What color is your Kitchen?

You are ready to break away from white, but what color should you choose for your kitchen? And which color is your favorite to use?

There are many different things you can do to a kitchen and many different colors you can use to give it the homey feel right. Well here are a few colors that might spark interest and land on your favorite color wheel.

You might as well make any kitchen cozy. Everyone goes in it anyways. You could not even beat them out with a spoon if you wanted to. Plates would look great with Warm Sienna. Contrasting with teak countertops, or even cork on the floor. Very soft and warm to the foot.

Kitchens often have so little space you have to make the color count. This is sunshine in a can, with Golden Honey, like a yellow with a little bit of brown in it, As opposed to a yellow with green and it looks wonderful with wood.

Many designers are so tired of all of those off-white cabinets. Many like to paint them dark. And this Wolf Gray, a Swedish gray-blue, will make the whole room very Gustavian, with chalky white walls and Carerra Marble counter-tops.

You are taking a chance if you go orange, but it can be fabulous. Try Spring Squash. It is playful during the day for kids and at night with lamps on it, it will just glow. Start with only one wall. You never know that just may be enough.

Now tell me and everyone else what color is your kitchen? If you love the color tell us why and how it makes you feel. If you do not like the color tell us why and then let us know what color you would like to change it to

How do you want your room to feel?

I have been reading this book called House Beautiful- Favorite Paint Colors it is by Hearst Magazines- The Ultimate Paint Guide pages 55-58. This is where most of these blogs have been coming from. This book has so many great ideas and advice when it comes to choosing paint colors are questioning certain colors. I want to take the time to show you this article I cam across.

How do you want your room to feel?
Could you fall asleep in a red bedroom? Would you look your best in a blue dining room? It is not enough just to like a color. You need to think of how it will affect you. Every color has the power to make you feel calmer, livelier, prettier, younger, happier, healthier.

Color is sexy, fun, the most important part of decorating. But it is also the most psychological and elusive.

Three things guide us to the perfect color: The people who live there, the space themselves, and geography. The white you would use in California is not the same white you would use in New York. If we succeed, color is not the first thing people notice when they walk into a room. It is just part of a total realization and gets absorbed into the atmosphere and emotion of the space.- Donald Kaufman www.donaldkaufmancolor.com

With this said, please reply to this blog and let everyone know how you would like to feel when you walk into a room and what colors are you seeing in that room to make you feel that way? How would you like your clients to feel if they walked into that same room?

Are you Bold Enough?

How bold are you? In matter of colors of course. Most designers are conservative. A bold color is a lot to live up to and nor for everyone. But some part of us wants to break out and try to be bold. And you will not find more beautiful colors than these.

Take a look at this incredible turquoise blue green. A type of blur green you would see on a cloisonne vase. Oyster Bay will talk any designer into using it. It looks so glossy and deep and absolutely ravishing.

A hallway always seems to end up being dead space. So why not go for a Ruby Red that is warm and is a blast of life? You dont have to live in it, after-all, it is a hallway. It is also a hook, people can get addicted to color after they paint a hallway.

Utah Sky is a clean, simple jolt of blue. Just like good American tradition, this can also be used in a hallway. Use that against a white trim it turns out like shock tactics. Get your clients used to the excitement of real color,and then the next injection of color will me much easier.

Take two similar colors and mix them up. Such as Picture Gallery Red and Fowler Pink. This was once used as the inside lip of a conch where it goes into the rosy fleshy tone. It was then recreated with three parts of Picture Gallery Red and one part of Fowler Pink. If you can find the same color in nature, it often makes people feel more comfortable with color.

Some designers like to go straight to the library and paint it this deep, luscious, purple brown. It is like bark on a tree when it is wet in the rain. A dark color actually expands the space because it erases the boundaries.Then the room becomes all about the books and the art.

What ever you do do not give a guest a white room. They probably have that at home.Take a chance on this bright Coral Reef. It is softer than orange and hipper than pink, It is absolutely palm beach and lobster salad on a summer day.

This Lemon Grove yellow would make a great first impression on an entry hallway. Can you see it? With a bench and upholstered in bitter chocolate, and black and white photography. We all want to feel something when we walk into a room right? And this yellow would definitely do the trick.

I think that the strength and clarity of black is unappreciated. It is more a powerful backdrop than the ever present white. It can make a room feel intimate and cozy while staying modern and crisp. It is dark and sexy in high- gloss paint that reflects the light.

Even designers really, really want to use some colors, but do not ever get the chance. They are just waiting for the right room to use these wonderful knockout colors.

The True Blues

They are light and airy and deep and mysterious. All blues are beautiful.
All designers have the same question. What is the best blue?

Maybe this will help.

Sherwin Williams has a blue called Verditer Blue. It is an intense 18th century blue-green. They used to make it by pouring acid onto copper and using the verdigris as the pigment for the paint. A living room would be a killer with this on the walls,and white trim.

To some designers some blues are their secret key to wonderful designs. like Sassy Blue. This color is like the sky is peeking out a bit on a cloudy day. How it lightens the air in the room. It gives a small breath to everything around it.

Sometimes blue is tricky and can become gray and sad. This warm Mediterranean Blue does not! It is the blue in all those Pucci prints. It is bright, happy and not a cloud in the sky color blue. It is the vacation blue that everyone comes home and talks about. You will fall in love with Blue Wave in the bedroom and crisp it up with navy blur prints and furniture.

Can you believe that blue is America's favorite color? Everything from the darkest to the lightest. When painting a living room Patriot Blue is the way to go. It is a dark strong Cobalt Blue that has a sense of luxuriousness.

It is bright, pretty and reminds you of those summer nights on the lake. Waterside is a great blue that is calming just like the ocean, and has a hint of turquoise.

Blues To Be Continued.....