Colour Confidential: Episode 131 — Transcript

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1. 0:01Megan and Matt's old story book
2. 0:03Victorian home should be the perfect
3. 0:05setting for a winter holiday gathering
4. 0:08that is if we can give their living room
5. 0:10a festive makeover before the guests
6. 0:14[Music]
7. 0:25arrive well we got set up on a blind
8. 0:27date and um that's pretty much it but
9. 0:31I'm 5'1 what are you 6 63 63 yeah I'm
10. 0:34little yeah but uh you know we make it
11. 0:38work it's going to be our first major
12. 0:41holiday in this house and we've invited
13. 0:42both of our families and we're hosting
14. 0:44them all here we really want to impress
15. 0:47our families and knock their socks off
16. 0:48but I also get really overwhelmed I love
17. 0:51things to be really sort of bold and
18. 0:53Rich like you've mentioned you know like
19. 0:55Evergreen Mist I don't really know what
20. 0:57that is and I can't really I know but
21. 1:00right off the bat I don't want it but
22. 1:02maybe if I saw it I might like it maybe
23. 1:05maybe maybe yeah but we would never try
24. 1:07it no which is sort of why we need
25. 1:09Jane's help because if if if we were
26. 1:11left to do it ourselves we would just
27. 1:13probably vacuum in the room and that's
28. 1:15about it I would vacuum the room well I
29. 1:17yeah you would vacuum the room and I
30. 1:19would well Jane here's our our living
31. 1:23room wow okay I am so blown away by this
32. 1:26house it is gorgeous so when did you say
33. 1:29it was built 1880 wow it's
34. 1:32spectacular other than the very pale
35. 1:35whsh shiny high gloss walls and because
36. 1:39of white you really don't see all the
37. 1:41details it's true I would love it to
38. 1:43stand out okay so we're going to use
39. 1:45color to help do that then I noticed
40. 1:47that there's a wall here right in the
41. 1:49middle sort of dividing up the room let
42. 1:51me just have a little look see ooh yes
43. 1:55it's like a little Panic Room a little
44. 1:58it's a little dark and scary
45. 2:00ideally we both like to lose it so if we
46. 2:02could double really the space in here
47. 2:03it' be great okay I kind of want to get
48. 2:05a sense what you want to keep what you
49. 2:07want to do in this room me some
50. 2:09beautiful Victorian furniture the
51. 2:11Victorian style furniture is mine that I
52. 2:13inherited from my family and I really
53. 2:15love it and then on this side we have
54. 2:18our more modern pieces I sort of
55. 2:20inherited those pieces you know garage
56. 2:22sales estate sales the Cur on the curb
57. 2:26all right and do you think it's possible
58. 2:27to meld your two Styles modern with the
59. 2:30traditional I think there's room for
60. 2:33negotiation mhm I think it's going to
61. 2:35look good as long as you're okay with
62. 2:37adding color to this
63. 2:39room like right now this is kind of I'm
64. 2:41fine like you know maybe just do some
65. 2:43patching and I am not fine okay so we
66. 2:46just have to work on visualization which
67. 2:48we'll do no problem I think that's
68. 2:49probably why you know one of your great
69. 2:52strengths is that you can mediate
70. 2:55immediate Let's us familiarize yourself
71. 2:58with this wall here this whole whole
72. 3:00thing is going to come out because it
73. 3:01divides up this room terribly I think
74. 3:04this one's dry well and uh should be
75. 3:06okay to take out without damage to
76. 3:08anyone crossing my fingers we're going
77. 3:10to keep the furniture change the
78. 3:12upholstery okay those are going to go to
79. 3:14and get redone they're kind of cool
80. 3:16chairs we're going to meld them make
81. 3:17them meld meld meld blend blend blend do
82. 3:21you think you need to be writing any of
83. 3:22this down at all no it's all up here
84. 3:24right okay then well I'll give you the
85. 3:27list later I'll give you the gloves I'll
86. 3:29get my gloves you take the gloves I have
87. 3:31other things to do I don't need gloves
88. 3:33for that okay color choices
89. 3:36CIA Dave Dave that's SM
90. 3:42fun hang on hang on hang on uh-oh is
91. 3:45this the right wall I hope so 1 2
92. 3:503 how much destruction can possibly be
93. 3:54going on what guy doesn't love demo it's
94. 3:56a good change normally we're try to make
95. 3:58things look pretty
96. 4:01since this house is a Victorian home
97. 4:04well what do you expect of course the
98. 4:06color wheel is going to be all about the
99. 4:07Victorian era now the things that really
100. 4:10relate to Victorian times would be lace
101. 4:12delicate Furniture brought from afar
102. 4:14silks from the Orient teacups rather
103. 4:16proper and along with that a really
104. 4:18really dark color palette oh you're
105. 4:21scared now I don't know I just don't
106. 4:22even know what Victorian colors look
107. 4:24like oh that looks
108. 4:27beautiful Victorian h holiday looks like
109. 4:31oo it is all the Traditions that went
110. 4:34along with the Victorian time and I
111. 4:36think it's really cool cuz we're going
112. 4:38to pick our colors from this so are you
113. 4:40excited yes I am I'm a little
114. 4:43overwhelmed I love them all I like the
115. 4:47off-white just really put that out there
116. 4:50why do you like that just tell me what
117. 4:51you like about it does sort of remind me
118. 4:53of the snow and clouds and not just cuz
119. 4:57it's white sort of reminds me you know a
120. 5:00peaceful peaceful kind of color Meg I
121. 5:03really love this navy blue it seems like
122. 5:05a really classic color but also very
123. 5:08bold and Rich it's like the ocean like
124. 5:10sailing I'm kind of drawn to the stove
125. 5:14when I was in Scotland all the old
126. 5:16buildings s of were covered in kind of
127. 5:17like a soot kind of dirty kind of
128. 5:20classic industrial yeah interesting
129. 5:23Association it's also a very strong
130. 5:25color of fireplaces and cooking bread
131. 5:28that's got a nice conation to avoid warm
132. 5:32and comfortable so if we go from our
133. 5:35color wheel back into your parlor and we
134. 5:38start thinking about what color we want
135. 5:39to put on the wall we want to think
136. 5:41about the floor it's that lovely aged
137. 5:43hundred-year-old Pine so whatever color
138. 5:45we pick we want to make sure that
139. 5:46enhances the floor so Matt if we go to
140. 5:48your first color Choice which was the
141. 5:51white of the pram it's a little
142. 5:55different than what was on the wall but
143. 5:57not massively very modern color and anti
144. 6:00Victorian yeah we want to try to be
145. 6:04somewhat adventurous we can skip that
146. 6:06one yeah you might like the color but I
147. 6:08don't think that's going to go with the
148. 6:10vision that we that we have so if we go
149. 6:12over here to the navy blue um The
150. 6:14Nutcracker not only has a classic tone
151. 6:17to it it can have quite a bit of color
152. 6:19even if it's a dark color so it's got
153. 6:21the richness to it and what's
154. 6:22interesting about this blue is that it
155. 6:24is opposite the color of your floor now
156. 6:27when colors are opposite on the color
157. 6:28wheel they're called comp elements they
158. 6:30intensify each other so the blue makes
159. 6:32the orange of the floor orer and vice
160. 6:34versa so you're going to get lots of
161. 6:36energy and it is definitely a more
162. 6:38traditional color would have been very
163. 6:39much a w color used by victorians if we
164. 6:42have a look at this one here the gray
165. 6:44black are stoves it is that sort of
166. 6:46classic color that we think about as a
167. 6:48tuxedo color it's a little bit more
168. 6:51neutral than the blue although both are
169. 6:52considered neutrals and again still
170. 6:54opposite on the color whe to the floor
171. 6:56so you're still going to get that nice
172. 6:57richness but it's got a little less
173. 6:59color to it if you will
174. 7:02MH so okay since we've already ruled out
175. 7:05sort of the very pale pale yellow white
176. 7:08between the two of them which one do you
177. 7:10think you'd be more comfortable with on
178. 7:11the
179. 7:13wall um I'm still kind of upset that I
180. 7:16didn't get to pick the Prem yeah that
181. 7:18would have been a deal Breer yeah
182. 7:21[Music]
183. 7:38it's going to be our first major holiday
184. 7:39in this house and we've invited both of
185. 7:41our families and we're hosting them all
186. 7:43here love the room we're doing beautiful
187. 7:46Victorian details it's in need of some
188. 7:49love o I don't know I think we might
189. 7:52have bitten off a little more than we
190. 7:53can shoose what a great couple Matt and
191. 7:56Meg are they have this wonderful Dynamic
192. 7:58you are you're moous you enjoy life
193. 8:01you're joyous I'm enthusiastic opposites
194. 8:04they do say attract except for
195. 8:06occasionally around the color wheel so
196. 8:09it's now time after 100 Years of white
197. 8:11in this house to decide what color you
198. 8:14want to paint the walls still no way no
199. 8:17pram no pram no s okay then so if we go
200. 8:20over here to the navy blue of The
201. 8:21Nutcracker or gray like a charcoal gray
202. 8:24which one do you think you'd be more
203. 8:25comfortable with on the
204. 8:27wall for me
205. 8:30I'm not keen on the navy blue just cuz
206. 8:32it seems to be too much of a color I
207. 8:36didn't really like that so I got to sort
208. 8:38of go with the gray because it seems
209. 8:41more neutral and kind of a a non-color
210. 8:44color mhm Megan what do you think well I
211. 8:47am thrilled with gray because to me that
212. 8:49is exciting even though I love the blue
213. 8:52I think that might be too much for you
214. 8:54and I am very happy with the gray and
215. 8:57very proud of you wow so it sounds to me
216. 9:00like that's what you both agree on yeah
217. 9:03perfect mediation very niceo you made it
218. 9:14[Music]
219. 9:16intense it's all bold from here but
220. 9:18smaller unless the pram can come back
221. 9:20you made the big decision that's going
222. 9:21on the walls there's a lot of
223. 9:24walls I don't know if uh this being the
224. 9:27season uh
225. 9:30you know there's snow outside is is gray
226. 9:32the color well it certainly matches the
227. 9:35weather I suppose but not my festive
228. 9:37feel so that's okay this is just the
229. 9:39background it's a perfect neutral
230. 9:41background so that everything we put in
231. 9:43front of it is going to Sparkle in
232. 9:45Victorian times it was very common to
233. 9:48paint or wallpaper spaces in dark colors
234. 9:50now they also happen to do their
235. 9:52ceilings and their trim work also in
236. 9:54dark colors now for us because we're
237. 9:56clearly living in modern times we're
238. 9:58going to create some cont by leaving our
239. 10:00baseboard and our beautiful crown in a
240. 10:02light color is what's going to take a
241. 10:04traditional space like this and push it
242. 10:06into a modern
243. 10:08Century I'd say the ceiling might be a
244. 10:11terrifying thing for the second color
245. 10:14choice I don't know oh I love painted
246. 10:16ceilings really okay so the first one's
247. 10:19gone well the color of the stove it's
248. 10:21quite neutral but gives us some
249. 10:22opportunity I think to add some more
250. 10:24color looking at your home you guys have
251. 10:26the greatest features by having the
252. 10:29Medallion in the ceiling the beautiful
253. 10:30crown molding so I really feel we need
254. 10:34to put color on the ceiling to really
255. 10:36bring out some of those features you're
256. 10:38okay with that right yeah if I have to
257. 10:41be it's kind of a test for you here okay
258. 10:44let's have a look at a very pale sort of
259. 10:46Bluey Green in here nice thing about
260. 10:49blue is it's very ethereal people like
261. 10:51to be around it and that they associate
262. 10:52it to philosophy and thinking but it is
263. 10:55very light so there's a lot less
264. 10:56contrast if we do this if we go to a
265. 10:59medium color then I'm thinking the
266. 11:01orange what's kind of nice about this is
267. 11:03it's certainly on the brighter side so
268. 11:05you're going to get almost like the
269. 11:06sense of a sunset or sunniness on the
270. 11:09ceiling or making going along with what
271. 11:11you were thinking about having Rich
272. 11:13colors which would be that deep purple
273. 11:15color of our perfume and really deep
274. 11:18rich lavish color to put on the ceiling
275. 11:20which again the darker it guesss the
276. 11:22more it's going to emphasize your trim
277. 11:23workk on the ceiling The Medallion will
278. 11:26that be painted as well no we'll leave
279. 11:29the ceiling Medallion white which is
280. 11:30different than what the victorians would
281. 11:31have done but for us since it's such a
282. 11:33nice feature we want it to stand out so
283. 11:35we're only going to do the flat part of
284. 11:37the ceiling strangely enough I think I'm
285. 11:40kind of leaning towards the purple okay
286. 11:44although this is nice might be too
287. 11:48neutral look who's stepping out of the
288. 11:50box like the cat that eat the canary I
289. 11:53am very excited about that because I
290. 11:55think that is a bold sexy color and I
291. 11:58love it sounds like okay and wow you've
292. 12:01really broken out it's quite a day yeah
293. 12:05my worst fear has come true we're
294. 12:06painting the ceiling and it's purple and
295. 12:08it's
296. 12:11purple victorians really knew how to
297. 12:14decorate the only problem with this
298. 12:15particular room is missing part of its
299. 12:18crown molding so if you're wondering how
300. 12:20to fix it follow me I'm going to show
301. 12:22you a great place to put your crown back
302. 12:25together these samples look just like
303. 12:28traditional plaster crown molding but
304. 12:30they're actually made from
305. 12:34polystyrene in fact large blocks of it
306. 12:36are wire cut into custom profiles based
307. 12:39on a computer generated design it's then
308. 12:42coated with an acrylic cement mixture
309. 12:44and finished with a layer of gypson that
310. 12:47makes it easy to install and join so
311. 12:51it's seamless and you'll never even know
312. 12:53that the crown was missing it's like
313. 12:55going back 100 years into the future
314. 12:59purple and charcoal gray to me there
315. 13:01you're done you have a color scheme but
316. 13:03now we have to have another color in
317. 13:04there and I from the color
318. 13:08wheel let's see how this
319. 13:10[Music]
320. 13:11[Applause]
321. 13:26goes okay what just happened Matt who
322. 13:28started Ed out with white went all the
323. 13:30way over to purple I mean there's
324. 13:32nothing more dramatic than purple on the
325. 13:34color wheel I mean aside from the black
326. 13:36gray they put on the
327. 13:37walls well sometimes uh the color wheel
328. 13:40really brings out strange different new
329. 13:42adventurous things in people it's
330. 13:44fabulous color Choice 3 I can't really
331. 13:47imagine what the options are going to be
332. 13:49because I can't Envision what would look
333. 13:51good with those two I have no idea what
334. 13:54we could have as a third one I don't
335. 13:57think it's going to be a floor
336. 13:59I'm not sure who should make this
337. 14:01decision because what I'd like to focus
338. 14:03on is making your furniture that you
339. 14:05inherited from your family it's very
340. 14:07Victorian in its style and even the
341. 14:08fabric is pretty dated looking so we can
342. 14:11keep it traditional or we can make it a
343. 14:13little more modern depending on what
344. 14:14color you choose so this is where I'd
345. 14:16like to get your
346. 14:17input okay all right
347. 14:21okay let's see how this goes based on
348. 14:24our previous color choices I'm going to
349. 14:26come back to this teacup now this color
350. 14:28is very light almost icicle like and I
351. 14:31just Envision when you're doing holiday
352. 14:33decorating that would be a really good
353. 14:35color combo matte I'm going to give in
354. 14:37here we can have a look at the white
355. 14:40Prem and doing the fabric of the
356. 14:42furniture in a white a cream a beige
357. 14:45will really modernize it even though the
358. 14:47style will remain traditional we're
359. 14:49going to give it a cleaner look overall
360. 14:51and white is definitely going to do that
361. 14:53or we could do what the victorians did
362. 14:54which is had all dark colors as well as
363. 14:56dark Furniture so we could do that in in
364. 14:59the chocolate brown color of the ribbon
365. 15:00here so in this case the furniture is
366. 15:03not going to stand out as much against
367. 15:04our wall color although it is a nice
368. 15:06color combo this is going to give you a
369. 15:07much more deep atmospheric
370. 15:10feel that's a lot to think about I know
371. 15:13I can see that you're like I'm not sure
372. 15:16I was really cruising along until now
373. 15:18I'll go first yeah okay
374. 15:21surprisingly I don't like the color of
375. 15:24the Prem really or yeah or the sort of
376. 15:28blue
377. 15:29CU I'm a Spiller and all my whole family
378. 15:32are Spillers so I'm just thinking
379. 15:34holidays get together that sort of
380. 15:37off-white or blue will be a different
381. 15:39color by the time that the part is over
382. 15:41so I'm going to lean towards the brown
383. 15:44of the bat there for the
384. 15:46furniture I
385. 15:48disagree I think that if we do the
386. 15:50furniture in a darker color it'll make
387. 15:53the whole room a little too dark for my
388. 15:54taste and
389. 15:56overbearing while the blue I really like
390. 15:59the color I'm a little concerned that it
391. 16:01will be a bit too feminine that's true
392. 16:03depending on the fabric Choice the
393. 16:05pattern I'm on the pram wow okay so I'm
394. 16:09not sure what's going on it's like a
395. 16:10huge roll reversal you started out dark
396. 16:13you started out light and now you've
397. 16:15swap positions completely and Megan you
398. 16:17are picking white for your family's
399. 16:19Furniture so it's going to go more
400. 16:21modern yep as long as you both feel good
401. 16:23right now that's all I need to know will
402. 16:26you be happy in a room of purple and
403. 16:28white and gray
404. 16:30yeah I hope so okay I'll just sit in
405. 16:33there and look pretty if you're not yeah
406. 16:35and I'll just be standing in the corner
407. 16:36serving the tea yes you will although I
408. 16:40really wanted to work with the existing
409. 16:41floor in the home it's just in a tad
410. 16:44worse shape than I had hoped so I've
411. 16:46added instead over top an engineered
412. 16:48wood floor that floats it's essentially
413. 16:51tongue and groove it's a little bit
414. 16:53thinner and sits on top of your existing
415. 16:55floor and the black is so dramatic in
416. 16:58this room it gives us this great
417. 17:00different unexpected background on which
418. 17:02to put furniture and decorations as we
419. 17:04get ready for our celebrations in this
420. 17:08space Megan and Matt have a beautiful
421. 17:10Victorian living room that really has
422. 17:13just needed a little bit of TLC and what
423. 17:15better way to do it is by adding color
424. 17:18they use the stove pipe as their
425. 17:20inspiration for the wall and I chose a
426. 17:22charcoal gray okay it's maybe not what
427. 17:25most people think about as a traditional
428. 17:27Victorian color but the richness and the
429. 17:29Darkness of the color really emphasizes
430. 17:32the drama of this large room but not as
431. 17:35much as there Second Color Choice the
432. 17:37color of perfumes from the Victorian era
433. 17:40this color purple is Regal and really
434. 17:42makes the ceiling stand out and brings
435. 17:45some color into really what is a neutral
436. 17:47space right now taking their old
437. 17:49furniture that looked kind of dated and
438. 17:51adding white to it brings it back to
439. 17:53this Century but reflects elements of
440. 17:56the past Century they're the perfect
441. 17:58marriage for a traditional space with a
442. 18:01modern
443. 18:02[Music]
444. 18:04flare this is like a double whammy cuz
445. 18:07we're putting the room together and then
446. 18:09we're going to bling it out for holiday
447. 18:11season exactly so we're going to stay in
448. 18:13the whole silver theme here and notice
449. 18:16how we're tying in a little purple to
450. 18:17the ceiling this is what we're going to
451. 18:19start adding for Holiday see how we have
452. 18:22the fruit and it kind of looks candied
453. 18:25right so to give us that you know feel
454. 18:27of Sparkle
455. 18:29I'm sensing you're not that impressed
456. 18:32look what else you can never have too
457. 18:33many of these the disco ball come on
458. 18:36nothing says party like disco balls and
459. 18:38I have many of them that will be S up is
460. 18:40it wrong to hang these well yes like
461. 18:43that is no it is it is wrong this room
462. 18:47is glamorous it's like maybe even over
463. 18:49the top a little I sort of picture
464. 18:52flowers everywhere like some kind of R
465. 18:54Coco nightmare or something
466. 18:58[Music]
467. 19:13what I love about this room is how
468. 19:16dramatic a transformation it's been I
469. 19:18love that we've melded modern with
470. 19:21traditional and even on the holiday
471. 19:23decorating side instead of decorating
472. 19:26the way the victorians did we took that
473. 19:27idea and went modern with it by adding
474. 19:29more sparkle and shine so it's a little
475. 19:32more blingy you know our guests love
476. 19:34that I mean I just think it's got this
477. 19:35great almost 1940s feel very glamorous
478. 19:39and really a showstopper when you walk
479. 19:41in the
480. 19:46house oh my this is our room it looks
481. 19:49bigger yes there's no wall in here hey
482. 19:52wow yeah gone
483. 19:56fixed felt like there was some kind of
484. 19:58phantom wall just kind of there and I
485. 20:00was like oh I got to go around
486. 20:03here this is
487. 20:06beautiful
488. 20:10fancy it's it's a fancy room I can't
489. 20:12believe we live here fancy fancy room
490. 20:15yeah so what do you think of the wall
491. 20:17color I mean the gray is a bit
492. 20:18unconventional for Victorian thinking
493. 20:21well we are very adventurous it's not
494. 20:24like oh it's so dark nothing is
495. 20:27overwhelming or gross MH actually is
496. 20:30fairly light and it's allowing things to
497. 20:32sort of they really pop window they
498. 20:34really pop look at that things are
499. 20:36popping popping yeah and brings out your
500. 20:38baseboard and trim beautifully and look
501. 20:41at The
502. 20:41Medallion the birds it pops off so
503. 20:46perfectly oh speaking of looking up okay
504. 20:49so the purple on the ceiling now that
505. 20:51you see it is it as you know scary as
506. 20:54you thought it was going to be look at
507. 20:55how how glamorous that is yeah it really
508. 20:59opens the ceiling up it's not as heavy
509. 21:02as I thought it was going to be y we
510. 21:04were wrong can you believe this is the
511. 21:07old antique furniture oh It's So Posh
512. 21:11this is like the most beautiful shade of
513. 21:14white I'd call the color on the sofa
514. 21:16champagne glams up old grandma sofa it
515. 21:18looks fantastic now we do have some
516. 21:21other furniture back here you may
517. 21:22recognize the garage sale
518. 21:25chairs the nice thing about these is
519. 21:27they're done in a faux ostrich so it's
520. 21:30basically like a plastic leather and you
521. 21:32can spill on those yeah just in
522. 21:35case that is pretty Chic and all the
523. 21:38Sparkle is for decorating purposes for
524. 21:41the holidays is it too much for you no
525. 21:43it feels really nice it's not as
526. 21:46feminine as I was fearing I think it has
527. 21:49enough modern elements in it to be
528. 21:51masculine uhhuh it's kind of a really
529. 21:52neat blend for a room yeah you did it
530. 21:55it's just kind of kind of sexy it is
531. 21:57very sexy
532. 21:59we're going to have a party we're going
533. 22:00to have a great party conversation is
534. 22:03going to flow like water cuz everyone's
535. 22:05going to be oooing and awing over our
536. 22:07beautiful taste
537. 22:09y we're not going to tell them that Jane
538. 22:11Lockard had anything to do with it no
539. 22:13they don't need to
540. 22:14[Music]
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