Does anyone have any great ideas for colour for a new housewares and kitchen shop - lots of high end products and really fun, bright funky products as well. The bones of the store are not archtecturally fabulous, the ceiling is bad ceiling tile in white, and the floors are medium oak.
I want the shop to feel very old, like a Parisienne pastry shop. I want people to feel good in the store, and I want people to come in and say, WOW, this is a pretty store. I love white in magazines, but find it hard to live with - I LOVE COLOUR.
HELP!
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You sound as if you have some great ideas and color knowledge. The store, as you say, should support bright colours and stainless steel, fun products, etc.
Now the question - I have four walls which will hold three built in shelves. This \will be painted out the same as the wall colour. I am building islands which I wish to be a different colour. I was thinking ivory on walls and Gray Wisp (BM) for islands, a soft, blue-grey. Does this make sense? The shop outside is painted a lovely terracotta and has double iron french doors which were imported from Europe. This is a historical building which cannot be changed on the outside.
Hoping you have some specific paint colours for me, for walls and islands. Thanks.
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Well color psychology is rather straight forward and can be very helpful when applied to retail situations. I guess I'm getting a little confused with bright and funky in combo with an old Parisienne Pastry Shop -- don't see what one has to do with the other and not sure how an old Parisienne color scheme is going to support, reinforce or help communicate the fun, funky, hi-end products on the shelves.
Also, since the space lacks architectural interest, you can use more than one color to add interest and definition to the space. Just need to zero in on what you want that intial 10 seconds to say when someone enters the store -- and color will be the only thing speaking in those first few seconds. It is important to choose carefully for the interior as well as the exterior. The two color schemes (interior/exterior) must work together and be consistent in what they "say".
The floor sounds solid and workable, being able to paint the ceiling would be a bonus.
for my usual taste, too - we have yellow in the craft room, raspberry or so on dining area, dark teal in bedroom, plum in kitchen and mid green in the bathroom ! that room is only 14 x 8 feet, 2 doors and three windows, 7 foot ceiling; we have 2 different patterned couches, wood laminate floors and I wanted something that would just melt into the drapes, so that is what we ended up with. considering t was old panelling before, it is a huge difference and I really do like it !
Most of my house is this colour, not my choice but it was what was already there. I had plans to inject more colour on the walls as I felt this was too sappy a colour for me BUT when all my stuff moved in, it seemed to look better as is. I have a lot of colourful stuff and the more subdued colour calmed things down. When I read your products would be brightly coloured I thought of my wall colour right away. It won't take away from the products but it will give a warm, pretty, food oriented colour to the space.
Stow white (by CIL) in den, but it was too light for me, I had it re-mixed at 4 times the stranght and I LOVE IT !!!! it looks like that really really good vanilla ice cream, rich warm ooohhh I am getting hungry, time for my 3 o'clock snack !
the wall on the left is the stronger, the window you see faces east; there are two more that face north and 1 more and a half-glass door that face wet, too. Please ignore the green masking tape and sheet covering the couch, this is a "during" pic !
Yes, there is flourescent lighting. There is only one small window for display, but not much natural light. Much of the walls will be covered with simple shelving, however, not higher than 5 feet where people can reach. The ceilings themselves are 9 ft tall. Therefore, much of the wall colour will still be visible. I want to paint the wall behind the cash in blackboard paint.
Do you have any good "pastry" yellow colours - soft european creamy yellow would be nice but nothing provincial and bright.
The ideas of pale yellow and tin ceiling sounds great. I would think that you will have alot going on the walls when you have all your stock in. Like shelves and hanging items, etc. etc. so the walls in the background should be rather neutral. Do you have a photo of the space? will there be many windows? Is it florescent lighting? How much of the walls do you estimate will be covered with merchandise?
painting the walls a nice warm yellow...the colour of pastry! your appliances, etc will then pop out nicely. as for the ceiling, you can buy embossed tiles that look like tin ceilings. you can put those over what you currently have. BM carries plastic ones which are paintable so you can paint them to give them an aged look. or if you paint them a metallic copper colour it'll tie in with the floors and make the room feel cozy. just some ideas off the top of my head :)
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