Hi! I am looking for advice for paint colors for a new kitchen
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Comments (4)It's an interior bathroom not a bedroom. I believe it's okay because we are pretty far into the process and everything has been approved....See MorePaint advice pls. Have a small galley kitchen and am stumped. Thanks!
Comments (55)You will have to get lots of paint samples and tape them to your walls in different lighting. Computer monitors are not accurate but at least give you an idea of what shades or colors might work. Our last house had lots of maple which I found color seemed to work well with it. I actually had a spice orange on wall in the kitchen, but my counters had some of that rust in it. Your counters don't appear to. I've always been fond of greens with maple, but nothing minty. I also had another wall in the kitchen painted brown, only because I did not want the spice orange/ rust color to get overpowering. I don't think I would have picked chocolate brown for the whole kitchen. Too many walls. Your kitchen area to be painted looks smaller to me and I think a slighter darker contrasting color would look good. I don't like really dark (depends on your lighting though). Tribix's recommendation of Mountain moss looks great. I like some contrast with maple and it has that touch of green I like. Others that caught my eye were 4 ( a little light, but I like the green.) 18, 19, 21- ( I like 18 and 21 but it may be too close to the shade of brown in your tile and too green? 19 seems to match the darker tile. Again the only way to tell for sure would be samples taped together on the wall. Tape about 4 together to get an idea. Also the samples will look very dark against your light colored walls, but not nearly as dark after you paint the whole wall. Be brave! I also like 22, 25 and 26....See Morehi, looking for advice on mixing appliance brands in a kitchen.
Comments (14)We have a Miele dishwasher that is now more than 8 years old, and still works as if it was brand new. The only part that needed replacement at one point was the backflow gasket. It is user-replaceable and at ~$40 not horribly expensive as far as appliance parts go (still too much money for what it is though). We run it at least once a day. So, we must have used it for around 3000 cycles by now. Interior organization is amazing. I can cram it so full. And even when I do that, everything comes out sparkling clean. I occasionally use the 30min Express wash option, and generally most things are cleaned even with the short cycle length. I have also, accidentally, run a full cycle without any detergent. And amazingly, things still came out clean. On the other hand, the Kitchenaid in the in-law unit struggles with perfect cleaning. About every second cycle, there are two or three items that never get 100% clean. Easy to fix manually when emptying the dishwasher. But having to do so does get old. The Kitchenaid cleans worse on its multi-hour cycle than the Miele does on a 30min cycle. That's just unacceptable. Also, don't even think about packing the Kitchenaid densely. First of all, the interior organization makes it much harder to load as full as the Miele, but secondly, any attempt to fill it to capacity will result in lots of unwashed dishes coming. At that point, you are better of running two daily cycles. We use the Kitchenaid very sparingly, as the in-law kitchen isn't used year round. I'd guess it has less than 500 cycles by now. But we already had to replace several plastic parts. In fact, we had to replace the same parts several times already. The biggest problem are the wheels that hold the top basket. They are made from inferior plastic that ages with every wash cycle. And eventually, the top basket comes crashing down. The good news is that Kitchenaid parts are cheaper than the Miele parts. Each time the basket crashes, I only need to spend ~$20 and I am back in business. And by now, I have gotten good at this and it only takes me less than 30min to do the full repair. For our in-law kitchen, that might actually have been the right purchase decision. The Kitchenaid was much cheaper than the Miele. But for daily use, I am glad we went with Miele. At this point I expect it'll last another 8 years. And amortized over 16 years, the premium cost of the Miele is negligible. We have a busy four person household and use the kitchen a lot; I need appliances that I can trust to work each and every time....See MoreNew kitchen, looking for advice on paint color
Comments (2)Hmm. I'd be inclined to paint the walls Simply White, too, so the focal point is your range and those lovely soapstone counters. You can always add art or display decorative servingware to up the "happy" factor. See below:...See MorePatricia Colwell Consulting
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