The Eye Candy Thread

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Anonymous wrote:What about the tiniest powder room ? Wonder if those pictures exist

Oh, they exist. They have the potential to be jewel boxes!

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Anonymous wrote:This is such a specific request - we have those orangey terra-cotta like tile floors. We don't have the money to renovate, but we could have the cabinets sprayed and paint the walls. Can you find any pics of our floors with painted cabinets (not white)?

I'm seeing lots of examples of blue cabinets, but I think you have to have the right undertones for the blue to look right with the warmth of the tiles. This feels too cool to me?


This one seems better?




I think sage green would look really nice! This is from a blog for a company that went to clean "grout haze" off terracotta floor tiles, but I think this looks good.






Can't tell if that's terracotta.

[Anonymous]

OP, these photos are beyond amazing. What an awesome way to enjoy the first day of the new year. Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is an awesome thread, OP!

Thanks for posting photos and not links!!!

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Bright kitchens despite little natural light?

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I hope you are still here...

Our basement/teen zone has a stack stone fireplace with TV above, comfy gray sectional, and 3 windows on 3 different walls. Two of the three are high up, small windows, 3rd is larger/lower (egress window). We have blackout/honeycomb shades on all 3, but have been trying to figure out window treatments. Valances seem so outdated, but long curtains on a high up, tiny window seemed ridiculous. Looking for ideas on why to do with these windows!

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Faux terracotta tile person here - thank you, those are beautiful!! I really like the pale blue-gray colors!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Living rooms in blush and bordeaux please! I’m so tired of blue and white everything!

OMG, radiators!

I like this one!!

[Anonymous]

Is the idea of the wallpaper in the tiny bathrooms that you can go crazy but not have 100 sq ft of wild patterns?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope you are still here...

Our basement/teen zone has a stack stone fireplace with TV above, comfy gray sectional, and 3 windows on 3 different walls. Two of the three are high up, small windows, 3rd is larger/lower (egress window). We have blackout/honeycomb shades on all 3, but have been trying to figure out window treatments. Valances seem so outdated, but long curtains on a high up, tiny window seemed ridiculous. Looking for ideas on why to do with these windows!

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This has to be a thing you decide to like but I have shutters on one basement window that extend below the window (mounted in front, on the surface of the wall) and in the bedroom an external mount Roman shade. When the Roman shade is down, the eye is fooled into believing the window ends lower than it does. It also disguises how deep the window sill is. I think curtains would make it look much better because the shade is just kind of stuck on the wall there and curtains would hide the sides, but I don’t care to put curtains down there since we rarely use it.

The shutters look a little weird during the day because you can tell the window stops halfway down but the illusion works fairly well at night and overall I think I like it.

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Anonymous wrote:Bright kitchens despite little natural light?

I was just watching a video of a kitchen that might fit. There is a tiny, square window on one wall and then doors at the far end of the space, where the table is. It's essentially a galley. Let me grab a photo. The designer said that keeping any dark colors low is helpful. They removed the uppers, but the cabinets on the left side of the kitchen are deep.

The designer is Linnea Lions.






Some other kitchens without a ton of natural light. I think the amount of lighting in these might be the key. Ceiling, undercabinet, in cabinet, etc.

















Sometimes looking at shelter magazines and sites based in Europe or Asia or ones that are specifically about NYC are really helpful. The average person seems to live a little smaller in those places.

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Anonymous wrote:Is the idea of the wallpaper in the tiny bathrooms that you can go crazy but not have 100 sq ft of wild patterns?

I think so. It's also less expensive since wallpaper can be expensive. Of course, it's trickier to hang in a small room!

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Anonymous wrote:I hope you are still here...

Our basement/teen zone has a stack stone fireplace with TV above, comfy gray sectional, and 3 windows on 3 different walls. Two of the three are high up, small windows, 3rd is larger/lower (egress window). We have blackout/honeycomb shades on all 3, but have been trying to figure out window treatments. Valances seem so outdated, but long curtains on a high up, tiny window seemed ridiculous. Looking for ideas on why to do with these windows!

Let's see what I can find...




Bamboo shades





Shutters

[Anonymous]

I don't want to put shutters up (already have the honeycomb blinds), but I love the long panels with the two photos below! Thank you!!

[Anonymous]

Kitchen/nook bay window treatments?