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Kitchen- I've been eyeing off the wattyl colour range on the colour chart our builder has provided for us. Hubby has said in the past he'd rather get the builder to paint but of course it does depend on the budget when it finally comes down to it. I've suggested that we consider getting the main living area walls painted before the house is ours as we are having cork flooring put in and I'd rather the painting was done prior to this going down. he thinks this is well worth doing. I've also suggested we consider getting wet areas painted. But for the moment this post is about the living area. Feature walls can be done at a later stage, if and when we feel the need. Anyway I was wondering what everyones take on using one of these colours would be. Wall Paint- Wattyle Augathella or Divinity ( could be too yellow) or winter sky ( I think this might be a little cold in the kitchen area) we have a few items of cedar and jarrah furniture in the areas to be painted. As well there are 3 jarrah caps on 3 half walls. The flooring will be Copenhagen " cork flooring through out this area. Approx 90 sqm Kitchen: Bench: Qstone - graphite Cupboard doors: laminex - zinc works. Tiles: Splash back across stove side bench top and main kitchen benching area: 300mm x 200mm silver-grey tiles tiled vertically. "tiles are beautifully glossy and almost look like glass. They are a silverish grey with fine lines running down them behind the surface glaze which is very smooth. The lines are a bit like you see in shot silk material" Oven: Whirlpool stainless steel electric with separate grill Stove top: one of the whirlpool black glass electric ones. Cupboard handles are likely to be chrome or steel ones. like number 7 or 21 on this site. basic builder range but they look neat and unfussy -->http://www.zesta.com.au/Kitchen_Door_Handles.php Tap will be from builders basic range. Caroma Acqua Chrome Mixer tap. (basic flick tap) Sink is the Caroma Advanced double centre bowl sink. External doors and windows will be Wizard or Mountain Blue. This area contains 2 windows and 2 large sliders. We will also need to choose a internal door frame and door colour. There will be 3 doors and door frames in this area. We'd like this to be the same through out the house. Not white but something like coloured. Suggestions, comments anyone? http://wherethehearthis.blogspot.com/ I was trying to post the house plan here but I've had no luck so if you need an idea how the area looks check out the block blog listed above and scroll down to the house plan. Or a direct link is-> .http://bp0.blogger.com/_K6fYFPGijK0/SBQXKAiGJUI/AAAAAAAAAAk/ZPJid-tIAjw/s1600-h/house+plan.jpg Re: kitchen- living area colour 2May 04, 2008 3:12 pm Might have to give me some time for this post!
I’ll get to it when I can…………….. Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com thanks 3May 04, 2008 3:30 pm HI Michelle Thanks I'd appreciate your thoughts and ideas.
I'm a bit worried about the "jarrah" wood capping with the other colours but I'm determined that I want this. We found them very functional in the last house. I did think something slightly darker than the walls for the door frames and doors but nothing too dark. We are deliberately trying for neutral. IN the last house we also had a large living area painted one colour and would have gone for a feature wall but didn't have any spare/empty walls to do so. We did however have strong colours in our bedroom. Deep breath.. are you ready? we had Dulux "red cross" on ALL the walls in our main bedroom. hehe. We also had a lot of furniture in the room and it was a big room. Also one entire wall was full length windows with almost royal blue velvet type blockout curtains. Another wall had both the ensuite and WIR doorways off it. Much of the wall areas were hidden with furniture and we had a border paper around the top that had hints of gold, orange and the same red, although very little of it. Sounds scary but actually it was quite nice. So we do like strong colours. We just want neutrals in the main living area. We'll not repeat our bedroom colour. Not sure what we'll do yet but it won't be that dramatic this time. Just a single feature wall colour if I can talk hubby into it. Blog http://wherethehearthis.blogspot.com/ Build https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=6634: Yard https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=27687&p=378401#p378401 Re: kitchen- living area colour 4May 04, 2008 3:34 pm I like the Winter Sky…..or even, Alabaster???? Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: kitchen- living area colour 5May 04, 2008 3:38 pm RED CROSS!!! Wow very red!
Ok, I missed the skirst and arcks…. Any reason why you don’t want to do the one colour throughout?? Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: kitchen- living area colour 6May 04, 2008 3:39 pm winter sky is quite nice. isn't it. I nearly added it to the 3 colours I originally posted. I think hubby would say alabaster is too grey for the entire area. Perfect for just the ktichen though. paint 7May 04, 2008 3:44 pm Michelle RED CROSS!!! Wow very red! Ok, I missed the skirst and arcks…. Any reason why you don’t want to do the one colour throughout?? Skirting boards are not standard to the average project home in WA only the very up market ones. They weren't even standard 20+ years ago when we last built. I remember being surprised at that even back then. But ours will be small beading ones matched to the cork. We may well do the rest of the rest of house the same paint colour. We might even get the builders painter to do it depending on the budget. Ceilings and cornices will be flat white. ( builders basic colour and what hubby likes anyway) Re: kitchen- living area colour 8May 04, 2008 3:48 pm While trying to sort your colours that you want to do now…….I would work the rest out at the same time.
That’s why I’m saying pick one wall colour and use it for the whole house. Then you have a blank canvas to work with Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: kitchen- living area colour 9Jun 04, 2009 12:03 am Michelle we've finally decided on a single flow colour.. Well after all this time DH and myself have picked a different colour to what we were originally looking at. We wanted to go for a cooler - grey tone paint as the main flow colour. We hope we'll be able to get away with this because we have a lot of timber capping, wooden furniture, cork flooring to add warmth. I'm still hoping to talk him into some feature walls in a deeper grey colour at some future stage. The main living area is a huge open plan area. Our kitchen as you will have seen by now is black and has a blue/grey/green tinged granite benchtop. we will be having a metallic grey/blue venetian blind in the kitchen eventually. I've purchased some redishades for us to install after handover to stop prying eyes. DH has gotten cold feet over redoing the loan atm and so we might be living with them for a while as curtains aren't top of the priority list. At least they look better than newspaper on the windows. We've decided to go for Wattyl "Igloo" as our main colour. Not 100% sure if this will be ok with the main bathroom, laundry. loo tiles but it should be fine for the rest of the house including our ensuite. Our main focus for the next few weeks is to get some sealer on walls and try and get main living areas painted ( at least one wall anyway )before we move in and to get the bathrooms painted. We have one very large full height 7 ' long wall unit that once in position we will not want to move so getting the wall painted that it will be on before we move in is our number one priority out of all internal walls. Re: kitchen- living area colour 10Jun 05, 2009 7:06 pm Kex…..is this a question for me??? Or are you just keeping me up to date with it all….? Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: kitchen- living area colour 11Jun 05, 2009 7:31 pm Just clearing it up as a loose end. But do you think that sounds ok? Re: kitchen- living area colour 12Jun 05, 2009 7:51 pm Are you having a white ceiling? The Igloo does look slightly darker than what I would suggest throughout a home. Nice colour though…. Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: kitchen- living area colour 13Jun 05, 2009 7:55 pm yup bog standard white ceiling. we didn't want anything too light. I really am not happy with the chalk dust on our doors and door frames it is white. so i want some colour. Remember its mostly for that really huge room. We will still consider a different ( lighter?)colour for the minor bedrooms if need be and for the laundry, main bathroom and loo since that has a creamy brownish tile. It is going to be "a cold day in hell" ( what DH would say if i really pressed him) before i get any feature walls so this is probably it. Re: kitchen- living area colour 14Jun 05, 2009 8:01 pm It will be fine! You can always use the Igloo in 1/2 for the other rooms. Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: kitchen- living area colour 16Jun 06, 2009 6:22 pm hehe we ended up changing out minds. got nervous afterwards. we've decided on igloo full strength and flokati for the minor bedrooms, main bath, laundry, loo minor passageway and kids activity room. since there is a slider to close these 2 areas off from each other they can be distinctly different colours without a drama so that's what we are now going to do. We didn't fancy 1/2 strength igloo. Anyway moot point as when we got to the paint place it was closed. so we'll be waiting for 2 weeks to do it now. Blog http://wherethehearthis.blogspot.com/ Build https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=6634: Yard https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=27687&p=378401#p378401 Re: kitchen- living area colour 18Jun 06, 2009 8:53 pm Hi bel I rememebr you saying that. Sorry to hear DD is still not well. I really wanted something a bit stronger for the house than flokati but the flokati is really close in colour to the plain wall tile in our main bathroom /laundry/loo. Eldest has declared he really wants a blue room. I was hoping he'd be over it. He's had a blue room since he was 5. ( was yellow before that) Sigh. Youngest said he is happy with white or the exact same green colour he had in our last house from the time he was born until we left. hmm. Wish I could get them to agree on the same colour. They could have 2 walls done as a feature then. 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