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Oh yes you can. <\/strong><\/em> Yes, ma’am. Throw on that dangly, clangy silver coin charm bracelet with a stack of gold or brass skinny cuffs. Rock those gunmetal earrings with your aged brass chain and bead necklaces.  Go ahead and add those warm brass or copper sconces in your powder room along with your polished nickel lavatory faucet. The question isn’t “can I do this?” but rather “how do I do this right?”  And if you mix metals the right way when you open your jewelry box, put together your date night outfit, or ponder the design scheme for your new room, you will have expanded your creative range beyond the usual predictable pairings.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let me share with you a few of my favorite mixing tips.
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Polished nickel has a very warm undertone as opposed to chrome or even satin nickel. <\/strong><\/em>\n Those warm undertones allow you to mix in the golds and brasses. Your \nkitchen and bath fixtures and your cabinet hardware and lighting do not \nhave to share the same metallic finish.  The trick is to have one \ndominant finish for most of your metal selections and then pop in the \nsecond finish as a singular element.  I often refer to this as “throwing\n it off”. Throwing it off is a good thing. It adds one outlier element, \ndifferent but still compatible to the main aesthetic in the space, so \nthat everything doesn’t look too samey or matchy. For example, if you \nare working on a new room, use all burnished brass curtain hardware, \ncabinet pulls and door hardware.  Then add in a warm gold coffee table \nand mix in a few touches of brass and gold in your accessories.  Make \nthe room really pop by layering in a knock out chandelier in aged or \nblack iron, polished nickel or pewter.  It will be a lone ranger in the \nspace, but in a good way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below are several shots of my home and a client’s kitchen where there is a whole lot of metal mixing going on!<\/strong><\/em>  In the living room photo, the mix reads very subtle because you are looking at predominantly warm gold and brass tones…the antiqued gold coffee table, the brass chair base, aged gold tall candlesticks mixed with a dark iron mirror and a chandelier with a mix of copper and silver metallic mesh.  In the kitchen shot, the cabinets are done in a subtle gold finish, the chandelier is brass, the metal bowl gold, but these warm metallics mix seamlessly with a polished nickel bar faucet and stainless steel appliances.  You get the idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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