Interior Shades of Red... Colour Styling With Red.

[image 1] A Front Door with Real Street Appeal
[image 2] Kitchen Surprise - Simple Splash of Red for Cabinetry Sides & Underneath a White Bench Top, combined with Stainless steel accessories & furniture.

[image 3] Incite the senses in the dining room with these raspberry red walls teamed with white trim & wainscoting

[image 4] A Cherry Red dining table creates a sensual modern eating experience

[image 5] For the classicists - here accents of lipstick [blue] red are used in soft furnishings - cushions & curtains, as well as accessories with a black / french navy & off white/ ivory palette.

[image 6] For the modern retro/ contemporary tastes here's a great way to bring a red-orange [vermilion] into your living space with some mi century style furniture paired back with a pale blue wall and floor rug - makes for a quirky fresh take on a tricky colour.

[image 7] A red wall in a living room can be easily broken up with wall shelving, neutral tones & white for a softer effect.

[image 8] Crimson Pink Red Feature Wall - play with Valentine's heart messages & decorate with fresh flowers family pictures in black & white as small vignette to the ones you love.

[image 9] Ruby Red bedroom walls paired back with white soft furnishings and mid tone timber stains. If you're not sure about colouring your whole room why not just paint the wall behind your bed. That wall you can see & enjoy the colour as you are in the room but once in bed it's not looking at you!

Colour Inspiration - with upcoming St Valentine's Day I have been inspired to find spaces coloured with Red! Following from my post yesterday on up Colour Styling with Red for outdoor [garden] spaces... Here are some wonderful examples I found in my image files & wanted to share with you on how you can colour style your home or office interior with a varying shades of red - whichever your style & taste. Enjoy x

Images from My Home Ideas & Point Click Home

Print & Patterned Walls...

More often we love our neutral colour schemes with a splash of colour here and there, and the influence of trends & fashion, we can sometimes be afraid to use pattern & print more liberally through our homes & commercial spaces - and often it is down to the execution and bravado! I fell in love with these rich print patterns used in various colour palettes that create a striking presence in the space... Where sometimes less is more, and more is more! I am torn between the top image the bedroom of Beth Buccini and the 2nd from top image of The Palm Beach, Florida, dining room of Simon Doonan!

So now the question.. Will you give that print you've been looking over a 2nd chance now?

For the bedroom of Beth Buccini, a cofounder of fashion boutique Kirna Zabête, interior designer Carl D’Aquino combined two 19th-century gilt-wood headboards and upholstered them in a thickly patterned floral fabric. Behind the bed is a hanging made of a leafy textile by Clarence House.

The Palm Beach, Florida, dining room of Simon Doonan (creative director of Barneys New York) and Jonathan Adler (potter extraordinaire) flaunts an iconic floral wallpaper made by Bob Collins & Sons, accentuated by white-lacquer furniture. Photographer: William Waldron

When commissioned to decorate the bedroom of a client’s daughter, designer Katie Ridder combined two floral creations—a dense printed cotton by Muriel Brandolini and an airy pink fabric by Lori Weitzner for Sahco Hesslein. Photographer: William Waldron

Style icon Lee Radziwill wrapped her cozy New York City library in an Indian-themed fabric by Le Manach printed with brilliant pink lilies and exotic foliage. The English églomisé table lamp has a floral motif too. Photographer: Eric Boman

Interior designer Michael S. Smith chose a hemp fabric splashed with earth-red poppies for the curtains of his Bel Air, California, breakfast room. The gentle folds tone down the bold Moghul-inspired print—it is from Smith’s own Jasper collection—ensuring it doesn’t overpower the space. Photographer: Simon Upton

Images from Elle Decor - Point Click Home

I Love Lamp!

I love lamps, in fact all the rooms in my home have at least 2 - 4 lamps in them!! Lamps can provide both functional and ambient lighting - so much more than just an over head light. Like a hanging Pendant light, a lamp can have so much of it's own unique character from its base to its shade...

So I am on the hunt for some lamps maybe 1 or 2 for my living / dining room and 2 for my bedroom - with the new bed I am trying to find or might end up having made... I particularly love 2 lamps from of my favourite stores - Architectural Decor & Elements and these lamps [above] by Barbara Cosgrove of whom I found out about from Anne E. Collins the Executive Editor, Point Click Home on her blog on lighting.

Images from Elle Decor & Barbara Cosgrove Lamps