Fairy Tale Wall Scapes

Detail view

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

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

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

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.