Please Help! Palette & Style Conundrum-Modern Tropical Glam vs Coastal
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Comments (19)Kitchens and the Caribbean; 2 of my favorite topics! I think you can find some inspiration by looking at vacation rental homes in the Caribbean. (I look on VRBO.com for homes when I visit St John in the USVI. I've also used windspree.com and Destination St John and there are many more. If you google villa rentals caribbean, you'll find links to lots of houses and they all include kitchen pictures. Yes it takes some digging but might be worth it!) Many of them have beamed ceilings, big paddle ceiling fans, and often with bright colors. Here's the kitchen from the beach house on Lovango Cay: OK this one's a bathroom but it shows the exposed wood walls and beams that I see in some Caribbean houses (this one is Just Enough on St John): These colors look so tropical to me! Christmas Cottage, STJ; and Starlit Escape; STJ: Starlit Escape is the first house I stayed at on STJ. The kitchen has cypress beams on the ceiling; kind of dark but very pretty: Reef Madness, STJ; beams, yellow, rock wall (common in many of the villas) HTH...See More7 Basic Plots. 3 Basic Palettes?
Comments (76)Susie, Thanks for asking. It was a fabulous trip. Very memorable in many ways. Riding elephants, petting tigers, the people, the architecture. Each of us had a digital camera and we have 5,000 photos to sort through and edit! ( I always make photobooks when we travel). Already planning our next trip(s). Actually I have planned our next five trips; it's a bit of a hobby of mine. As for the beachhouse ... total frustration. Turns out the driveway is not on the property; it has crossed through abutters for 100 years. The estate we are buying form has been unsuccessful in getting it resolved and may need to go to court. We can't close until it is settled since you cannot sell landlocked property. We are keeping an eye out for an alternative but we want something very specific and not easy to find. And we aren't willing to settle. As I told the agent, we don't need a third house, for goodness sakes, so we won't buy it unless we find it compelling! Julie, Thanks for the link. Which one? Or all?...See MoreFrench Country or Mediterranean in Coastal New England?
Comments (34)The Mediterranean is a very big pond, with 1000s of miles of coast, and while it is true there is precious little hard wood anywhere on the Med that people can use to build houses (rather than heat and cook with it), the style and colors of their houses are really very, very different depending where you go on the Med. If @Alexandra has visited places in Mediterranean that left her with happy memories, that might be her reference point for what “Mediterranean” style is — which can bear no resemblance at all to what gets called “Mediterranean style” in southern California or Florida. If there is no hope of using stone or stucco in the house design, but still a desire to incorporate some Mediterranean color palettes, then consider From around Nice: canvas white, strong yellow, navy and aqua blue, gray/lilac From the Italian Riviera: creamy white, mustard yellow, coral, olive green-silver From the Amalfi coast: stark white, turquoise, lemon yellow, deep green From Sicily: stone white, gold-yellow, aqua blue, purple, rose From Tunisia: stone white, sky blue, terracotta, black From Spain: Gold, pink, sandy white, emerald, cobalt, iron gray Just about nowhere on the Med do you find red anywhere (maybe in Sardegna) Interestingly, there are many parts of the coast in both France and Spain where modern rectangular 2-story houses made of light materials are really quite popular (around Barcelona, around Marseilles), but they make a lot of use of glass. I think a house in New England with modern windows (without grids or grilles) that used pure whites, strong blues (both deep sea and sky) and lilacs, with touches of yellow might pass with the neighbors and not look out of place, while bringing in a lot of Mediterranean sunshine, even with a great big green American lawn....See MoreMid Century Modern Exterior Paint Help
Comments (29)Browns and beiges are devlishly difficult to do well. And even harder for us who are interpreting these colours on our screens. On my screen your roof is not at all orange-brown. I took a shot of it your roof, enlarged it and this is what I see. A pinkish brown that is pretty close to the rosy brown shown below it. The darker colours are a burgundy brown or wine brown. The blue beside it is the complementary colour to pinkish brown - opposite on the colour wheel. On my screen and to my eye, this looks better than an orange door. Even the bit of orange on the pavement at the bottom of your picture seems to clash with the roof. The blue could be lighter or darker or less saturated, but stay in the same general level of blueness vs going more green-blue or more purple-blue. https://www.color-name.com/rosy-brown.color https://www.farrow-ball.com/en-us/colour-by-nature/deep-reddish-brown You could do worse than get a professional colour consultant on this. Whatever you choose, I'd paint some big sample boards and look at it in different lights before you pick up the paint brush....See MoreRelated Professionals
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