Thursday, October 16, 2008

Choosing colors

What I had thought would be terribly difficult turned out to be blissfully easy: Choosing the colors for the walls.
Thanks to heavy filtering by Llegna, the color selection was narrowed down from 16.7 billion - to 5.

Our new bedroom will use both the alternatives suggested for that room: For the most part "Ice water" (very light blue), but a stronger blue color for the mid wall separating the bed from the wardrobe.
For the rest of the apartment we'll go for "Antique white" (although a green alternative was a bit tempting!)

I realize I've completely forgotten to mention that a week or two ago we decided the color of the floor -  or rather, was forced to change our minds about it:
The kitchen and entrance will still have black marble tiles, as we have originally planned. For the rest of the apartment (except the bathroom) we chose what I believe is called mosaic parquet - "parquet flooring made up of small solid pieces of wood (slats) assembled in units" - and we had thought it was a good idea that this too would be black. However, Llegna informed us that others had reported fading of the color on the parts most stepped on, after a year or so of use. We were therefore recommended a color closer to the material's own.
This was not an easy choice to make, but we quickly aimed to the opposite direction of the scale and ended up with one coating of white (which won't look very white actually). We think this will match both black and white furniture - for living room and bedrooms, respectively.
And naturally, the above-mentioned colors for the walls was chosen with this new floor color in mind.

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