Ey up, my faithful blogworms,
It's TOP TIPS time again.
3 sets of top tips this week following conversations I've been having with our customers over the last few weeks. You can choose to use or completely ignore these tips but I would say that 90% of people we talk to have used and loved the results achieved.
# First Top Tip
When planning any room that involves fitted furniture ie: kitchens, bedrooms and sometimes bathrooms, sticking to 3 colours ( one of which can be your metals if you want ) for the entire concept gives a feel of coherency and completeness without getting visually messy. The furniture should be the feature of the room and chosen well, use the colours to complement it not shout at it !
You can, however, for one of your colours, use differing shades of the that colour and if chosen carefully, it can work well.
If you start using more than 3 colours, when you walk into the room you really don't know what to look at first, your eyes are all over the place and the room totally loses it's focus. This destroys any wow factor you may have created and just makes the room a place you want to get out of quickly and not a place you'd enjoy being.
FORGET feature walls ! these are a stupid idea in a kitchen ! The kitchen should be the feature and anything that detracts from that is a pointless waste of time and effort.
# Top Tip 2
When using built in furniture that has countertops, worksurfaces etc use a principle of blending verticals and blending horizontals to create harmony.
Choose your furniture first in terms of cabinets and tops putting some contrast in between the two, these are your priority. Using your chosen worktop colour then blend the floor covering with it. I use the word blend deliberately as they don't have to match but need a tangible link to pull them together.
Once you've sorted that, then using the blending theory, apply it to the vertical surfaces. These two principles together give a good platform to base everything else on. Certainly kitchens where these apply look much, much better in their overall look and just look right.
If you've ever looked at someones kitchen where they've got this wrong, the kitchen probably looks nice but something in your mind is telling you that somethings wrong even if you can't put your finger on it. This is why !
For example: where the floor is a similar colour or tone to the doors, it looks like the units have sort of frayed into the floor and it becomes indistinct and vague, this can look weird and is the bit that's not right, particularly if there are dark worktops accentuating the problem.
So, blend verticals with each other and blend horizontals with each other and irrespective of your colour choices, usually it looks spot on.
# Top Tip 3
This one is where wall colour can make a room really feel like a nice place to be, I suppose that's stating the obvious but consider a twist !
To really give the room a cosy feel, ignore most peoples conditioning where you always paint the ceiling white ! White ceilings are for people with no courage and imagination !! ( unless, of course, you're painting the whole room white anyway ! )
This works best where you are decorating with pale to mid colours and paint the walls and the ceiling with the same colour !
Trust me ...... with the right colours this looks absolutely stunning and really makes the room feel cosy, warm and a nice place to be !
90% or more of people we've suggested this to have done and love it and admitted that it's something they would never have thought of trying.
You've got nothing to lose cos if you don't like it, repaint it white but at least be brave enough to try it first.
There ya go 3 top tips that always work, experiment, open your mind, follow these simple principles and you will be surprised at the difference it makes to your life.
And I pass all these tips on for free ..... I must be mad !
Jules, see ya next time.
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