What Color Should I Paint The Washer And Dryer Cabinets? (Two Options) – Walk-In Closet Progress

I’ll nonetheless must do some sanding on the drywall as soon as I begin framing out the doorway…

However I can very simply drape some plastic, connected to the fronts of these cupboards flanking the doorway and alongside the ceiling, to maintain the mud out of the room.

Final Friday after I shared the most recent progress, the washer and dryer had been in, however the cupboards had been nonetheless with out counter tops.

Right here’s a better view of the cupboards with out the highest entrance trim and counter tops…

So right here’s the progress. The counter tops are on. They’ve been wooden stuffed (the place the sting trim meets the highest plywood), sanded, and primed. The crown molding on the again wall and wrapping across the washer and dryer areas are sanded, caulked, and half painted. The window trim has the primary coat of paint on it. I nonetheless must sand, caulk, and paint the baseboard. You can too see that the highest of the island is painted, however I didn’t get an excellent image of that. You’ll have to attend to see that later. 🙂

Anyway, as I used to be engaged on all of this over the past couple of days, I began questioning if the washer and dryer cupboards would look higher painted darkish blue to match the washer and dryer and to mix in higher with the wallpaper. I made a decision to strive it Sunday night, and left the home to go to House Depot at 7:30. They shut at 8:00 on Sundays. I ought to have simply waited as a result of that didn’t depart me a lot time in any respect to pick a paint coloration, and I acquired it incorrect. Very incorrect. Plus, for some motive, the paint coloration I selected couldn’t be blended within the paint I wished, and the one paint they might combine it in was some low-cost Behr paint that I’ve by no means even heard of earlier than. It was terrible and didn’t cowl in any respect. However a minimum of I might paint the primary coat on the countertop with a darker coloration and get an thought of what it will seem like…

You may see that the colour I selected is approach too mild to match the wallpaper and the home equipment.

I didn’t have time to get extra paint yesterday, so I made a decision to color the cupboard with the darkish paint coloration that I had randomly chosen (with out wallpaper in hand) to color the within of the cupboards earlier than the washer and dryer had been put in. Once more, if I’m going darkish on these, this gained’t be the ultimate coloration. I’m simply making an attempt to get an thought of what these would seem like in the event that they had been painted darkish.

So, imagine me, I do know that this appears terrible, and that it’s the incorrect coloration for this space. I’ll must discover a blue that has completely no inexperienced in it for the ultimate coloration…if I’m going with the darkish coloration for these cupboards. However a minimum of this can provide us an thought of what a darkish coloration would seem like on these cupboards. You form of have to make use of your creativeness, although. However the query is…

Ought to these cupboards go darkish to match the washer, dryer, and wallpaper?

Or ought to they keep mild to match the remainder of the cupboards and all the trim within the room?

And if I’m going darkish with the colour, what in regards to the baseboards on these cupboards? Once more, all the trim within the room is being painted to match the sunshine blue of the cupboards…

And that may embrace the baseboard on the again wall of the room beneath the window…

I initially thought that if the cupboard and countertop are darkish, I might preserve the baseboard mild to maintain that constant line across the room the identical coloration. (Excuse my mud.)

Hopefully, you may envision what that might seem like as soon as the baseboard below the window is painted within the mild blue.

However as soon as I stood again and checked out it, I didn’t like how that checked out all. That baseboard appears to scream for consideration. So if I’m going with the darkish blue on the cupboard and countertop, I actually suppose the baseboards simply on the washer and dryer cupboards additionally should be darkish. Don’t you suppose?

And whereas I can’t consider any examples of after I’ve achieved that with baseboards, I’ve definitely achieved that with crown molding earlier than. The crown molding above the fireside in our front room continues across the total room, however whereas the remainder of the crown is painted white, I painted the crown simply across the fire in the identical teal of the fireside.

So if I’m going with the darkish blue to match the wallpaper and the home equipment, I’d mainly do that very same factor with the baseboards simply round these cupboards, after which the baseboard below the window would stick with it with the sunshine blue like the remainder of the trim.

With all of that stated, what do you suppose? Ought to I’m going darkish with these two cupboards (with a paint coloration that truly matches, in fact)? Or ought to I keep on with the sunshine blue to match the remainder of the cupboards?

UPDATE: I remembered that I had a pattern of color-matched darkish blue that I used on the trim across the wallpapered mirror closet part, so I used that to color the left dryer cupboards. Right here’s what the correct coloration appears like…

After which I did somewhat copy and paste photograph modifying to match each colours used on each cupboards. Right here’s the sunshine…

And right here’s the darkish…