Steps to a Kitchen you will Love! Which one is right for you? Read on to find out. I’ll start with the espresso brown kitchen cabinet trend as it’s still going strong: The following is an anonymous comment that I have heard many times since the brown trend started.
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By the way–a little insider advice—designers are always seeing and looking for what’s new and what’s next, we quickly get tired of a trend when it becomes common and seen everywhere, from restaurants to your best friends kitchen! Naturally, since we are in the design industry this is normal.
It is what we do (It’s the same for you inside your own industry). But this comment . I have listened to the advice of a colour consultant that was provided by our builder so now I have cortina brown kitchen floor tiles with natural finish knotty alder cabinet (mission style) and countertop in beige (santa cecilia granite). The color combination is just blah. In the bathrooms, I have the natural finish knotty alder cabinet with tropical brown granite countertop time. They are called ridgeview warm green by daltile and the color looks too muddy for me (looks like camo green to me). To be frank, I am quite depressed and not looking forward to living in this house.
The floors look too dark and muddy for my taste. I am getting a new dining room and living room furniture (I just dont know what colors to choose).
I have medium beige wall color throughout the house. What can I do to make all this color combination much more pleasing to the eye?”Colours to bring this much . I have seen way to many dark cave- like kitchens created by using too much brown which is why my advice is about balancing them with creams, etc. Personally, at this stage of the brown trend (it’s been about 7 years) and trends tend to last about 1. I would not specify an espresso brown kitchen. Two weeks ago, I was surprised when I walked into the condo of one of my new clients to see that he had forest green countertops and backsplash in a unit that was only 9 years old.
This happens when builders work on spec, without designers, unaware that a trend . Please, what ever you do, do not paint your cabinets screaming white if you are going for a brown counter and backsplash, it will . Your cabinets must be cream or beige with this much brown. White with brown is way too stark! White goes with black . Basically your choices are a wood stained cabinet or a painted cabinet. Make sure you see enough kitchens when doing your research .
Which leads me to my next point: 2) I often tell my clients, . If the advice you are getting does not ring true for you, do your research and pay for another consultation. The design of any project is the most important piece so if you do not like the advice you’ve just paid for, find another designer and pay for new advice—again. It’s still going to be worth it in the long run. Working with creative people can be a crapshoot, it’s not like buying a gallon of paint, you see it, you know what it is, what it will do and it’s not a surprise.
Obviously referrals then become the best way to hire a designer and these days a blog written by a professional is like getting a referral because you can get a real sense of the personality and expertise of the person writing the blog. The following is for Laurie who asked: “I’d appreciate a post on how to find a color specialist in my area. What accreditation should I look for?
What are questions I should ask when talking to a color specialist about working together? I once hired a designer for assistance in selecting colors and just as you described in your post, “The Three Most Important Words in A Color Consultation”, all I ended up with is a bunch of colors. I’m moving into a new home soon and I’m beginning the search for someone to help me pull everything together. Can you provide some tips for finding the right person to work with?”The best advice I can give here is this; look for years of experience and be willing to pay for experience. It takes years of various courses and exposure to a lot of different spaces and design styles, to be able to walk into . It’s the best crash course in colour and design ever because it’s experiential . You are buying the .
Do not say to your partner “What’s the problem honey, why can’t you just pick a colour?” or “Where is that tile, we need it? If you are on a strict budget you have no budget to waste on mistakes! Selecting tile is much harder than it might seem.
I have seen tile in a store that I would swear has a green undertone go pinky beige when it’s installed—eeek! Choosing the wrong grout colour can also give you that effect because now you are visually comparing the minute differences in beige’s which when paired incorrectly change the colour of the tile right before your eyes. Never buy tile without taking it home and looking at it in the lighting of your bathroom or kitchen.
And if you don’t have that luxury because you are building and the lighting will not be installed until after the tile? You might still be surprised when everything is complete.
A note about undertones: Don’t get upset if it’s difficult for you to distinguish them. I make it sound obvious and easy but it’s taken me years of working with large colour samples, to be able to see the undertone of a countertop or sofa from a mile away.
And even then I’ll tell you which finishes can be tricky when defining an undertone. Carpet; sometimes I have to hold up a few paint samples to see whether it’s pinky beige or greeny beige as both can get grayish and hard to distinguish. The days of defining spaces with flooring are over . We are now installing hardwood throughout the kitchen as well. If you are in an older house and have existing hardwood but do not have it in your kitchen, consider cork flooring in a tone that coordinates with your existing floors (if it’s too painful to try and find matching wood to install in your kitchen). If you still want tile for ultimate durability consider a larger size than 1. Here’s the 5 step recap: 1) Do your homework to distinguish the look you think you’ll be the most happy with.
If you are not an expert, hire one. Unless you are a designer, it’s best to hire one even if it’s just for a 2 hour consultation to make sure the finishes that are about to be installed are going to work in your home. Have a selection for the designer to eliminate. Tile/stone is not easy to choose, go back to step number 2. Choose flooring that works with your existing finishes and keep it current.
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