Category: Color
A Most Fetching Friday
This week’s A Most Fetching Friday (Fetching Friday 4) features seasonal color and comfort, a preview of things to come.
Fall colors on home decor parade
Mum is the word and the look for fall planting – Midwest Living
Making a grand entrance and grand statement – Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles
Mediterranean Landscape by San Francisco Architects & Building Designers Ken Linsteadt Architects
Elegance in dining – At Home with Brooke Shields via Architectural Digest
The Buffet – Wynn Las Vegas
I hope you have a wonderful holiday weekend and a most fetching Friday!
A Most Fetching Friday
This week’s Fetching Friday 3 features bold and stunning scenes of nature, seasons, sequins, and Saints.
Fresh Flower Arrangement Tricks – Good Housekeeping
Continental Tole Shield With Lion – 1stdibs
I highly recommend taking the sparkle and shine your way through life approach!
No matter the season, take advantage of the beauty of nature and color your world.
Lavender Hill Farms in Boyne City, Michigan – Midwest Living Magazine
Color Extraordinaire: Cognac – HGTV
Seasonal Simplicity!
Pumpkin Platter Centerpiece – Better Homes and Gardens
Who Dat Proud – New Orleans Saints
I hope yours is a most fetching Friday.
St. Patrick’s Day Decorating With Green
Decorating with green beautifully creates lush and lavish interiors. It’s a classic color that evokes the splendor of the outdoors, four-leaf clovers, St. Patrick’s Day, and the essential recipe for spring.
Shades will vary, however, the beauty delivered from decorating with green never wavers.
St. Patrick’s Day decor favorites in gorgeous shades of Erin go Bragh green fill the eye with the color of St. Patrick’s Day.
Schumacher Cascadia Wallcovering in Peacock
Inspiration is everywhere!
Color awakens a space, and decorating with green associates the beauty of nature.
Palette balance lends flow which in turn complements the core elements of design and decor.
May what beautifully fills your eye beautifully fill your heart and your home.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Holiday Inspiration and Festive Favorites
The holiday season is in full swing, and there is so many sites and sights to glean holiday inspiration from.
This is the time of year when treasures, goodies, ideas, and pretty images flood the day in the best possible way.
Holiday inspiration is all around.
Olive by Farrow & Ball is festively featured in the gentleman’s study designed by Tammy Connor at The Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles Christmas House.
The 12 Days of Christmas crackers from Williams-Sonoma are a Noël novelty done elegantly and festively right.
The Duet by George Sheridan Knowles masterfully exhibits the allure of green in shades of trend.
Fox Photos / Getty Images as seen on BuzzFeed
When I can’t sleep I don’t count sheep, I try to recall the stores and shops that lined the downtown area from when I was a kid.
Do you remember shopping downtown at Christmas time?
Santa Claus in his red house with white trimmed windows, Christmas lights and tinsel stars strung from store front to store front, and department stores display windows decked out in holiday finery.
Lerner Shops, Bakers, JCPenney, W.T. Grant, S. H. Kress & Co., Rexall, Morgan & Lindsey’s…
Christmas time is here!
Have a great weekend!
Think PINK For Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Prevention- Information- Numbers- Knowledge
Think PINK for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Prevention.
Information.
Numbers.
Knowledge.
Cancer screening, early detection, and prevention is vital in the fight to cure this disease.
Pink is the official color associated with Breast Cancer Awareness.
Pink is a fabulous color choice, breast cancer awareness is worthy cause to support, and won’t it be fabulous when the cure is found!
For my mother, dear friends and old and new, the woman in the waiting room, the names and faces of cancer I will never know, the growing numbers of survivors and thrivers, and the walkers and runners uniting together in pink solidarity- this one’s for you.
Be proactive in the fight against breast cancer by scheduling a yearly mammogram.
It’s a “pressing” engagement to keep.
Color Me Inspired: Choosing Paint Colors
Choosing paint colors can be a daunting process, but it doesn’t have to be.
Exterior or interior painting is by far one of the most inexpensive, impressive, and immediate options for changing and refreshing home décor.
Think of color as personality plus in a gallon, quart, or sample size container. It holds the power to calm, excite, bore and entice- a fascinating concept that reflects our personality and taste.
Color has the ability to infuse a space with decorative drama, calming appeal, or high octane energy.
Several years back before one of our trips out to America’s playground I watched what proved to be a color your world show during Vegas Week on the Travel Channel focused on how environment and interior design affects gamblers.
Color plays a significant role in casino and gaming floor interior design, especially pertaining to the mood and behaviors of gambling guests.
Blue is typically avoided due to the perceived calming effect as red remains a popular color choice for the excitement factor, and purple evokes an intimate, warm, and inviting feeling.
Inspiration is everywhere, and color choices can come from a favorite article of clothing, piece of jewelry, home décor accessory or fabric, or a treasured collectible.
When deciding what color to paint a space, these are a few of the factors I take into consideration:
What is the overall feeling this space needs to convey?
Formal or casual?
Relaxing bedroom or high energy kitchen?
Visual flow and compatibility with the overall color palette.
Texture and sheen, or lack thereof.
Flat matte or soft sheen satin eggshell?
Glosses shine in the vein of durability- the choice range being the easy to clean sheen semi-gloss to the woodwork, furniture, and high sheen-high traffic friendly high gloss.
Sure, there is both implied and true rules for color selection in interior design and decorating. Smaller spaces appear larger when a lighter color is used.
Lighting
A space blessed with plenty of natural light can support darker color choices.
House & Garden – Photography by Owen Gale
Natural light will accent the prominent tone of the color.
Remember this; the color of the paint you see in the store will not be the color of the paint you see on the walls in your home.
Paint colors will cast different colors at different times of the day based on natural and artificial lighting (basically the same principal as photographing with natural light vs. night shots).
Small space + light colors = open up and say size
Small space + the b&b principal (balanced & bold) = hello, gorgeous!
House Beautiful – Photography by Laure Joilet
Color is not just for walls.
Painting a ceiling with a contrasting color or sheen creates a dramatic focal point that will spread the color love by guiding the eye to the wall color.
White, beige, black, and brown no longer qualify as the only kids on the neutral block.
Photo by Sandie Clarke on Unsplash
Flawless gray areas have now moved into the classic neutral category.
Bold colors can be the Switzerland of the space, as long as warm and cool shades exist in colorful harmony while balancing the hue.
All things do come together in a space to influence the whole of the look, and when the correct balance is achieved, look out!
Small spaces tend to appear larger if lighter colors are used, but large patterns or bold colors balanced with the proper lighting can make a dramatic statement.
Painting is a great way to test the waters and step out of the decorative comfort zone.
Most paint brands have paint samples for purchase.
Behr Etched Glass One-Coat Satin Enamel Paint & Primer Sample
Take the time to purchase paint samples of the color or colors you have narrowed your choice down to.
Apply a couple of coats of the paint to an area on the wall you will be painting, allowing to completely dry.
Turn on the lights, pull back the curtains or open the blinds, shutters etc… and let the light in.
Hold that thought until later in the day when the light will be different.
Now, hold that thought until evening when the light has once again changed.
Tones will come to call at different times of day.
Color shows you how beautiful and right it is for you to live with at any time.
Using Metal Colors in Interior Design and Home Decor
Keeping late project hours tend to catch up with you, but inspiring images and finds prove a powerful motivator so here I am, at the keyboard, typing out what I hope is informative as well as inspirational information for using metal colors in interior design and home decor.
In order to keep my painter happy the air is turned to artic blast, the coffee is brewing, and the radio dial is set to his favorite classic rock station.
Traditional Home
“Heavy Metal” by Don Felder played this morning, and now it is stuck in my head.
The catchy tune and the on-trend metal parade gave me the idea for this using metal colors in interior design and home decor post.
Inspiration is everywhere, my friends.
Mihai Cork Metallic Wallpaper Roll
Using metal colors in interior design and home decor adds depth, warmth, and sophistication to the feel of the space.