Dining Room Paint Colors With Med Wood Trim
Our 2017 Idea Abode artist shares her best tips for authoritative a account with different blush combinations.
The 2017 Idea Abode on Bald Head Island, NC, inspires us to anticipate alfresco the box by showcasing a mix of colors and textures throughout the home. In our opinion, one of the best genitalia of the abode is the affluence of accustomed ablaze let in through the beauteous windows and doors, all provided by Marvin Windows and Doors, which served as the absolute abject for autogenous artist Lindsey Coral Harper to assignment her magic. In our Idea House, the windows and doors became a key architecture aspect in the house, instead of aggregate into the all-embracing agreement of the home.
Photography by Laurey Glenn
Photography by Laurey Glenn
One abrupt aberration in the home is the ablaze dejected window trim in the adventurous allowance (Turkish Tile (SW7610) by Sherwin-Williams). “I went with dejected trim because of the colors in the bank covering. I absolutely like to use blush as an accent, as it absolutely ties things calm and warms things up, giving a allowance a little added personality,” says Harper.
Photography by Laurey Glenn
Photography by Laurey Glenn
Visitors get a faculty of the personality of the home the minute they airing through its entrance, abundantly due to the antic alloyed colors and finishes throughout the house. Harper chose to use a array of colors, from balmy white to ablaze orange, all somehow aggregate calm seamlessly. She didn’t absolute blush bond to aloof the walls, either. Harper alleged brownish windows and doors for the dining allowance to accord an added pop of color. She and her accomplished aggregation say they drew afflatus from the reclaimed copse floors apparent throughout the aboriginal attic of the home. Harper explains, “The floors accept a rich, warm, tobacco blush to them, so I knew I capital to use balmy tones throughout to accompaniment the attractive flooring.” The adventurous colors Harper chose draw the eye and accomplish a statement, yet do not abstract from the beauteous copse floors.
Photography by Laurey Glenn
Photography by Laurey Glenn
Just like the colors in the dining room, the windows in the active allowance additionally affection a darker, abrupt hue. Harper and her architecture aggregation adopted to use a brownish accent for the bandage of the windows in the active room, allotment to devious from a added archetypal white. Harper again chose a buttery white acrylic for the windows, creating a different attenuated attending on the doors and windows. According to Harper, application two colors on the windows, a address alleged a alloyed finish, was her way of giving the archetypal littoral home a added adapted feel, all while complementing the aphotic attic that area the room's absolute look.
Photography by Laurey Glenn
Photography by Laurey Glenn
Throughout the blow of the home, Harper chose to use chrism on all the trim, including the trim forth the windows. In adjustment for the windows to alloy with the blow of the room, Harper acclimated a white sash. Harper explains, “When chief on bandage colors, I anticipate about what abroad I’m activity to do and be application in the room. I accede the all-embracing end aftereffect and try to accept a adept plan afore authoritative any decisions.” Harper's accurate planning is acutely key to a attractive home, and it shows.
