ANYONE WITH QUESTIONS?

OUTSIDE BATHROOM???? A bit nice for the out door loo!

Your selections look great! Defiantly white cupboards you will need to soften the dark choices throughout the room.

Silvorish bench tops? What did you have in mind there?

I think you will be sorry if you use a brushed silver for a work top. OK not a real work bench like the kitchen but it will still get wear and tear marks. I also think it won’t look right.

I would be more inclined to go with a dark grey to balance the flooring off.
Lamiex “Charcoal” would be a good choice. Then use brightly coloured towels to live up the colour scheme.

no, on a 50th look at the colour scheme , i think you have given great advice Michelle, i think we do need to go with a charcoal colour. thanks! i think the white from the walls and cabinets will help balance it a bit!
now for the kitchen (am I pushing my luck?)
we are having a quite dark oak flooring throughout the kitchen. I don't want sterile white cabinets and had therefore looked at laminex moonstone (can't work out how to put laminex pictures on). i would quite like a darkish benchtop (to hide stains etc) and we will probably go for a caesar stone top. any colour suggestions (ie; avoid black, any dark grey etc) and we were thinking about having the kickboards the same as the cabinets to avoid having too many colours. appliances and windows are brushed stainless steel colour. what are you thoughts?
cheers
Helen

Helen,

I’ve just looked through my Laminex sample book, which I got up dated about 3 months ago, and I can’t find “Moonstone” I have a “Limestone” which is beige with a speckle through it.
Can’t imagine you using that for your cupboards!

Have you got the right colour? I can’t choose a Caesarstone top for you without knowing the correct cupboard colour.

I have all the Caesarstone samples here, can you check again on the colour for me?

Thanks Helen.

Hi Michelle,

I am a little worried about the main colour of our house, I am not sure it is the colour I want. Our exterior colours are:
Roof tile: Boral Linea - Charcoal Grey
Gutters and Facia: Stoddarts Quad - Woodland Grey
Windows: A&L - Notre Dame Grey
Main Exterior Colour: Colorbond Dune
Second Exterior Colour Feature: Taubmans Oil Shale T164-8A
Eaves: Taubmans - Whitehouse T160-1W
Timber Battening over study parapet stain: Dark reddish brown
Main Enterance Wall (Blade Wall): Stacked stone - colour unknown

I am unsure the Colourbond Dune will fit? I liked the facted though that my garage door can then blend in with the main wall colour. I am after a stoney grey colour but my desciption may not be the colour in my head. I am not after a cold grey but something with a bit of warmth

I struggle with colours and would love to hear your opionion, I have not started on the internals which I am about to select so I'm thinking of bringing these colours inside probably lighter??????
You can see some pics of the house on my website. Any feedback would be great. Thanks in advance

Hi Helen, I found MY “Moonstone” …….its lavender!!!! Which is why I didn’t take too much notice of it. Can’t you see the purple tint in it?

Not a colour I would specify to a client with such strong colour schemes in her bathrooms!

Here are my suggestions….up to you wether you take them on or not.


Ceilings, cornice and walls – “Off white”

Benchtops – Caeserstone “Gunpowder” mid grey, very little speckle through it!

Cupboards – Laminex “Silver Grey” in a 2pack….I still see a SLIGHT hint of lavender in this colour.

Kickboards - Laminex “Silver Grey”


NOTE: I know you said to avoid dark grey for the benchtops, “Gunpowder” is a mid grey. To go dark in any of the Caeserstone will take you to black and dark chocolate…..the chocolate is a stunning colour!!!

All the other darker colours are quite marbly looking, not my choice for a modern home!

The “Silver Grey” Laminate has a hint of lavender in it, but complemented with the Gunpowder top, should help to take it out.

By keeping in with greys in the kitchen you will have a flow colour combination throughout your home, very important! I have dropped the colours substantially from the dark greys of the bathrooms, but your overall colour scheme will match.

I hope these selections can help you.

lavendar!! i think i must have had wine goggles on! thanks for stopping me making a mistake! i thought the sample looked grey!
the silver grey looks lovely; great choice
re; the benchtop. I couldn't find the gunpowdercaesarstone colour on their website, i will check it out in a displayroom soon.
i think i lead you up the garden path a bit with my previous post; i didn't mean that i wanted to steer away from a really dark benchtop, in fact I like the contrast of light cupboards with dark benchtop, i was just giving examples of suggestions you might make sorry!
as we are using fairly dark oak floorboards in the kitchen, do you think it would be better to use a brown kitchen benchtop or do you think a grey / black one would also work?
you have just reinforced how important it is to get a professional in to look at decisions us un-designy people are making
thanks so much
Helen

and I'm a speech pathologist! I definitely think we should petition to have it added to the Oxford care of the homeone forum! anyone else classify themselves as un-designy?!

un-designy………ME!!!!!!

I’ve just been winging it!