Help take my small master bath from drab & dreary to dreamy & cheery!
Elaine Ricci
3 years ago
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Comments (25)Thanks very much for merging the photos and painting more colors for me. I recognize that you have a lot of time into this for me, and I really do appreciate it. I love the color of your guest bedroom and of your hallway outside the room. The picture in your hallway is beautiful too. I looked through the color chips that I have, and I haven't collected one for Mirage yet. What's funny though is that I painted a posterboard with White Sage, and in my room, it looks very much like your bedroom color! I also painted one with Pickling Spice, and your bedroom color (as it appears on my monitor) looks a lot closer to WS than PS in my room. In my room, Pickling Spice looks like the intensity of the Pickling Spice you painted, but the color is looking very different. It's too bright/springy in my lighting, so it's not feeling at all restful. White Sage might work. It looks great in my bedroom and with the bathroom tile and counter. It doesn't match either side of my bedding, but it definitely looks nice with the striped side. With all those blue and green stripes, the overall effect is something in between blue and green, which looks pretty with the White Sage. I'm not sure I'm loving it with the floral side. I'm trying to determine if it'll work and just be a background color. I'm going to live with it for a few days and see. The Bleached Sand looks great with both sides of the bedding and my furniture, but it looks like almost an exact match for my bathroom tile and counter. I'm not sure if I could make it ok through decorating with color, or if it would still look weird to have so little contrast with walls, tiles, counter, and floor. Once I get a new battery for my camera, I'm going to see if I can get any pictures that show how White Sage and Bleached Sand really look in my bedroom and bathroom. If I come up with anything that looks close to reality, I'll post them so you can take a look. Thanks again! Nicole...See MoreFrom fab to drab
Comments (36)I can imagine how you feel, but your new house is cute and cozy and has a lot of potential. It's really a blank slate and I think you can make it your own without too much trouble and expense, and I also think you will love it (in time because it won't all happen overnight). Can you live with the 7' ceilings? As a pp said, that sort of thing can't be changed easily; the decor can. In my opinion you will have a totally different take on your LR after you take out the carpet and put down some HW. Is there already HW underneath? If not -- well, our house is a little 1949 ranch with almost no distinguishing features except the HWs. Site-finished narrow plank oak, and I am completely ruined for any other kind of wood floor now. We put it in newer parts of our house to match the old. I just love the look. Only problem, and it's not a small one, is that living with the installation and finishing is awful, especially if you go with the harder-wearing oil-based finish (which I recommend since our newer floors with the water-based finish scratch and scuff much more easily than the old). You pretty much have to move out while the woods are going in, but I am so glad we used this. It adds so much character to the house. Here's a pic of our floor: old floor to the right, new floor to the left. The new floor is slightly higher than the old because that room was originally a deck which became a screened porch which became a den (the wide trim molding you see was originally the exterior wall of the house). Anyway, when we ripped up the carpet in the den we found what may or may not have been asbestos tile, so we just had the HW laid over the top. See? Your house is only 15 yrs old so you are already way ahead of the curve. No asbestos, no lead, probably no scary homeowner-installed wiring either (we found an ancient extension cord INSIDE a wall; it had been used as "wiring" to another addition). And yes, that is probably Sharpie marker on the floor. Oh well. And your kitchen -- oh gosh, you can TOTALLY work with that kitchen, how much depends on your budget (gut vs cosmetic) but seriously, you should see ours. Installed in the mid-80's by my dear husband long before I came along and his favorite color is tan. It's all white and tan laminate and melamine. And he chose it all himself (and we are now on a serious budget) so I have to be very circumspect about changing anything. You are, as I said, SO ahead of the curve there. haha. Floor, countertops, cab doors, and you would have a completely new look....See MoreMaster Bedroom needs a refresh. Please help!
Comments (216)Guess what?! Shower curtain arrived from Etsy yesterday and it looks great! Colors are even better in person than online. Copper and brown colors tie in with the tile perfectly and it brings much needed gray, white, and blue. Love! It is a little long, but I can easily re-hem. The Pottery Barn Odin rug wasn’t so lucky. The colors are kind of turquoise-y and sea glass green. So next I’m shopping for a 3’ x 5’ rug with gray-blue in it. Speaking of shopping...also need to look for art for the bedroom wall. The replacement one arrived, also with dents to the frame. Hubby brought it in from the porch and said, “Wow, this box is mangled!”...See MoreGray paint color for drab master BR with little light - help!
Comments (28)home-design.jpgAs we always say...............we can only ADVISE. ............ There are literally thousands of ways to love a space. Designers are not dictators, they just realize this fact,, and it is always about maximizing what one has, and minimizing that which one does not have. In this case, it is abundant natural light and a "coastal feel" . This is what Serena and Lily is known for. It appeals in their catalogue and on their site. When you look at both, note the natural LIGHT, and the obvious seaside feel. Just as we don't generally make locales such as that into dark and cozy, furry bowers, the reverse also holds true. I'll just say a prayer that the ivory ground print comforter set finds a home OTHER than this bedroom, or I missed something up here prior. It will appear a disjointed and disappointing complement to the paper you have to have. Sigh................deeply lol. Add tons of clean white...... WHAT MADE YOU LOVE THIS PAPER?? Answer: The Abundant, simple, WHITE. The bedding: ) A room only needs one show stopper. Don't dilute the effort. this below? Not so much..... apologies....See MoreElaine Ricci
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