A number of days in the past, I used to be sharing my plans for the studio cupboards with my mother. Properly, she wasn’t thrilled. ? My mother and I’ve very completely different style in adorning. We like completely different types and completely different colours. I like far more sample and texture than she does, and I like brighter and bolder colours. However even with all of that, I do usually ask for her enter as a result of she has an inventive eye. So I used to be stunned when her objection to my plan for my studio cupboards was that pink and gold don’t go collectively. I couldn’t disagree extra. ? I believe they appear excellent collectively! So weigh in on this debate. Do pink and gold work collectively?
First, let me remind you about my inspiration for my cupboards within the studio. I used to be impressed by this bookcase by Kristie McGowan. I particularly beloved the nook form on face body of the higher cabinets, the trim on the doorways, and people gold accents across the doorways and cabinets. Oh my…these gold accents!
Loads has modified with my plans since then. I’m now not utilizing the higher open cabinets on the mural wall, and since my cupboards included some very brief (5-inch-high) drawers, I needed to simplify my trim design in order that it’s only a easy rectangle. However I had nonetheless deliberate so as to add a gold element to the cupboard doorways.
And that’s the place the disagreement got here in. Now, do I agree that gold seems to be even higher with cool colours like teal, blue, inexperienced, and so on.? Completely. These colours had been made for gold, as you possibly can see by Kristie McGowan’s lovely bookcase above. And nonetheless at this time, six years after I painted my kitchen teal, I’ve folks inform me that they’re unhappy that I removed my inexperienced and gold kitchen.

So, sure, I believe cool colours with gold are a pure match. And do I believe that pink and silver tones are a extra pure match? Most likely. However I lived with silver tones for thus lengthy that I’ve a pure aversion to them now. I gained’t use silver tones in my home. The one place I’ve used silver tones is within the hallway toilet. I regretted that from the start, and I’m swapping them out for heat gold tones now.
And it simply so occurs that I’m including these gold tones on the identical time I’m including pink to the room!

So whereas I do suppose cool colours go higher with gold, and I believe that pink and silver tones are a extra pure match, I nonetheless love pink and gold collectively. I believe pink and gold collectively are a really female look, which is ideal for a room that’s all mine and that I don’t should share with Matt.
What I don’t actually like is a pale pink with gold. And that’s probably not as a result of I believe they don’t go collectively, however extra as a result of I noticed approach an excessive amount of of that combo over the previous couple of years, and I simply acquired uninterested in seeing it. However the pink I’ll be utilizing is a way more saturated pink. Right here’s the peek I shared just a few days in the past.

So ever since seeing Kristie McGowan’s bookcases, and seeing that stunning gold element on the doorways, I’ve had one thing like that in thoughts for my studio cupboards. I like that it’s sort of paying homage to my inexperienced and gold kitchen. And I’ve been trying ahead to that contact of delicate shimmer on these cupboards, and the female saturated pink and gold combo.
However another excuse I’ve been trying ahead to that contact of gold is as a result of I believe it’ll add curiosity to the 2 cupboard areas which will in any other case simply appear like enormous lots of pink. The gold will break up that look and add some visible aptitude to areas that would in any other case look sort of plain, even with the pink paint.
Simply think about all the cupboards in my workplace nook of the room painted that darkish pink, surrounded by a impartial wall shade and ceiling shade. In my thoughts’s eye, it can simply appear like an enormous blob of pink.

The identical goes for the cupboards simply contained in the studio door from the breakfast room. They’ll simply be one other blob of pink.
And whereas I don’t suppose the cupboards on the mural wall actually need something to spice them up due to the mural, I nonetheless suppose that contact of gold can be lovely, and it will look particularly female as a result of of the mural.

I do know that some folks could envision that and suppose, “It might be too busy!” However y’all know I don’t care about that. Whereas I don’t actually take into account myself a maximalist, on the spectrum from minimalist to maximalist, I’m undoubtedly extra in the direction of the maximalist aspect. I like lots of shade, sample, and texture. And there must be a complete lot extra of it than what I’ve now for me to contemplate it an excessive amount of. Including a little bit of gold, for my style, would by no means be an excessive amount of. It might make it good.
So I believe that pink and gold go fantastically collectively. My mother disagrees. What do you suppose?
Actually, that is most likely a type of issues I’ll simply should strive in order that I can see it with my very own eyes. I’ve had this imaginative and prescient in my head for thus lengthy now that I’ll remorse it if I don’t strive it. Nevertheless it would possibly nonetheless be some time earlier than I may even strive it. I’m nonetheless engaged on attempting to get the doorways and drawer fronts all trimmed out and prepared for paint.
It’s taking approach longer than I anticipated to get these doorways and drawer fronts completed as a result of, fairly frankly, I don’t suppose I spotted simply what number of doorways and drawer fronts there have been for this room. ? In all, there are 50. That’s 50 doorways and drawer fronts that should be sanded, trimmed, caulked, primed, painted, and clear coated. That’s a giant job! However I’m making progress, and the primary batch needs to be prepared for paint at this time.

Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and embellish the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You may be taught extra about me right here.