A peek at the changing colors in the living room. Original colors are bold, deep and rich from Old World Tuscany – rich terra cotta, deep gold, emerald sage, tumeric yellow. The new palette is sunkissed Mediterranean with clean watery blues, sophisticated grays and creams, a bit of smoky orchid. I’m excited to see it begin to pull together! New Home updates: Solar tubes Painting Progress Home Update Week 7 Home Update Week 11 Week 19 Painter’s Progress New Home Update Week 22 ... [Read More]
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How to choose color for your home – part II
An oft repeated rule of thumb in choosing color for your home is to start with an accessory you love. The theory is that it is easier to match paint to a color in an expensive or sentimental painting, vase, pillow than it is to find accessories to go with the color. I did that in our kitchen. Only the color inspiration was a set of mugs and trivets from a garage sale that cost $2. Something in the color combination just sang. And now our kitchen sings the same tune. Then I fell in love with a color and dived in head first. Pun fully intended!! Since the name of the color is Sunken Pool. See above! Isn't that just gorgeous?!!!! IRL it is! We chose that color for our powder room on the main floor. The itty bitty room. I didn’t have accessories that I wanted to ... [Read More]
How to choose color for your home
This is not a how to post on choosing color in the usual sense. There is a lot of information available about color choosing. For example, how to be aware of the undertones of colors – even neutral colors have an undertone and those with blue undertones don’t play well with those that have yellow undertones. Color undertones of the things you cannot change, such as flooring or granite countertops or trim, will limit your choices. (Maria Killam, interior designer and colour expert, does an excellent job of explaining undertones on her blog ,Colour Me Happy.) You can find out about monochromatic color schemes where a single color is represented by different shades and values. Or complementary colors where opposite sides of the color wheel come into play, like orange and blue. Or colors ... [Read More]
