Browse Forums Finishing Touch 1 Jan 20, 2008 12:47 pm After all the angst we experienced choosing paint colours I thought other forum users may benefit from photos of our (almost) finished walls.
We used half strength Turkish Bread throughout, with Divinity on ceilings, architraves, skirts & doors. Window frames are Merino. Feature 1: Wild Fig Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Feature 2: Murano (one coat still to go) - We are both absolutely in love with this colour. It is such a nice rich red, possibly slightly brighter than it looks here. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Feature 3: Liberte The camera does lie, this first picture makes it look really dramatic ... which it is not! The blue off in the distance in the second picture is a more realistic representation. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Wattyl Internal Paint Colours - Photos 2Jan 20, 2008 1:23 pm Lyn….very nice!
The red tones are my favs as well, your chosen colour Murano, is stunning, also is the wild fig!!! Very complementary colours throughout! Well done Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Wattyl Internal Paint Colours - Photos 3Jan 20, 2008 7:08 pm Hi Lyn,
Can I just say WOW You have selected such beautiful stunning colours. My favourite is the Wild Fig. What rooms did you use these colours in...bedrooms? It will be interesting to see how you co-ordinate the furnishings in your house with these colours. What have you got in mind? Mrs B Re: Wattyl Internal Paint Colours - Photos 4Jan 20, 2008 8:43 pm Thanks Michelle and Mrs B!
Choosing the neutral colours took months, much forum browsing and, in the end, about 10 sample pots! Picked the feature wall colours from the paint charts - not a sample pot in sight! We have only done the feature walls in the three bedrooms, and the red one will actually be my home office. I think it will take us a few years to fully furnish the finished product. Need to save up the funds! We are having timber floors in the living areas, and a fair bit of timber furniture as well. Otherwise there will be a lot of off-white with splashes/touches of the red and the green throughout (hmm... don't worry - will not end up looking like Christmas!). We were going to paint the alcove in our living area Wild Fig, but with the timber floor and the shading in the Turkish Bread paint I'm not sure if we will still go down that path. There will be a fair bit of green in the living area (including a few large indoor plants). I know that lime is the ONLY fashionable green, but I think the dark green will work really well with the timber floor and kitchen. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Most of the forum user's kitchens look spectacular, but we just have very standard finishing. The antique white cupboards influenced the choice of Divinity as the off-white paint. Antique white can be either pinkish or creamy ... and Divinity is fairly similar (depending on the light and gloss). Note that the shadow/mocha colour does not travel well with half strength Turkish Bread - one of our bathrooms definitely needs a different paint colour!! However, I think the most difficult thing in the whole house will be finding the right bar stools. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ When it gets this close all you want to do is move in. Re: Wattyl Internal Paint Colours - Photos 5Jan 20, 2008 9:09 pm Well done, looks great!!! Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Wattyl Internal Paint Colours - Photos 6Jan 20, 2008 9:16 pm Hi Lyn,
Your kitchen is just beautful. Through your use of colour, you have created a very personal and warm feeling in your home. For my own home, I have also picked olive green colours from Watyl...Moulin and Harold(if you have the Wattyl chart handy) What are you having for window dressings? Are you having material that complement the colours or staying neutral? Mrs B Re: Wattyl Internal Paint Colours - Photos 8Feb 04, 2008 7:13 pm I’ve just had another look at this post; the 3 colours…not by name but colour….I have used at my partners IT business for HIS feature walls!
How funny…and I didn’t pick it up back when I looked at your post first time. The green is in his office, the red, in the entry and the blue on the fireplace wall and meeting room wall. They are very similar in colour and tones. Must have similar tastes you and I!!! Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Wattyl Internal Paint Colours - Photos 10Feb 04, 2008 9:53 pm d@n That is one fad that I have never liked nor understood. It adds colour, interest and anchors the room. You need to watch more home improvement/decoration shows. LOL But, each to their own. [sneakersss] Re: Wattyl Internal Paint Colours - Photos 12Feb 05, 2008 12:42 pm Just out of interest d@n , what’s original to you?
What would be a “point of dominance” in a room that would draw your eye and make you go…… wow!!? Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Wattyl Internal Paint Colours - Photos 13Feb 05, 2008 2:36 pm "point of dominance"
For me the magic is in the details. The finish of the room, the paintwork, the lighting, the texture & feel in the floor coverings, right down to the little things like the switches and knobs. It's the clever things you discover when your look at a place and make you go "wow....smart idea!". That's original to me. Seeing what you haven't seen before. Making all this flow throughout the house is what works. I don't want to walk into a room and be hit in the face with a big red wall, then go into the next room and be hit again with a blue wall. It's the visual equivalent of someone screaming at me in different languages. Consistancy breeds good design. Re: Wattyl Internal Paint Colours - Photos 14Feb 05, 2008 2:51 pm Ahhhh d@n it’s what you dress those walls with, and how you manage to get them to flow from one room to the next with out using the same colour over and over……that’s how you get your “Consistency breeds good design” Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Wattyl Internal Paint Colours - Photos 15Feb 05, 2008 3:41 pm d@n Seeing what you haven't seen before.: Nothing in design is actually 'original' or something that you 'haven't seen before. [sneakersss] Re: Wattyl Internal Paint Colours - Photos 16Feb 05, 2008 4:03 pm So true…..YSSIM!
But I guess it had to be original the first time it was done….whatever it was or is. Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Wattyl Internal Paint Colours - Photos 17Jul 12, 2008 2:55 pm d@n Not wanting to rain on your parade, but what is the fascination with feature walls? That is one fad that I have never liked nor understood. I missed the rest of this thread in February. In many ways I do agree that feature walls are overdone. We don't have and no longer plan to have any form of feature walls in our living areas, so any standard visitors will only ever see the one wall paint colour. Our timber floor is feature enough - anything extra would just make it messy. d@n Making all this flow throughout the house is what works. I don't want to walk into a room and be hit in the face with a big red wall, then go into the next room and be hit again with a blue wall. It's the visual equivalent of someone screaming at me in different languages. Having lived here I can say that the house does actually all flow beautifully - hence feature walls with a flow colour and not 'red room', 'blue room' which wouldn't work at all! The feature walls are all the same tone, so the colour difference isn't really a shock ... and anyway, they are all bedrooms so you don't really walk into one room with a feature wall and then straight into another with a different colour. I work from home and absolutely love my red office wall (one of the bedrooms, not another red wall, unfortunately). When my mother visits she looks at the wall, not at the mess in the room - brilliant! Believe me, it works. Broke my ankle a few months after we moved in and have spent six weeks mainly stuck in the house ... I love the fact that I still like the house after being forced to spend so much time here! Thanks. Yeh ideally that would have been good, but have progressed too far now. Hoping some well placed internal walls fixed up into the battens will provide some… 2 5402 Thank you alexp79 and gommeqld for your advice, that's very helpful, thanks 3 7921 3 10199 |