October 29th, 2007
This morning I get a phone call from Patricia of PVE Designs asking me if I had received her illustration. I hadn’t, but when i went to check my email, there was this lovely gift waiting for me: Illustration by Patricia van Essche of PVE Design Isn’t that the most charming illustration you’ve ever seen? […]
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...August 14th, 2007
With the prospect of a housewarming party looming in the near future I think it’s time for me to finally face the challenge of the downstairs half bath/powder room. Similar to the so called “master bath” upstairs, I haven’t posted about this room yet because its a) embarrassing and b) overwhelming. I only WISH i […]
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 29th, 2007
Leafing through a past issue of “Remodeling & Makeovers” magazine, I spotted these faux crocodile porceline tiles from Walker Zanger’s Matouche Line: I LOVE these! I wonder how they would look as a backsplash behind the stove? It looks so elegant in the bathroom below: I also really dig their new Metal Tech tiles shown in the […]
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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