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Guest Post: Color in Unexpected Places

11 Monday Mar 2013

Posted by melissaoconnor in Everyday Design, Guest Posts, The Home

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art, color, decor, decorating, design, home, interior design

Here are some ideas on how to incorporate vibrant colors in unexpected places in your home and add some pop and spice to your décor.

Living Room
Everybody expects color on the walls and ceilings but its usually painted a boring neutral color. Do the opposite and paint your ceiling a bright metallic blue. The light reflected onto the walls will give your room an ethereal look.
Guest Post: Color in Unexpected Places
Photo Credit: J Taylor Designs

For architectural interest, add a single red stripe on your wall in an otherwise neutral room. Run the stripe through the ceiling and the opposite wall.  You can also paint an accent wall with chocolate brown. It will act as a perfect backdrop for your flat screen television or an art master piece.
Guest Post: Color in Unexpected Places
Photo Credit: Houzz

Fire up your living room with a single red couch.
Guest Post: Color in Unexpected Places
Photo Credit: Apartment Therapy

Make a statement with yellow, green or purple window blinds and paint your fireplace to match the blinds. Why not add a splash of color in an otherwise white room by displaying a piece of vibrantly colored modern art. Another quick way to add visual interest is by throwing in a couple of black or multi colored pillows on your couch.

Dining Room
Paint alternate chairs in your dining table-set bright green or purchase a green set.
Guest Post: Color in Unexpected Places
Photo Credit: Trend Zona

Add some whimsy by stenciling in a couple of interesting patterns on the walls.
Guest Post: Color in Unexpected Places
Photo Credit: Fresh and Fancy

For some ways to create interest on your table create a gorgeous purple centerpiece or fill a purple bowl with colorful pebbles and water. You can also try floating a few fresh or silk flowers in it. When you have guests over include an odd colored plate in your dinner set or add a lavender desert spoon to your silver ware.

Bedroom
Make your bed more luxurious and inviting or brighten up a guest room with a multi-colored festive patchwork handmade quilt.Guest Post: Color in Unexpected Places
Photo Credit: Angela Flicker

Sleep like a baby by painting a soothing blue on your walls or even just an accent wall.
Guest Post: Color in Unexpected Places
Photo Credit: My So Called Home

To highlight your windows add a glowing golden valance above your blinds and complement it with a flaming yellow carpet on the floor.

Kitchen
Create a colorful herb garden on your window sill. Nature always adds a nice touch to any space. You can also try painting your sill violet and place two or three herb pots painted bold red, yellow, and green for a pop of color.
Guest Post: Color in Unexpected Places
Photo Credit: Yankee Magazine

Paint two random kitchen cabinet doors fuchsia and pale green respectively. The complementary colors will add an unexpected freshness to the room. For a quick pop of color, place a turquoise blue cooking pot on your stove.

Bathroom
Liven up a boring bathroom with a free standing tub in daffodil yellow or electric blue. Pick your color and make it a DIY project.
Guest Post: Color in Unexpected Places
Photo Credit: SCC Kitchen, Bath & Home

You can also try installing a Fuchsia vanity countertop or paint the frame of your vanity mirror a slate-blue. For instant pop, place a violet-red vase with white flowers on your countertop. Why not add interest to the space and stencil in bright patterns or flowers on the window frame.

Stairwell
Paint a faux salmon colored runner on your stairs. Make it pop out by stenciling in a few flowery accents.
Guest Post: Color in Unexpected Places
Photo Credit: Babble

Paint each railing in different shades of blue starting with the palest blue at the bottom and moving up the color spectrum as you go up the stairs. Finally, bring in fresh flowers in a riot of colors!
Guest Post: Color in Unexpected Places
Photo Credit: Decoist

{This post was written by Jason Torres brought to you by UniqueVanities.com and UniqueMirrorsOnline.com, where you can find the best modern single sink bathroom vanities}

Decorate Your Home in Pink

06 Wednesday Mar 2013

Posted by melissaoconnor in Ella Andrews, Everyday Design, Guest Posts, The Home

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color, decorating, design, ella andrews, interior design, pink

Written by Ella Andrews

Many people will say that using pink in your home is a bold decision and it will not make the place more comfortable or cozy. It is also believed to be a childish color that people associate with spoiled teenage girls and some consider using it in your home decor quite inappropriate. Pink may not be a very popular color when decorating your space but the truth is that when its done with style this type it can actually do a lot good to one’s place.

Decorate Your Home in Pink
Photo Credit: We Heart It

The first and most important thing you need to understand is that no one is telling you to paint your walls all over in pink. What you should actually do is use the color as an accent in various combinations. There are a lot of choices you can pick from that will make your home stylish. Just be extremely careful you don’t cross that thin line between stylish and childish decoration.

Pink can bring a soft, emotional mood in your home. You can combine it with different colors such as green, light blue, yellow, white, and even gray. You will be surprised of how unconventional and yet modern these combinations look. Other interesting combinations are also dots on pink background or a blue wall with beautiful large pink flowers on it. A half painted pink wall is also worth considering. However, if you still insist on having your walls completely painted in pink then you should use paintings in black and white to decorate to break up the color. Or at least use pictures with black frames.

Decorate Your Home in Pink
Photo Credit: Vertical Launch

You can also use pink in the details. Choose proper Battersea furniture, like a sofa or an arm chair, that is painted in pink but do not use this color for your other furniture. Another option is to turn your attention to tiny details such as a rug, decorative cushions, or table covers. Items in pink are easily distinguished among other things so you do not have to worry that they will remain unnoticed among all your other room furnishing and decoration.

Decorate Your Home in Pink
Photo Credit: Sproost

Pink is suitable for all rooms in your home. It will look as good in the bathroom as it will in the kitchen or the bedroom. As a matter of fact, pink is extremely suitable for your working space as it brings a cheerful mood and inspiration while you are working. There is no need to mention that pink is the perfect choice for your small daughters bedroom.

Decorate Your Home in Pink
Photo Credit: CDN4

And finally a bit of advice: if you are not sure how you would feel in a place totally decorated in pink you can simply check it out first. Choose a room in your home and add a few pink accents. If you do not find it too much you can go ahead with using the color for decorating the whole place.

Decorating Your Home in a Vintage Modern Style

14 Thursday Feb 2013

Posted by melissaoconnor in Ella Andrews, Everyday Design, Guest Posts, The Home

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antique, decorating, design, fashion, home decor, interior design, modern, style, vintage

If you would like to achieve a super fashionable style in your home, we are here to help you. Sometimes originality is hard to accomplish but the combination of many styles is the perfect way to manage your home arrangement.

When it comes to decor and lovely ornaments at home, vintage style is the best way to end up having a sophisticated and truly cozy interior design. Decorate your home in this style and you will love the nice atmosphere it creates. Including other techniques of trimming and arranging and you will result in even a better home environment. Our vintage fashion style recommendation is a combination between retro and modern.
Decorating Your Home in a Vintage Modern Style

You may think that this is an absolute paradox, and it is completely impossible to be achieved, but these styles just might be the effect your are looking for in your home. The old fashioned elements are going to look absolutely stunning among all the new and contemporary trends in the furnishing and decorating process. The design will embrace almost everything specific for this romantic and a little bit nostalgic epoch in a modern and convenient way.
Decorating Your Home in a Vintage Modern Style

The furniture should be cozy and a little bit old-fashioned but that will also come with solid materials and tough damasks. Furthermore, the furniture may be vintage but could be placed in an absolutely minimalist room with sleek terracotta, naked walls and lots of spaciousness. There are many ways one can play around with this combination.
Decorating Your Home in a Vintage Modern Style
Photo Credit: Houzz

Decorating Your Home in a Vintage Modern Style
Photo Credit: SF Girl By Bay

Joining the styles can be achieved in the decoration process as well. For instance, you may still use that retro set of porcelain plates and dishes in yellow and red but you may arrange them on a more modern style shelving in your kitchen. Most importantly, you should keep the balance between the new and the old things so the design flows nicely. Choose the retro elements and try to combine them with your modern furniture in a way so they don’t lose  the individual beauty.
Decorating Your Home in a Vintage Modern Style
Photo Credit: HGTV

Decorating Your Home in a Vintage Modern Style
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Turn on your personal inspiration and improvise by setting your own trends in your home. Do some detailed research before you start decorating and combine the best things you have seen from the magazines and from the web. It’s helpful to keep a collection of ideas and images together so new ideas form. Good luck!

Written by Ella Andrews
{She is always searching for new challenges and presently contributes articles on house moving and storage, as well as home decoration related themes.}

How to Make Flower Arrangements

19 Wednesday Dec 2012

Posted by melissaoconnor in Daisy Hart, Everyday Design, Guest Posts

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centerpieces, decorating, diy, dried flowers, Flower Arrangements, flowers, nature, ribbon, silk flowers

Decorating your house with flowers is a great way to brighten up the interior and bring some color into your home. Creating beautiful flower arrangements at home is quite easy and almost anybody can learn how to do it. With a little practice you can even make them look quite professional.

How to Make Flower Arrangements

When decorating your home, you can use both fresh and dried flowers. Both can help you achieve great results. Even artificial or paper craft flowers can do the trick. All you need to do is to provide yourself with the proper materials.

How to Make Flower Arrangements

Carefully choose the proper colors. If you would like to accent a certain room in your house or use specific colors, you will have to do some pondering beforehand so that you are sure you will make the right decision. Pick what type of flowers you would like to use for your floral arrangement. If you enjoy being creative and don’t mind making new displays every other week, use fresh flowers. Some types of fresh flowers, like jasmine, for example, will grant your room with a magnificent aroma. However, if you are allergic to pollen, or would like a long-lasting arrangement, choose silk flowers.

How to Make Flower Arrangements

The room decor needs to be complemented by the colors you choose. If you are a beginner in this field, use the help of a color wheel. As complementary are considered the colors beside the one you have chosen. Similarly, contrasting are those that are on the opposite side. For example, if the main color theme of your room is yellow, pick a color that is next to the yellow color on the color wheel.

Before you actually start making the arrangements, make sure you have nice containers for them. You can use ceramic vases, large coffee mugs, wicker baskets, brass containers, sculpted clay or even small cardboard boxes. Don’t forget that you will need a watertight container if you use fresh flowers. According to the size of your container, cut an appropriate piece of floral foam which will fit just right. Glue it to the bottom of the container. If you are to be using fresh flowers, soak the foam once its glue dries. Thorns and lowers leaves are to be trimmed in order not to rot or mold in the water.

How to Make Flower Arrangements

Greenery as well as the tallest of the flowers should be arranged first. If the arrangement is to be a centerpiece, put them in the middle. If not, put them in the back. While arranging the rest of the display’s components, be careful not to create any single color patches. For instance, if you have a bunch of red flowers, do not place them all right next to each other, but rather put a yellow or a pink one with some greenery among them. This will break the patch.

How to Make Flower Arrangements

If your container of choice is a wooden box or a basket, use some trailing greenery which will soften the container’s sharp outline. Adding plain or scented candles is optional. However, if you decide to use such, make sure everything is properly trimmed in order to avoid setting your arrangement on fire.

As a final touch, you can attach a ribbon, preferably a silk one, which is to be changed throughout the year, in order to match the themes of the different holidays – a green on for St. Patrick’s Day, a red one for Valentine’s Day, red-white-blue one for Independence Day, etc. By making floral arrangements you will bring in bright color and mood in your home, which can last all year long.

Written by Daisy Hart

http://www.flowersbypost.org.uk/valentines-flowers/

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