Ever Thought of... A Dash of Fresh Green?

There are so many ways to add colour into your interior space - here today I fell in love with these 'green rooms'. With their bold use of colour blocking, oversize pattern & print - playing with the scale, and playing with the placement - like gingham wallpapered ceilings! How fabulous!

Large or small spaces in each image you can see how the use of green is used in varying balances often tied back with white or off-white, tints & shades of green, and 1 accent colour to break up the focus of the colour blocking. Where natural timber finishes have been used to create a surface texture, white finished furniture may have been used in other spaces and created more dominance & contrast of shape/ depth.

Could this be a hue of green you might want use soon?

I know I love the idea of the wallpaper patterned ceiling!

Enjoy,

images via elle decor, house and home, my home ideas, house beautiful, bhg

Softer Side...

My recent copy of [Australian] Vogue Living Sept/Oct 2010 issue has opened my eyes to a softer side of lilacs, violets, pistachio, pale sage & forrest greens, then dramatically to be teamed with ebony, eggshell, pale grey & bitter cocoa teak - all to be had in sumptuous studded & button-back upholstery; soft furnishings in velvets, raw silks, and satin; and in grand scale...I would love to incorporate these hues and scheme into a master bedroom or a lounge / dining room in a restored period home. 

I love this editorial piece on the Lime Wood Hotel [UK] - take me there now! Lime Wood, is a luxury country house hotel in England, is set in the heart of the New Forest National Park, 1.5 miles from the small town of Lyndhurst and just an hour and a half drive from London. Take a look & Enjoy x.

For more details on the Lime Wood Hotel - click Here. 

Images via Australian Vogue Living Sept/ Oct 2010 issue now on sale. For subscriptions-click Here.  

Colour Block For Christmas...

For the Front Door

Fior your Kitchen Shelves

For your Kitchen Window

For your Living Room

For your Lounge Room

If you're still stuck sorting out your decor for Christmas and feel like time is running ahead of you - then take comfort in the good news you're probably not the only one, and you don't need to make too hard for yourself!! So here's a few spaces I found from my colour & style files, that show from the Front Door, to the Kitchen, and to the Lounge Room, that have used a traditional Christmas colour - Green - in various shades, to show that you can colour block your decorations to provide a very festive stylish look... You could also achieve this with your own favourite colour be it blues, reds, whites & neutrals, metallics, or pinks & oranges. Just have fun with it...and so you're not playing favourites on the colour wheel - you can always rotate your colours & shades year by year - just to be fair! Have fun with it!

Images from Country Living

It's Friday & A Weekend Away!

Well Friday is upon us again, and I hope you have a had a wonderful week - absorbing shades of green through your daily life... and so I thought that in finishing the 'Colour Week' of Green for March I found this great image of a vintage American pick up truck - complete with mattress, and a couple of cosy quilted throws [one avocado green - of course], and even better driving off into the sunset as this is what I am doing this weekend - going away!

On a spur decision my husband booked a weekend away on Thursday evening! Where you may ask are heading? We're off to Canberra [Australia's national capital] to visit the National Gallery [N.G.A] and to catch the 'Degas - Master of French Art' exhibit, as well as visiting local markets and enjoying some delicious food & wine...

Wherever you are this weekend I hope you have a great one! Enjoy x

Painted Furniture & Green Pears

I have always had a fascination with pears, especially green ones... several pears placed in a ceramic bowl or a wicker basket can be a great edible accessory both in a traditional country context as well as a contemporary one - where placement and containment [type of] is key. I love this painting by Rosemary Ladd of these delicious green pairs - 5 pears as placement, using 'odd' numbers of items is crucial in ensuring a natural balance. 'Odd' numbers are considered organic numbers.
This pale green paitined lingerie chect of drawers almost belongs in the 'looking glass' with Alice - I love the quote stylishly painted onto the front of the drawers.

I love this pair of painted chairs in lime green with their pressed metal inlay on their back, they almost look like a long waiting suited couple [a grandmother & grandfather chair] just waiting for someone to drop by and say hello....

Images from Traditional Living & Rosemary Ladd

Pistachio... Cottage Charm

Today I am in love with this 'cottage'....

I love the combination of greens from the soft pistachio to the glass bottle green, to the blue green and ripened celery green - all teamed with white, off white, grey glass, and metal finishes alongside the birch, thatched wicker baskets & dining chairs and dotted with highlights of camellia pink, and surprise pops of turquoise blue. What a beautiful fresh palette to make for an inviting, comfortable space.

Just a cup of tea and a good mag - feet up... I'm already there!

Glass Bottles make for beautiful vessel displays - taking in and refracting the light of the hues surrounding them.

A trestle table is a contemporary smart way to

have space for a home office or writing space.

The blue green shutters frame the

pin board - a great space for reminders

or inspirational finds.

Images from Country Living

A Green Kind of Week... Colour Week

Muted Blue Grey Greens play an important role in this living room's colour palette through the mural wall scape - creating a soft dreamlike, serene elegance...
Using a photo of an object or a landscape can be a fabulous way to extract a colour scheme or palette - here a vintage art deco cover book is used with these grey blue greens as a muted palette. This palette can also be seen replicated in an interior space with the muted blue grey greens in the the mural style wall scape in the living room above.

After being inspired by colour on the weekend - I was putting together some palettes for some living rooms - I thought I would colour block a week in a month to beautifully styled rooms & spaces, designs and accessories...
This week for the month of March I am focusing on 'Green - and all its forms' - be it a Forest, Lime, Bottle, Sage, Clover, Pistachio, Avocado, Emerald, Chartreuse or Grass Green.... I think there's a green hue for everyone in the spectrum, don't you?

Images from Elle Decor & WGSN