colour palette for kitchen, dinner and leaving room
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Priesh Shah
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Bringing together colours in kitchen/living/dining room
Comments (14)Hi Tracey, if you want some advice, we do online interior designs at a very affordable price (starting at £50 per room). We can send you a moodboard with all the elements and how they would fit together, choose a colour scheme that works, etc Once you are happy with the design, we would send you the shopping list with all the elements and where to get them online. We would adapt to your budget so you only spend what you have in mind. Have a look at our website and let us know if you are interested! www.lucianasanchez.com...See Moreopen plan kitchen dinner living room
Comments (10)Hi Marco, It’s big enough, depending on what you want to include. As a designer and concept planner we begin with a questionnaire which looks at all the details relating to your space. This includes, how many people you need to sit? A look at how big your kitchen needs to be. The style you are going for? And so on. From here we then create several options of layout for your space, allowing you to see what’s truly possible.. and all in a 3D format so you can see how it actually feels to navigate the space. It maybe worth you doing something like this with a concept planner, so you can get your head around how big the space is and what’s possible with in it. My clients find it invaluable. All the best, Gina...See MoreHome colour palette
Comments (4)Ah thank-you, yes that would help! The rooms overall are very light, apart from the hall downstairs. The living room has light carpet and mid-grey ophelia sofas from next - I would eventually like to restore the original floor boards but we will have this done at the same time as the original parquet floor in the hallway (so in the next few years). I have alcove shelving and a light wood and metal TV stand - overall nothing too special but the space works for us - just need to get a few finishing touches (shutters, footstool). The other rooms are up for decoration - I'd love to have the dining room white walls with 1 or 2 walls in G&B 1946 paint but I'm worried it will look a bit out of place, as it does now in Sage green (I ended up painting the room on the colour I love and not thinking about how the room would look in the house and how we use it - I don't want to make this mistake again). The dining table and chairs is currently a light wood colour, which I may paint depending how the room ends up and we have a dark solid solid rustic fireplace. The house is mainly used from late afternoon onwards during the week and all day at weekends. I love a more traditional feel but also love the scandi feel (prehaps as it's so light and calming). I really like the idea of having more darker styles in the home but not too much as I think our home suits a much lighter palette (1930s 3-bed semi). All of the woodwork is painted white apart from the original doors which are various shades of light wood and I'm not a huge fan of wallpaper hence thinking about just re-painting all the walls. Should I try to pick a few colours which are present in each room then add additional shades/colours which compliment, in the different rooms? I guess I'm feeling a little lost now I have free-rein (always been in rented houses)....See MoreHouse colour palette
Comments (8)There are so many variables when it comes to these decisions that it's hard to know where to start. Personally, I would avoid looking at images of colours of kitchens you like unless they are the same aspect, same light levels and same flooring. Putting in a wood floor is a good start in my opinion as the colour will inject a huge slab of warmth, this means you can add some more greyed colours comfortably. Colour temperature is a perceptual thing, we can't measure it, but some people are more susceptible than others. I don't like being in cold feeling rooms, which may be something you need to really think about. Blues with a green tinge will feel cooler if they are pale, darker versions of the same colours feel warmer, so in a North facing room I would go for more wood, darker colours and warmer colours. Descriptions of paint are really unhelpful, the only thing that matters is light, amount and colour of light. For example, Joa's White is now less popular that it once was, but in a North facing room may be the exact colour required to correct the blue light. Again, 'describing' paint as grey is also misleading, there is only one true grey paint on the market (I think) and it is the worst seller - made from pure black and white. All other colours are chromatic greys (greys with a hue) or described as greys but still have a perceived hue. So mixing greys is tricky. In order to do this you need to work out what hue the grey is (such as blue, red, green etc) and pick others greys that are similar. Varying the tones of grey also helps and this makes the hue less obvious. This image is something that may work. The unit colour is Little Green Grey Moss which has more warmth than a cooler blue grey, and the brick, wood and stone floor all add warmth....See MoreMarylee H
4 years agoHi.
Using the device, I snapped colour measurements for the marble work surface on the left. The primary information for a colour, is to which Hue Family it belongs. (possibly obvious when you have a daffodil yellow colour, but less so when working with more neutral colours of stone etc) For this, the device gives you a Hue Angle ° which makes it possible to plot on the Color Strategist Wheel. This tells you in which Hue family it sits. Powerful information, no guesses required.The darkest veining in the marble, was from the Yellow-Red Hue family, but the other 3 areas measured were from the Yellow Hue family.(see the black dots at related Hue Angles around the wheel) So in order to find potential wall, cabinet, island, paint colours that would be sure to harmonise with the work surface, I looked for paint colours in the same Yellow Hue Family. (the colour suggestions are on the right)
The info also tells you how light or dark each colour paint colour is, how neutral or colourful it is & how much light each reflects.
All of this helps your confidence that paint, work surface, flooring etc will work together - because they are related! They are part of the same Hue Family.
Marylee H
4 years agoThis is The Color Strategist Color Wheel that is made freely available from The Land of Color. It’s possible to plot any measured colour on here
just by finding its Hue Angle°. Even if you find the other data too much formation to process, that attribute alone ensures you know where each colour sits. Very helpful - no guessing required. A factual starting point for finding related colours.
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