NAME: Sylvain
LOCATION: ''Le Plateau'' neighborhood — Gatineau, Québec,
PAINT USED: Benjamin Moore | Asphalt, CC-548, Crushed Berries, 2076-30, Chartreuse 2024-10, Black Panther 2125-10 & Bavarian Cream 2146-70
When my brother and his girlfriend bought a new condominium in Gatineau, a suburb of Ottawa, they called me to make something special. I solved their blandness in three simple steps:
#1 A BIG GREY DROP CEILING
A drop ceiling will follow and reveal the path: from the entry, one floor below, to the bathroom. The drop ceiling is also used to divide the open space that contains the living room, the dining room and the kitchen. The fuchsia crack is only to put a little "folie" in the design and make it more sculptural.
#2 A BIG "BLACK BOX"
The Laundry room, just next to the kitchen, is not really beautiful. Sometime, the best way to hide something is to paint it with BIG contrast. So the laundry room become a big "Boïte Noire" which changes the perception of scale in the open space.
#3 A BIG BACKDROP
The wall of the stairs is painted in yellow — Benjamin Moore's Chartreuse 2024-10 — and become a “fond de scène”, who enhance the sculptural drop ceiling.
Thanks, Sylvain!
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I love the colour, it looks fabulous. Beautiful job!
p.s. Gatineau isn't a suburb of Ottawa (two different provinces) but certainly seems like one due to proximity...
Good for you Sylvain! If they love color go for it. I just hope they plan on living there for awhile. I especially like how the kitchen looks next to the dark blue wall. Not too crazy about the cut out in the stairway wall but maybe it needs a little more attention than just paint. ~Tracy
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The colour design is cleanly executed, but this looks exactly like an advertising agency from the '90s to me (the brushed stainless logo goes on the charteuse wall). Are we bringing that 'stripped-down memphis' look back again already?
Nicely done. (And nicely explained.)
Not my style, but a Very cleverly done paintjob.
Looks a bit too much like licorice allsorts colors. That said, it is a dynamite paint job!
Add cat; decorating complete. Love the bright colors!!
Maybe its a french canadian thing, but i don't get it...
Love it, but the paint colors and some of the space/furnishings (kitchen and dining in particular) seems to be from two different sensibilities.
Nicely done but I like the white walls, personally.
I like the contrasting drop ceiling, but the rest is a bit too much for my tastes. The condo itself looks beautiful.
I love this. The large stretches and lines of brilliant color are marvelous in their mix, and the laundry room is perfect.
White is not bland, color is busy.
I like the color choices, but seeing them all together in one room is a bit much for me.
liked it a lot better before...
Wow, I would have never thought of that color combo but it looks absolutely superb!
At first I loved it. But then, I kinda soured on it. But then it grew on me. But then... *Oh bother!*
There is something about Quebecers and that particularly awful color of dayglo green (at least according to my designer friends. It is literally the number one requestd color for ads, websites, products, etc.)
Target bought 'cat in Paris' wine poster? Jesus. I wish young people would spend more time getting to know local artists and less time at DWR.
Dude!
This is awesome.
Oh so pretty !!
very creative, I think it looks great.. and those are colors that I would have never thought about putting together!
All you sourpusses! I love this. What a fantastic, fun, popping space. I would love to hang out in that room!
I LOVE IT!
I don't know if I'd ever do it, but I love it all the same.
This is beautiful.
I think it really works because the furniture itself is stark and plain. If there were any color or pattern in the furniture, it would be horrific, but the furnishings melt away and allow the color to be the focal points.
I like it.
This is cool. Not liking some of the colors, though. Also appalled by the art choice. Really?
The thing that bugs me, is how it's so bold and daring with paint, but so predictable, common, and boring in furniture choices. Still dramatic and cool, though. Room to grow.
Awesome use of color. nice!
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it appears very "graphic" and 2-d in the pictures, but i bet it just sings in person.
i once did an apartment in wildly bold colors and the photos all looked like advertisements, but it was so fun and dynamic in person.
good job!
I'm French Canadian and don't like it. The general idea is good, but the colors are so 90's. Bad, bad choices of color.
How does one go with creative, bold, statement, outside-the-box color choices and the most bland, boring, plain, porno-set furniture and art?
I'm happy to see my condo here and to see the many comments. For those who dislike my furniture : I had just moved in and the pictures are here to feature the colors and NOT the furniture. Thank you for the nice comments...
Love the colors. Don't like the poster.