Piedmont Tudor Refresh
Years ago while I was enrolled at San Francisco State University studying Interior Design, I had a blog that served as fun distraction from my studies. I chronicled all my favorite emerging design trends, mixed with a little fashion and talked about live music around the Bay Area. FYI, I’m also an (infrequent) DJ at a local radio station and enjoy live shows and collecting vinyl records. I’ve abandoned wordy blogging for years and had replaced that itch with visual blog over here, but it’s not the same. I know that everyone is posting on Substack this days, but I thought I would give blogging here a spin to chronicle my color consulting adventures.
Sharing this recent project is a fun way to get into a potential blog-flow. I recently had the pleasure of color consulting for a lovely 1928 Tudor-style home in Piedmont, CA. I’ve been working with Dan Silvert from Red Oak Reality, alongside my friend and Dan’s partner, Jessica Mosby to help him prep this property for sale.
Our thought process was to be mindful of the historical architecture with the exterior color pallete. We chose traditional colors of tan and Tudor brown, aka a deep chocolatey trim color, basically a slight color change and refreshed version what was previously painted. I’ve seen several Tudor that have been re-painted in grays, blues and greens that personally, seem to be trying to hard.
The interior needed a full paint makeover. I wanted to be mindful of the existing, fixed elements in the home, such as the hardwood floors, built-in cabinetry, countertops and tiles. This was important because there was no plan to remodel the kitchens or bathrooms. We also wanted to create a blank canvas for the interior, but not totally boring color scheme that would help potential buyers see how this home could be easily adjusted to suite their own tastes. Therefore, we decided to use 6 shades of white and beige!
As for the oak woodwork in the bathrooms, we decided to paint these to match the tile work in the bathrooms. Painting over wood can be controversial, but in this case the oak was not really working with lovely woodwork in the rest of this beautiful and unique home.
