I've wanted to give this large, two-piece hutch a facelift for a while. Tony's beautiful, mostly-white china with a fruit/vegetable motif, left to him by his mom, seemed to just disappear inside the hutch, with no contrast to really allow it all to stand out.
Too, the muted colors of the walls and furniture in nearby spaces needed something more thrown into the mix. Something unexpected and dramatic. A surprise!
I chose this orangey-red, semi-gloss paint, called Aztec Red.
The color pulls out some orange tones from different corners of the viewable area, like a plant with some orange colors in the leaves and the design on a little, black-lacquered chest of drawers in the dining room. Same with the decoration of the dishes.
Overall, I think I like it.
That is amazingly beautiful and I'm not generally a fan of that color. Wow!
Posted by: Margaret | March 28, 2013 at 10:11 PM
Perfect color for those dishes. What a huge difference it makes! I've been thinking about your painting project(s) and was getting motivated to do some myself -- mostly just a small wooden stool that I use as a plant holder. But I never got started because of these thoughts: "I'm sure Anne did it the right way. She sanded and fixed holes and primed and THEN painted using two coats." Me? I'm lucky if I bother to dust before I paint.
Good job!
Posted by: Pam Jones | April 05, 2013 at 09:53 AM