this quiz at sproost.com helps you define your design style. according to the results, my style is 40% rustic revival, 30% modern elegance, and 30% cottage chic. that sounds about right. now, how do i translate that into planning and executing all my design dreams for this house of ours?
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opinions, please
more thoughts on the kitchen…. instead of doing dark cabinets which, with our dark floors, would make the room feel tomblike, i’m thinking of painting the cabinets a rich gray color, and then installing an antique black island with butcher block top for contrast. our floors are actually darker than the sample color here.
April 29, 2009
kitchen inspiration pics
all pictures from decor*pad thanks, decor*pad, i love thee.
similar to the granite we're planning
kitchen brainstorm
okay, here’s what the kitchen looks like now.
mid-90′s honey-colored oak cabinets…heavy on the grain, light on style. white laminate countertop. floors are a dark chocolate-cherry color engineered wood. they’re not going anywhere, even though i kill myself struggling to keep them clean. honestly, the dust on these floors will send me to my grave.
here’s the granite i think we’re going to use. i have no idea what it’s called, but it sure is purty. it has flecks of goldish yellow, a gray that looks bluish or greenish depending on the light, a reddish brown, a blackish brown, and a beige-ish neutral base color. (seriously, i bet you’re amazed i haven’t made it as a skilled decorator with descriptions like that, huh?)
i’m thinking of putting an island in the middle – not a huge island, since we had one there already that i forced my husband to remove when we moved in – with a butcher block top and hanging pendant light above. i need extra surface space for food prep.
soooo….the question of the day. we were initially planning on painting the cabinets a very, very dark brown. think chocolate + espresso + a hint of tar…verging on black, but not quite black. i think it would look lovely with the granite we’ve chosen, but i worry that with the dark floors, our kitchen would feel like a tomb. if i go with dark cabinets, i think i’d pick a white paint for the island and jump on the two-color-cabinet bandwagon. should we do light cabinets and a dark island instead? would light cabinets be okay with that granite? would light (probably not pure white…not sure i can convince the husband to go with all white) cabinets look crappy?
