Colors?
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Jennifer
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Water damage - insurance paying for restaining floors and painting the walls. Looking for a little change if I have to live with the fans and a destroyed floor! Let me know if any wall color, and maybe window treatments, with a different floor stain?
7 answers
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If your hardwood was damaged by water - remove it immediately - if the water damaged the finished - you have water under the wood - you can't save the wood - insurance companies realize this and yes the water extraction people need to place fans - you can inbox me if you would like - I own Carpet One of Vicksburg and I know floors very well .
Bil1515805
on Apr 07, 2015
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This is an old picture of our room from before we moved in. This all happened a month+ ago, so they've removed all appliances and will rip up boards in kitchen area, but l/m damaged the walls so insurance is covering painting, and because they're replacing the boards in the kitchen, we can stain the rest of the room.
Jennifer
on Apr 07, 2015
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@Jennifer hard to advise when we don't know what other colours are going to be in the room and what your pallet preferences are. I do like the colour that is there now. Depending on the colour you refinish your floors in will also impact on the colour choice for the walls. If the same as now, you could go darker for the walls - perhaps in a muted shade of one of the colours in your accessories. If the floors will be darker when refinished I would stick with lighter shades other wise it will be too dark in the room. Let us know what you do and possibly with pics. Thanks for posting.
Gail Salminen
on Apr 07, 2015
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Was the water damage in the kitchen only? Are you getting all new cupboards, or just bottoms? Will the cupboards be dark like in the pic? If the cupboards will be dark I'd go a little darker on the floors but not really really dark. The walls I'd stay with light taupe or light grays, keep the window treatments minimal so you can take advantage of all that light.
Wendy Willey
on Apr 08, 2015
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Water damage only in kitchenette, so those are the only boards being removed, but everything will be restained. Cabinets will remain the cherry color they are. I just really don't like the more yellow-oak flooring we moved in with. Do you think a more brown undertone stain (not red) would look good with taupe or light grey (maybe with a blue undertone?) I know so little about this. THank you for your advice!!!
Jennifer
on Apr 08, 2015
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If your walls got water damage, they need to be removed and replaced. Walls are usually gip rock and will get mould. I would recommend replacing with the green gip rock as it is moisture resistant. A kitchen can get rather steamy at times. I also wouldn't go too dark with the flooring as it will suck in all that lovely light and make the room darker.
Charlie
on Apr 08, 2015
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sorry to hear of the water...never fun...this happened to me years ago and isn't amazing how the insurance companies will gladly take your premiums but give you so much anguish over actually performing to pay out...ugh...insurance is such a rip...anyway: 1) Each state has an insurance commissioner...find yours, file a complaint and you will get action...once the mold sets in without documentation, your policy no doubt excludes mold and the issue record will be attached to your home forever..make them replace anything that was water damaged. Barring that, for the colors...if it was mine I would match the floors to the cabinets and lighten the walls for a sharp, clean contrast : ) Good luck with all
Moxie
on Apr 11, 2015
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