September 5th, 2007
We painted the BM Revere Pewter in the downstairs powder room last night.. its one of those chameleon like colors. It looked like a pure gray in my test patch, but when I got the fan deck outside in the natural light it had a distinct mauvish pinky gray undertone. And last night, but the […]
read more...August 30th, 2007
I can’t possibly write a real post today, my head is swimming with random ideas and bits of information on wall treatments and how I can get a metallic-ish, brocade-ish, baroque-ish feel in the powder room. So here’s a little pictoral peak inside the madness: (image from Decor8 archives) from Brocade Home Farrow & Ball […]
read more...July 24th, 2007
We’ll start with the armoire/linen closet.. the first refugee from The Porch of Projects has been painted and relocated to its new home in the upstairs hall! First the before, with the much too faux navy blue crackle: Armoire before painting And now, the after: Linen Closet Armoire after Painting Sorry the picture is so […]
read more...July 12th, 2007
Yesterday the floor guy put the final coat of poly on, officially marking the end of the floor drama! We also finished painting the master bedroom, Benjamin Moore Silver Sage, a lovely color and the first one in the whole house that I actually liked right away: I’m happy to report that the floor guy’s […]
read more...June 22nd, 2007
Grace over at design*sponge recently did a guest interview with Jonathan Adler where he called color a “mood altering substance”. That got me thinking about how the fact that the women’s bathroom at the University where I work makes me totally happy every time I walk in: Somehow the pink combined combined with the black […]
read more...June 4th, 2007
So I posted this image before (from brocade home) as an inspiration for our tiny guestroom.. And here’s another “Virtual inspiration board” of ideas for that room: So when it came time to chose paint color, I went with “Chapel Spire” by Muralo (my favorite paint brand so far). It seemed to be a very […]
read more...May 24th, 2007
You’ll have to excuse my newfound obsession with creating color palettes.. I’m sure we’ll get back to our regularly scheduled programming soon.. but in the meantime, I came across this lovely image today via Terramia: and had to of course create a palette based on it: Thanks Terramia!
read more...May 24th, 2007
I love the earthy mix of yellows and browns. Too bad I can’t use this palette, I’m out of rooms!
read more...May 22nd, 2007
Approximate pallete (with healthy doses of black and white thrown in) Accent Color inspiration: A muted gold like in this Deer Print by Daniel St. George available at Little Paper Planes
read more...May 22nd, 2007
After months of saving inspiration pictures, finally I can do something useful with them like create color palettes at COLOURlovers.com! Here’s the palette I created using OplusD’s f*ck line of greeting cards as an inspiration: And when I’m done creating the palettes, I can head over to Easy RGB and use their color match tool to […]
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