HELP! Do I repaint the cabinets or do I paint the all doors and trim?
Kristen Branscum
5 years ago
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6 rooms all open to each other-how do I decorate them all?!!HELP!
Comments (9)I agree with jerseygirl and live with the space for awhile before committing major changes and you can do an accent wall if there's not a good place for change of paint color. I'm in the process of picking colors with 5 rooms connecting and another 2 thru doors/doorways. I love saturated color. I have 4 reds on my DR wall and will pick one when I pick the copper in the sitting room (3 choices on wall) and greens (4 choices) in the office. The kitchen is already Hawthorne yellow and the half bath is Blue Lapis. The music room will be the 2 lilac colors that got rejected from the sitting room. I'm tying all the rooms together with the same color trim - white dove. My 185 year old fire places are all different marbles - gotta try to strip one that was painted. The main rooms have natural oak floors and the minor rooms fir (over 100 years old). I'm not too worried about the other woods in the rooms - I just make it work for that room. I have cherry in my kitchen, mahogany in the DR, and black walnut doors. I've been living with 3' x 4' paint swatches for weeks until something speaks to me. The 1st time I threw up lilac in the sitting room I knew it was wrong. I had some friends who are good with color help me pick another scheme (copper). I have a dark purple couch and chair for that room. Even though one color might work great in one room with the furniture, they all need to play "nice" together when viewed from room to room. I picked a red I love but I don't know how it will play with the green and copper so I'm holding off until i figure out the other rooms. I did start with a designer to help me narrow down my choices so I can get painting sooner. (I could have probably done it but it would have taken me a year!) She kept saying "This is so much fun, I should be paying you." What she suggested is have one tying feature - for me it's the same color trim from room to room....See MoreRepainted get over heavily damaged paint- where do I start?
Comments (5)My guess sight unseen: scrape and sand the walls down to what seems sound. Then prime everything with an oil based primer. Whether it is bare plaster or slick underlying oil paint, the primer should stick. Top off the entire walls with drywall topping compound, sand, prime again with water based drywall primer. Finish coat . This is labor intensive, but is not brain surgery....See MoreGoing all white paint...do I vary shade for walls and trim?
Comments (13)Doors are as window casings, baseboards and DOOR casings, and the sheen usually satin. The only exception that comes to mind? A wood door perhaps, or a door painted black. That's it. If you want trim same as wall color, you elevate the sheen. Of that trim. If the base skirts are hideous, and the rest of the trim is not hideous: Treat the base skirt as wall with same color and sheen, and change color AND sheen on ALL the rest of the trim, to include window casing, door casing and the door itself....See MoreHelp. Do I coordinate area rug with runner AND do i paint front door?
Comments (7)Beth & Jan’s Navy would be beautiful! Bronze would be interesting! Can u do a bronze with out getting too “orangey”? Thinking that may go well with the nailheads on the leather chairs... So would either of those colors have to be in the stair runner? There’s not a bronze in the ARug. Would that be ok?...See MoreKristen Branscum
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