Plantlust

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Acreage deprived SW of Chicago. Currently working on a 1926 French Cape Cod (for lack of a better description) and am wrestling with a wall that extends from the diningroom up the stairs into the addition (old attic now 2 bedrooms, a bathroom & hallway). Kitchen changed from split pea soup green EVERYTHING to a beautiful cobalt blue & white (took me 6 months to find the right colour white tiles that wouldn't look hospital white). And some idiot put lineoleum over a perfectly stunning maple floor! The Morocco room is painted, huzzah!

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Is there such a thing as "too much red"

By Plantlust I'm tackling the diningroom in my 1926 home. I've found the perfect blood red for one wall(Poppy from Benjamin Moore), the other 3 walls will be a buttercream yellow (Antiquity. Ace, I believe). This wall extends up the stairs into the addition and is the major wall in the hallway upstairs. I've been told that the wall would be "too much red" upstairs. The wall faces south, which has a bank of 4 decent sized windows in the » READ MORE

November 27, 2006

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