Thoughts re current trend of painting cabinets blue, green etc?
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How much does HGTV and current trends affect your choices?
Comments (55)I used to watch it. Some of it's first design shows were OK. But then it degenerated into more TV than design. When I found myself shouting at the screen over some crap they inflicted on someone or they had some self important and indulgent teenagers searching for million dollar homes, I quit watching. Unfortunately, it does seem to be popular with many of my clients. And I have to disabuse them of the notion that a kitchen can be done on 2K in 2 days. Even on one of the shows that actually does discuss a true kitchen budget, the labor numbers are always way low because they are subsidizing it. In the real world, there is no way that a 50K budget for a redo ends up with only 7K worth of labor costs. And, I think it's a huge disservice to their viewership to present such fiction cloaked as fact. "It's TV entertainment, not real life." is a line that I often have to repeat to people who didn't really do their research before beginning the process....See MorePainting wood built-ins, cabinetry, etc.
Comments (24)with living there for a while before you do anything, but I WILL SAY when we came in this house for the first time, I knew I would paint almost everything in site that was wood stained. In fact, I decided on painting the trim on 2 windows in my living room and leaving the actual wood window stained wood, and it has just not looked right to me, so I am about to paint that now too. In a fairly busy and eclectic house like I have the painted trim just looks so much cleaner and more like a canvas for the rest of my furnishings and that is my point, MY furnishings just look better with the painted wood, yours may do ok keeping the wood and maybe staining it darker. Just my humble opinion JMHO, LOVE your sunroom and all the space you seem to have....See MoreRandom and Conflicting Advice re: trends.
Comments (16)Touche, Palimpsest, and bravo!! I can tell the summer heat has melted the veneer of "forum decorum" and you are throwing the gauntlet to challenge status quo. Bravo, again. I for one like to turn things upside down and think outside the box too. It's more fun that way. Of course, we have two houses built in 1948 and 1950, and not the much older home that you have. I appreciate your comments coming at this particular time too. For I was toying with whether to add the subway tiles to a bath wall in DH's cape. Which would replace the 4 inch squares of mid century blues. And I agree with the glass block shower wall, because it is sturdy and gives a modicum of privacy not available with the other kind of glass shower. I think it is time to revive the Glass Block Revolution. I rather like an art nuevo touch. What does the d.... stand for? I'm assuming it is "dowdy," but then I fly against the trends quite frequently. I think in the smaller homes you have to resort to different solutions to fit the space. And yeah, I'm now considering keeping the old stick-built cabs on the sink side of my future galley kitchen. And I KNOW what counter top I want, have used it up north in the cape, and it is NOT granite, NOT Corian, NOT laminate, NOT soapstone,---it is Silestone STELLAR SNOW, a white with gray specks and sparklies in it which makes me smile when I see it. I'm spending too much money on THAT to change it, but who cares? The other side of the galley, the cooking side, will PROBABLY have a stainless countertop and the stainless IKEA cabs below, with simple shelves above. This IS, after all, a small kitchen, even when we knock down the back wall and take in the back porch. It won't be a design dream, but it will be well arranged and organized for our use in our declining years. And I want to get a door lock set which opens with the click of a remote, like my car does. I love that, and do not want to depend on my memory to decide which key to use in the lock, or which code to use for passage. As a trial run, I've frequently set up temporary solutions to test my ideas. Like the time I built a bamboo bed canopy frame from bamboo that grew in our river lots. It looked great with the Mombasa sheer netting over it, but one night the whole frame fell on us.....I'm sure it amused my landlordess, who was gardening outside early in the morning and had to have heard the commotion. But at least ONCE in my life I used a really exotic and romantic sleeping enclosure! And I did not have to worry about selling it after the exotic moment passed. And about fashionable colors. Does anyone remember MAUVE? Good lord, forget it! Regardless of the current trend, I know what I like and that is the way I go. I'm not "staging" a home with neutral colors, I'm living in it. And I do not have a lot of company, and I do not care to impress anyone by having a room with the trendy colors. I've never been a fan of anything in the blue spectrum. Pale lavender is as close to blue as I get. Maybe a smoked gray, which is the color for my second bedroom, but IMHO, blue sucks the light out of a room after dark, so depressing. Yes, I know it is a personal thing, but that's what we are talking about here. I'm also going to spend more money than I should to get a 24 inch Bertazzoni gas range, because I want it, and it will fit in this new kitchen and is big enough and powerful enough to cook the way I like to cook. Which is not too much and not too often. But I love good machinery. And I fell in love with things Italian after a trip to Tuscany. So, ummm, let me see what else....oh yes, if I want to do solar hot water instead of tankless water heating, I like it. If I want a sistern outside the kitchen catching rain water to do the grass or veggie garden, that's what I'll do. If I compost veggie scraps etc, I can make room for that feature. And if I want a garden window to grow my potted herbs inside, I think that will be something I'd add over my sink too. And if I want to paint all my woodwork white and have shuttered cabinets instead of solid doors, well, that is something I like too. If I want to have an earthen roof on my garage, and DH doesn't oppose it too much, we'll do it. I think that is about it. Hope I did not get too personally specific if you intended this thread to be generalities....See MoreCurrent paint color to compliment cream cabinets & black granite
Comments (28)Pick either a soft green or a soft blue/gray. Gray will not work. Either will work if you're selling. You don't need to do linen or cream on the walls to sell. Sometimes a neutral color will actually make the house sing more and a soft blue/gray or a soft green can do that. (In fact the house I sold in 2010 during the recession had shades of green on the walls and that's what the new owners loved. The condo I sold in 2016 had a green bedroom and that's the one room color she loved the most.) Your light fixtures are fine. In fact they're timeless. Don't change them...See MoreRelated Professionals
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