bright colours | anordinarywoman

Somewhat charming, with the mixture of furniture, the different rich colours, the rug & wall gallery. A personal style with a longing to the fifties. Gorgeous, delightful yet simple.

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Take care / Marie

Tagged bright colours, colours, furniture, interior, Interior design, living, living room, sofa, sofas

01/06/2013

I find that every time I try to put together images with lots of color – I fail to do so. I can’t manage to choose something that is overly colourful. I discover after a while, when I’m looking at the whole thing, that I have unconsciously opted out of that which is too colourful. Now when we just finished renovating the shed, I had thought that I should paint the walls of other than the usual white. Possibly paint the concrete floor instead of the use of the ordinary wood floor & so on. And what happened – in some strange way, we now have white walls, a light wooden floor, white furniture, etc. It’s funny how all this can happen even though my thoughts went in another direction. Is it the power of habit, perhaps.

The images below are in colour but it’s not overly colourful, as you can see. Although it’s enough colour, at least for my part. You could say it became something in between. With a white base or a simple base, you can add color without risking that it becomes too much. Or you can use as much color as you want if that’s what you prefer. This is more then enough as inspiration, for me.

Nice outdoor / indoor area with coloured details / miss-design.com

Retro kitchen with matching curtain / skonahem.se

Delightful design / sagaform.se

Generous seating surfaces / elle.es

Timeless objects / spirainredning.se

Candy colors to the couch / casapinka.typepad.com

Daring / elle.co.za

Playfully in paper / mokkasin

Comfortable colours / tinywhitedaisies via tumblr

White, wood & colourful components / planet-deco.fr

The colours of nature / remainsimple via tumblr

Handiwork / prettystuff

Pens that cheers you up / charmingspaces

Decorative / noperfectdayforbananafish

Creativity / designed-for-life

Take care / Marie

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Tagged bright colours, colocations, colours, food styling, inspiration, kitchen, make up, soft colours

07/02/2013

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Design, Homes / Interiors, Outdoor

Sunny side

Today I’m going to bid on a yellow theme. I am possibly inspired by the bright sun & pleasant warmth. Or, I may have noticed yellow somewhere unconsciously. Anyway, here below, are a variety of images with a bit of yellow here & there, as a common denominator.

Yellow is ugly, an expression that often was used when we were little. This sentence rhymes in swedish, which made it all the more fun, of course. I don’t know where it came from or how it started but it was a common thing to say, for some reason. I remember I got a bright yellow t-shirt with print in black, a horse head actually, which I was fond of. Same colour on the clogs too. I think I had these things, as in, using them, a whole summer. Otherwise, it has probably not been very much of that color in my life. Admittedly a period in my teens, in my own room, that was furnished in that yellow colour, together with wood & white.

Today I don’t think I own anything in that particular colour . Although I believe it’s a nice color that makes you happy plus that it’s energising. But that’s how it is sometimes, that some things fits well to love from a distance…