Tag archive for "color"

DWR Spring Catalog

Living

Neighborhood Spy: In Living Color

1 Comment 04 May 2013

Today’s roundup is all about color, color, color. First up, Design Within Reach unleashes the rainbow in its spring catalog, bursting with warm-weather inspirations for the home. Next, West Elm delivers lots of sunshine in its new arrivals collection, including this mosaic tiled coffee table just waiting to hold a round of margaritas and some [...]

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Architecture

Inspiring Saguaro Hotel Infused by Spring Colors in Palm Springs

No Comments 03 May 2012

If there is ever a better time to celebrate color, it is when spring and summer are at their high season. From colorful blooms outside to inspiring colors in interior textiles and wall color, who doesn’t love shots of big and bold color? For those of you who can’t get enough of eye-catching hues set [...]

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Accessories, Bedroom

Creating the Non-Traditional but Playful Black & White Nursery

3 Comments 20 April 2012

For most parents, the nursery is the place that will embody their newborn’s personality throughout their first years and they want it to be inspiring, playful, and not look like everyone else’s. While pastel colors, pinks and blue have been safe color palettes in the past, there is a design push for originality and unique [...]

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Living, Styles

Bringing Easter Spring Colors into Your Home

No Comments 04 April 2012

With Easter right around the corner, who can resist bringing pastel colors and spring infused decor into their home? The playful colors of spring and Easter are officially here, but with a twist: they are paired with bright fuchsia, powerful black and coupled with lighter muted shades of blues, pinks, and greens! What a wonderful [...]

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Kitchen

Simple Ways to Color Coordinate Your Kitchen with Adjacent Rooms

2 Comments 27 March 2012

Depending on the layout of your kitchen, the colors that you choose for it may largely depend on the adjacent rooms. In older homes where the kitchen was a closed off room, the color choices could be as radically different as you wanted. In renovations and newer homes, the open floor planned kitchen has changed [...]

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Black and White Bedroom Photographed by Tom Atwood

Bedroom

A Quartet of Stunning Black and White Bedrooms

1 Comment 08 March 2012

If the bedroom is the place where we go to rest our minds, both literally and figuratively, it stands to reason that it should be free of clutter and distraction.  Today’s roundup of bedroom designs takes simplicity to the extreme with a nearly complete absence of color; these four rooms strip away all the excess, [...]

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Architecture

Bringing Serenity into an Urban Refuge Residence

No Comments 21 February 2012

In an urban environment, the need for bringing serenity and peace into your home is essential. In the city center apartment called ‘An Urban Refuge’ in Barcelona, Spain, the homeowner desired interiors that reflected his lifestyle, while still keeping clean and open views to the outside world. The serenity comes from the simple white interiors [...]

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Living, Styles

Simple Ways to Bring Tangerine Tango into Your Home

No Comments 20 February 2012

Photo credit: Lonny For the last few years there has been a steady move to bringing in brighter and more colorful choices to your interiors. Pantone has always been on the forefront on predicting trends in colors in the fashion, design, and home interiors industries and everyone looks to Pantone for bright shots of inspiration [...]

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Furniture

How to Choose Furniture Colors for your Small Home

No Comments 02 February 2012

Choosing furniture is always a challenge. Between deciding on color and type of material, design style, height, size, and a dozen other factors, choosing furniture for your small home can make the search even harder. Smaller homes have the advantage on not needing a lot of furniture, but they have the drawback of requiring that [...]

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Bathroom, Living

How to Create an Intriguing Dramatic Bathroom

No Comments 19 January 2012

Years ago, bathrooms only came in a few colors, and most of the time they were neutral or very feminine colors. Today, bathrooms have become a focal point in many homes to bring drama, mystery and a wow factor! Whether you are looking to impress in your guest bathroom or you want to add drama [...]

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Styles

Tips for Choosing Interior Design Palettes and Color Schemes

1 Comment 19 August 2011

Choosing a color palette for your interior design plans depends mostly on what lighting you have available and what “mood” or “feel” you want various rooms to have. Before choosing a particular color scheme, know if you have shadow areas, like corners, and how much natural light the room will receive. Colors look different under [...]

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Styles

Attic Rooms: Essential Tips for Decorating

No Comments 17 August 2011

Bungalows are often known to have an attic room that forms a unique attraction and charm, although the idea of decorating the room can prove to be a daunting task – especially if one has little knowledge of DIY decorating. With the attic room often found fitted with a sloping roof and staircase, many can [...]

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