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02/08/2012

Randomly brown / 179

Hej friends,

I had coffee in a beautiful little chocolate shop a while ago & the coffee part is located below the ground floor. The store it self is not so overly special but the serving area is very nice, cozy & inviting. They have obviously decided to work with the shop fittings in various shades of brown which in this case was the right choice. The lighting, colors, furniture & store expression was quite appealing & inviting. The environment was excellent together with the range … lovely pralines of all sorts, sizes, taste, shape…that is just waiting to be chosen! And when you add to the smell of coffee, then it’s easy to think that you are in heaven.

Brown is one of my favourite colours. I do prefer to combine it together with white, beige & black or just different brown shades. That is me, the predictable one. Well, it’s all about flavor & there are just as much tastes as there are people, of course, right?

Cookies in a vintage tin can / Neutralneverland

Irresistible classic design / Elleinterior

Brown, white & pale pink / Downandoutchic

Different tones / Niceroom

Empty frames on display / Joannahenderson

Modest casual clothing / Herblog

Brown in the front & brown in the back / Atelierueverte

Always nice with coloured glass / Etsy

Rough, worn & charming / Joygaleany via Pinterest

Modest casual clothing – again / Leruffianbureau via Tumblr

Appealing old suitcases / Christinekusely via Pinterest

A small cupcake on an equally small stand / Inthelittleredhouse via Pinterest

Lacquered in gleaming brown / Google.com

Carefully selected in various browns / Ideastosteal

Very nice & masculine bedding / Neutralneverland via Pinterest

Take care / Marie

Tagged Brown, Chocolate, colour, colours, home decor, Interiors, Shop, Shopping

05/07/2012

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Food, Homes / Interiors, Outdoor

Pastel

pastel,

Libbyrickardsson via Pinterest

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Take care / Marie

Tagged colour, colour palette, colours, home decor, Interior design, pastel, pastels

31/05/2012

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Design, Homes / Interiors

Minty scent / 159

Hej friends,

I’ve been browsing the web for fun while waiting for my darling to meet up. Thought it looked like mint is in favour, at least on a lot of websites & blogs. At the beginning of my professional life, I lived in a small town for a year where I rented a small apartment which I furnished in white, pine & mint green. I would never think of that colour as a choice today, for sure. But like most things, it’s always nice to relive stuff & things at a distance. Been there, done that…feels good sometimes. Especially when one wouldn’t like to do it again. It’s one of the advantages of getting older:)

Mint can be a bit too cute sometimes, for my taste. It needs to be mixed up with one or two other colours & materials to become more appealing. Concrete or stripes gives an interesting look. There’s so many possibilities for whatever style or look. In addition, there are infinite shades of mint. The sky is the limit, as always.

Stylish collarless jacket / Prettystuff

Styling with some mint objects / Sockertoyforogat

Kitchen cabinet doors in this pretty mint colour / Beatricehernandez via Pinterest

Black-grey wall is a nice contrast to mint / Monicafury via Pinterest

White with mint details / Mokkasin

Cute wall houses to use for small items / Micasaesuscasa

Cool floor lamp / Lamaisond’annag

Bathroom for lovers of mint green /dkshopgilr

Looks almost like an installation / Designtraveller

A mixed sweet style / Mokkasin

Backsplash that ends with the fridge / Skeppsholmen

Candle light, always beautiful / Pappa-bear

Different green tones / Lamaisond’annag

Haute couture in mint / Monsieurwintour

Take care / Marie

Tagged colour, colours, green, home decor, Interior design, Interiors, mint, mint green

16/05/2012

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Homes / Interiors, Outdoor

Lightblue / 162

Hej friends,

Lightblue, a color I think of as rather unusual, these days. Not on kids maybe but generally on adults, in fashion, buildings or whatever. Some colours seems to just disappear for a long time. It’s like they’re not relevant anymore, for some reasons. It’s the same thing with, you know, actors, cities, music, food. I guess it has to do with what trendsetters, ad’s agencies, magazines etc. communicates. We are what we are presented, one might almost say. Too much around us are influenced by others.

Don’t know what you think about light blue, but I liked what I saw, anyway.

A truly magnificent piece of work / Lambert

Light, fresh, white & baby blue / Room269

Fun bracelets with measurements / Home & garden

Light blue floral wallpaper / Interiordrops

A bit more muted wall colour, highlighting the bedclothes / Atelierrueverte

Fresh combination / Skonahem

Sweet for sure / Casadecorada

Different blue shades / Decor8blog

Sweet old style furniture, nice with two mirrors in blue & white / Vintage via Tumbler

A beautiful sight somewhere in France / wearetheones

Light, bright & very appealing – in a white environment / Skonahem

Adorable colour / Housetohome

Patterns in various large & small squares / Lexington

Light blue fits with almost everything / Skonahem

Take care / Marie

Tagged bedrooms, blue, colour, colours, home decor, Interior design, Interiors, light blue

10/05/2012

Grass green / 152

Hej dear friends,

The most recent entries have been pretty colorless, so I’m going with a green theme today. Especially when the summer is around the corner back home in Sweden. It suits as well over here in Australia despite the autumn, the weather is just so nice, most of the time. So this morning we headed out to a nice restaurant where we met up with a group of friends for early breakfast, – as always, a pleasure to spend time with people I love. It struck me that we now have lived in Sydney nearly five years & that we’ve known those particular friends as long. A rather cool feeling considering that they have been with us from the start, in our new homeland.Very nice feeling, actually. What would life be without friends, huh? One of life’s greatest pleasures, for sure.

Back to the theme, green is not a primary colour, it’s created of a mixture of blue & yellow. It’s considered as one of the additions to primary colours. The complement of green is magenta, at least according to RGB colour wheel. That’s a purple colour corresponding to an equal mix of red & blue light. On the other hand, based on traditional colour theory, the complementary colour to green is considered to be red. The word green is closely related to the old english verb growan which means to grow. It’s used to describe plants or the ocean. It can also describe someone who is inexperienced, jealous or sick.

In USA, green is a slang word for money, among other things. Several everyday expressions have been developed from these meanings, such as “green around the gills”, a phrase used to describe a person who looks ill. In some cultures, this colour symbolizes hope & growth, while in others, it’s associated with death, sickness, envy & even the devil. Green is also associated with regeneration, fertility & rebirth for its connections to nature. Recent political groups in Europe & the West have taken on the color as a symbol of environmental protection & social justice…& consider themselves part of the Green movement. This has led to similar campaigns in advertising, as companies have sold green or environmentally friendly products. (look up the word green in Wikipidea, where you can read more about colours).

Fashion from 1952, nearly 60 years ago / Glamourmagazine