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Recent Posts Tagged With 'Color'
Hue’s Design Dilemma
My favorite color blog, Hue, has an interesting post about choosing color palettes for adjoining room. I thought you’d enjoy reading it. “What do you do when you have combined living spaces that flow together? Do you paint them all the sa...
Dorothy Draper Colors
Sensational Color has a nice post on the favorite colors of famed interior decorator, Dorothy Draper. I thought you’d enjoy reading it. As writer Kate Smith says, “Dorothy Draper was the Grand Dame of using bright, bold color and textur...
Getting White Right
I read this article from Coastal Living about decorating with white and thought I’d share it. White is a wonderful color, especially at the beach. Writers Elizabeth Raines Beeler and Abigail B. Millwood suggest white for slipcovers and I could...
Mythic Paint
Mythic Paint was kind enough to send me a fan deck of their No VOC paint. This is a new paint I wrote about earlier, which has no Volatile Organic Compounds. So no bad smell. Their fan decks are now available for sale directly from their site.I was p...
Design Dilemma: Choosing a Paint Color
Here's the question I received from a very frustrated couple who are trying to choose a paint color for their hallway. Joan says, "We have put picture frame molding and a chair rail on our stairway. We are about to paint and plan to keep the lower ha...
Mythic Paint
There's a new paint on the market that seems primed to turn the green world on its ear. Mythic contains no volatile organic compounds (VOCs). That means it has no off-gassing from toxins. It also means it's an ultra-low odor paint.Low VOC paints have...
Purple Haze
In case you didn't know, purple and brown is the new blue and brown. Be sure to write that down. You can use it at cocktail parties to impress your friends. Leaving the brown out of things for now, let's take a look at the new blue of the duo - purpl...
Hooray for Rachel
My blogging buddy, Rachel Perls, was featured prominently in today's Washington Post home section. She and I started blogging at about the same time. And she lives in my home town of Baltimore. Plus, we both love working with and talking about color....
Color Harmony Workbook
I thought I'd share something I've been enjoying lately. It's the Color Harmony Workbook, by Lesa Sawahata.This book is great for choosing color palettes. She matches color schemes to specific moods. I haven't seen a book that approaches color this w...
Black & White On The Trend Horizon
Just when Americans are getting all excited about color, the European designers are getting tired of it.Eplaff, Ligne Roset's lacquered stainless-steel fruit bowlNew York Times Reporter, Marianne Rohrlich, writing about last week's Maison et Objet sh...
Linens from Garnier-Thiebaut
A welcome taste of Spring and Summer from France. Garnier-Thiebaut makes beautiful textiles for the home. Shown here is a sampling of their tablecloths and placemats, seat cushions, and tea towels. They fit right in with this season's vibrant color t...
Color Goes Coastal
There's a nice online slide show from Coastal Living on color palettes for beach houses. They feature eight different color combinations. A palette is a good jumping off point. But don't forget that you're allowed to color outside the lines, too.Case...
