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Your Home & Color Coach
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on-line, reasonably priced, professional decorating service.
I now provide advice on any one room or a home’s exterior for a modest fee of $20 (see http://yourcolorcoach.wordpress.com for advice I've given to other home owners over the past two years). After making payment with the PayPal button, please type your question and insert a photo link if you can.
I will answer your question in most cases within 24 hours. Working together, we can save you from costly decorating mistakes.
I look forward to helping you with your color challenges.
-Barbara Meglis
Your Home & Color Coach
on-line, reasonably priced, professional decorating service.
I now provide advice on any one room or a home’s exterior for a modest fee of $20 (see http://yourcolorcoach.wordpress.com for advice I've given to other home owners over the past two years). After making payment with the PayPal button, please type your question and insert a photo link if you can.
I will answer your question in most cases within 24 hours. Working together, we can save you from costly decorating mistakes.
I look forward to helping you with your color challenges.
-Barbara Meglis
Your Home & Color Coach
Barbara,
ReplyDeleteYour blog is absolutely fantastic!!! I am so glad I stumbled upon it while frantically scouring the Internet for color tips.
I’ve got two color dilemmas, and would love your opinion on them if you have the time.
I know this post seems very long, but I figured the more information you had, the easier it would be for you to make recommendations.
Issue No 1:
Hubby and I want to redecorate our bedroom. Our furniture, which we won’t be replacing because it is brand new, is a dark black-brown.
While at the fabric store one day, I fell in love with a grey/silver fabric (with darker blackish designs in it) and purchased some to make curtains. To go with those new curtains, I purchased some soft corduroy fabric in a medium gray to make a duvet cover. For accent pillows, I purchased two silky fabrics – one pure white, and one purple.
I know that the fabrics all compliment each other, but I fear that my furniture may not work. Did I make a big mistake here with the fabric choices? It was all on deep discount (60 – 80% off) as the fabric store was closing, so I won’t be too sad if I can’t use it for what I intended to use it for, but I was wondering what you think of the combo of the black-brown with the grey? If you think it will be alright, what colour do you suggest I paint the walls? They are currently a very pale creamy beige, and so is the carpet. I very much want to paint, but would rather not change the flooring. If the floor colour is all wrong, would an area rug to cover the very open parts of the floor do the trick? If so, what color(s) do you recommend?
Issue No 2:
Our dining area is attached to our kitchen, but the flooring isn’t the same in both. Our dining table has a marble top with rich shades of brown through-out it, with some splashes of creamy whites. The legs of the tables and the dark chocolate leather chairs match the flooring quite nicely, as they are just a shade or two darker. We have medium to dark brown/red(ish) hardwood in the entryway of our home which leads down the hall to the dining area. The wood cuts off where the eating area ends and the kitchen begins, and ugly cushion flooring (the kind that comes on a big roll) covers the kitchen area.
The cupboards are white, the back splash is a neutral creamy beige & white tile with a bit of green and brown in it, and the counter top is forest green (which I hate) & we will be re-doing it in a brown shade with this product in maple with a chocolate brown primer. When all is said and done, if the back splash tiles don’t work, I will paint them to match the walls.
The walls are a cardboard colour in the eating area. There isn’t really any open wall space in the kitchen, except for a small strip (near the ceiling) above the counters, which is the same cardboard color as the dining area, since they lead into each other.
I absolutely want to change the flooring and we can not afford natural hardwood at this point, so matching the existing wood is not an option. We want to go with those new fake wood/fake tile floors that click right into place and can be installed right over the existing cushion floor – simple and inexpensive!
Do you suggest light colored flooring because it will be adjacent to the darker wood flooring of the eating area? Or do you suggest dark colored flooring because of the white cabinetry? I’m thinking dark is probably better, BUT, I don’t know if I should try and match the red undertone of the hardwood, or stay far away from it, because trying and failing to match might look odd.
What do you think?
Thank you so much for taking the time to read my very lengthy post about my color issues, and I appreciate any advice you can offer.
I look forward to reading more and more about the projects you undertake on your blog.
Take care and have a wonderful day,Mandy
Hi Mandy,
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the detail in your message. It does help a lot.
As for your bedroom, I think the furniture will look really nice in there with your choice of bedding and window treatments. With such dark furniture, I would suggest a light wall color that compliments your grays. If you like purple (your pillow color) and like that combination of gray and purple, you can either go with a light warm gray (Ben Moore’s Gray Owl OC-52) or Misty Memories (Ben Moore 2118-60, a gray-purple tint). Either one will look great with your furniture. If you like blue/gray better, then have a look at Smoke 2122-40.(a great color with gray but might look better with an orange accent pillow instead of purple). Either way, I would choose a light wall color and use the gray to blend and then use silver as your accent metal. The woods will look spectacular (the whole look is very sophisticated).
As for your flooring in the kitchen, I would go dark with that. Fake flooring is always better looking on TV –we don’t want to call too much attention to it. And blending it with the adjacent wood floor is a great idea. But if doesn’t have to match. I would go with a dark neutral mixture (for easy cleanup) and not worry about finding something with the same red tones as in the wood. Although it will stand out more against your white cabinets, it will be less likely to show dirt, crumbs, etc. People who put in white floors, whether vinyl or tile, always regret the decision. Make sure the installation of your tiles is good and straight so the eye will glance over the floor and not go immediately to imperfections in the installation (I have nightmare stories…). That should work fine until you can replace with real porcelain tile or wood. Years from now…
Thanks for the tip about that granite product. It may be just what I’ve been looking for to cover some concrete imperfections.
Hope I’ve helped. Good luck with your projects and let me know if I can help you again with future projects.
-Barbara
Your Home & Color Coach