Crappy looking kitchen.
@BunsenBurner Nice link in #2919. Iād like to know the heating costs. I found its location via google. 45 minutes away in a town of 17,500. Road trip! Iām sort of surprised their lodge closed. Our town is only 5,000 and the lodge is quite active.
I wish I had something to add to a home improvement thread. I definitely did not account for the current difficulty of getting contractors when I bought my 1900 farmhouse. Frustrating!
Wonder what their utility bills would look likeā¦?
And I wouldnāt want to clean it either!
But it has cabinets that you can roll out completely and a concrete countertop with some (valuable?) semiprecious stones embedded in it. ?
Jeff Bezos did the same, purchasing a 27,000 SQ textile museum and converted it to a single-family home in Washington DC. But Iām sure he did a lot more to its interior.
At least guessing Bezosā property taxes are higher! The lodge @BunsenBurner linked was built in 1926, is 19,200 sf, and has property taxes, after homestead exemption, of approximately $900/yr.
Iām getting ready to paint my house. Iām pretty sure all of the main level will be SW Repose Grey. Anyone know if that color is still considered the go to for neutral these days?
We have a brick wall in our family room. Painter suggested we paint it white, to go with the trim. He suggested if I donāt paint it I will likely think it dates the room when itās done. I consulted an interior design person, and she actually likes natural brick walls, but said painting it would be fine also. She came up with a then obvious solution - donāt paint it until the rest of the room is done, and then see what I think.
Thoughts about painting brick? Itās a long wall, with fireplace in the center, so it will be a big white wall.
Thanks in advance
I tend to like exposed brick. I think your decoratorās idea is a good one. Wait to see what you think before painting.
The previous owners painted over our brick fireplace and I think it would have been better natural.
Pretty sure my first floor hallway and living room are Repose Grey - definitely a nice neutral color.
Iāve done a garage interior and several inside walls in Repose Grey. In lower light situations, I see a lot of green base. I love greys, but definitely a tricky color to get ārightā based on lighting and personal preferences for the base color.
I think your decorator has a great idea. Iāve seen painted brick that looks good, but I also like exposed brick. Trends come and go, so unless you are selling soon, do what you like!
@systress, the mention of green undertones concerns me.
Have others experienced that with repose Gray? I am quite frankly not particularly good at decisions like this, but a realtor recommended that color, and a designer agreed it would be good, even with my off-white leaning towards yellowish kitchen cabinets.
I am considering painting the cabinets, but I think that will have to wait til our fridge dies - It matches the color of the cabinets. I want a stainless fridge, but it is built-in and replacements are over 8K
I feel like mine has blue undertones.
Get a sample and do a test to see if you like it in your space.
I think with painted brick, a lot depends on how nice the brick is.
My cape house has a brick fireplace, but the brick was ugly - very dark, almost black in many places. So we painted it white and are very happy with how it looks now.
If you go to Flickr and do a people search on my username, wayside61, you can see before and after pictures if you scroll around. Sorry I canāt link it directly, links to that site arenāt allowed.
We just did two bathroom renovations, plus our master bedroom. After trying 6-8 Benjamin Moore samples looking for a very pale sage green, our contractor mentioned that lots of decorators were using Sherwin Williams First Star (gray). We chose that for the master bath, then went two shades darker for the bedroom (Big Chill). Very happy with them both.
I thought we would do Repose Gray, but now the contractor Iām likely to pick is saying he used Benjamin Moore Ultra Spec paints. Should I request they use SW, or is what they are proposing fine, and they can mix the same color as SW Repose Gray. As I think Iāve said before, I am not good at this stuff, and Iām also not that particular. I know what I donāt like, but Iām guessing I wonāt know the difference between Repose Gray and something very close. I have many samples in the house, and Repose Gray looks as good or better than any of the others in our areas. I do need to consider other colors for bedrooms and bathrooms, and Iām going to check out the colors @MaryBarbara58 mentioned. Iāve thought of doing the bedrooms a different light shade of gray, but more ātrue grayā as opposed to Repose, which I kind of think of as āgreige.ā Iām also a fan of blues, so if anyone has any recommendations for blues that are fairly neutral, especially in the BM line, please let me know.
Any paint store should be able to mix any color from any major brand in any other brandās paint. At worst, paint some on a piece of cardboard and they can scan it to match the color.
Are you doing your samples on a piece of sheetrock big enough to really see the color and then moving it around to catch different light on different walls at various times of day? Thatāt the trick.
Someone mentioned light light green, I did BM Dusty Miller, itās very very light, greenish, greyish, bluish, it changes through the day. Itās their "bestā paint, which I did not quite comprehend until I had to buy a gallon to paint another room, $76, ouch. Itās the Aura with lots of solids so lots of depth of color. I have a wall of windows and a ton of extremely changeable light and I love this paint.
@1214mom ā do you want a really pale āalmost no colorā blue or something deeper?
Marilynās Dress looks white in the can but is pale blue on the walls. Cool Breeze is deeper than Marilynās Dress but not as deep as Pale Smoke. (Regular) Smoke is even more saturated.
I have a number of blues that are blue-green, in case you are looking for those: Sea Glass and Tranquility.
@CT1417, I like Marilyns dress. Iām going to have to find a BM store near me.
@1214mom I should have clarified: we prefer Benjamin Moore, so I took the SW card to our local hardware store, and they replicated the color (all done by computer - they plug in the SW code).
We also used the BM Aura line for the bathroom ($78 a gallon here!) on our contractorās recommendation.