You Get To Select My Studio Counter tops (As a result of I Can’t Make A Choice!)

I keep in mind once we had been nonetheless in our apartment and I used to be simply starting to weblog about my DIY initiatives, I had this concept to design and adorn your entire apartment utilizing a democratic technique by which I current my readers with choices, and it doesn’t matter what the result of the vote was, the bulk vote would win, and I’d need to implement no matter thought the bulk voted for.

That ended up not understanding as a result of, on the time, we had little or no cash, and I had no thought at any given time after I’d have the ability to truly implement my design and adorning concepts into the apartment. I nonetheless suppose it will be an fascinating social experiment, however I don’t suppose I’d have the braveness to brighten our home in that manner. I’m a little bit of a management freak, should you haven’t already figured that out. 😀 Plus, I like the liberty to vary my thoughts on any adorning resolution, and generally I achieve this a number of instances a day.

However this time is totally different. I’ve narrowed down my studio countertop choices to 2 — a lightweight selection and a darkish selection. I’ve been watching these samples since Tuesday, and nonetheless, I haven’t budged by hook or by crook. I like them each for various causes, and I can’t appear to resolve between the 2.

The darkish one is an engineered hardwood flooring from Lowe’s, and the colour is Saddle Hickory. Each bit is 3/8″ thick, 3.5″ vast, and 4 ft lengthy. It’s $2.99/sq. foot. The sunshine one is an engineered vinyl plank flooring from LL Flooring within the shade Capistrano Seashore Oak. Each bit is 1/2″ thick, 7.5″ vast, and simply over 4 ft lengthy. It’s $3.19/sq. foot.

Listed below are each of them subsequent to the wallpaper (the outdated wallpaper, not the brand new one with the edited colours, however this one should do for now), the ground paint colours, and two paint colours which can be much like the colour that may go on the cupboards.

I like each of them! I like that the sunshine one is…effectively…mild. And I like that it’s that completely satisfied medium between a pure (brownish) wooden tone and a lightweight grey wooden tone. It comes off as a heat grey, similar to the Basic Grey that I used on the ground, besides that it’s a contact extra on the brown facet than the ground shade. And I feel the sunshine can be very fairly with the cupboard shade.

Alternatively, I like the richness of the darkish pattern. And I don’t suppose you may ever go improper with a impartial darkish wooden in most rooms. I feel it appears to be like lovely with the ground, the cupboard shade, and the wallpaper. Darker wooden provides such an exquisite heat to a room.

I do occur to have an instance of a darkish wooden countertop with a heat shade on cupboards in our hallway toilet. That is the butcherblock-style countertop that I made 9 years in the past. As an apart, I’ve by no means discovered this darkish wooden countertop tough to maintain clear, and it’s in probably the most used toilet in our home. So I’m probably not involved concerning the darkish countertop being laborious to maintain clear in my studio.

So y’all get to resolve, and I’ll go along with the bulk on this as a result of, fairly frankly, I’m bored with making an attempt to make this resolution. What say you? Gentle countertop or darkish countertop?

I’m glad I don’t have to consider it anymore. 😀 It’s as much as y’all!