This place is gorgeous. Amazing use of neutrals as base colors, with complementary reds, blues and greens in furniture and accessories. I love the wall stencils/murals. How did you do it?
I think a solid colour will be fine, and agree that a pattern or loud texture will be too much. All the existing colours are neutral so any colour will go. Green sounds great!
monika1 - that's true about wood blocks and stuff. But how expensive is it in North America to get that kind of an antibacterial material? Also, with butcher blocks, they have to regularly get th...
Hi Caroline, I think you have great taste and great ideas!
I would not be concerned with "shades/tones" of grey, since grey is not a colour (non-pigment) you can mix as many shades of ...
Softness as criteria is asking for disease. Wood and all soft surfaces (Including marble) absorb everything and make bacteria virtually impossible to extract and illuminate.
This place is gorgeous. Some people would commit murder for that backsplash, certainly I would, but you might want to consider eliminating the sterile white and introduce a warmer cream as the neu...
At first I'm like: "why does this apartment look like a super-classy hotel?" Then I realized it's actually an Inn. Fantastic at that. Still, I don't know how I feel about the Italian-flag shaped...
Mdeatstar: glass mosaic will be hard to clean too because of the grout lines. You should go with a porcelain, the larger the better, on the shower walls too.
Carrara marble in the kitchen is a death sentence: you are always going to be in a panick the second anything falls on it, and you cannot ever totally seal it because those solutions just impregna...
Travertine in the bathroom is a disaster. Sure it looks nice, but there is no maintenance solution to the mildew stains that will build up over time in the shower. Bleach will etch it.
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HOW DO WE BUY THOSE CANDLES!?
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Sorry I just read about the decals. Good stuff.
This place is gorgeous. Amazing use of neutrals as base colors, with complementary reds, blues and greens in furniture and accessories. I love the wall stencils/murals. How did you do it?
I think a solid colour will be fine, and agree that a pattern or loud texture will be too much. All the existing colours are neutral so any colour will go. Green sounds great!
monika1 - that's true about wood blocks and stuff. But how expensive is it in North America to get that kind of an antibacterial material? Also, with butcher blocks, they have to regularly get th...
The Esse is available in a lot of different colours on the site of the actual manufacturer, Liberator: http://www.liberator.com/products_esse.p...
Any colour or pattern will go with a chrome frame. Let your imagination run wild.
Like beige much?
Hi Caroline, I think you have great taste and great ideas! I would not be concerned with "shades/tones" of grey, since grey is not a colour (non-pigment) you can mix as many shades of ...
Softness as criteria is asking for disease. Wood and all soft surfaces (Including marble) absorb everything and make bacteria virtually impossible to extract and illuminate.
Caesarstone.
This place is gorgeous. Some people would commit murder for that backsplash, certainly I would, but you might want to consider eliminating the sterile white and introduce a warmer cream as the neu...
At first I'm like: "why does this apartment look like a super-classy hotel?" Then I realized it's actually an Inn. Fantastic at that. Still, I don't know how I feel about the Italian-flag shaped...
Mdeatstar: glass mosaic will be hard to clean too because of the grout lines. You should go with a porcelain, the larger the better, on the shower walls too.
Carrara marble in the kitchen is a death sentence: you are always going to be in a panick the second anything falls on it, and you cannot ever totally seal it because those solutions just impregna...
Why is this a good idea?
Bidets are great! I have two in my house and don't use them half as much as I should.
What if you don't have a medicine cabinet?
Travertine in the bathroom is a disaster. Sure it looks nice, but there is no maintenance solution to the mildew stains that will build up over time in the shower. Bleach will etch it.