To paint the woodwork or not?
stormyrunner
9 years ago
Dear Houzzers, I'm stumped & need your design experience. We bought this house which was built in the early 80s & is still lost there.
I've selected SW Blonde for kitchen & family room color but do I use this color up to the ceiling, covering this wood and make it disappear or wax the wood and make it part of the design. The floor is Saltillo tile. I'm also unsure what to do with this river rock fireplace other than put a reclaimed beam as a mantle up. Do I take down the stone & reface & if so, with what material? And one more important question, in the kitchen, you can see the soffit...I won't know til next week when we get the house whether it has electric hiding there...but if it does, do I paint that also to make it disappear? We're doing a lot of this ourselves, on a budget of course, and I want to spend my money on appliances & countertops & perhaps refacing cabinets....they're solid wood, ugly but solid!!! Desperately seeking suggestions for this first time poster...
I've selected SW Blonde for kitchen & family room color but do I use this color up to the ceiling, covering this wood and make it disappear or wax the wood and make it part of the design. The floor is Saltillo tile. I'm also unsure what to do with this river rock fireplace other than put a reclaimed beam as a mantle up. Do I take down the stone & reface & if so, with what material? And one more important question, in the kitchen, you can see the soffit...I won't know til next week when we get the house whether it has electric hiding there...but if it does, do I paint that also to make it disappear? We're doing a lot of this ourselves, on a budget of course, and I want to spend my money on appliances & countertops & perhaps refacing cabinets....they're solid wood, ugly but solid!!! Desperately seeking suggestions for this first time poster...
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PRODeb Bayless - Design for Keeps
9 years agoHi! If you are on a budget, I think you are on the right track to make cosmetic updates as the tile and cabinets are still very serviceable. The soaring ceilings are meant to give added height and spaciousness, but in their current dark stain, it just brings them back down. Typically darker colors help to ground a room which is why the floor tile is a keeper, certainly for now. The SW Blonde looks like it may pick up on the golden tones in the tile - great! I would paint out the soffit and vertical paneling the same color as your walls. With the fireplace, natural stone is always in style so it's about marrying the other finishes in the room to the stone so that it doesn't look out of place. Adding a mantel piece is a great idea - keeping the wood at least 12" from the fireplace opening for safety reasons. You could even box out the top section with drywall - check out this one from House Beautiful.
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PROKristina Eckert - EvolveDesignBuild
9 years agolast modified: 9 years agoThere is so much going on, in which case I would paint cabinets, woodwork, ceilings and wall all in a nice creamy shade of white like benjamin moore swiss coffee. Your appliances are already white, so that will make everything look clean and pretty. If you want to accent the island in a different color (benjamin moore black fox?), that would be great, hard to tell what the surface is now from the photo.
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