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Let's try this again....Would love some help with kitchen paint
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Posted by southernfrenchie (My Page) on Thu, Nov 19, 09 at 13:17
| So after posting this on the gallery side of the forum and botching up my photos, I'm going to try this again : )
We have been in our house a little over a year and I am agonizing over what color to paint my kitchen! The problem is this kitchen has only one small window above the sink and gets very little light. I pretty much need to keep lights on in there all day, so I am looking for a barely there shade. I am thinking gold, beige or green, though my floor is tile with a gold hue to it:
(http://www.daltileproducts.com/series.cfm?series=252)
color = mushroom
Is it weird for the walls to match the floor?
Also, we would like to put in a tumbled stone backsplash with beige tones.
http://www.stoneandsurface.com/stock/main.php?g2_itemId=676
I am including a link for a some photos of my kitchen. The one where the cabinets look dark is very telling of how little daylight we get in there.
I'm looking at BM Nantucket Breeze, BM Vellum and SW Kilim beige. We have breakfast room which is off to the side of the kitchen that I am considering painting BM Currant Red.
Thanks for your help!
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RE: Let's try this again....Would love some help with kitchen pai
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| If this doesn't work I give up! |
Here is a link that might be useful: kitchen photos
RE: Let's try this again....Would love some help with kitchen pai
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| kilim beige is a pretty color. all the paint colors on that strip are nice. Kilim beige can have a fleshy undertone in some spaces. We are storing an old sofa of this fabric for our daughter. I just checked my paint chips w/ the fabric & I actually like the nomadic desert better with it. The ND has no undertones in it when applied. SW Softer Tan may be worth a look too. |
RE: Let's try this again....Would love some help with kitchen pai
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| How funny! The trim on our house is painted in Nomadic Desert. We also have stone on the exterior of our home that is very similar in color to my kitchen cabinets. I figured since the Nomadic Desert looked so nice with honey color of the stone I should consider it for the kitchen : ). We get so little natural light in there though I thought I should go up one color on the paint chip to keep from sucking all the light out of the room. But you are right, it goes better with the fabric than the Kilim Beige! |
RE: Let's try this again....Would love some help with kitchen pai
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| Hi, Actually I don't dislike it now lol! Anything wrong with a cream? If you want the light, keep it light. I've always had creamy white paint in kitchens...nothing wrong with that. |
RE: Let's try this again....Would love some help with kitchen pai
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| I usually gravitate towards saturated colors, so I had not considered cream. Can you make any specific recommendations for a cream color? |
RE: Let's try this again....Would love some help with kitchen pai
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| There is that beautiful Queensland fabric! Love it! Have you considered the colors in your fabric as a jumping off point? Some suggestions to look at in no particular order are, BM Rosemary Sprig, BM Richmond Gold, BM Tawny, BM Peale Green, BM Toasted Chestnut, BM Golden Retriever, BM Toffee Orange, BM Ansonia Peach, BM Maple leaf Red, BM Hot Apple Spice and BM Million Dollar Red. |
RE: Let's try this again....Would love some help with kitchen pai
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| Yes I love that fabric too! I had leftovers from when I purchased it in 2003 to make a valance for the window above the sink in my old kitchen. It went really well with the dark cabinets I had then. We painted that kitchen in SW Restrained Gold, which really complemented the fabric. Unfortunately, that shade doesn't work with the lighter cabinetry and is too dark for this space. Wow, you rattled off a lot of BM options here! I don't own their fan deck, but their store is around the corner from me so I will have to investigate. I had actually considered the BM Maple Leaf Red for my breakfast room, but then it seemed too dark for fabric I bought for the window treatments in there (Bosporus Toile 128) I went ahead and added a couple of pictures of the fabric and breakfast room... |
Here is a link that might be useful: kitchen photos
RE: Let's try this again....Would love some help with kitchen pai
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| What a beautiful open space! I cant imagine you don't get tons of light.. I am thinking with it being that open,it would need to flow with the spaces around it. I like your fabric choices. I wouldnt go dark,but I think some color would be nice to balance the heaviness of the cabinets. Anxious to see what you come up with! |
RE: Let's try this again....Would love some help with kitchen pai
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| Thank you so much for your comments... When we bought this house my husband purposefully selected a lot that would keep us from getting too much direct light. The sun used to blare through our windows in our house in Houston... We didn't have energy efficient windows, which meant we had constant glare everywhere and air conditioning bills that were through the roof. However, the windows in our new house are tinted. Add onto that a heavily wooded backyard and only one small window above the sink, you get a dark kitchen. And yes, with the open space the colors do need to flow! |
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| I had valances across a bank of windows in my last house, that I covered with the Queensland. I used a soft moss green color that looked great with the fabric, but a cream would probably show it off a little better. Or did you already find something? Red |
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| Beautiful kitchen! We had the same fabric valances in our FR and the walls were painted BM Dessert Tan, which is a gold-tan color. Changes with the light and is a really great color! |
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