Coral plus Gray

A great tip for adding a little fun to your color combo's in your home is to mix a cool color with a warm color. One current example that I'm loving is Coral & Gray.

The vibrant hue that just radiates from coral(warm) is the perfect balance to a neutral calming gray(cool).

I loved finding this image from a 1961 BH&G with my current color combo obsession:


Another tip when decorating your home is to use the color combo of your choosing in different pieces of the room. Note the coral/gray artwork with the gray sofa and then coral toss pillows. It doesn't look like the room came out of a bag, but it does look like everything goes together.



The nice part of coral is that sometimes it can lead a bit more orange, which is always a plus in my book. Don't you love how it pops in the room below?

Because coral is a mix of orange and pink you can also get a coral that leans more towards pink. Again a plus in my book :)

When Erin revamped her blog I was immediately on board with the color palatte she picked:

It immediately reminded me the new J.Crew bridal salon:

I love how it can be used with a light shade of gray and/or a dark shade of gray and the coral still looks at home.

If you are scared that gray is a bit too cold for your liking then warm it up a touch and go with a taupe instead.

So are you feeling this color combo as much as me?

Images via 1. Vintage Goodness, 2. Urban Farmhouse, 3.Jeannie Balsam, 4.Country Living, 5. Elements of Style, 6. J Crew, 7. Ruthie Sommers, 8.Massucco Warner Miller

Sunshine Accessories!

With the start of the long weekend only a couple of short hours away I know all of our thoughts our on sun, fun and of course BBQ’s!

 

Whether we are hosting our own BBQ or attending a family or friends I know we all appreciate a stylish table set-up.

 

Check out my new go-to place for napkins, placemats, tablecloths, aprons, oven mitts and even hats!

 

Chic Placemats: A set of 4 for $40

 

Greek Key Embroidered Placemats: 4 for $48 . I’m already envisioning pillows in these.

 

Don’t you think the greek key pattern would look great in my guest bedroom?

More Sunny yellow: 4 for $28

I know this last pick isn’t in the sunshine color family, but these guys always make me happy so I had to share.

 

Elephant Cocktail Napkins: 6 for $24

 

How are you going to set your table for this weekend?

 

Are you going to go with a sunshine summer theme, red/white/blue or multi-color?

Pastel Palette’s

Here in NY we got to embrace the start of spring with a wonderfully warm and sunny weekend. Now of course we are back to gray clouds and raindrops, but for two glorious days I was living in the land of  dresses without tights and sunglasses.

 

With spring comes the re-immersion of pastel colors. From stuffed bunnies to Easter basket treats all around I begin to  see  light shades of pink, purple, blue and green.

 

While pastels in design conjure up images of bad decisions from the 80’s if done correctly it can look very current and chic.

 

{ Oh pastels gone bad!}

 

I think the key to using pastels is to make sure to balance it with some darker shades.

 

This image from House Beautiful sums it up perfectly:

During the Architictual Digest Home Show one of my favorite displays was from Mitchell Gold & Bob Williams.

 

How chic is that tufted sofa! I’ll take 2 please.

 

This chair had to be my favorite thing in the display. Loved the buttery leather, loved the shade of blue/green it came in and to make it even more perfect it had nail head trim!

 

The bedding display was a bit more neutral, but I still loved it. Very understated yet stylish. It totally looked like something people would actually use in their homes not just something from a magazine spread.

There whole set-up immediately reminded me of these:

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Don’t you think they would work framed up in a gallery wall in any of the rooms from above?

 

How do you feel about pastel shades in home decor? Do we love it or not so much?

Added more pictures to my DIFFA event recap. Now you can see what I wore and check me out at the table! Go have a peek!

Make it work…

I’ve had offices on the brain for the last couple of weeks. I’ve loved getting everything together for my little space, but what’s even more exciting is getting to see what others have done in their spaces.

Just this morning I logged on to Haskell Harris's blog for Garden & Gun to see what she was up to and felt like I hit the jack pot. Her most recent post is a preview of Tara Guerard’s ( Charleston Wedding designer) new satellite office in NY!

It’s a perfect mix of traditional and modern. A style that I am very much a fan of and was done with the help of Callie Jenschke and Nicki Clendening of SCOUT design.

Take a look for yourself and tell me what you think?

  

The kelly green mixed with the orange and touches of red and brown. Ah where do I sign up. I would be happy to simply fetch coffee in that office.

The cherry on the sundae is that the entire office got down on a tiny budget with finds coming from flea markets, ebay and ikea.

Lovely.

Images via Garden & Gun blog

Twist of Lime

One of my favorite parts of Sunday is getting my hands on the style section of the NY Times. I love reading up on all the wedding announcements, but my absolute favorite section has to be the On the Street and Evening Hours by Bill Cunningham.

In, “On the Street” Mr. Cunningham photographs everyday New Yorkers and what you get to see is a montage/college of sorts with a certain theme every week.

Evening Hours is more photographs from Mr. Cunningham, but in these he photographs high-society events that this high-heeled gal would never get invited to and is way too chicken to crash.

This weeks theme in Evening Hours was a twist of lime.  I thought it would be fun to do an interiors version so here is my rendition of a twist of lime!

 

So, how do you like your dose of lime?

Would you pair it with chocolate brown or teal?

Or is lime way too fruity for you (yes, I am that cheesy)? 

 

Images via 1. My Home Ideas, 2. & 3. Better Home and Gardens, 4. Jonathan Adler, 5.James Radin, 6. Domino, 7.Decor Pad, 8. Sweetpea & Willow, 9. Hatch: Design Public

Easy Peasy Decorating

I’m not sure why this is the first time that I found this gem of a site, but I’m sure glad that I did. When I’m working on a new project I always ask the client to give me anything they are inspired by whether it be an article of clothing, something ripped out of a magazine or a favorite picture. In seeing this I get a better idea of what their style is and what colors they lean towards.

If you are decorating your home yourself and want a little help in the direction of what color palette to go with in a certain room I think this site will make it easier.

You can download whatever image you have as inspiration and it will generate for you in a matter of a seconds a color palette to go along with it.

Here is one that I did just for fun this morning. It’s a shot of me being silly at Pebble Beach:

 

I also did one with of my favorite images from Domino:

I could keep on doing this for hours, but I have an appointment at 10:30 that I must start getting ready for so I leave you to go off and have some fun.

Share some of your inspiration pics and color palettes.