That green is not nice for a kitchen because it looked like moisture.
She learned that in her course.
I told her that green is the colour of the nature, the apple, brocoli, spinash, the colour of a lot of vegetables.
I would like to paint my kitchen a nice green with a bit of yellow on it but not to much.
Something not to dark, I have my colour in Sico.
She was a decorator, not a designer, excuse me.
So what do you think about that?
I dont like red or orange for a kitchen and for nothing else.
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My house will be very simple just with sage vinyl and a dark roof and dark shutter in the window in the middle.
We can put shutters at each windows, because the house is to small.
Yes I am exciting I dont sleep before 4 AM I get up every 5 minutes...
We go there for the peace, they are nothing.
Love your house as well Lina...and you are so fortunate to have beautiful trees in your yard. Can't wait to see the finished pictures...you must be getting so excited now!
Thank you!
I do love your house and your woods are beautiful.
This is our house, not a big one because we are just two persons.
It is not finished but we moved the 31.
They work hard, they will stard the outside tomorrow.
We go and visit everyday,
if I will be there know, nature will inpired me for the colours.
But I maid my choice myself for every room. I dont need a designer for the colour I just need one to tell me if my colours floated, goes together.
This what I saw from my kitchen.
We will have a place for the table, spa, and everything, but we keep our wood, we dont destroyed them.
Look at the beautiful view now.
There are beautiful green in the leaves.
Thanks Jan...
My problem is I know what I don't like, but it's nailing down what I really like. DH is always saying 'It's fine'-but that to me means it'll do (aka-make a decision already:)
Thought it may be worth-while to go with a consultation...
Thanks again!
Guess it depends on the prices in your market place. I'd call around to well know decorators/designers and then those that are new.
Before you hire anyone you need to go to their office and see samples of their works. I went to the office of one and hated her fluffy curtains. Because half an hour of her time was paid by the builder I asked her about the colour of the carpet - a one inch sample - "Is this a beige?" She kept on about how it matched all my other colour choices - h*ll, I knew that - 'is it beige?" Should have gone with my gut and ordered something else - it sure was beige. Believe in yourself but if you like what they have done it the past be willing to listen to their ideas.
Speaking of designers/decorators...what seems to be the going rate (I know will vary) for someone to come in for basic consultations for an hour or two. Just want some help with paint colours and a couple of other small things...
I called one and was quoted $350 for up to 2hrs. Does this seem reasonable?
I think Janetc said it well - the designer/decorator has to work for you - not you just taking their suggestions. Some of them forget this, even if they are famous it doesn't make them right. This is about your project. Go with your gut.
Don't listen to your interior decorator. I have heard once that green is always in style, so there you go. I guess it has to be a green that is in style at the time. HOpe to see pictures of your new home soon. good luck
I hope you will send a picture of your new home and the woods when you are moved in so that we can see it.
I think that some decorators learned the base.
We have to scent, feel I dont know the right word, you must know if the colour go or not in a certain house, you dont put a yellow green in a bathroom where you are doing your make up, your face will look bad.
But if it is in the back of teh bathroom there is no problem with that. I dont put pink even if it is better!!!
So we have to judge and to have a certain feeling to be a good decorator or designer.
I will put a nice fern green in my kitchen.
Thank you everybody.
that's coo coo...the girl musta went to decor school in laa laa land...there's nothing wrong with green in a kitchen...I've been through 2 years worth of courses for certification in interior decor..even recently did an indepth colour theory course with ben moore in one of my courses...never did they mention that...truly bizarre....ignore that mumbo jumbo...there is nothing wrong with green in a kitchen infact some of the designers I love have done green in the kitchen...go for it with no regrets! :)
Same thing for me!
Most greens would show off wood cabinetry and since that is usually the most expensive thing in the kitchen why wouldn't you? Unless you bought an older home with those awful dark doors although I see those are back in style again :o
Well I have to disagree...I love my kitchen, I have a mixture of greens and yellows..it's very country but a little bit of traditional style mixed in :)
Thank you.
I will do my best with what I have to have a nice house.
Good night
i can imagine the woods in your backyard are beautiful....well it wont be long now and you will be in there to enjoy the veiw....all the best Lina
:)
janetc
I Janet, we are supposed to moved the 27 but we are not sure, but the 31 we will be in our new house, finished or not.
You must see the wood in the back in our lot it is beautiful now,
I am tired, to put a photo but you can imagine the beauty of a wood in october.
I dont fill or feel I dont know the word (je ne réalise pas que je vais déménager encore, même si j'ai très hâte) that I will moved, I am on an other planet.
At first I said I would try to live without colour, know I cant, I need to bring the outside in and in one colour we can see a lot of colours.
I will have the chance to live in white for few monts because it is a new house and we have to wait before painting.
But all my colours are choosen.
I will do my best that my green kitchen match with everything!!!
what the heck is up with designers/decorators these days.....(i shouldnt lump them all in one basket as there are some good ones out there.) If you like green, than green it should be.....i could understand if it was a color that didnt compliment your cabinets, but to say that green shouldnt be used in a kitchen is just craziness. Certain designers/decorators dont decorate for you Lina, they design around what they like and thier opinions and suddenly your home is THEM, and your personality is gone from your own home. You go with the color you like. :) You must be moving in soon....
:)
janetc
I love green in a kitchen. One of my favourite greens from SICO is Sempervivum 6144-53. Let us know what green you decide on.
Hi Lina,
I hate to admit this, but in the last 32 years of marriage, in three homes we have lived in, including the one I'm in now I have ALWAYS had green walls in the kitchen! And no, I would not say green is my favourite colour. So go for it Lina if you like the colour I'm sure it will turn out fantastique!
I have broke down on the new country home/lakehouse and did the kichen in brown tones to go with the great room but still I 'm suregreen will show up in two rooms somewhere!.
Gerri :)
Thank you, generaly I dont make mistake when I choosed colour, I have all of them like the decorator even if I am not a decorator.
And the colour floated.
Excuse my english, french us hard for you but english is hard for me.
Well she have may learned that in her course but she may also have not have been taught well or maybe she misunderstood. Making statements that a whole colour group won't work with something just doesn't sound right.
Also green in kitchens has been happening forever from the warm greens of the 30's to the turquoise of the 50's to the avacado greens of the 60/70's to the billiard green of the 90's. So something is not right with saying greens don't work in kitchens. Besides, what are all the people with green and white check tablecloths going to do iF green isn't supposed to be in the kitchen?
You may have talked with a decorator who came in the bottom half or their class. Whatever, apparently you and she are not on the same wavelength so it may be better to follow your own gut.
Not all of us, just the one who say that.
I think that I will take what I choose, and not take a decorator because they doesn't have the time to watch the show and magazine like us.
Thank you
I painted my kitchen years ago a colour called [I]tea green[/I] and still love it. We have lots of trees around and next to the windows it feels like the outside has come inside.
I would ignore her/his advice. Sounds fairly limited and very prescribed.
I've seen alot of green kitchens that look great. The colour didn't turn me off at all. If you like you chose, go for it.