Modern Country Kitchen: Farrow and Ball Case Study

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXkpXaxNu0vTNymzpO-rqWE7MUwycvIncrreqnl2oYDTbI8t8YSUByZv4o4emmsDDedI1_XihoxFYr1BBt405Ja5hrERA88tXRfSS4w8GcoiJbPTxKX5kE0kfAyEbbvW0PlPfblcHgdSN2/s1600/10Sept15+049.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Farrow and Ball Blue Gray Earthborn Gregory's Den " border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517429178824920546" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXkpXaxNu0vTNymzpO-rqWE7MUwycvIncrreqnl2oYDTbI8t8YSUByZv4o4emmsDDedI1_XihoxFYr1BBt405Ja5hrERA88tXRfSS4w8GcoiJbPTxKX5kE0kfAyEbbvW0PlPfblcHgdSN2/s400/10Sept15+049.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" title="" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Farrow and Ball Blue Gray and Earthborn Gregory's Den </td></tr></tbody></table>When picking my perfect paint, one of the things I like to do is look at pictures of other people's rooms who've already chosen plumped for that colour. If you're thinking about Farrow and Ball paint colours for your house then you've come to the right place because, let me tell you, Modern Country Style loves Farrow and Ball.<br /><br />Choosing colours can be a tricky monkey, can't it? A very enjoyable monkey but certainly a potentially slippery one. The same paint colour can change almost beyond belief from one room to another. To refresh your memory, here is the grimness of what was here before in our kitchen and dining room:<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517433306961867682" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjRj1dLGU1hUljITNaj5dVM1ddI-HqakMbhv9F53CpWElYGOLZEwhyphenhyphenxJ_NyepGxhXLHbzCd4jTcGlpmnGlMG3F8I0cIRely2KFcfijqnJONHS46tP5gV3LTzICGddwVwoZtAVOdO8gzKnP/s400/106_0604.JPG" style="display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our Old Kitchen</td></tr></tbody></table>Uugh!<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517433302147819362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC6tw7es2rcfoa88aXf-l5KkisjpJZcL1Vgv-tP8dD0oBicPKw1_PGVfIqLNICKAD09u_zWimTryGM7OZirarCPJl_K-ikKtVnce0KWY6oQOFIQPGDwfSZmMRdd5yGY01gdEQ9bTF0nzjM/s400/106_0603.JPG" style="display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our old dining room</td></tr></tbody></table>Our dining room and kitchen are separate but connected through a doorway. Because these two rooms are used in conjunction so often - when I'm cooking tea and the children are sitting round the table doing homework, or when we've got friends round for drinks of an evening - the colours needed to work well with one another. <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Farrow and Ball Blue Gray Earthborn Gregory's Den " border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517429171610601202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd2iPVB7wlBI8w9n36XmVFf_yVoKBWdhnNOQiQgh-7up1134QXxueRlXWUOWS4eDXPyKg16g2ZB1EVZMYlTW0MlPNXYDIozahgq3b-h62gcrftX1MNTKX04EUZRdEK5G4buBGv89Gk6Vks/s400/10Sept15+047.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" title="" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Farrow and Ball Blue Gray and Earthborn Gregory's Den with the lights on!</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Farrow and Ball White Tie Farrow and Ball Blue Gray " border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517430769383236354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm9aKFAL4XQyEDVAG5RC7Bpp12pktn_6jTfsp9swUxP7Vj6YkSr_kQ7mLUlUGUVONjZZq1FvV9OmVt5XDCmWOLAdWsP7S7ztP3HfcNaulDXy9hcqDdxlyqy39kYBfG4nYVSrAsdshWqSil/s400/10Sept02+093.jpg" style="display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" title="" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Farrow and Ball Blue Gray and White Tie in the kitchen </td></tr></tbody></table>The dining room is painted with Earthborn Gregory's Den which is a palish glaucous creamy-grey. What I wanted for the kitchen was a darker version of Gregory's Den so that when you looked through from one room to another, there would be good chromatic flow. <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Farrow and Ball Blue Gray Earthborn Gregory's Den " border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517429194652543330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxnMG1movC_t_Cig4Lb9m7Q-RAssakiILyr4V005Ux3v1sq4PfS2Al48kvuGrQa8XW3mGSIMaGh7c5hKCSA7g_xPWzLd3Vk4766EsTgUo7KCtz8fJ0BBRjJMCEhMojzqY6Z1GeaqGu6oGr/s400/10Sept15+050.jpg" style="display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" title="" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Farrow and Ball Blue Gray and Earthborn Gregory's Den </td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Farrow and Ball Blue Grey" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517430759960259666" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9WiReJjFu2xQHmwNM1Ilt5eCa3bhRAj9uxEvOa7GVsk7zMUtmJwvxg26FwBH_CwQo-ryIRo5S8YTN5-QckxOTRiqPC8tM0frBMwlMiHSkVOpQw_MEEu0b1dcMw4-jPdPQ1HeSWj2StjV_/s400/10Sept15+082.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" title="" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Farrow and Ball Blue Gray with white gloss</td></tr></tbody></table>Howeer, Earthborn paints only comes in a set range of colours, which don't allow you to adjust to a lighter or darker shade. After a long but very pleasurable search (which you can <a href="http://moderncountrystyle.blogspot.com/2010/08/kitchen-colour-decision-made.html"><span style="color: #660000;">read about here</span></a>), I decided on the combination of Farrow and Ball Blue Grey and Farrow and Ball White Tie for the kitchen.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Farrow and Ball White Tie Blue Grey" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517429207490163282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHaIfX31dpmOoC9C4zlS56jGidGQ1G9VL94ol7Hm3fHlzHdzARAyKNx_KJsK_eIBlXzesmmcx6FbW4opyokkdwf362NoEksslASCr5IF8SlWwjEDN5jJ6DGSrnGv53im0yGdl6POko8qmD/s400/10Sept15+075.jpg" style="display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" title="" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Farrow and Ball Blue Gray and White Tie</td></tr></tbody></table>I'm pleased with the visual continuity that the two rooms now provide. When you look through from one room to the other, the rooms flow well. Not matchy-matchy, which can be the problem using a lighter version of a same-brand paint colour, but in harmony.<br /><br />Tomorrow, on Modern Country Style, finally, I'll be revealing the whole kitchen. I'm very, verrrrrrrrry excited. I would have done it on day one of the kitchen series but I'm getting better at taking it slowly! Holding myself back isn't one of my better-known talents. ;-)<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Modern Country Kitchen Farrow and Ball Blue Gray Earthborn Gregory's Den " border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517429198500492162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilLkiKyFX-SpaKw6gOEa3Mz5TyYlRPxUxLkmZ82bFXAMVfmop0UFd-SRzNSKX115w0tIJroZyTFskbnoGYIfMdcV8Q_wN9eS2YBJaAW1Mwrzg1NIHZ3oOYwsISeAWJ7oCxZ4iIxeR41sT5/s400/10Sept15+052.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" title="" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Farrow and Ball Blue Gray and Earthborn Gregory's Den </td></tr></tbody></table>

Modern Country Kitchen: Farrow and Ball Case Study

Farrow and Ball Blue Gray and Earthborn Gregory's Den  When picking my perfect paint, one of the things I like to do is look at pictures...

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Scented flowers for the house.....Acidanthera Murialae

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg28hKDh2OVAa-UdVnFI9g9jjAOXn2saZX1jLpSLfT-lt_35xh_cEl1NnFHrAaRE-K06lJG_Wb8CChDKkM4q05w0OlTI_85TQs7peD2nwWc6qj9mj2kG2CLBJz3ckVGA5crpnJlmlMz9SO6/s1600/10aug29+047.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517049703214374466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg28hKDh2OVAa-UdVnFI9g9jjAOXn2saZX1jLpSLfT-lt_35xh_cEl1NnFHrAaRE-K06lJG_Wb8CChDKkM4q05w0OlTI_85TQs7peD2nwWc6qj9mj2kG2CLBJz3ckVGA5crpnJlmlMz9SO6/s400/10aug29+047.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /></a><br />I haven't done any kind of garden post in a long while but I simply had to share with you my latest find. You will love me forever, and I do mean forever, once you've discovered this too. <br /><p>Two words: Acidanthera Murialae. Okay, not the easiest words to say (also called Gladiolus Callianthus, as if that was meant to sort out the complicated name problem....) but their fragrance more than makes up for it. One of the great joys in life is being able to pick an armful of flowers in the garden and bring them into the house. If that floats your boat too, then these are the babies for you, my friend. </p><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517049719846491266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrZSs5s0Rm8IzrhNgPAfHZC8pk3ml5qQmdb1wkUFUVZf6omcMmsbHZ1YTqxXZ19UEoqYWrhQtDLFQ25fkK-9A2MK9M_q1zTHEn4MV6RniGkM3U7Cinyk9VGJJNatNpjh2Wz2UDKCCy-7I7/s400/10aug29+006.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /><br />I first came across these at RHS Wisley and was instantly transfixed, intoxicated. They have a powerful, heavenly scent (in the nicest of ways) AND, the best news, they are everything you could want from a cut flower. Yes, it's easy to bring them into the house once they are starting to flower so that they can waft their loveliness all around.<br /><br />They look great, and are pretty cheap too! What more could you possibly want for your flowering needs?<br /><br /><p><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517049687302098130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Y-F60TOIxXRzb2LYywLVPcTDboKksHjii2XqkedvwtzbCfI50BdiuAiJ0h1XK0TnNkxPUFTbY2D1mUjxYNlhZIAaN723pAqqw8ivt8UNsffqayp2nx4szrgunyovWiT0jlOkcMxgP6xh/s400/10aug29+045.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /><br />If you plant the small bulbs in succession: a big pot in April, one in May and one in early June, you'll have a long season of flowering to take advantage of in the late summer and autumn. Imagine huge bunches of scrumptiously-scented, ethereal-looking acidanthera adorning the favourite spots in your house, its exquisite scent rising to meet you whenever you pass (and then you pause, because you will so want to, and bury your face into their pale heads. Aaaaah...). <br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517049717963303874" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0bq1IGRIEq0F5MfJ6sveKiA-SuKtDny0HKQdg-EUpZeMA0B8QA0-lgCSyWC9p0h8OCy_1bjX34UMN7NOrQRo_ODpJLmYvLn6UlcT5yIf9QlKfAwBs-eljHMcNLTGWz0opDyZ4I_Dm_ma-/s400/10aug29+005.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /><br />The flowers are delicate-looking, whitest white with deep purple markings in the centre (although some of mine seem to be purple all over). The leaves are similar to day lilies or crocosmia, that is, long and rising from the base of the plant. Elegant schwelligant.</p>Please, pleeeease try and grow these. You will honestly thank me forever and a day. Why acidanthera murialae aren't better known is beyond me.<br /><br />Do you have a favourite cut flower to grow? I'd love to hear your choices.....<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517049693112258930" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNqyWo2Ft37lk2v4Z4jXmIiE79M0fsyO2N1mS9Msr5BquHAd-YC_1dh7GaFec7CDNTJZsZ1r-KtkBkSgUZ-EASNctU08PwMzkhyeAe-GBlMtYKBRgO8NjsvO6vQSTE8gSfFGLKKJR_lap4/s400/10aug29+046.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" />

Scented flowers for the house.....Acidanthera Murialae

I haven't done any kind of garden post in a long while but I simply had to share with you my latest find. You will love me forever, and ...

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Somewhere Over The Rainbow

This song is for a good friend who has just undergone major surgery!<br />You know who you are...take care and best wishes for a speedy recovery. xoxo<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNHTCglQ_Wk&feature=related">YouTube</a><br /><br /><br /><object height="295" style="background-image: url("http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/oNHTCglQ_Wk/hqdefault.jpg");" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oNHTCglQ_Wk?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oNHTCglQ_Wk?fs=1&hl=en_US" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="295" width="480"></embed></object>

Somewhere Over The Rainbow

This song is for a good friend who has just undergone major surgery! You know who you are...take care and best wishes for a speedy recovery....

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