Kitchen Color Scheme Thoughts - April update
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UPDATE: I.H.: April's Splendid Salads Swap Partners
Comments (43)I received my goodies from Nancy for this swap and the Homegrown Recipes swap. :) Wow!!! For Recipes Nancy sent these from her own collection: Grilled Shrimp with Feta and Tomatoes (I love SHRIMP on the grill!) Zuppa di Scarola e Fagioli (Shcarole and Beans soup, YUMM!) Chicken Posole (Can't wait to try this. :D Whole Wheat Pastry Flower Waffles and Carrot Cake (YUMM) White Out Mexican chicken recipe Feather Rolls (Who told her I was a carb-aholic?!?! lol) Penne with Zucchini and Ricotta (Divine!) Sweet Orange Salmon (I could eat it like this for sure!) Pumpkin Bread Fried Green Tomatoes(Another of my favorites but different recipe. Can't wait to try this one too) Straciacella Alla Romano (AKA Torn to Rags) This one sounds excellent too! For Extras Nancy sent: A Salad spinner! I was looking at these the other day! LOL It also has a bonus Knife and Veggie Peeler. Celestial Seasonings Raspberry Zinger tea (One of my favs!) Chocolate Chip cake (OMG, this will not make it till tomorrow here! hehehe) Raspberry Vinaigrette (YUMM!) Caramel Apple Butter (Someone was spying one me! :D) Cooking Christmas Lima Beans with a Yummy recipe on the back for Creamy Christmas Lima Beans. She also sent me plants for Teddy Bear Sunflower and Ambrosia Cantelope! (Both from my wishlist) :) These are going straight into the garden when it cools down this evening. Dove milk chocolates. These are being savored as I type! LOL (They didn't melt. :D For seeds Nancy sent: Marconi Red Peppers (From my list) Strawberry Popcorn (From my list) Golden Bantam Improved Corn(From my list) Thelma Sanders Sweet Potato Squash (From my list) Winter Savory (From my list) Purple De Milpa Tomatillo Dr. Wyche's Yellow Tomatillo Tiger's Eye Bean (From my list) Brockton Bean Sunberry (Last berry on my list! LOL) Cherokee Trail of Tears Bean (From my list) Cream of Saskatchewan Watermelon (Thought this was on my list?! lol) Golden Hubbard Winter Squash Lazy Housewife Bean (From my list) Missouri Love Apple (I wanted this one soooo BAD!) Fish Pepper (From my list) Blue Podded Peas (I thought my chances for this one was over cause everyone I've checked is out of them already.) Golden Treasure Pepper (from my list) Blacktail Mountain Watermelon Mexican Sour Gherkin (thought this was on my list too?!) Crystal Apple Cukes (from my list) Limon Hot Pepper (from my list) Joe's Round Pepper (from my list) WOW! I can't believe how many you found from my list, and how you knew just what to get. I'm so very happy with everything Nancy, you have truly outdone yourself. :D I can't wait to use the salad spinner, what a neat kitchen gadget this is. :)...See Moreupdate on victorian color scheme and in need of more help
Comments (12)Amy, no apologies necessary! I didn't think about it twice. I know some of those colors are all wrong. As I said, we were headed in the right direction, but we chose paint colors from strips with no sample jars first (did they even have sample jars in those days?) I remember knowing, somehow, that the area above the picture molding and the ceiling should be in the same family as the wall color but lighter, so we just went one up on the color strip for each. That pink is definitely a nightmare! Anyway, back to our current scheme...I've decided (with the help of BM color consultant) to use Ivory Tusk (one above Rich Cream) on the upper walls (above picture molding) and ceilings in each of the four rooms. That should add some cohesiveness to the floor plan. It also allows for some pretty deep, saturated colors below. Sorry for the confusion about the color in the entry room - the Meadowlark was really just an experiment to see if I liked the tone on tone - I happened to have it in the house. I have BM Dried Mustard up right now and really like it so I'm planning for it to stay. In the dining room (behind the entry room) I really wanted a gray-blue (BM Feather Gray) but not with my new color scheme - color consultant suggested Fiji (an aura color with very deep, almost teal undertones) and I absolutely love it, so it's staying. I like the way the Fiji blue looks in conjunction with the orange/brown of the Dried Mustard. Then in the living/family room (adjacent to the dining room) I put up BM's Tyler Taupe - it reads as a sort of brown and provides a nice neutral backdrop to the pink (purple?!) stained glass window in that room. I had to let the Anjou Pear go - as much as I like it on its own, I didn't love it in conjunction with my other colors or the trim. My big problem now is the front parlor with the white trim. I am torn between wanting a light color, to have that tone - on -tone thing that I love going in there, and thinking a deeper tone would flow better with the colors in the other rooms. I tried Concord Ivory - way too yellow/bright. On my wall right now are 3 samples: Rich Cream (which I love but it the lightest and yellowest of the three), Handmade (aura paint - reads peachy compared to the other two but on its own, it might look good adjacent to the Dried Mustard in the next room) and Blond Wood (reads like a dark beige or light tan - darker than I wanted to go, but definitely has more of an "earthiness" and I have to admit, it seems to relate the best to the surrounding Mustard and Taupe.) Thoughts? I feel that I should be veering toward gold undertones but every time I try something with gold in it I end up with way too much yellow. I am inclined to go with the Rich Cream simply because I love how it looks in that room, irrespective of the surrounding rooms. If anyone has any other suggestions, I am willing to give them a try - as long as they come in BM sample jars, lol - I am done buying quarts! I have heard good things about Carrington Beige and Malton. Also Ladyfinger - I didn't like the way it looked with my dark wood, but might be a nice neutral against the white trim?...See Morenew thoughts on the color scheme--HELP?!
Comments (9)Yes, the fact that you look awful in grey matters. It doesn't matter if YOU think you look awful or if in fact you do look awful. It will affect your mood working on it. (I look awful in red and there isn't one speck of pink/red tint in our house and trying to find non-oak floors without pink in them is really hard. I know from experience)...See MoreBasement finished in the 90's - needs an update! Newest color scheme?
Comments (4)Do you want a hot trend that's good for five years or a personal color scheme that you'll like for much longer? If you want the hot trend for your area, look at photos of your local showcase house from the last year or two. If you want a more personal color scheme, collect some photos of rooms you really love, then look for the colors in common....See MoreKaitlin
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