Comments on: the color guide: where to begin https://www.thehandmadehome.net/the-color-guide-where-to-begin/ The Handmade Home is a full service rehab, construction and design firm with an exclusive product line, at The Handmade Home Studio. Tue, 18 Feb 2020 22:47:29 +0000 hourly 1 By: Nancy https://www.thehandmadehome.net/the-color-guide-where-to-begin/#comment-762141 https://www.thehandmadehome.net/?p=60816#comment-762141 I struggle with having all the colors in my small house work together. My tiny living room doesn’t get as much light so I tend to go warm in there, with gold accents (vintage, inherited, mostly) and then it feels like an anomaly compared to the rest of the house. White slipcovers help it all feel cohesive, I THINK, but how can I have blue and white and black next to aqua and plum…. With silver AND gold. It’s a mystery to me, all the time. Love your home, especially the basement with the blue doors.

]]> By: ashley @ the handmade home https://www.thehandmadehome.net/the-color-guide-where-to-begin/#comment-761430 https://www.thehandmadehome.net/?p=60816#comment-761430 In reply to Anna.

I love this. It sounds amazing!!!

]]> By: ashley @ the handmade home https://www.thehandmadehome.net/the-color-guide-where-to-begin/#comment-761429 https://www.thehandmadehome.net/?p=60816#comment-761429 In reply to Tricia.

First of all, congratulations on the remodeling of his childhood home! Such a fun project! The whole neutrals + adding color is such a tough question to address in general terms because certain solutions will work for certain people. I’m finding that those are the questions people want to know. I’m going to have to sit back and think of a general process that can help in a guide for people. ;} Stay tuned

]]> By: ashley @ the handmade home https://www.thehandmadehome.net/the-color-guide-where-to-begin/#comment-761428 https://www.thehandmadehome.net/?p=60816#comment-761428 In reply to Laura L Webster.

I couldn’t love all of this more. GOOD for YOU! With our local remodeling business, we can tell immediately if we don’t want to work with a client – and it’s when they’re consumed with resale value in our initial conversation. We agree that it’s an important thing to consider, but if you make all your choices based on resale of a home – WHY ON EARTH are you living in this home? And are you even really living in it? Funny that you mentioned all the moving and travel making you a homebody. I truly am too, and I often think it’s because we were on the go a lot as children, and traveled a lot, too – definitely something to think about!

]]> By: Laura L Webster https://www.thehandmadehome.net/the-color-guide-where-to-begin/#comment-761421 https://www.thehandmadehome.net/?p=60816#comment-761421 I loved your comments about color – very clear and understandable. I have really strong feelings about color. I have to LOVE IT to have it in my home. I’m a single 63-year old retired woman who worked as a real estate appraiser for 23 years valuing all types of properties, but liking residential valuation best. The family in which I grew up moved about every four years and did a lot of long-term travel due to my father’s job, so my mother was always guided by resale value. All of that moving as a child and several more as a young woman, as well as all the travel made me into a homebody who doesn’t like travelling much. I’m 63 and living in the third home I’ve owned, and I have intended each of them to be my permanent home, but moved on due to family and health reasons good enough to convince me to move and buy another home. I never consider resale value when I’m making a home for myself. Unless you know you’ll need to sell your home within a few years, I believe in making it a home you’ll love, and living in it long enough to depreciate the decor. I’m in the middle of remodeling my 2-bedroom condo – doing as much of the work as I’m able. The master bedroom is a very feminine pink, the kitchen will have stained cabinets with a pink glaze and a pink backsplash, the bathroom has pink tile and mid-brown walls, and the LR/DR has pink as the secondary color. It gives me joy and I love it! That’s what matters to me.
I enjoy your blog very much. Thanks for doing it!

]]> By: Tricia https://www.thehandmadehome.net/the-color-guide-where-to-begin/#comment-761419 https://www.thehandmadehome.net/?p=60816#comment-761419 Thank you sooo much for this series. We are in the process of remodeling an entire home. My husband just recently retired and we’ve decided to remodel his childhood home and move there. The two descriptive words that came to my mine are: comfy and clean. My favorite colors are blues (turquoise) greens, and oranges (coral). My thoughts in our renovation are to keep the overall color pallet (walls) of the house in a couple of neutrals and than add all the colors. However, I’m struggling on how to do that!!! Could you please address this? I’ve always navigate towards beige walls – thinking grey was too battleship : ) and depressing. How can we paint all the room wall in similar colors that flow and than add my favorite colors. We’ve already decided on white kitchen cabinets with a white counter top (itty bit of grey) and a light green/blue backsplash (Sonoma stellar -aquarius) with a blue/green accent trim (Sonoma Vihara Ichika- iridescent). Thanks again! Have a FANTASTIC day! : )

]]> By: Anna https://www.thehandmadehome.net/the-color-guide-where-to-begin/#comment-761409 https://www.thehandmadehome.net/?p=60816#comment-761409 My adjectives were fresh and intelligent, and my colors are light blue and white with some dark blue side items and dark brown floor and a bit of light brown siding and cabinets, and lots of eclectic add-on accessory colors from all of the spectrum. In addition to this, white, different grays and black for certain useful furniture elements like stools and shelving, appliances, and even sponges. This is my palette and I play it up and down with different sheet and kitchen towel options. Our house is tiny, so it all shifts easily with the slightest change. I studied painting and drawing in college, and I tend to think of the house a painting. We’ve only lived here for three months, and I imagine things will get refined more and more as time goes on. 🙂

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