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| Secretia Green 2007-01-07, 8:25 pm |
| I think you are going about this backwards. Paint is relatively cheap and
easy to change. Tile is not.
Pick a tile and color scheme you like, then paint the walls.
And althought it's hard to tell on the interweb, IMO, the floor tile looks
a little too pastel for the pallete you have on the walls.
I think wood or wood tones would look much better. If you are sold on tile,
I would go with a natural stone like slate with a little richer color and
variation in it.
-SG
<edavid3001@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1168218399.450096.297660@i15g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> We are finishing our basement. I picked up the paint colors for my
> office, and my wife picked out the tile color for the entire basement.
>
> The contractor thinks the tile color will clash with the pain color.
> The paint is done, he hasn't seen the tile against the paint yet. (He
> will tomorrow.)
>
>
> We have an entire basement we are tiling, so we can do the office in
> another color. I'd like it to all be the same tile if the color's
> don't clash, though. I have NO eye for this kind of thing.
>
> What do you think?
>
> http://farm1.static.flickr.com/146/...2f00c2431_b.jpg
> http://farm1.static.flickr.com/127/...249d71c4e_b.jpg
> http://farm1.static.flickr.com/165/...04135f0f9_b.jpg
>
> Opinion on the tile against these colors?
>
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| Stevie Wonder just called. He thinks the colors in the second picture
are too loud. He says the problem ain't the tiles.
edavid3001@gmail.com wrote:
> We are finishing our basement. I picked up the paint colors for my
> office, and my wife picked out the tile color for the entire basement.
>
> The contractor thinks the tile color will clash with the pain color.
> The paint is done, he hasn't seen the tile against the paint yet. (He
> will tomorrow.)
>
>
> We have an entire basement we are tiling, so we can do the office in
> another color. I'd like it to all be the same tile if the color's
> don't clash, though. I have NO eye for this kind of thing.
>
> What do you think?
>
> http://farm1.static.flickr.com/146/...2f00c2431_b.jpg
> http://farm1.static.flickr.com/127/...249d71c4e_b.jpg
> http://farm1.static.flickr.com/165/...04135f0f9_b.jpg
>
> Opinion on the tile against these colors?
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| edavid3001@gmail.com 2007-01-08, 9:25 am |
|
Pat wrote:
> Stevie Wonder just called. He thinks the colors in the second picture
> are too loud. He says the problem ain't the tiles.
>
hahah Good one. The rest of the house is an off white color. Just
thought I'd go extreme in the office.
Thanks for the input all.
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| You can rest assured that the tile color is fine. It'll look nice when
you repaint the walls to something that is mearly vivid in order to
stop the headaches. BYW, you can go to most paint stores and put in
your color and it'll give you things that go with it. Those two colors
don't do together. If you keep them, you might as well paint the
ceiling lemon-drop yellow.
One loud color is okay (as long as it isn't orange). But they all
can't be like that.
Here's my suggestion: buy sunglasses. No, seriously. Do yourself a
favor. Go check out faux finishes. They are quite simple. You can
use some bits of bold color there without burning it into your corneas.
Check out dragging or frottage. You put the bold color underneath and
a milder color on top.
http://www.behr.com/behrx/expert/faux_index.jsp
or maybe tone it down and add some texture. But your colors just don't
match. There will be no relaxation in that room with those colors.
Plus done right, faux finishes look like a million dollars. If I can
do them, anyone can.
edavid3001@gmail.com wrote:
> Pat wrote:
>
> hahah Good one. The rest of the house is an off white color. Just
> thought I'd go extreme in the office.
>
> Thanks for the input all.
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| edavid3001@gmail.com 2007-01-08, 1:25 pm |
|
Pat wrote:
> You can rest assured that the tile color is fine. It'll look nice when
> you repaint the walls to something that is mearly vivid in order to
> stop the headaches. BYW, you can go to most paint stores and put in
> your color and it'll give you things that go with it. Those two colors
> don't do together. If you keep them, you might as well paint the
> ceiling lemon-drop yellow.
>
Red & black don't go together?
The image here;
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/127/...249d71c4e_b.jpg
is with the flash on. I don't have lighting wired into the room yet.
The flash makes it seem much more brighter red than it is.
Maybe these show it better?
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/164/...3b0690d5f_b.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/158/...9457ea198_b.jpg
These aren't the best pictures ever - due to the lighting. It's a
clay red color. Not UltraRed.
I did look at some red & black rooms in various places. Last night on
Extreme Home Makeover, they did 2 rooms with black & red walls next to
each other.
I do agree, the wood flooring looks nice against the red. I looked at
other pictures on Flickr and found a number of red rooms with wood
floors and it does look nice. I saw a few rooms with red walls and
(near) black floors that looked real good, however I don't think black
floors against the black walls would look good.
Anyway, it's just paint. As you say, I can always prime it & repaint
it.
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| 3D Peruna 2007-01-08, 5:26 pm |
| edavid3001@gmail.com wrote:
> Pat wrote:
>
> Red & black don't go together?
>
That's not red...it's orange. I'd do some research into basic color
theory if you're going to mix colors...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_theory
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| Michael Bulatovich 2007-01-08, 5:26 pm |
| Dude. This is a completely insane way to go about this.
1 Colors are very tricky because the perception of them depends on so
many things, including what other colors are around them.
2 Rendering colors with a camera changes them.
3 Rendering them on computer screens changes them even more, and each
one is different.
4 Taste is subjective.
There's no way this'll work. Be brave! It's only paint!
MichaelB
www.michaelbulatovich.ca
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| Ken S. Tucker 2007-01-08, 5:26 pm |
|
Pat wrote:
> One loud color is okay (as long as it isn't orange).
Orange is great, it's reminds me of oranges,
so what do you have against oranges, perhaps
it's Florida you don't like, wait till Don hears what
you said! (Flame Inbound).
Ken
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| "Ken S. Tucker"> wrote
> Pat wrote:
>
> Orange is great, it's reminds me of oranges,
> so what do you have against oranges, perhaps
> it's Florida you don't like, wait till Don hears what
> you said! (Flame Inbound).
Its the pulp.
Pat doesn't like the way the pulp gets caught up in his teefs.
Can't say I blame him, I have the same prob wif corn on the cob.
But I still tears bofe of em up.......
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| I applaud your using multiple varied photographs to help get the color
effects across. Photographing color is about as futile an endeavour as
you can get.
It looks like you want nice strong colors. And a neutral tile that
won't hurt resale value.
The tile looks very generic south western. I didn't like it before I
moved to Phoenix. Now you can give me a case of the quivvering hebbie
jeebies just by uttering "beige."
"Is this too pink? I think maybe something darker. How will this look
in the sun? Won't the stucco make it darker?" "IT'S BEIGE! BEIGE BEIGE
BEIGE. Just pick one a STFU!!!"
Sorry.
I guess I'm not the best person to comment.
Since I'm not a homeowner I feel quite free to say -
If you spend your life moving from one "resellable" place to another
you'll never live in your house. Put down 30" charcoal gray slate and a
couple electric blue throw rugs and be happy where you live for once.
- gruhn
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| edavid3001@gmail.com 2007-01-09, 9:25 am |
| Someone suggested wood tones, which imo was a good suggestion - so it
did work. I got a good suggestion.
The color is "red clay." Maybe your monitor has it's colors messed up.
It's a medium red, on the edge of being dark.
It's just an office in a basement. One of many rooms. It's not like
it's the living room or a bedroom. The rest of the house is off white
colors, and one room that is green. I understand that many people
will not like the red/black. But that's ok. I like it. I'm going to
put up a lot of white accent pieces & furniture to offset it. Some
Japanese accents too.
Anyway, thanks for the input.
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| Kris Krieger 2007-01-09, 8:25 pm |
| "Pat" <groups@artisticphotography.us> wrote in
news:1168270117.324336.315780@s80g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
> You can rest assured that the tile color is fine. It'll look nice
> when you repaint the walls to something that is mearly vivid in order
> to stop the headaches. BYW, you can go to most paint stores and put
> in your color and it'll give you things that go with it. Those two
> colors don't do together. If you keep them, you might as well paint
> the ceiling lemon-drop yellow.
>
> One loud color is okay (as long as it isn't orange). But they all
> can't be like that.
Inknow that red and black is considered "oriental", but the black is
usually in the accent pieces, not the wall.
Problem is, it'll take a heck of a lot of paint to cover such dark
colors. If they ever re-sell, it will lower the price by the cost and
effort of doing that.
I saw a basement doen in whitewashed paneling, a thick dark red carpet
(placed on a sub-floor that kept it up off the concrete), and black
durniture that looked nice. But such dark colors will make the room
look smaller and cave-like, esp. with the lower ceilings that usually
are in basements.
But, de gustibus. I can't offer comments re: the floor because I can't
personally think of what would look good, in a basement, against those
walls. Only thing I can come up with is off-white carpeting to lighten
it up a bit and also warm it up a bit. I don't think tile is at all a
good choice.
But that's just me...
>
> Here's my suggestion: buy sunglasses. No, seriously. Do yourself a
> favor. Go check out faux finishes. They are quite simple. You can
> use some bits of bold color there without burning it into your
> corneas.
> Check out dragging or frottage. You put the bold color underneath
> and
> a milder color on top.
> http://www.behr.com/behrx/expert/faux_index.jsp
> or maybe tone it down and add some texture. But your colors just
> don't match. There will be no relaxation in that room with those
> colors.
>
> Plus done right, faux finishes look like a million dollars. If I can
> do them, anyone can.
>
>
>
> edavid3001@gmail.com wrote:
>
>
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| edavid3001@gmail.com 2007-01-10, 1:25 pm |
| gruhn wrote:
> I applaud your using multiple varied photographs to help get the color
> effects across. Photographing color is about as futile an endeavour as
> you can get.
I tried. This is more for a set of pics I have at flickr. I have a
construction set where I show the progress from pre-studs to finished.
It's also for reference. I could swear I put a phone jack in the
living room, but it's not there after drywall. Having the pics from
before the drywall helps settle that question.
> It looks like you want nice strong colors. And a neutral tile that
> won't hurt resale value.
I figure I'd repaint that room prior to resell. I want the core
structure of the home to be good for re-sell. I don't want a toilet in
the hallway like I've seen some other basements. I don't want it to
look like I did it. Sure, someone could replace the tile after they
buy it. We wanted both something we liked, and something that
wouldn't be bad for resell. My wife picked it out. I wouldn't have
picked out that tile. But I'm ok with it.
> The tile looks very generic south western. I didn't like it before I
> moved to Phoenix. Now you can give me a case of the quivvering hebbie
> jeebies just by uttering "beige."
We went with dark charcoal for the grout. It will be interesting.
> "Is this too pink? I think maybe something darker. How will this look
> in the sun? Won't the stucco make it darker?" "IT'S BEIGE! BEIGE BEIGE
> BEIGE. Just pick one a STFU!!!"
Yea, went through that picking the tile upstairs. Said to the wife,
it's all yours downstairs.
> Sorry.
>
> I guess I'm not the best person to comment.
>
> Since I'm not a homeowner I feel quite free to say -
>
> If you spend your life moving from one "resellable" place to another
> you'll never live in your house. Put down 30" charcoal gray slate and a
> couple electric blue throw rugs and be happy where you live for once.
Thus the red & black room.
> - gruhn
And as expected, this whole thing is costing double the quote. Oh well.
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| 3D Peruna 2007-01-10, 1:25 pm |
| edavid3001@gmail.com wrote:
>
> And as expected, this whole thing is costing double the quote. Oh well.
It will always cost double the quote. If you plan it all out, figure
the price, then double it, it will be double the final price you figured
(4x the original price). You can't get around this.
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| <edavid3001@gmail.com> wrote
> gruhn wrote:
>
> I figure I'd repaint that room prior to resell. I want the core
> structure of the home to be good for re-sell.
The home we currently live in had all the primary rooms painted that barn
red color thats oh so popular on the HGTV shows and it took 3 coats of white
to cover it up.
This house instantly appeared twice as large after it was painted white.
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| edavid3001@gmail.com 2007-01-10, 5:25 pm |
| > The home we currently live in had all the primary rooms painted that barn
> red color thats oh so popular on the HGTV shows and it took 3 coats of white
> to cover it up.
Yea, I agree, white is the color to have in most rooms. Ours is white
with just a hint of grey in almost every room.
3 coats to cover up the red? It took 6 coats to get the red to cover
up the white primer, so I guess that's not to bad. The black took 3
coats.
My wife thinks I should get some green French Provincial furniture to
go in there. I think I'd have a Christmas office, though.
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| "Don" <creative1986@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> <edavid3001@gmail.com> wrote
>
> The home we currently live in had all the primary rooms painted that barn
> red color thats oh so popular on the HGTV shows and it took 3 coats of
> white to cover it up.
>
> This house instantly appeared twice as large after it was painted white.
>
I gotta admit I do like that color, but we compromised and painted my
computer room with three walls an off white color and the last wall the Barn
Red color. It really stands out in our old home with thick trim on the base
and around the windows painted bright white. The room almost feels a little
TOO big with only my computer in there, but soon enough I'll put my drafting
table in there along with other junk.
I still plan on showing pictures as soon as we get everything organized and
it looks decent. Hardest thing was cutting a straight line on an edge on
the rough plaster.
--
Edgar
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| > Problem is, it'll take a heck of a lot of paint to cover such dark
When I was a teen I had three walls black. Wallpaper.
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