Pendant and tap finish help !
Shannon
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Did you match finish of pendants/lights to your cabinet hardware?
Comments (24)BKO was a typo I made in a thread that seems to have caught on. I meant to say TBO (totally bathroom obsessed) but there was a two year old pulling on me, and I hadn't slept, and BKO came out instead. For some reason freaks who are TKO seem to understand that BKO (which makes no sense) means Bath LOL I have mixed finishes in all of my rooms (because I'm BKO AND TKO LOL) In my master bath I have antique gold knobs and gold tone lighting (antique stuff from the 1920's that I restored). The lighting also has browns involved in the design and the faucets are all ORB. The towel bars, hooks etc are all ORB as well. All of the finishes are what I would call "warm" in nature and the colors flow. Chrome would look terrible in that room. In the kitchen I have a SS countertop, fridge, DW and TC. My sinks are SS and the faucets (bar, main and pot filler) are all chrome. My lighting is a mix of antique pieces which have both aluminum (or antique pewter color) and a soft gold highlight on them with amber shades. My stove has both silver and gold on the handles (Lacanche) and my knobs are antique pewter. My other counters are granite with amber running through it prominently and the backsplash is amber as well as the glass in the cabinets. So in that room, I am mixing both gold and silver (warm and cool) tones. In the family bath I have a mix of chrome and brushed nickle. The faucets are chrome, as is the toilet handle and then the other pieces are brushed as are the knobs. The powder room has gold or brass fixtures and knobs. I hate having everything exactly the same except for the most modern of rooms (where that uniformity becomes important in taking individual elements out of the design). So the answer is....LOL you can probably do anything. :oP Does that help???...See MoreHelp! Do pendant lights/Dinningroom Table Chandelier
Comments (1)I am somewhat hesitant to say "no it won't work" because I've been there myself and made it work, but is it optimal? No, it would be better, because you have no other brass in the room, to go with a silvery finish. But, do you have nay other accent colors in your metals? My stove knobs are both silver and gold, and my lighting is also both siver and gold, so in my kitchen, I could go silver and gold easily. I'm wondering, is the fixture you love available in dual tone, with perhaps just small silver accents? That would be PERFECT! Then there's the custom lighting I did in my entry and library...all in shiny chrome (art deco style). Well then we made the mistake of redo'ing our horrible oak wall. I love the new wall, but the accent work on it is done in....you guessed it, gold :o( So, given the opportunity, I'd have liked the lighting to be gold as well, but because it's a library/living room, I'm able to bring the metal tones into my decorating through useof accent lamps and other decorative pieces. I don't know how well you can do that in either a kitchen or dining room. Have you looked around? Do you have anything with both tones? I'm totally with you on going with the amber shades. My autumn cherry cabinets look fabulous with the amber glass and my amber light globes. So I guess my one suggested way to make this work...is to somehow add that touch of silver into the lighting. Is that possible? This is my lighting...I have stainless appliances and pewter knobs, but I also do have the silver and gold knobs on my stove, and this lighting was also in both tones (Move in pic so forgive the mess):...See MoreIsland pendant lighting help, please!
Comments (11)I had a consult with a decorator because I was too nervous to make a decision. She ended up adding a color to the perimeter countertops, so I went from two-tone to three-tone to four-tone (!!!!) kitchen color scheme. But I like what she did. She darkened the cabinet color on the largest wall to BM Normandy. Here is the color scheme now: She also said I needed lighting with more punch to it. She recommended black lighting. Here are a few options I liked-...See MoreHelp with Pendant Lights
Comments (10)I wouldn't worry about the finish differences and focus on the relation of shapes - #3 works best. To me - and this is JMO - having every finish match is static and boring - even when the fixtures are within eyesight of each other. I wouldn't necessarily mix polished brass with iron with chrome with ORB all in the same room, but pick 2 and you can have an interesting mix....See MoreHU-187528210
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