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I got my 'Moonshine' - how do I make/keep it white?
Comments (33)Mmontina, I like the light colour of your sans but it's no 'Moomshine'. It is a Sansevieria trifasciata Futura of some type. I have a Silver Laurenttii and when it pups, they look exactly like Moonshine until it gets a little bigger then the yellow margins show up. They get big and darken with age. Now my Moonshine and I have plenty. Stush...See MoreWhite kitchen owners - how did you make it your own?
Comments (36)DH and I talked about a cherry kitchen in our future, but after he convinced me to completely replace our white cabinets so we could start fresh, I couldn't see that much brown. I've always been partial to white kitchens and when I went through kitchen photos, at least 80-90% of those I was drawn to were white. Sooo.... I would call our kitchen transitional I had never seen or heard of Christopher Peacock and white kitchens were not so popular, but I think the shaker and similar plainer front cabinets were, so going simpler seemed a popular choice. It was driven by hating the heavy moldings on our custom cabinets (wall trim used on cabinet doors). It made a statement, but that and the short counters meant every drip got caught on the paint and stained -- and there were lots of grooves to clean. DH is s slob in the kitchen. I had to have something very simple so the choice was desperation, not fashion. Our tile had to be patched in the reno and was done poorly, so we later replaced the floor. The dark wood was probably a popular choice then, but it fit our house. Risky -- did white marble counters in both the cooking and clean up zones before it was making every magazine cover. I am not a granite person, didn't like my mom's Corian and the cool recycled glass was uber expensive and didn't really go with our house. I saw a slab of marble with squiggles that reminded me of the stray marks on old ink drawings and thought of Da Vinci (my boys and I were into him) and I had to have it. End of story. Other not so safe choices -- I did three cabinet finishes (wall of tall blue storage surrounding my fridge and knotty cherry island and hutch in the breakfast room, did a 3 tile combo (from 2 different sources) for the inset in my backsplash, and mixed metal finishes on hardware, lighting and faucets. All of the above plus the fact that the layout was designed by me to maximize every inch of possible function for the way we wanted it to work and adding fridge drawers to our hutch made it right for us. I designed it to make me happy and with no consideration for resale or what others would think. My favorite design element -- the different cabinet finishes -- the wall of blue as a backdrop plus the knotty cherry -- and the custom leaded glass in the uppers of the hutch. But my favorite thing is how it functions. DH even said out loud last night (8 years later) how he loves the way we designed the kitchen. It just works for us. I'd say the marble and the three cabinet finishes were a bit of a ledge, maybe mixing metals -- no regrets. We didn't name our kitchen, but we had in mind a couple of things -- an old bakery or ice cream parlor and kind of the gentrified plantation/ranch style of the rest of our home. I also kept saying I wanted a workhorse, not a showplace. It needed to be almost understated and yet, at the same time, go big or go home. Probably doesn't make any sense, but no sissy stuff here. The sparkly bridge faucet, chandelier over the island -- beautiful, but didn't fit here....See MoreHow to make White Down more creamy/less pukey?
Comments (11)Thank you very much for your replies everyone. It would definitely be simpler to use White Down on the trim (and I concede that we're not at all adept--this is our first time--at working with whites), but the White Down is quite tawny/creamy and we're hoping to ultimately have the impression of a slightly crisper white on the trim. If I'm understanding Sandra's advice correctly, a white trim with a more brown undertone will decrease the brown in the walls Ultimately, we want to decrease the grey/brown tones (which is what I meant with the very loose descriptor "pukey") and want to enhance the creamy/yellow tones of the White Down. Since we're hesitant to use White Down on the trim (as it's white in name only), I'm thinking this means I need to find a white trim that has a very slight grey/brown undertone. Have I understood correctly? Thank you! --AB...See MoreHow to make white paint appear more consistent?
Comments (10)Simply White is a white with a very subtle green undertone. All whites have some sort of undertone. As the poster above says, all of them will look different depending on the lighting and time of day. If you're not absolutely determined to have an all-white kitchen, go one shade darker and choose an off-white that has an undertone you do like. As the poster above said, using something that is in an adjacent room (or an off-white with the same undertone) would be a good way to go. To determine the undertone in a white, beige or gray, look at the chips on a piece of white paper without any other chips nearby. Or look at them next to each other on white. The comparison might make the undertone apparent to you then. If there is a BM store in your area, see if they have a color consultant on site. The ACE hardware stores that sell BM paints may not have one, but the company stores are more likely to. The person in our area store will come to your house for $100 to help you choose colors. They will be able to see the formulas for each color and know what undertone they have if you have difficulty determining it yourself. Or start buying samples and try various colors until you find something you like. If you're interested in painting multiple rooms the color consultant may be worth the money to avoid expensive mistakes. We tried ten different colors in the family room of our previous house before we found what we liked. I wish I had spent the $100 instead of doing that. :-) I am going to use her before painting the first floor of our new house....See Moremamapinky0
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