Home Improvements - General Points
By Raynor James, Fri Dec 9th

Every home improvement situation is different. Still, there aresome general points that apply to most projects.

Some General Points

When all the woodwork in a house is the same color (cream,white, and off-white work easily), spaces tend to visually "flowsmoothly" even if the walls of rooms are different colors. Makesure you don't break this rule.

The colors of all rooms, which can be seen at the same time,should look good together. Let's take a typical center

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hallfloor plan for a modern two-story house. The living room anddining room are to the right and left of the entrance. The foyergoes straight back to the family room, breakfast area, andkitchen across the back of the house. There is probably a deckopening off that area. Some part of all those areas can be seenfrom each room, and the foyer walls continue upstairs to a hallfrom which each bedroom is visible.

To continue our example with cream woodwork, the foyer and hallsmight be painted a pearl gray, light tan, soft gold, or deepercream. The woodwork is probably a gloss or semi-gloss and thewalls and ceiling a flat paint. Since ceilings reflect lightdown on people, they're usually best in cream or off-white. Ionce saw a dining room with an indirectly lit octagonal trayceiling painted to look like creamy clouds in a peachy sunsetsky that made every dinner guest look like he or she had aperfect complexion. It was wonderful.

The living room opening off our foyer might be a solid color(maybe sage green or deeper tan) or it might look very handsomewith a vertically striped wall paper (cream and gray, cream andgreen, or cream and tan are good possibilities). The dining roomis apt to have a chair rail. A darker color could look goodbelow the chair rail (again sage green, gray, gold or tan wouldwork) with a lighter tint of the same color above. If a solidcolor were chosen for the living room, the dining room couldhandle a deep red below the chair rail and a cream paper with anarrow red stripe above it. Lots of crystal and mirrors wouldlook terrific in a room like that.

I'm sure you get the idea. Today's open floor plans make itimportant that rooms work together.

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