Coordinating with walnut flooring
tim
the materials/colors for the interior. Our builder had quoted his
standard materials, which are carpeting in bedrooms, oak flooring in
kitchen,dining,living, oak cabinets, linoleum in baths, oak
trim&casings and pine 6 panel doors.
We're basically sick of oak. So we picked a walnut strip flooring
with clear finish (a medium/dark brown), for the living/dining/kitchen
areas. But now we're unsure how to coordinate the trim, doors,
cabinets to the walnut coloring.
Do we try staining the oak trim & casings, and pine doors to
match/compliment the flooring? Or should we go with a painted trim?
Same question for the cabinets?
What style are we looking for? A simple clean look....
We'd love to have some outside input, our builder basically thinks
we're crazy...
silvasurfa
"tim" <newsgrou...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I've seen lovelly floors done in alternating planks of pine and jarrah
(jarrah is a very dark reddish wood)
I think maybe what you need to do is find a theme, an idea as to what you
are looking to acheive in the room...maybe look at the Arts and Crafts
movement to see if you like that... they used a lot of dark wood. Gothic
and tudor houses. Just try to hunt out as many examples of the use of dark
wood as you can find until you see something you like. Was it Winston
Churchill who sent back a dessert saying "This pudding has no theme."? Well,
you get the picture... you want to have a theme because without theme you
get a bland mess that looks nothing despite all the money that went into
creating it.
A good thing to remember is that it is easy to paint a stained door or
skiting but a right PITA to strip a painted skirting... thus stained
woodwork has a lower worst case scenario risk than painted woodwork.
Maybe you are crazy with getting such a mix of finishes. It may look boring
now to do it all the same, but remember that walls, curtains, furniture and
accessories can make each room look startlingly different despite the shared
aspects.
If you get any cool ideas, pop back here and let us know.
Cbeattie46
found someone who was willing to work by the hour, suggested paint and
wallpaper colors/patterns, furniture arrangement, etc. while sticking to our
budget and our constraints in keeping most area rugs and furniture.
She was so much better at seeing the "big picture" (much as I love studying
fabrics and rugs and wallpaper, I am paralyzed by too many choices!). My
husband and I agreed that her help was invaluable. Best money we've spent in a
long time.
If you can find someone you're comfortable with, you might give and interior
designer a try.
Con
tim
and the quote 'Style is knowing who you are,.....'
I think we're going to talk with a int. designer, and hopefully they
can help us define the style we're looking for (we know what we want,
but don't know how to describe it)
Here's a link to a house which has an exterior style similar to ours..
http://www.framedideas.com/riverrunsbelow.html
silvasurfa
I live in Australia and we don't do so many timber places... there are big
timber houses in Queensland called Queenslanders, and there are various
transportable homes, and there are a lot of timberframe bungalow type things
that were mostly put up by government housing authorities post war to create
dormitory suburbs for factory workers. But no nice timber houses that are
gloriously proud of being made of wood like that one is.
Actually, I have a quote that might please you
"Elegance is refusal"
This quote is sometimes attributed to Coco Chanel, sometimes attributed to
Diana Vreeland. What it means is that being elegant means knowing what to
say no to, because to be elegant you need to focus your look rather than let
it be chaotic and without theme or style.
Mmeindia
walnut trim, and our other woodwork (door frames, etc.) is painted (not my
choice, but it was already done when we moved in and is too expensive to
strip). We also have cherry furniture in the same room and it all goes
together fine.
India
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