blows out the front into the room but it does require a separate line due to the heat fan (if you don't use the heat fan, then maybe you won't need the separate line). We have clear glass beads on the bottom of the firebox and it is essentially an LED light show! We actually have a wall mount firebox installed in a piece of furniture. http://dimplex.com/en/fireplaces/wallmounts We never thought we'd use the heat element, but we have used it once or twice and it works great. Honestly, we are so happy with our finished product, decorating our FL condo is still a work in progress, but here is what we have so far. I know its not really what you're looking for, but just an FYI. I wish the pic would show off the flame/lights as they really look, we think they're beautiful....See MorePlease Help With Living Room Colors (Primarily Sofa)
Comments (12)a) I don't find neither brown nor gray a fad. Both these colors surround us day after day, be it in sky, sea, trees, earth..nothing "fading" about them, they're here to stay, and both can be used simultaneously and quite successfully in the same room. I personally prefer very warm, brownish gray, or greige as they call it..but then I like chocolate, tan, and whatnot. Decide whether you want to go on the "cooler" part of the spectrum, or the "warmer", rather then deciding on name of the color..it's very personal, since different people feel differently about colors, and their relative temperature, brightness, etc. Figure out where on the spectrum you'd like to be to feel the best-and "best" can be any thing too-more comfortable? more homey? more elegant? more refined? more relaxed? etc, etc. b) same thing with dark or light. Figure out what contrast you're comfortable with. More contrast=more dynamic room. Less contrast=the room is more quiet. How do you want to feel in the room? If the room was a music(i know, silly comparison))..what kind of music you'd like it to be? Then preoccupy yourself with the paint..paint can and should be(ideally) figured out last, since you can match paint to literally everything, it's endless..unlike all the other options in the room. you're going into a very right direction, thinking of the room as the whole, and not just the parts. your room will talk to you, in its own way of course. It might tell you things that you didn't expect, like that it wants to have darker walls with lighter floors..)) Beige walls with yellow accents can be as stunning as gray walls with yellow accents. If I find inspiration pics (I'm sure I have them but my Pinterest is a constantly growing mess)-I'll post them I do remember a space from latest Abigail Ahern's book "Color"..done maybe by Kelly Wearstler but I'm not sure..it was too gorgeous for words. In terms of colors. It had some darker touches as well-she's a dramatic designer. The point is though-you can take this combo anywhere, and make it into the one that brings you the feel you want to feel. c) I do like herringbone..I find it very comforting somehow. Not saying I'd choose it myself-I'm a person who's dream is sofa done in velvet by William Morris or House of Hackeney or Timorous Beasties or something else, impractical and unattainable..:) But I do like herringbone. Don't find it trendy at all. Why plaid, stripe, polka dots are not trendy-and herringbone suddenly is? Geometry is geometry..:) Chevron was trendy. not because it was trendy by itself, poor thing-but because they overused it to death.....See MoreI need help deciding the color for my living room Walls
Comments (3)awesome i think that is the color i just did a search and if it is how it looks in the pictures i think that is very close to what i want. Thank you sooo much...See MoreHELP, I removed bright orange color -now it is bright yellow
Comments (27)dyeing, bleaching, coloring fabric is really hard to do at home. I've had a ton of practice and still *rarely* get it right with Rit or iDye. fabrics that are dyed commercially look good because they have massive industrial setups. and unfortunately, the chemicals that work better are ones that are pretty scary. Reds/oranges/yellows are the hardest colors to get out. "color removers" are only meant to fade enough that you can put a new color on top of it. and your results are going to wildly vary depending on what was used to dye it before, and what the fabric is. you're probably never going to achieve fading all the way to champagne unless you use an aggressive amount of chlorine bleach. worse, if you try to add violet or something to tone down bright yellow, you'll probably end up with something muddy and bad. and/or damage your fabric the more you treat it. (similar principals apply when people try to bleach and dye hair.) you might either embrace the color as-is or pick a dye that will work with the yellow undertone. maybe it's time for you to decide that piece of fabric is better off in a different room and buy a new piece that's already the color you want....See MoreJennifer S. Pedraza
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