Pics?

I can't wait to see pics when it's done! Congratulations on fulfilling your dream!

no pics.. its all a dream.. prove it...

before and after...

pleeeeaaasssseeee

never fear off topic amoung friends... here.. i will fix it for you if it were in fact a problem.. hosta... there.. perennial plant talk.. lol

ken

Now that sounds like a cheerful place to spend long winter days! The yellow floor will be like “I’m walking on sunshine wooah…” a la Katrina and the Waves! Your kitchen sounds like a perfect reflection of you and I can’t wait to see the before and afters Ken asks for!

Well, it's still in boxes and I have an epic of clearing, cleaning, painting and generally faffing before I get to march around the floor...but if you could see the current state of it (some green vinyl from one of those shady internet sites called Polymart, Jayco, Cheapoflooro) you would get why I was excited...not to mention the fact that within the very first week of laying it (12 years ago), one of the offspring dragged a packing case across the middle and gouged a 2foot long gash in it. Blood was almost spilled.

Well, okay then, we’ll settle for the after pictures! I looked up F & B Hague Blue - it will look wonderful with a yellow floor. The F & B site has lots of yellow items in pictures showing that color. Bet the particular offspring will be happy to have his/her childhood huge oops be finally removed….

Oh, that sounds wonderful, @rosaprimula While our decor is anything but neutral (no white or beige walls and not a speck of grey, anywhere, ever), my impulses are still somewhat restrained by more conventional members of the family, so hearing about your yellow marmoleum and Hague Blue walls is such a nice vicarious pleasure.

How utterly wonderful, I am excited for you! That is a bold colour combo that will look smashing.

I want to see a 'welch cupboard.' One of my favorite authors, Denise Mina, mentions a welch cupboard in a scene. I could google it, but I'd rather see one in situ. I think most americans have

"fitted kitchens" or cabinents. Are there counters between your furnishings?

I have a American cabinent, which is very similar to googled welsh cupboards. Mine is in two pieces upstairs: the bottom served as a changing table when the grandchildren were little; The top is somewhere. Cupboard doors in basement. I think it is time to reclaim it as a TV Stand which it has been before. They are very versitile; it's had several incarnations in different rooms.

Yay! (but if there's no pics then it didn't happen...just so you know...LOL!)

I love that you have no fear of color. Pics please!

Heya Marie, most people in the UK have fitted kitchen cabinets too. I am a refusnik because I am not really keen on plain wood (shock, I know) because, well...brown...and the UK alternatives are often hideous shiny laminates or painted cabinets...which I can well do myself...and nicer. A welsh dresser is just a 2 piece cupboard with shelves on the top bit. Most people use the shelves to display beloved ornaments and kitchenware but I actually keep my baking stuff in there at the moment because I am battling larder moths and the shelves have a glass door.

'No fear of colour' - O cpartist, if you but knew. My house is not some lovely cottage-y house but a very utilitarian 1960s townhouse (lotta stairs)...so at least in keeping with the 60's aesthetic, orange has often been a feature (although my living room is a nice duck-egg blue). The hall colours, chosen by youngest, are green (ceiling!), orange walls, yellow trim. Looks sorta OK because at least there is a LOT of natural light...unlike my last house which was a north-facing cave.

I solemnly promise to get one of the offspring to record my decor triumph(ahem) but I am not known for speed so expect this to go on till Xmas at least.

Had a tentative poke at the old vinyl - which looks like it is not going to be an utter pain...unsurprising since it was laid in the first place by me...and only after having to lift the first attempt because adhesive was squirting everywhere...because kitchen vinyl is NOT outdoor paviours (my main experience of floor laying) and does not require an inch of adhesive!!!

Okay, gotta ask. What is marmoleum? Is it similar to linoleum? I had linoleum installed in my bathroom floor when I gutted it. Here it is somewhat difficult to get - you say linoleum but that seems to be interchangeable with vinyl. Had to press to get real linoleum.

Also very jealous of your formica-top table! My grandma had one - green of course, with silver eding and matching chairs - and when I see them for sale I often ponder getting one.

:)

Dee

P.S. And yes! Pictures please!

Oh joy, I can't wait to see the yellow floor! It sounds wonderful!

I don't know how folks expect you to go from ordering the Marmoleum to having it installed and photo ready in one day. Sheesh! Maybe they skipped some of the words in the post?

Anyway, it sounds fabulous. I have Marmoleum (Surpising Storm, which is "gray" but it's one of their options that marbles together the most colors, including, cream, perwinkle, lavender, and taupe, in addition to the three shades of gray that drive the bus). I've always admired Asian Tiger but couldn't pull the trigger on it since I didn't think it worked with the overall palette. Which yellow did you go for?

@diggerdee zone 6 CT, Marmoleum is Forbo's linoleum product. Cork and linseed oil (some people use linoleum as a synonym for sheet vinyl, which this definitely is not).

Ah yes, then marmoleum and linoleum are the same basically. Yes, in my neck of the woods people use linoleum to mean vinyl, which is why I had to press for real linoleum when I was floor shopping. I'd ask to see the shop's linoleum choices and they brought me straight to the vinyl flooring. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be as big a market (or as many choices) for true linoleum but I was determined to use it for environmental reasons.

I think - and maybe I'm just speaking for myself - that we don't all necessarily want immediate pictures, but want to encourage rosa to take pictures so we can see the end result. And honestly I wouldn't mind seeing a before and after, especially since her kitchen sounds so unique even as it is now.

Also, I went down the rabbit hole last night after reading this post over on F&B's site. They seem to have some unique colors there - or at least different than what I'm used to seeing in the paint stores around here.

:)

Dee

Yep, marmoleum is linoleum - uses leftovers from the timber industry, compacted with linseed oil, to make a really durable flooring. And environmentally friendly too. I bought it for a very good price because it is one of the older colours from previous seasons ('Lemon Zest') so my kitchen floor cost £640 ($780ish) instead of more than twice as much if buying from Forbo. I am doing tiles rather than sheet - much easier to lay.

O, I am desperate to take photos...this has been an ongoing saga of fail for literally years. I dunno if it's because I had to re-register (cos banned) and I cannot upload stuff to Houzz, but this simple task has proved utterly beyond me...and god knows, I love looking at, and sharing photos.

Lemon Zest = Wow! I just looked up your color and love it! It will be beautiful with the wall color you’ve chosen. And yes, @diggerdee zone 6 CT is spot on about asking for pics - we’re only encouraging you to post them when your project is completed and whenever that may be. We all likely know the long path our home improvement projects take from dreaming about them to actually admiring the finished product! I think it’s great that you’re using Marmoleum. The advantages of that product compared to vinyl are so many. I first heard about the product as a must have when restoring a vintage house as it’s the only product that replicates the original flooring. The newer vinyl products just cannot compare or compete.,

Can't wait to see the whole room! I have Marmoleum Asian Tiger as mentioned above by

cawaps. The sample looks more bold than it does IRL. It makes for a good transition to our red oak flooring in the adjoining living room.

The breakroom at work had Sunny Day on the floors and my local Whole Foods used Asian Tiger as the surface for their check-out counters. I've liked Marmoleum in pretty much every application I've seen it in.

Still hoping for pics...

Well hey Deanna, I am definitely spurred on to do the photo and email thingy because I have been getting on with it. Still waiting on marmoleum delivery - delayed till mid November, but have been on a cleaning and painting frenzy. Have now made winter curtains (velvet-lined ferny fabric print), painted the dresser and most of another large cupboard (including hand-painted folk art/scandi style decoration), plus 2 of the kitchen chairs, half the walls and ceiling and made another set of shelves...so it is coming along. Main colours - afraid I couldn't quite bring myself to go with a grown up Hague Blue and, well, I allowed myself a bit more free rein so now the walls are - a sort of lilac/mulberry/fuchsia colour, with pea green, moss green, plum, aubergine, yellow. ochre accents . Cupboard is teal, purple, mustard, deep red, lilac and the dresser is a bronze/olive. It sounds lurid but isn't, I think. I am good with colour and use it a lot Still a lot to do because I am doing it myself and have to live in it while everything is going on so it is a slow job, moving round the kitchen, wall by wall.

No, your colors are not lurid, but complex to imagine. Can’t wait to see. We have a butter yellow couch with bright teal chairs, and I am particularly fond of blue-yellow combos. My bedroom walls are a dark-ish teal. Fortunately, it was recently a fashionable color, which made it much easier to find complimentary fabrics, etc. Hague Blue is very grown up, and popular on the web, at least. I’m glad you pampered with your inner color elf!

I think my ”a-ha” moment for color was in a house we purchased from a small interior designer. Not a fancy or big house at all, but her life had blown up, the market was tanking, and our offer was the only one after it had been on the market for quite some time. I always appreciated the little touches she added that I would have never thought of. One day, well into a couple years of living there, I found a box of boring beige marbled tiles in the basement. Just boring. Then I realized they were the backsplash of my kitchen, but because she had used eggplant-ish grout and painted an accent cupboard deep eggplant, suddenly she had enhanced the tiniest bit of color in the tiles, which I would have NEVER noticed. I even quizzed a friend of mine by showing her the tiles in the box, and she was amazed to realize they were on my kitchen wall. I had NO IDEA what color could do before that experience. Really, it was eye-opening. Color is an impish companion, and makes life all the richer.

I hope the Marmoleum it not late a second time and you get to enjoy your wonderful kitchen, and we gets pics!

You might enjoy this color hound’s blog. She even learned carpentry, and her color-rich home and renovations support her and her husband, who has developed a disability. it is a color extravaganza! And, it’s amazing to see some of the things she built herself.

Can’t wait to see.

Ditto. Dare I hope for pictures rather than a description ;)

Wow rosa, you have been busy! It's a lot of work to do remodeling, one reason I have been debating for months whether to re-do my living room lol. As someone who uses more color than many people I know (those with lovely, magazine-ready white interiors with "touches of color for accent"), I appreciate seeing someone who is not afraid of it!

Sounds like it is coming along and hopefully your flooring delivery won't be delayed any longer!

:)

Dee

P.S. deanna thanks for that link. I only looked at the homepage and I am intrigued!

Love of colour was always the main motivator to garden. Life has definitely been divided into ante and post horticulture...but before plants hove into view, I had always been a designer and colourist (mainly textiles, but also did annual room redos). Unlike my gardens, interior things do benefit from a bit of restraint (not much, but some). I have a synaesthetic thing going too - I literally salivate over some colours and combos while others cause acute physical nausea. Colour is everything to me, Deanna, all colours. Unlike plants, there really are no colours I dislike, not even beige or browns - all have their own beauty and cohesion. It is the relationships between colour (and tone) which I find harmonious or exciting (or repellant) and I have a complex and spendy relationship with paints, dyes, pigments.

I couldn't ever see myself having a white house, Dee...not with kids, dogs, chaos. Maximalism isn't really any sort of choice, just an inevitable consequence of being an idle housewife.

However, the house and most things in it have been woefully neglected since I became an outdoor person so although mostly cosmetic, it is a long job. A whole afternoon just vanished, painting a single drawer...

My youngest has appeared with colour-co-ordinated flowers for my birthday!

"...the house and most things in it have been woefully neglected since I became an outdoor person..."

Ain't that the truth lol! And not just with decor, but basic housekeeping lol. If I have a choice between working in the garden and working in the house, the garden wins every time. Housework is not weather-dependent (unless you want to vacuum a carpet on a very humid day lol) but gardening is, and I will not waste a beautiful day outdoors when those dirty dishes and that laundry and all the dust and dirt will wait patiently (for days, if need be lol) while I'm outside!

And happy birthday to you! Hope it's a great one!

:)

Dee

Wow, rosaprimula! That's really amazing (and happy birthday, also). I don't think I was tuned into color before I started gardening in my 40s, other than to know I liked 'em bright. It has been a sometimes tortuous learning curve. Gardening has helped with not only color, but also textures. You have such a wealth of experience. Now I REALLY wish you could post more photos of your garden. I think it would be a great learning experience to see what you do. You have a fascinating past and present with color!

(To be honest, I think you have a fascinating almost everything! If you ever publish book, I'll buy it.)

I started gardening in my 40s

Me too@deanna in ME Barely zone 6a, more like 5b