So after we’ve kind of come up with an idea of colors that the client likes or that you like yourself out of your artwork, one of the things that I like to do is go to the paint store and buy paint chips and then create a diagram of the space. It doesn’t have to be as detailed as this drawing, but what I like to do is make a plan so we know which walls are going to be painted what color. It also helps you look into see how all the colors flow together throughout the house. It’s very important to have your color scheme consistent throughout the house. That way, your whole home flows and everything makes good sense and balanced out. Basically, what we decided to do was in the office, where Paige is going to be spending most of her time, we wanted to do a little fun and punch it up a little bit and make it a little more exciting and energizing. What we’re going to do, because this is a long narrow room, we decided that we were going to create and optical illusion by painting the far walls this dark reddish brown. When we paint these walls, these in walls, this burgundy color, what will happen is that it will appear to have the walls come toward you and make the room feel to be more squared off and less long and narrow. Also, another thing that we’ve found out is that because even though we’ve got 3 windows in this area here, one of them faces north and the 2 bigger windows face east. Well, the view out of these windows is an apartment building, so there’s not a lot of natural light in this space. We didn’t want to make the room feel like a cave so we opted to paint the walls, this long wall, this tan color to help reflect more light in this space. What we’re also going to do is we’re going to paint, because the ceilings are low and a low slanted roof, we’re going to paint the ceiling this tan color. So when you walk in you don’t automatically notice the ceiling as your would when you’re in a white room, or have a white ceiling rather. This really works well when you do have a low ceiling; it helps elevate the ceiling even. The other thing is because we really love this green color and thought that it would be really great in the kitchen, because green is a good food color. It helps enhance the color of food and also stimulates the appetite. Something I like to do is find interesting places to use color. One of those places is the stairwell that leads down into the basement. Since they’re just cement steps, we’re going to take this green that we’ve used in the kitchen and repeat it going down the stairs. What happens is that by painting these stairs green, you’re playing up the architecture feature that is basically just cement stairs going into a basement. You’re kind of giving it a little more emphasis and a little more punch and a little more pizzazz
. Also, it helps tie the two rooms in together.
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cyberchief
Aug 02, 2008
