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Feanaro_s_Wife said:
**…**Now, about my kitchen… I have green counter tops that came with the house. It is not a nice green (to me) but we can’t afford to change them. Right now my walls are a pale sunshine yellow which I really love (makes me feel happy)…but a few years ago we put in new floors and they are a light maple laminate. It doesn’t look good with the yellow walls so I will eventually repaint. But I am not sure what color. My cabinets and appliances are white so no problem there…as for kitchen accessories, I LOVE orange. Not rust, not pumpkin…but bright orange. So I need a wall pain that will compliment both the orange and the green…
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Ah, selecting paint color. Shade makes all the difference! If you like the yellow in your kitchen, find one that works with the shade of green in your countertop. Make sure the paint blends with your counter-top (blend, not match.) If colors don’t blend, the one that you dislike stands out all the more.

Get samples of the actual paint–not just a paint chip and certainly not just off a computer screen! Paint chips and computer screens aren’t accurate enough to let you know what you’re really getting. Narrow down by paint chips or colors off the computer, but may need to try two or three before you find one that looks best with your green countertops and orange accesories.
 
sanctareparata said:
I just read that decorators encourage salon owners and hairdressers to paint their spaces in salmon or coral colors, because they always flatter the face and makeup job. Would that be an option?
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that’s probably what I was thinking about in my first post… do you know where you read it?**
 
sanctareparata said:
I wouldn’t do this. My dad is a professional painter, people have asked him before, and he tells them it’s never going to hold up - a year or two, max. We even did it way-back-when in his business (the countertops were laminate and nothing special, but were filthy with spilled paint so we painted them) and it held up for a bit, but then gouges and scratches started appearing. It’s a good short term solution, I guess, if your’e desperate enough, but I would never, ever do it for a long term solution. They just won’t hold up.

essortment.com/articles/paint-countertops-laminate_1949.htm
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Sounds like painting concrete. Once concrete is painted, you have to keep painting it to keep it looking nice. It’s better to leave it alone–advice from my father who was a maintenance engineer in the Army.
 
I’ve always liked light blue walls with white trim for a bathroom. It kind of reminds my of the sky, and the light typically makes it okay for makeup application. This helps if you have a good sized window in the bathroom to let natural light in, but even if you don’t it still works as long as you use the natural light style light bulbs (I think they’re the soft white, my cold is making me unable to recall perfectly). Hope this helps.
 
**OK, here are a few of my kitchen (NO, it is not always that clean…I did some creative rearranging for the pics, lol) and one of my bathroom. Not sure how helpful they’ll be but this is still fun. Gives me something “fluffy” to focus on while hubby is away and I’m dealing with all of Lily’s issues…

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n119/JesseRD1975/IMG_0494.jpg**

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Yup brick red in the kitchen

go to www.behr.com and use their tool - color smart. then the inspiration library

/choose interiors, reds & oranges and the 3rd palete (got a sink in the pic. then preview with a sample photo of a kitchen. choose the main color Daredevil 160B-7 and click on the walls. you can see the color by clicking modify.

Its a cool tool.

I also like their “Pottery Red” 160D-6

fun to play with colors 🙂

srry the post looks like its written by a 1st grader… NAK’ing…
 
I had to play, of course. I did it in another program, not Behr’s site. (I never knew that cost money!)

I have no idea how these colors will come across on another monitor. For all I know the brown may end up green! Who knows? 🤷 I couldn’t get the wainscoting to look very white because it’s over the yellow that was already there, but I think painting it white to offset it from the wall would help keep the dark colors from overpowering the kitchen.

Whatcha think, Shiann?

In RED:
i57.photobucket.com/albums/g209/sobittybabies/maliakitchenRED-1.jpg
i57.photobucket.com/albums/g209/sobittybabies/maliakitchenRED2.jpg

In CHOCOLATE:
i57.photobucket.com/albums/g209/sobittybabies/maliakitchenCHOCOLATE.jpg
i57.photobucket.com/albums/g209/sobittybabies/maliakitchenCHOCOLATE2.jpg
 
Shiann said:
Yup brick red in the kitchen

go to www.behr.com and use their tool - color smart. then the inspiration library
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I have always liked red but the exterior trim on our house is a deep burgundy color and I just never wanted to mix the two, lol… I would however consider red for the bathroom (or should I be more upscale and call it a powder room?:p) if it would be ok for complexions… hmmmmm
sanctareparata said:
I had to play, of course. I did it in another program, not Behr’s site. (I never knew that cost money!)

Thank you thank you thank you!!! That’s awesome**👍

I love getting a visual even if it isn’t exact… would have come in extremely handy before I painted our entire master bedroom deep purple when we first moved in:shrug:
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I have no idea how these colors will come across on another monitor. For all I know the brown may end up green! Who knows? 🤷

**I really like the brown. I think if I decide to go with a deep color that’s what I’ll choose… **

I couldn’t get the wainscot to look very white because it’s over the yellow that was already there, but I think painting it white to offset it from the wall would help keep the dark colors from overpowering the kitchen.
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very good idea:)**

In RED:
i57.photobucket.com/albums/g209/sobittybabies/maliakitchenRED.jpg
i57.photobucket.com/albums/g209/sobittybabies/maliakitchenRED2.jpg

In CHOCOLATE:
i57.photobucket.com/albums/g209/sobittybabies/maliakitchenCHOCOLATE.jpg
i57.photobucket.com/albums/g209/sobittybabies/maliakitchenCHOCOLATE2.jpg
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now can you do my “powder room”?:D**
 
Yup. As I thought, photobucket made the red look pinker and lighter than what it looks like on my end. I wonder why? 🤷
 
bpbasilphx said:
Somehow, a color to make one look good in the bathroom mirror sounds like an odd desideratum.
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Makes perfect sense to me. We spend a lot of time in the bathroom looking at ourselves in the mirror.
gardenswithkids said:
Ah, selecting paint color. Shade makes all the difference! If you like the yellow in your kitchen, find one that works with the shade of green in your countertop. Make sure the paint blends with your counter-top (blend, not match.) If colors don’t blend, the one that you dislike stands out all the more.

Get samples of the actual paint–not just a paint chip and certainly not just off a computer screen! Paint chips and computer screens aren’t accurate enough to let you know what you’re really getting. Narrow down by paint chips or colors off the computer, but may need to try two or three before you find one that looks best with your green countertops and orange accesories.
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I like yellow. I also agree that paint chips don’t tell the whole story.
Feanaro_s_Wife said:
I have always liked red but the exterior trim on our house is a deep burgundy color and I just never wanted to mix the two, lol… I would however consider red for the bathroom (or should I be more upscale and call it a powder room?:p) if it would be ok for complexions… hmmmmm

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now can you do my “powder room”?:D**
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I personally don’t like green, but my house in WI had green siding. The way I looked at it is, I live on the inside of the house and I liked the blue and yellow on the inside.
Yellow with red accents can be nice in the kitchen.
Like I mentioned earlier, I really liked the rusty orange in my bathroom with peach accents. The green countertop around the sink became an accent. The bathroom was big enough for a white chair with a green and peach seat. It just had such a natural feel. I don’t see myself going back to lavender.
Even in apartments with white walls and no painting allowed, I find myself staying with peach for shower curtains and other accessories.
Living in the South, it is common to put a nice picture on the bathroom wall. I really like this.
 
Don’t pick a color that is too girly. Your husband and sons will appreciate it, haha. :cool:
 
sanctareparata said:
Yup. As I thought, photobucket made the red look pinker and lighter than what it looks like on my end. I wonder why? 🤷
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It doesn’t matter Sancta, it gave me the general feel of it and I appreciate your efforts:)**

any way you’d be up to seeing what a light lavender looks like for me? And, while you’re there, how about orange?😃
 
DebChris said:
I personally don’t like green, but my house in WI had green siding. The way I looked at it is, I live on the inside of the house and I liked the blue and yellow on the inside.
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I’ve always loved green. Well, most greens… Especially since we have big windows and trees outside…so it all kind of flows together. 🤷**

Yellow with red accents can be nice in the kitchen.
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Always makes me think of McDonald’s, lol.**

Living in the South, it is common to put a nice picture on the bathroom wall. I really like this.

I have pics of my pets in there:p
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Feanaro_s_Wife:
I didn’t think of McDonald’s. Then again, I didn’t go to McDonald’s when I was a kid and my mother would talk about yellow kitchens.
Blue and yellow are considered more classic anyway. I do like red brick floors for a kitchen. Currently I have light grey counter tops and I put red checked paper on my shelves.
We didn’t always have a color choice living on military bases.
She is the one who introduced me to pink and green in the bathroom. I think it was in a Sears catalog that I saw accessories with Jungle themes and I like the idea=lavender instead of pink. How often do things in one room match our original plan especially if we have kids around.
Today when I went to Mass, I noticed the color that one of the women was wearing. It seemed like a blend between peach and pink. I was sorta of dusty color leaning toward brown neutral in the bathroom. I wish I had the name of the color. Maybe it was an apricot. Her skirt was a darker hue of the same color and was almost a brown. I thought about how nice it would look in a bathroom.
 
Feanaro_s_Wife said:
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It doesn’t matter Sancta, it gave me the general feel of it and I appreciate your efforts:)**

any way you’d be up to seeing what a light lavender looks like for me? And, while you’re there, how about orange?😃
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Just saw this…sure - I’ll do it for you later. 🙂
 
Feanaro_s_Wife said:
**what program do you use? I love being able to see my options!
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It’s actually an ***animation ***program I use for work, but it does pretty much anything…Flash MX 2004. I use it for everything!

I take the picture of the room, load it into Flash, select the walls, tone them down with the complementary color (your kitchen walls were pale yellow so I toned them down with 50% lavender to neutralize them), then “painted” them over with the new color, set to 75-80%. If that makes a lick of sense. 🤷

I did the same thing to “paint” my dining room before going full-steam ahead with the purple. 🙂

I have no idea how programs like the Behr one work. I wonder how they do it?
 
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