Paint and Flooring Advice Needed for a 17 year old home..
Hello there! Plans to move my family quickly came to a halt when the house next door went up for sale. Now in a cul-de-sac, lives my family, my brother's family and now (just purchased!) my mom.
It feels like a hurricane hit as I start this road on replacing the carpet with tacks now exposed in areas.. and a paint color that looked great on a sample, but not on the walls. (I would've repainted, but just didn't have resources at the time.)
I'm looking to replace to replace the carpet and will end up removing the slate for one type of flooring through out the first floor (except for master bedroom suite). I am not sure if I"ll go with a dark gray matte slate ceramic: Doral Night Matte Porcelain Tile | Floor and Decor.
The dilemma now is what color paint will go with this and my honey maple cabinets? Every version of white/beige I've selected came out too cool, except for the eggwhite (SW) that came out lemon- yellowish.
ANY suggestions on wall paint will be very much appreciated.. and also thumbs up or down on a the Doral Night Matte Porcelain Tile | Floor and Decor please.... Thank you in advance!
Kitchen - not sure why my photos come out like this, but it's a lot less "green" in person.
Kitchen - View 2 (carpet has lifted with tacks now visible... it's time...)
These are a few photos of my house, with the very dark (supposed to be light cardboard walls, but ended up being very dark)
Matte gold accents with warm honey maple furniture..
Formal Dining
Foyer
Breakfast
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2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoJennifer Moore thanked G & S Floor Service
PROBeth H. :
2 years agoIt's a very dark wall color. Last thing you need a dark charcoal tile color too.
I don't understand why you would want to tear out perfectly good slate tile (if you like the darker colors) and replace it with something just as dark!
something better would be a 24x24 porcelain in a warmer griege color.Tilebar, Lines Greige matte tile.
Cavatina Corda
so, no more carpet? everything is tile or just in the kitchen? or what about wood flooring throughout?
Are you keeping those cabinets as is?You don't want to think about lightening up that space by repainting those walls? (You say you want a diff wall color, but your other comment says repainted is not an option??)
The island?The rest of the cabinets?
what about some hardware?
new lighting?
I had an almost identical kitchen. Like yours, I didn't get a ton of light (that window is a covered front entry)
So, I refaced my cabinets, painted, new countertops, window, appliances, tile splash, pendants, vent hood,
and I did french oak engineered floors throughout the home.
It makes quite a diff in overall lighting, doesn't it? that kitchen was so dark.
YOu need to make sure your kitchen bulbs are in the 4000K region. if they're belowe 3500K, things are going to look yellow.
It seems like you're tyring to rush threw this? Flooring is a very important decor option in a house because of the expense, you're stuck with it for a long time!!Make sure all of your other design elements work w/this flooring. What about the rest of the house?
Sorry, but that dark wall color, limited lighting, the darker furniture and these charcoal tiles, it's going to be a huge light suck!
Right now the slate works w/every single element you have. (You need a larger chandelier here) It works w/your color, the furniture. what you could do is bring in some wood flooring.
If you want to take it all up, then replace it with a lighter oak flooring
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2 years agoThank you Beth and G&S Floors!
Hi Beth, I'm tearing out the tiles because the carpet is in such bad shape that it's a perfect opportunity to have one flooring across the entire first floor. The walls ARE too dark and need to go... Many sample pots later, still no clue on the color to go with.
Warmer Griege color looks good! I may consider that or (G&S's recommendation to redo the cabinets).
Oh! Repaint is DEFINITELY a must!What I'd love to keep is the cabinets and countertops...
What I'd love to have is a uniform flooring (preferably darker shade that doesn't compete with the granite countertop.) I chose the gray slate because it's1. Large format 2x4 feet..
2. The backsplash is staying and has the gray
3. I love this color theme: (I can't seem to catch on to the light /bright whites and grays :-( )
but not sure how to translate this to my kitchen :-) (i figured the wood is my cabinet), the gray, my floor.. wall paint ???)
Your kitchen remodel looks beautiful!!!! IOverall great advice.. yes! The lighting needs to be bigger in the foyer! Regarding a wood flooring like your suggestion, would it look right with the maple cabinets? If i go that way, i can use the dark slate (massive tiles) on the fireplace :-)
I can't express how grateful i am for your and G&S' comments !!!
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Beth H. :
2 years agois it at all possible to do diff countertops? w/you wood cabinets and a darker floor, I think the lighter counters would look soooooo much better
Ditto that backsplash. Right now the large slate tile backsplash ties in w/the tile floor.
Youre taking out the slate tiles because the carpet is going and you want uniform flooring. I get that. But changing one item usually snowballs because it affects how the other items look.
dark wood cabinets, dark countertop, dark backsplash and a darker tile floor is just too much dark!I wish you would consider,
A. getting some hardware for your cabinets.
B. replacing the oversized pendant light over your island
C. new counters/splash
You don't have a lot of splash to redo. demo it yourselves and get some lighter, smaller tile. It shouldn't cost you much. (around the sink I'd just have the new countertop brought up as your splash)
at the very least, redo the splash. heres a honed black countertop w/white tile, soft sage walls (hardware placement is funky, but at least they have some)
You could even consider painting just the island and adding a light quartz top
see how much nicer this looks? You could do your charcoal tile floors w/this and they would look very nice.
but just imagine if this had the dark counters, dark walls, slate splash and no glass or hardware. it would be a cave!
think about doing some glass in a few of the uppers
This is an inexpensive granite countertop and simple white tile splash. would look nice w/the charcoal floors
this TajMajal quartzite and this zellige tile would be very pretty w/your cabinets. again, glass in a few of the uppers
another idea....did you know that you can hone or leather your current countertops? Now that would look cool with a new tile splash and your new floors
Jennifer Moore thanked Beth H. : Jennifer Moore
2 years agoJennifer Moore
2 years ago
PROBeverlyFLADeziner
2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoThe slate floor and your cabinets are one of the best features in the house. You just need much lighter walls. And you can't try the color on the walls that are gold because you're going to get soo much reflection. I would also change out the pendant lighting to something in black metal.
This is going to be a drastic change and it will take some time to get used to so little color and your accessories will likely have to be finessed.
Jennifer Moore
2 years ago
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2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoI would go with warm neutral color for entire house.
Some kind of
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Beth H. :