I'm not too worried about leaning into it, I was just happy that it looks appropriate for our kitchen...maybe even like I was making a super deliberate choice.
I rarely make "decorator choices", I just do things I like, but our place often looks a little all over the place as a result.
As in, I'm not usually aiming to fit a current trend, or current popular color choice for decor.
Nor do I seem to try for a deliberate style choice where color helps. I don't tend to do things like paint a bathroom "ocean colors" to fit an ocean theme, or "modern white" or "cottage ivy".
Nope.
My house in general looks a lot like a bookstore/curiosity shop. I can't seem to shift from that.
The kitchen, I might get an actual hint of an effort at looking nice, mainly because the last owners did a nice job with the cupboards and back splashes.
I have no idea what a current trend might be. We live in a century house; modernising it would be a travesty. I suppose a recent trend was painting walls grey and building all-white kitchens - I think it's done already.
Black exterior trim is a thing here, too. I suppose it's nicer than white (seen almost everywhere in my old neighbourhood). I think that white trim is chosen out of fear - colours frighten people - and black is a new designers' trend.
Our trim is "Charleston Grey" - not grey at all, but the biscuity colour of a wet sidewalk. I'd like to add another colour to it, an Arts and Crafts colour, but I don't know what that would be. The front door is "Railings" and the roof is charcoal. It would be nice to have one of those photoshop things that instantly shows you what your house would look like in different colours.
We went with a soft blue-gray for our siding, with white trim. It feels right for a house this age.
The black siding is so strange. It makes a house look kind of industrial.
The grey you describe would like nice with a lot of colors. Blue, red, dark green, maroon...so many options. I've seen some nice houses in the city with a grey siding, and color in the window trim, the front porch, or the front door.
Our grey isn't grey at all - it's a kind of sandy tan. When I began to strip the decades of paint off the front porch, I discovered a rainbow of colours underneath: dark brown, white, bright blue, bright green, pale yellow, black and beige. I've seen muddied sage green paired with maroon, and it looks lovely. It would be nice to add another colour to the trim some day.
I forgot that I'm supposed to keep stripping and sanding the front porch. I made pretty good progress last year, with help. The next part is going to be hard - it's the porch ceiling. Once that's done, the rest will be much easier and things will look better.
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Date: 2025-05-07 04:42 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2025-05-07 07:00 pm (UTC)Let's see if the link to the range works. I'd say the colour is more saturated turquoise than green.
https://www.instagram.com/vintage55restorations/p/C4i6JVvP72w/?locale=zh_CN&hl=en&img_index=1
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Date: 2025-05-08 07:11 am (UTC)I rarely make "decorator choices", I just do things I like, but our place often looks a little all over the place as a result.
Long story short, it's a cheerful color.
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Date: 2025-05-12 06:46 am (UTC)Nor do I seem to try for a deliberate style choice where color helps. I don't tend to do things like paint a bathroom "ocean colors" to fit an ocean theme, or "modern white" or "cottage ivy".
Nope.
My house in general looks a lot like a bookstore/curiosity shop. I can't seem to shift from that.
The kitchen, I might get an actual hint of an effort at looking nice, mainly because the last owners did a nice job with the cupboards and back splashes.
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Date: 2025-05-13 06:30 am (UTC)I suppose a recent trend was painting walls grey and building all-white kitchens - I think it's done already.
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Date: 2025-05-13 06:52 am (UTC)There's this other strange thing here, where a lot of newer houses have very dark gray, or even black siding. I don't get it.
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Date: 2025-05-13 07:02 am (UTC)Our trim is "Charleston Grey" - not grey at all, but the biscuity colour of a wet sidewalk. I'd like to add another colour to it, an Arts and Crafts colour, but I don't know what that would be. The front door is "Railings" and the roof is charcoal. It would be nice to have one of those photoshop things that instantly shows you what your house would look like in different colours.
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Date: 2025-05-13 07:45 am (UTC)The black siding is so strange. It makes a house look kind of industrial.
The grey you describe would like nice with a lot of colors. Blue, red, dark green, maroon...so many options. I've seen some nice houses in the city with a grey siding, and color in the window trim, the front porch, or the front door.
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Date: 2025-05-14 06:59 am (UTC)I've seen muddied sage green paired with maroon, and it looks lovely. It would be nice to add another colour to the trim some day.
I forgot that I'm supposed to keep stripping and sanding the front porch. I made pretty good progress last year, with help. The next part is going to be hard - it's the porch ceiling. Once that's done, the rest will be much easier and things will look better.
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