Just a few days in the past, I used to be sharing my plans for the studio cupboards with my mother. Effectively, she wasn’t thrilled. 😀 My mother and I’ve very completely different style in adorning. We like completely different kinds and completely different colours. I like far more sample and texture than she does, and I like brighter and bolder colours. However even with all of that, I do typically ask for her enter as a result of she has an inventive eye. So I used to be stunned when her objection to my plan for my studio cupboards was that pink and gold don’t go collectively. I couldn’t disagree extra. 😀 I feel they give the impression of being excellent collectively! So weigh in on this debate. Do pink and gold work collectively?
First, let me remind you about my inspiration for my cupboards within the studio. I used to be impressed by this bookcase by Kristie McGowan. I particularly beloved the nook form on face body of the higher cabinets, the trim on the doorways, and people gold accents across the doorways and cabinets. Oh my…these gold accents!
So much has modified with my plans since then. I’m now not utilizing the higher open cabinets on the mural wall, and since my cupboards included some very quick (5-inch-high) drawers, I needed to simplify my trim design in order that it’s only a easy rectangle. However I had nonetheless deliberate so as to add a gold element to the cupboard doorways.
And that’s the place the disagreement got here in. Now, do I agree that gold appears to be like even higher with cool colours like teal, blue, inexperienced, and many others.? Completely. These colours have been made for gold, as you possibly can see by Kristie McGowan’s lovely bookcase above. And nonetheless at present, six years after I painted my kitchen teal, I’ve individuals inform me that they’re unhappy that I removed my green and gold kitchen.
So, sure, I feel cool colours with gold are a pure match. And do I feel that pink and silver tones are a extra pure match? Most likely. However I lived with silver tones for therefore lengthy that I’ve a pure aversion to them now. I gained’t use silver tones in my home. The one place I’ve used silver tones is within the hallway toilet. I regretted that from the start, and I’m swapping them out for heat gold tones now.
And it simply so occurs that I’m including these gold tones on the identical time I’m including pink to the room!
So whereas I do assume cool colours go higher with gold, and I feel that pink and silver tones are a extra pure match, I nonetheless love pink and gold collectively. I feel pink and gold collectively are a really female look, which is ideal for a room that’s all mine and that I don’t should share with Matt.
What I don’t actually like is a pale pink with gold. And that’s probably not as a result of I feel they don’t go collectively, however extra as a result of I noticed method an excessive amount of of that combo over the previous few years, and I simply acquired uninterested in seeing it. However the pink I’ll be utilizing is a way more saturated pink. Right here’s the peek I shared a number of days in the past.
So ever since seeing Kristie McGowan’s bookcases, and seeing that lovely gold element on the doorways, I’ve had one thing like that in thoughts for my studio cupboards. I like that it’s sort of paying homage to my inexperienced and gold kitchen. And I’ve been wanting ahead to that contact of delicate shimmer on these cupboards, and the female saturated pink and gold combo.
However one more reason I’ve been wanting ahead to that contact of gold is as a result of I feel it’ll add curiosity to the 2 cupboard areas that will in any other case simply appear like enormous plenty of pink. The gold will break up that look and add some visible aptitude to areas that might in any other case look sort of plain, even with the pink paint.
Simply think about all the cupboards in my workplace nook of the room painted that darkish pink, surrounded by a impartial wall shade and ceiling shade. In my thoughts’s eye, it’ll simply appear like an enormous blob of pink.
The identical goes for the cupboards simply contained in the studio door from the breakfast room. They’ll simply be one other blob of pink.
And whereas I don’t assume the cupboards on the mural wall really want something to spice them up due to the mural, I nonetheless assume that contact of gold can be lovely, and it will look particularly female as a result of of the mural.
I do know that some individuals might envision that and assume, “It will be too busy!” However y’all know I don’t care about that. Whereas I don’t actually contemplate myself a maximalist, on the spectrum from minimalist to maximalist, I’m positively extra in direction of the maximalist aspect. I like numerous shade, sample, and texture. And there must be a complete lot extra of it than what I’ve now for me to think about it an excessive amount of. Including a little bit of gold, for my style, would by no means be an excessive amount of. It will make it good.
So I feel that pink and gold go superbly collectively. My mother disagrees. What do you assume?
Actually, that is in all probability a type of issues I’ll simply should strive in order that I can see it with my very own eyes. I’ve had this imaginative and prescient in my head for therefore lengthy now that I’ll remorse it if I don’t strive it. But it surely would possibly nonetheless be some time earlier than I may even strive it. I’m nonetheless engaged on attempting to get the doorways and drawer fronts all trimmed out and prepared for paint.
It’s taking method longer than I anticipated to get these doorways and drawer fronts performed as a result of, fairly frankly, I don’t assume I noticed simply what number of doorways and drawer fronts there have been for this room. 😀 In all, there are 50. That’s 50 doorways and drawer fronts that should be sanded, trimmed, caulked, primed, painted, and clear coated. That’s a giant job! However I’m making progress, and the primary batch needs to be prepared for paint at present.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and beautify the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
