Schöner Wohnen is somewhat difficult to translate because there are several English verbs that cover partly, but none of it entirely, the German verb "wohnen". To live, to stay, to dwell, they all cover a certain aspect of it, but do not mean quite the same. My (cumbersome) suggestion for a translation would be "Live more Beautifully (as far as house improvement is concerned)". The colours are available at specialist shops and at the better DIY places. The desired hue will be mixed on the premises.
It is of decent quality, although it is a world apart from the Farrow & Ball or Dulux Heritage range. Frankly, the paintwork for one flat alone will be 10,000 Euro, which equals at the current exchange rate roughly 13,300 UDS, so there simply is no budget anymore for a more upmarket paint range. (To be fair I ought to say that the painting costs include the renovation of the original double-glazed windows I insisted on keeping. Nothing more ugly than an old house with dead eyes!)
I have arranged the colours in no specific order. Note that there are different ranges for deep colours, earth colours, trend colours, mild colours, restrained colours, lively colours, whites and subtle colours. This is only a small selection, namely some of those I am taking into consideration. There are hundreds more. Click the image to enlarge.Some of the colours are marked with "RAL" and a four-digit number. That refers to a German industry standard.
I was appalled how badly my scanner seems to reflect the colours, for example the reds on the left look much to "yellowish" to me, as do the pinks, and the yellows look too green. But as I was unable to change that without creating even worse aberrations, I hope that it is nothing but a matter of bad screen calibration. For example, the first red (the first colour at all in the image) ought to look like a "Marlboro" red, a fire-engine red, what the printers here are calling a "beautiful red". What I see is much too yellowish for that.
Like the charts I have uploaded earlier, I will use this for future reference.
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I know I am in the wrong spot but I do not know if you back read your posts. Here goes - How spooky you had a cairn statue that you gave to a friend! LOL
No I did not see your terrier posts. Would love to see a new one??? There is a hint! LOL
I have a maltese x pug who is old and a rescue pug we adopted this year and she is 8 yrs. I love all dogs really.
Here are the terrier entries -- and one or two others in which the word "terrier" occurs. ;-)
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