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Designer’s Colourful Kitchen | Get Tips for Picking Paint Editor Mitchell Parker speaks with interior designer and colour consultant Jennifer Ott. Ott gives a tour of her colourful San Francisco kitchen, where pops of turquoise and bright green paint help create a cheerful style. She gives tips for choosing and working with colour, including how Houzz ideabooks can help communicate style preferences to design and building professionals. She also makes an optimistic prediction for the Color of the Year for 2021.
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The backsplash is made of 5-by-5-inch waterproof shampoo bottle stickers that Ott custom-designed. She made the decals through Avery, an online label-making company, then installed them herself. The total cost of the backsplash was $100, she says.
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ISSUU | Hannigans Paint & Decor Ott wanted to keep the colours light but says she doesn’t like all-white spaces. “I need my colour,” she says. “My idea was to use saturated colour but in a way that’s a bit restrained. And I wasn’t necessarily going for a beachy vibe, but that’s where I ended up going.”
She introduced mostly cool hues — blues, greens and greys. “I
The back door colour (Soft Spruce by Benjamin Moore) matches that of the front door’s border.
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went for vibrant colour but also included a good bit of white to keep the space light and bright,” she says. “I never have to turn the lights on until the sun starts going down. It’s nice to not use artificial light until nighttime.”
he stair risers seen on the left are painted a custom colour that Ott says is a close match too Apples and Pears by Benjamin Moore. The colour in the bar area, seen farther back on the right, is also custom, close to Chic Lime by Benjamin Moore.
-JENNIFER OTT
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The butcher-block section extending off the middle of the island was a happy accident. Ott wanted a large island for big gatherings of friends with plenty of space for prepping and collecting dishes. But the soapstone countertop didn’t come in a
This photo also provides a closer look at the movable butcher-block piece, here arranged as a four-seat counter.
Here the same piece is configured as a two-seat breakfast bar. “It’s been a great piece,” Ott says.
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slab the size she wanted, and she didn’t want to have a seam in the island. To gain the extra space she wanted, she designed a 2-by-5-foot maple butcher-block countertop; one end sits snugly on top of the soapstone countertop and the other on hairpin legs, an idea that Ott first saw on Houzz. She can slide the piece in to create a chopping station right by the sink, or slide it out to create a twoperson dining spot, or slide it all the way out and down the island to accommodate four people. “It’s a problem that turned into one of the features I love the most,” she says.
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She used painted teal (Largo Teal by Benjamin Moore) in blocks behind the open shelves next to the range. “ I have decent dishes that I wanted to stand out,” she says. “When using intense colours, you want to find small pockets that make sense to put that colour, such as a niche or nice geometric area that can take colour. To me, saturated colour is the salt in the recipe. It’s the spice. If you don’t have the spices or the salt, it’s just bland.
”The open stairwell with customfabricated steel railings helps bring light from upstairs skylights to this floor.
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his shot of the stairs shows another fun paint colour on the risers (close to Blue Spa by Benjamin Moore) and a peek above into the guest bathroom on the left and guest bedroom on the right.
-JENNIFER OTT
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Ott converted the former master bedroom into a living room and painted some accent walls in the same colour as that behind the open shelves in the kitchen (Largo Teal by Benjamin Moore).
Ironically, Poldrack is colourblind and has trouble differentiating between purples, blues and greens, so he leaves the colour choices to Ott. “I have free range to do whatever I want,” she says. “I really enjoy being in colour-filled spaces. The walls here were all white for almost a year, and it felt like something was missing. It’s a very small living room, so I don’t want to crowd it with too much stuff. A fun colour on the walls helped fill the void. When I painted that teal, it gave an instant hug of colour and made the space much better to hang out in. I painted it on a whim while my husband was at work, and when he came home that day I was a bit nervous he was going to hate it, but he actually really liked it. And yes, he could see the colour.
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atch this episode of Houzz TV, Houzz editor Mitchell Parker speaks with interior designer and colour consultant Jennifer Ott.
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