Designing With Color and Texture: Balance and Your Comfort Level
Comfort Level
The colors and textures you choose have an inherent comfort level. Extremely bright and contrasting colors can result in visual fatigue over time. Very bright reflective surfaces near sources of natural light can mean harsh glare on sunny days. Dark surfaces with inadequate, poorly targeted task lighting can mean eye strain. Tile or stone […]
Designing With Color and Texture: Building a Backdrop
Remember that your kitchen is the background for many intensely colored or textural things including vegetables, flowers, dishes, pans and other smaller objects. Exercising restraint with the overall design will allow these intense natural and manmade objects to stand out against the backdrop. Some colors clash with food resulting in unappetizing or harsh combinations that […]
Read More..>>Designing with Color and Texture: Reference Models
What if you’re not building a kitchen based on historical precedent or want to create a kitchen based on your own personal vision? Modern materials offer a virtually unlimited range of choices, both in color and texture. The range of material choices is so broad that we’re devoting the next chapter to them. And unlike […]
Read More..>>Designing With Color and Texture: Historical Models
One Example: Shaker-influenced Design
If you have based your kitchen design on an historical precedent or school of design, much of the basic palette for that model already exists. Research into the thought behind that school or period, the defining reasons for the choices they made and research into other kitchens using that style will give […]
Color and Texture in Your Kitchen Design
Creating a kitchen that not only works well but lives well involves much more than choosing the right appliances or filling the room with custom cabinetry. While these practical considerations are vital to the success of your kitchen design, they are only a part of the overall ambiance that defines a comfortable, livable kitchen. Color, […]
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