Major: Continuing with texturing - Counters, Cabinets, walls and floor
The kitchen counters and cabinets were suprisingly more complicated. It took me a while to get the effect I wanted, which was old painted wooden cabinets with the paint slightly faded. I did this by using my stylised wood texture, with a fill layer over the top which has a filter on it. Figuring out the colours for the cabinets was quite difficult as well, as I wanted a colour that was contrasting to the appliances that still looked good. I tried out quite a few colours before deciding on a grey.
Once I'd done the base of the cabinets, I added the marble to the countertops, tweaking it slightly to fit the rest of the countertop, then added the metal for the doorknobs and for the island, the tap.
The final part for the counter island was the sink basin, which also took a bit of work to get right. There wasn't a texture that I felt fit the look I was going for, which was porcelain, so I used the 'concrete simple' texure, modified it to look more like porcelain, then used a a fill layer with a filter to make it look more aged.
Next was the kitchen cabinets. I wanted to create a fake frosted glass look using textures, which I used this tutorial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2Yzfh_AKtY , and modifing the techniques shown to create the frosted glass look. I was really struggling with it until I added the fake shelves, which I think make them look much more convincing.
After doing the kitchen cabinets and counters, it became more obvious that the textures I had on the walls and the floor weren't working. So, I changed out the floor to a stylised flagstone tile, and the walls I made a more cream colour and added a tile backsplash to one of the walls using a fill layer with the brick filter applied to it. I also used a paint layer on both to add variation with darker tiles.
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