Best SW White/cream paint to match light wood floors?
Davied Davies
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anyone ever paint their brown wood furniture white / cream?
Comments (7)Recently I bought (after measuring very carefully to make sure they were not too tall!) floor to ceiling dark brown, stained and lacquered bookcases from a store that was going out of business and selling (or basically giving away) their display cases. I filled in a few screwholes with plastic wood, lightly sanded a few rough areas, painted the cases inside and out with a good-quality white primer (this is the essential step!), sanded away any drip marks, and then finished with two coats of the same paint my daughter and son-in-law had used to paint the woodwork in the house they had recently bought. I had a handyman bolt them to the walls on either side of the living room fireplace and then add trim around the top which matches the rest of that in the room. The bookcases look completely built in. They were excellent quality pieces with crown moldings and striated rails---they look wonderful!! No one would ever guess in their previous life they were old brown dismanteled display cases from a store that had gone out of business! Paint will do wonders. As for the pulls, don't dream of trying to paint them-- take one of the old ones to Home Depot or a local hardware store. They will help you buy new ones which will fit the existing holes (never try to drill new holes--that leads to real problems which a coat of paint can't fix!!) Good luck with your daughter's room--I know it will be beautiful and she will appreciate your hard work as my daughter and her husband did....See MoreBest SW White for Rooms with Floor to Ceiling Windows
Comments (26)Because almost all of the whites produced by paint manufacturers have and LCH CIE Hue that is in the Yellow hue family. This is mostly true. Yellow, Green-Yellow and Green hue families to be precise. Most color measurement instruments lose sensitivity near and below the blue region of the visible spectrum. If you can't measure it, you can't make it. Which is why there are very few white paint colors that factually belong to the blue hue family. Lily White from Benjamin Moore is as close as you're going to get. If you want to discern hue bias for a color of white, compare it to a chip of Lily White. The ones you *think* are blue, won't look blue. You can only manage choosing white paint colors if you know what hue family it belongs to. If a low Chroma white shifts bluish in your space, then you know whites from that hue family shift blue under the inherent light source. Common sense tells you if you keep choosing whites from that same hue family, you're going to get the same result. Logically you then move to whites from different hue family in order to get a different result. Without the factual, objective framework of hue families, there is no strategy. No plan. All you can do is shuffle paint chips and guess about which samples to buy....See MoreBest way to match our LVP flooring to wooden stair treads?
Comments (18)@hallettco, it's been a long day.....totally forgot the OP said LVP in her first post between my first comment and second comment. I was looking at what appeared to be solid wood in the pic she posted. FWIW, my builder installed red oak treads after we had very light white oak flooring installed and he clear coated them. It's not off terribly but it's been a bone of contention between us. It's not horrible but he gave us a discount so I'm living with them for now :/...See MoreSW white paint (pure white or alabaster) in new build
Comments (6)I have had a really busy week and didn't look at Houzz. Hope what I have to say isn't too late for your decision deadline. When deciding on cabinet color you want to choose something that works with the counter you are choosing and works with your overall color palette. Pure White is one of my favorites for cabinets because it is just slightly warm and doesn't limit your other choices as much as either Extra White (more cool / gray) or Alabaster (warmer/ more yellow) If you knew you loved fall colors, warm gold, greens and burnt oranges, I would say Alabaster would work better with the overall palette. That is not what I am hearing from you and not what I am seeing with your other finishes and flooring choice. I think Pure White (left) is much prettier with your flooring than Alabaster. I think Pure White is prettier with Taj Mahal than Alabaster. Pure white will be easier to work with than Alabaster as you make other color decisions for your home. Here is a picture of Taj Mahal with Alabaster and yellow walls. It is a lovely combination. I think pure white would have been too white with the yellow walls and golden floors and may have felt stark, too modern. This is a kitchen with Taj Mahal counters and "Pure White" cabinets. Not specifying SW Pure white, but what I would expect Pure White to appear next to Taj Mahal....See Morecat_ky
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