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01/06/2013

Design, Food, Homes / Interiors, Outdoor

Colourful taste

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

24/05/2013

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Homes / Interiors

Appealing walls

What if walls could speak – tell you their story. About colours they have been painted in, patched, scraped, plastered & painted over & over again. Or tell you about those who lived here before to give insight into what life was like, during an epoch. It would be exciting & interesting. But see, that’s not what this post is about today, unfortunately.

I like colour, it’s a big part of my life…professionally, that is. But I’m not the first to raise my hand regarding colorful walls. But still. I have the ability to enjoy a variety of things or events, no matter what I prefer. It’s all about being able to see beauty in most things, right?

If you were to ask me which of these rooms I would consider myself to live in, without changing the wall color – then, the closest in style, would be room number six with light blue wall. Maybe, possibly, even number three. (but I would most certainly go for the black & white one) How about you, which one do you prefer?

Bring down the sense of height of a room by leaving space between the paint & the roof / frenchbydesign

Or paint the space in an additional colour / apartmentteraphy.com

Shorten the distance with a sharp colour / styleessentials.com

Or create an exciting corner / miluccia.tumblr.com

Paint in a color that suits the child’s height / pinterest.com

Amplify a piece of furniture by matching the wall color / stadshem

Contrasts that create excitement / mialinnman.blogspot.com

Coordinate with a few pieces / housetohome

White higher up plus wall paint & tile in similar shade / estudiogutorequena

Graphical & classic with powerful impression / flickr.com

White at the bottom & with turquoise at the top – different / thenewyorktimes.com

Within the same colour scale but the window in a stronger shade / interiorsoriginal.blogspot

Nice & different / homesweethome via pinterest

Stylish contrast to all white, especially the addition on the inside of the door too / mackapar

Rough style that becomes more enhanced with the black together with the leather & concrete / ovgwebdesign

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Tagged choosing colours, colours, home improvement, home styling, Interior design, Interiors, paint, wall colours

29/04/2013

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Homes / Interiors

Light grey shades

We are just in the phase to renovate our shed in the garden. It’s around 15-17 square meter & has been used for various storage needs. It’s a perfect little house to furnish as a guest house. And so it will be used too – with relatives that will arrive within four weeks & stay for four weeks. It’s just outside the veranda, in the corner of the garden with all the lovely trees & bushes around. It’s been made in country style which fits well with the rest of the house. We will retain the outside in same style so most of the work will be to get the interior nice, comfortable & functional. All walls white, I guess we will choose white floor also. White tiles for the shower area & for the sink too.

It will not be much color except textiles, rugs & accessories. The usual, so to speak. Colour is always nice in many ways but ” colourless” works well too. To visualize that, I chose to do a post with images in grey – shades of light grey.

Stylish & simple / mtrlst.com

Cool hair colour / jeanbaptistesantens.com

Kitchen styling / agentbauer / camilla Krishnaswamy

Store & organise / studiokarin

Simple & striking design / contemporist

Welcome home / tyrifrid.com

Cool combination / takeovertime.tumblr

Natural material / stylizimo

Scandinavian freshness / IB_S_CONTENT_DESCRIPTIONWRITER

Contemporary country / city style / livethemma.se

Hang them right / stilinspiration.blogspot

White & grey / studiokarin

Nice wall paper / borastapeter.se

Rustic elegance / rosesandrustblogger

Tagged Color, colours, grey, grey shades, hair colour, home design, home styling, light grey, scandinavian

28/01/2013

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Design, Food, Homes / Interiors, Outdoor

Pink shades

Occasionally, I get a craving for a certain colour – an influence from somewhere … AND I find my self searching or looking for that colour AND of course, I see it almost everywhere. That comes without saying. … as a letter in the mail ( swedish expression ). A soft, pleasant pink color that’s not too harsh or sharp in tone. That goes well with grey, white or brown, black. Just the right colour without getting too pastel pink, if you get what I mean. Simply soft for the eye, soothing, warming, inviting, promising & up to date.

I pulled together some images with one thing in common – this colour. Or should I say those colours, maybe … they differ slightly in shades. Just when I start to get used to the colour, I bet that something else comes in the way. Whether this is another colour or … only time will tell 🙂

Grey & light pink – refreshing combination / bestbuy

Soft colours with wood / petrabindel

Almost edible / skandinaviandeko

Appealing impression with simple means / helenaaro

Modern Scandinavian living / bobedre.dk

Colourful choices / desdemyventana

Nice framed photo gallery / atelieruverte

Warming colour / fancy

Homemade peppermint marshmallows / celiacteen.com

Cool / marymadethis

Robust but still soft / laredoute.fr

Romantic / prettyinpearls

Professional styling / lineklein

Simplicity / hannasroom

Nice mix of items / 79ideas

Take care / Marie

Tagged colour, colours, decor, furnishings, furniture, home decor, homes, Pink, pink shades, styling

23/01/2013

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Blazers

A useful garment regardless of the season, right? I prefer simple styles in basic colours. For you who likes variety, there’s so much to choose from right now, no matter colours, material, design – many in styles that are back again. It is like that with fashion, it goes in circles. I am fond of the classic black blazer with a simple white blouse – and gladly to jeans. Long or short design works fine as long as the model is slender in shape. The blazer is a garment that works all year round, with just a t-shirt or blouse under the summer & with layers during the colder period.

Stylish design / b-undt.tumblr.com