need help w Kitchen cabinets
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Need help choosing Kitchen Paint color that flows w/ other rooms
Comments (0)I have a pretty traditional colonial house. Staircase and foyer in the middle with half bath under stairs. And living room, kitchen, and what will be my sitting room all flowing in a circle around those stairs. I just had my cabinets painted White Dove (BM)...sorry I don't have pics since they were painted. My cabinets are a green Corian color and my floor is tiled with big reddish/brown tiles. The living room color you see (and the color below chair rail in these pics) is Ralph Laurens Crabapple. I am leaving this in my living room so I need the kitchen to coordinate with this color AND those green countertops. (hate them but not gonna change them at this point)...My sitting room is opposite the living room...it is a room wrapped in beautiful wainscoting. So I need a color recommendation to go there too please. And you can see my little half bath from the kitchen too so a color recommendation for that too would be great! No windows in this bathroom. I've included a link to my blog where I posted pics and asked for help when deciding to paint the cabinets. Hope they are helpful. :-) Here is a link that might be useful: Help me paint my kitchen...See MoreUpdate on LR & Need Help W/ Kitchen
Comments (15)I'm still working on them and it's taking a long time specially since I can only do it on the weekends or sometimes after work. I only have the poly coat for the doors left now. First you have to remove the doors. Don't fight it just take them off. Clean them really well. Years of grease and dust. I didn't sand. If I had to do it again I would consider applying a dark primer (maybe black since my stain is so dark). I used a sponge brush to apply and a regular brush to spread. It worked better for me. If you have real wood, apply the stain heavily with the sponge, wait a few minutes, then wipe off with a rag. The more coats you do the darker it gets. If you have wood/plastic or whatever it is that they make cheap builder cabinets from then: Apply the stain heavily and as even as possible with the sponge brush. Wait probably about 5-6 minutes. Then using a dry brush, make even straight strokes. This will even out the stain. You can keep brushing until it looks good to you. Sometimes I needed a second coat but not heavy just really a light coat with the sponge. Then I applied two coats of polyurethane. This was the fun part because you can't mess it up. It's clear! I highly recommend that you practice somewhere. The more you practice the better you get. I did my master bath. then started on my kitchen and didn't get my technique down until halfway thru my cabs. I just hope it lasts and doesn't chip. Some ladies here told me that the stain takes about a month to cure (to make it strong). So be careful with them. Also be careful when you tape your walls. As I removed the tape, it pulled some of the stain from the cabs. I have to retouch. Don't use tape or come up with a different plan. I hope I answered all the questions. I hope to post finished pics next week. Mariana...See MoreNeed help w/ kitchen color - Photoshopper PLEASE!
Comments (13)I'm sorry this took so long. The last week of school activities are getting to be more than I thought...whew! Anyway, I tried tans and beiges first but they really looked washed out next to the lighter cabinets to me. No way on the yellows, it really didn't go well with the pickled cabinets at all. I really felt like you needed green to pull everything together. Choosing the right one is going to be tricky though. Did you paint the green cabinets yourself? Maybe use that same strip and go down 2 or 3 shades. Anyway, I also think your curtains would be okay with this color but I tried a Roman Shade for you too so you can see how that might look. Here's the light cabinet side And the dining area with your existing curtains Here's an idea for roman shades but there are millions of fabrics to choose from. Dining area with new shades Oh and adding some fun accessories to your pretty cabinets. I just love that Moss color....See MoreNeed Help w Kitchen Colors
Comments (3)I had a similar problem in my back bedroom. I pained it what I thought was pinky beige and it ended up looking pepto bismol pink once it was covering the whole wall. So I tried to neutralize it. Green was recommended as a color to use in the room to look good with it instead of blue which I had been using, which only highlighted it more. BUT, although I had some plants in the room and a green headboard on the bed, the BEST thing I did to "neutralize" the pink was to embrace it and use SIMILAR colors, like yellow, brown, maroon, pink, red, terra cotta. So take whichever color you like the best, the green or the orange, and then fill your kitchen with shades of those colors you DO like. You can find great palette Web sites online to play around with these possibilities. Embrace the color you like and that will hide the tone of that color in your kitchen that you don't like. As for the other color you don't like, it will now have more competition. For some reason, my bedroom photos aren't showing on my photo site so I can't post pics to illustrate. But that's advice I got here a couple of years ago and it worked....See MoreJAN MOYER
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