F&B Scotch blue ??????
Inspired by Patrina's study make over and the wonderfully transformed BIlly, the OH was inspired to redo his office.
It's a fairly big space about 6m x 3.5m, with extremely tall walls - someone previously thought it would be a wizard wheeze to remove the ceiling of the room and have the ceiling on the underside of the roof - not lending itself to good temperature management - prone to being chilly in the winter and stifling in the summer but hey ho - it's not my study/office!!! Sadly I don't have pictures at present.
It's west facing and has a biggish window about 2m x 1.5m (on one of the shorter walls) so it is quite light, but the end furthest from the window, can get a bit darker than the rest of the room, because of the size of the room.
Anyhoo, after Patrina's triumph with Billy, the OH has secured 5 double Billys complete with glazed doors for a bargain £175. As he is colour blind, it's all down to me to design, spec and project manage said update.
So I have suggested we paint the the cabinets in F&B Scotch Blue, with the lower glass part of the door obscured with gold - faux gold leaf applied to the inside of the glass - which will be a faff or my preference (ie easier) gold liquid leaf, that you can just paint on. Failing that we may just go for the easy option of trying to just paint it the same colour as the wood.
But I'm hesitant about the Scotch Blue and wondered if anyone had used it anywhere? There don't appear to be many pictures on Google etc of examples where it's been used (unsurprisingly because it's new) and the F&B website isn't very enlightening either. My other question is, would you paint the wall on which the bookcase will be, in the same colour? It's such a strong colour I wondered if a huge expanse of wall of it may be too imposing.
My last question is, what should I pair the Scotch Blue with? For either 3 or the 4 walls? We've just bought some beautiful (2nd hand) silk curtains for the room, which are warm light gold and a kind of lapiz blue and I've been kind of putting off the decision about the wall colour until the curtains come back from being shortened.
These are the curtains, which will be over 2m wide and 2m drop:-
So any suggestions for the walls?
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4 years agoSome of your post is missing I think ? See screenshot attached.
Re west facing - lovely evening sunshine - but probably benefit from some extra hidden ‘on all day’ type ambient light - like lighting over paintings or uplights ontop of bookcases to bounce light back down off ceiling ( min of 350mm gap between bookcase to and ceiling to be effective ) or could be on a pressure pad and timer so only on when needed.
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4 years agoHi 👋🏻
It’s possible to measure colours so that you don’t have to guess their attributes. It just takes a little device which links wirelessly to your phone.
It measures colours under a standardised light source, so they are all considered from the same starting point.
If you link it with this specialist colour wheel, it’s also possible to plot them into Hue Families. Very helpful when working out colour combinations. Other info. includes how light or dark it appears (Value), how near neutral or colourful it is (Chroma), how much light it reflects
(LRV). This example shows a couple of golden type colours, from Scotch Blue’s complementary Hue Family of Yellow.
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3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoOk so here are a couple he's taken with the curtains closed because the ones in the daylight aren't any good
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