Color Lover Looking For Inspiration!
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4 years ago
ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
4 years agoIf you Google 'Colorful Living Rooms' you'll find lots of ideas.
I think it's a shame that it's apparently no longer considered kosher to add pictures of your own home when someone has a specific question to which you have the answer, and can best illustrate it by showing what you've done. Compared to the past (longer than 2-3 years ago) this forum is now much more impersonal, and I think the horrible 'gray period' drove many people who had great taste away.
I hope no one will mind of I show what I've done with color in my own home. I don't follow trends and simply decorate with colors and objects I love.
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Comments (1)I love the colour scheme of the whole room. Looks wonderful!...See More
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4 years agoThis is my inspiration for this piece I’m going to TRY to blended paint this weekend.
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4 years agoI love color! This is one of my favorite living room ideas. I noticed neutral walls and the fabric on the curtains and pillows match.
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4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoPerhaps we can encourage each other to post our own rooms, and make this forum the lively and idiosyncratic place it used to be. Daniel, your room is exquisite, really perfect in its way. April, it doesn't matter what someone else shows, we need everyone's unique vision, and the more variety the better. You are much too modest. It would be lovely if we could bring back some of the interesting flavor of the past, where we're not afraid to reveal who we are and what we love. There is no good or bad, inferior or superior, there is only the personal and wonderful. Everyone who cares about decorating their home to reflect themselves has something special to share. We've survived some years of gray and soulless "decorating" where everyone strove for that same cookie cutter look, and it's been awful. If we can break away from that and inspire each other here, I for one would be enormously thrilled. To share is to inspire.
My imperfect (ye gads, that headboard clashes with everything!) master bedroom.
IdaClaire
4 years agoI've posted this so many times that I'm sure folks are sick of it (and it's old - the ceiling fan no longer has that hideous light kit attached), but I share it here to show that I've embraced neutral walls (and ginormous brown leather pieces), while adding color via artwork and jewel-toned rugs. It is perhaps a bit too muted for color lovers, but my previous home had small rooms and each was painted a different brilliant color, so this is something of a respite from that kind of visual stimulation for me, while remaining true to my love of color.
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Daniel OConnell
4 years agoThanks for the compliments and requests for additional photos! I do all my own design and tile work. After living here seven years, I am now selling this place and am excited to be now starting on the next house. I started my career path as a real estate appraiser and often noticed how much higher the price would be when the landscaping was nice. So that's the first thing I work on with a new house (so that the landscape will be mature when I sell). This place was a beater when I bought it. None of the showers worked and the guy had two big shipping containers in the front yard. He hadn't washed the windows in ten years! The kitchens was torn down to the studs and enlarged. All the bathrooms were stripped bare, as well.
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4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoSummer Thornton has such a knack! Her color-saturated rooms are amazing, but I am particularly intrigued at how she can take a very neutral space and by introducing a few judicious pops of color, completely bring it to happy life.
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4 years agolast modified: 4 years agotartanmeup Sometimes I think (hope?) the Pros cite "the rules" not so much as a proscription but as a shorthand prescription and a way to make someone 'see'....and consider. I also like to know the rulez so I can know when I've broke 'em, gives me a rebellious frisson! Look at these folk below...everyone broke at least 3 of the rulez in a single photo!
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4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoLes Rulez what got broke ...
1st photo rug too small, no sofa legs on it...oH My! Coffeetable too large, no clearance. (this does bug me but a different table is no biggie in such a glorious space) and the nerve of these folk putting in a room gobbling sectional in this narrow space. Tut,tut.
2nd Art too high. Doubt it is given that the owner is a professional art dealer...looks to me like he placed the art pieces for maximum perfection of viewing/noticing and so that if you are seated across from that wall at dinner, the human across from you is center stage. Circumference of chandy. (so few quoting this rulez consider the overall mass) Rug a bit small for diners at the end. Given the other fabulous eat in spaces in this beyond fabulous home, let'em eat their cake elsewhere.
3 Art extends past console. Arrest them and their clever obfuscating solution! Rug not centered symmetrically. Tsk,I bet they had their reason and it was a good one. Art too high. Which,if you plan on keeping that center object there,it isn't. Lower it and the whole arrangement would look squat.
Ready for one more...note the art placement. Imagine the advice this room would get from some folks. In general though, my belief is that most here love design and just want to get it right, for themselves and for their clients. Off to feed my unicorn ;-)
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