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Reply to: Shee & Co., Sorry it took me a while to get back to this.... Skewing: I shouldn't have mentioned this goofy little point, but now it's out there! It's only relevant in a few "Real-life" scenarios. It mainly pertains (to ME anyway...) paint applied too thinly, therefore revealing a hint of the primer color. * Example: If someone uses a "pink" primer under Burgundy, the whole paintjob can appear too light, 'cuz the primer is too white. * To ME...Gray is more appropriate, 'cuz it alters deep colors the "least", if paint is applied too thin. * Gray primer has its limits though! If you're painting a vivid "Lemon Yellow" or "Basketball Orange", THEN you'd need a primer that's almost the final paint color! A medium-gray primer COULD give a grayish-cast to bright, vivid tones. Curing/Bathroom use: * Sorry Shee.....you'll have to smell for a month.........;-) * JUST KIDDING! * After 2nd paint coat has dried for a day, use bathroom as normal. It needs that 24hrs. to get the initial surface-dry so steam doesn't re-soften the paint slightly. * "Full Cure-Out" mainly refers to the complete dry-thru/hardening of the applied film...SO IT'S WASHABLE. "Sweeping": * If you're working L-to-R, the RIGHT edge of a "swept" section will be the wettest. * Therefore, you're OK to slightly work into this section. When sweeping your 2nd column, start from its left edge, overlapping into 1st column slightly. * Ease-off the pressure on your rollers left side just a hair when overlapping a previous sections' final sweep. Faron

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Reply to: Bev: It's always best when the entry area is defined. And that can even be done in VERY small houses. Right now the front door opens up and one is standing in the dining room. At the risk of posting this because it's an entirely different set of parameters but here's a house I quickly put pen to paper that had the same situation only into a great room. It's about 8 posts down. [https://www.houzz.com/discussions/great-room-design-dsvw-vd~1056161-room-design[(https://www.houzz.com/discussions/great-room-design-dsvw-vd~1056161) You need to define the entry but I think the issues here are much larger than that. While you label it "dining" it's really a big hallway. And I'd get the living area opening up entirely to the kitchen. Get it so the dining, kitchen, and living, while one space, are still defined.

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Reply to: size is not an issue ! with clever and proper furniture / decoration , you can transform a small space into something that looks way bigger and which stays functional. Trust me , I have lived in Paris in smaller condos. Happy to help if needed

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Reply to: OK...your flooring will be dictated by your counter top choices. Your counter tops will be dictated by your cabinet choice. And dark cabinets make for DARK kitchens. And brazilian cherry (Jatoba) is a mid-tone floor to begin with. Which means you will have a dark room sitting RIGHT NEXT to a mid-tone dark floor. With dark cabs (in a colour that does NOT mix well with Jatoba's colour range) and a white counter top...your are pretty much limited to a nice, bright, white floor. I'm a little unsure as to where the Jatoba starts and stops. You make it sound like the Jatoba is already in the 500sf area....but then you mention doorways where it will meet the new floor. Are you installing 500sf of flooring in a 500sf kitchen?? How dark is your space to begin with? What colour are you looking at for walls? How 'brown' are the cabinets and how 'red' are the Jatoba floors (do they have the pink/purple look to them...or are they more into the flaming red/orange range)? Without seeing the space and without seeing your current floors and your cabinet/counter top choices we are going to be offering advice in a vacuum. Some pics of what we are dealing with would certainly help. And "No." Do NOT add in wood-look tile NOR another wood if you already have a DIVA of a wood floor aka Jatoba. Jatoba does NOT play well with others. It is the STAR! It will yell and scream if you put any other 'wood look' stuff next to it. And it really does not like black/brown (these are often green tone colours) anything. Green-toned browns clash HEAVILY with Jatoba. Just so you know.

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Reply to: I’m in the dark . You need to post pics of the slab ,the colors you want to use and those need to be taken in your kitchen with LED 4000K lighting in every fixture in the kitchen. Whites can look very different in different light . I agree the flooring the rest of the house all have an effect on color.Maybe white is the wrong choice maybe a pale taupey color would be better

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