Thursday, January 12, 2012

"Go bold or go home"

I was given this advice yesterday by Ms. Lisa!

She was saying that I need more color above the cabinets, and, while I agree with her (color would REALLY be nice)... I'm thinking that adding two big squares of color up there would have the effect of just adding a big picture, and make the space feel smaller.

Luckily, I can throw the photos into Photoshop, and continue being a lazy bum while still trying to figure out what to do.

Here's the same messy kitchen picture from yesterday, but with blue canvases.


Though I feel like this could go unsaid, those are not the shapes I would be using, ultimately. They're some free brushes I got for Photoshop, since I didn't feel like finding the utensil silhouettes again.

Ya know... That really doesn't look that bad! I was thinking that I would go very neutral and tone-on-tone up there, to keep the open/airy feeling... but maybe a lighter version of that blue (which I conveniently used my eye dropper tool on the towel to get) would be fine! I know you can barely see it, but the box on top of the cubbies is a vintage Kellog's tin that's pretty much the same color.


My only problem, then, is that I was planning on taking the shapes that I cut out from the dining room wall art, painting them the same blue (they're actually painted already), and hanging them on the wall to the left of those. So that may be too much blue!



So I figured I could try to figure out what it would look like if I used my 50% tinted paint (a lighter version of the wall color behind the pictures) would look like with blue silhouettes.


And decided that I hated it (if you unfocus your eyes, it looks like a crying pig!).


So I could either go the blue route, continue with the blue silverware, and have a crap ton of blue up there... Paint the silverware a different color (still have metallic silver left from the jacks), or keep them white with blue silhouette shapes.

What're your thoughts?

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  1. My thoughts are opposite of the other wall. Dark background with blue print

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  2. On your other wall, its blue with dark art. I would try dark background with color art to match, but opposite. Get it?

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    1. Yes, my retarded self was able to figure that out :-p Thanks for helping with that. (i'm slow)

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  3. I cracked up when I saw your title, ha! I actually like the lighter blue, it's a nice compromise to keeping it airy, while still using blue. I did spot the tin by the way before you brought it up. :) If you were using the blue utensils and don't want so much blue, how about another color? The possibilities are endless! And it's genius to use Photoshop w/o going through the hassle of putting it up and possibly down again if you don't like it. Do you mean you were going to put the utensils on an adjacent wall? Could you take a pic of both and then play with the Photoshop to see if you would like it?

    p.s. I'm dying w/anticipating to see the finished project of the living room!

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    1. Ohhhhhhh, you and me both. I still haven't practiced with my texture sprayer, and... I'm scared! LOL! But I think this comment might have pushed me over the edge. I have the drywall compound sitting on top of the box with the texture sprayer.. Just trying to work up the courage to test it!

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    2. Uck, I don't blame you but by the looks how far you've come with woodworking so quickly, you'll be a pro in no time. Go for it girlie! :D

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    3. So... I practiced with it, and it was SO MUCH EASIER THAN I EXPECTED! Unless my husband springs a random date-night on me (which would suck... totally having a bad hair day! :-p), I'll be texturing walls tonight!

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  4. maybe try the cut outs up there. I know when you work it out it will look wonderfull, so keep on keeping on.

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    1. To be lazy? :-p Actually, I put all of the utensils together with chain (you'll see what i mean when I post it) and started painting the adjacent wall. Figured I wouldn't be able to tell what it'd look like unless I actually DID it. Go figure!

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  6. The art is too small for the size of the space. That space is humongous!

    My immediate thought - because it is a huge space, is to put a large fake window up there with a scenic poster, large artwork, or mural behind it. Put tube LED lighting around the edge of the window so when you turn them on it's daylight "outside".

    Or paint a mural. Of goats?

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    1. The space IS humongous. And that's definitely not a good thing!

      I think you have a great idea to do a fake window up there... It would look great in someone else's house.. but it just doesn't sound like it'd be my style. Guess I can throw THAT into Photoshop and see what I come up with!

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