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

Westwood's - Fabulous Fusion of Fashion & Home Ware

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Vivienne Westwood is known for her use of iconic British imagery and Union Jack was inspired by an antique flag recovered from a ship, now reinterpreted with a weathered and sun-bleached look. Printed as a panel measuring 270cm wide x 150cm high and can be custom sized.
Dogtooth is a traditional British pattern often usedin the fashion collections and this version has beenhand-drawn by Vivienne herself. In 4 colourways.

Trompe lʼOeil Drape takes its inspiration fromVivienne Westwoodʼs couture and the draperytechniques for which she has become famous. The drapery used in this design is copied from the skirt of a famous tartan wedding dress from the Autumn-Winter 93/94 Anglomania collection worn by Kate Moss. Printed as a panel measuring 270cm x 270cm.

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Well if you haven't had a chance to see the new Vivienne Westwood wall covering collection from Cole & Son - distributed in Australia by Radford Furnishings, then you just have to get yourself to Radford! These wall coverings are exquisite & true to-form Westwood designs, they almost leap from the walls in both pattern, colour, richness and visual texture & illusion. Here's a sneak peak of some of Westwood's designs... Enjoy!

Images from Australian House & Garden & Radford Furnishings

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

Fairy Tale Wall Scapes

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Landing view

I love this artistic expression of a magnolia tree (one of my favourite blooms) 'growing' through the staircase in an almost fairytale scene - this textured wall scape has been created in the Kips Bay show home by Working with artist Jo Lynn Alcorn and wall-covering company Maya Romanoff, interior designer Amy Lau - here they created a massive three-dimensional staircase installation of wallpaper cut, shaped, and applied to resemble flowering magnolia trees. Although not for all tastes and not for all spaces - the sweet dramatic wall treatment certainly gives new meaning to bringing the outside in...

You can find fabulous printed patterned & textured wall paper through Australian supplier - Porter's Paints.


Visit the Kips Bay Showhouse link; find out more about the Kips Bay area a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan.

Images from Kips Bay Showhouse & Maya Romanoff

Eastern Influence...Wallpaper

Today I love... the eastern influence and wallpaper used in these rooms, that belong to a professional couple from Atlanta Georgia U.S. who updated their townhouse with a fluidity of style & colour throughout. Here, they have used a distinctive wallpaper that also acts as a wall scape - bringing the outside in with the beautiful, delicate branches of a Japanese plum or cherry tree, with linked accent colours of plum red and starfruit yellow blossoms dotted through the tree branches. Small wren-like birds are curiously perched on less obvious branches - to appear like they are catching a little glimpse into the room. The blossom accent colours are harmonious tied back to the soft furnishings - such as in the cushions on the day bed, a nomadic style rug, an upholstered French ticking style stripe on a trophy chair, and through ceramic lamp bases & floral arrangements. The wallpaper ground colour - a warm based clay / chalk is a perfect base for these warmer higher value accents - bringing a cosy, contemporary elegance to a light filled space.

Images from Southern Accent

Wall Paper Love ...Pt 2.

Colorful Entry
It's OK to be bold in a small space, especially in a transition zone, such as a foyer.

Here, graphic blue-and-white wallpaper adds life to an entry. Crisp white trim balances the space.
Comfortable Bedroom
Wallpaper functions as architecture in an otherwise simple room. The sunny yellow pattern from Farrow & Ball in the bedroom has a large repeat, creating visual structure to the eye.

Cozy Sitting Room
A 10x13-foot space lives large with layers of texture and a light palette. Green and turquoise accessories accent the cream foundation.

Armless chairs allow room to move around the room.

More of my obsessional love for wallpaper and its application to a feature wall... I love these rooms from 'Country Home' where smaller rooms and spaces now have real 'pop' through a pattern & colour vehicle such as this wallpaper feature - wall, really creating a strong unified room/ space.

I am seriously considering this as an idea for a wall in my open living/ dining room, where I already have a 'painted recessed wall area in 'Jervis Bay Blue', I think a patterned blue/ white (white ground) wall paper will pick up the 'Chalk Canvas' main paint colour and the 'Jervis Bay Blue' , with the framed hand painted plates in Blue/ White from Fez- picking up pattern & tying the colours together... I will find the wall paper design and image I am thinking of and post it next for you to see!

Images from Country Home

Wonder Walls - Wallscapes...

I adore this colour palette - with the whimsical yet graphic stencil-like design of the wallpaper and it's Mediterranean cerulean blue, teamed with creamy meringue trim & panel work and small shots of chartreuse accented though lighting, and a tinted variation through the upholstery, all anchored by the dark rich stained slender legs of the dining chairs and table ...

'...A dining room can become stodgy with its predictable formality—making it the perfect subject for fresh design ideas.This dining room has been finished with top-notch wall treatments—hand-painted wallpaper, earthy, neutral landscapes, and contrasting silhouettes—that take them from expected to exceptional...'

Images courtesy of Traditional Home - Room by Dennis Duffy, duffydesigngroup.com.