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Look of the day: Gorgeous Black and White on Tan. Clean, classic, simplified, and stylish. This look courtesy of HGTV’s Rate My Space. If you adore interior design (it’s practically part of my DNA code), then you’ll love Rate My Space. Budding designers everywhere with great ideas.
HGTV’s Dream Home is in New Mexico this year and it’s absolutely gorgeous from top to bottom. Linda Woodrum, the home’s interior designer, must have had great fun decorating this home, pulling inspiration from Sante Fe decor. The tile work in the kitchen is mind-blowing . To me, the style feels sexy-urban with a twist of Santa Fe. It really works. There are five days left to enter the Dream Home giveaway. Enter at www.HGTV.com. Take a look inside.
While I wouldn’t classify myself as an organizational freak, per se, I certainly am a fan of the notion a place for everything, and everything in its place. One way to create space and eliminate clutter is to ditch all your owners manuals. When you have a question about your product, you can likely find the answer on the manufacturer’s website or at sites like www.ManualsMania.com or The www.UserManualSite.com.
Chocolate brown walls are really hot right now. Brown is the new black …or at least it is this season. Chocolate brown walls are super-chic and rich looking and dramatically transform a room into an elegant, grown up space. If you are color-phobic, start with painting one wall in your space a deep shade of chocolate, and accessorize with creamy white mouldings. It’s a gorgeous look, and can go across the board style-wise, from urban to suburban. (And to be green…Make sure the paint you purchase is either low-VOCs or no-VOCs. )
Gorgeous, yet so easy. I’ll be making this centerpiece for my Thanksgiving dinner. Simply clip a cluster of branches from a tree in your yard, (it’s time to prune anyway), or use fallen branches, and secure it into a large vase. Hang tealight candles from the branches and surround the base with flowers or leaves. It’s as simple as that. Gorgeous, low cost, high impact, and totally Green. Love that!
Color Trending for 2010: Blue has been gone for so long, it’s making its way back onto the color wheel. With a heavy emphasis on earth tones, golden honey especially, blue walls took a back seat. Now we see it’s reemerging in every form. Robin’s egg blue (or Tiffany’s box blue, if you prefer) and shades of everything from tans to deep chocolate browns are showing up in design everywhere. Embrace the color blue, it’s on its way back.
Friday Feature: Hampton’s Style. One word…Gorgeous. Two words… Ridiculously Gorgeous! Let’s discuss: Hampton’s style. This beach house look is clean and minimalistic. The use of black and creamy white are perfect in contrast. Framed pictures (matching mats and black frames are key) add wonderful contrast to the painted bead board walls. The black iron chandelier is so minimalistic, yet beautiful. The best part about this design is that it’s so achievable. Keep your focus with creamy white walls, matching frames in black of varying sizes, and a substantial, yet simple, chandelier to bring this look together. If you stick with a theme, such as this Hampton’s style decor, it’s easy to design a room like a professional.
Are makeup vanities an area of forgotten interior design? Approximately 90% of women are wear makeup every day, so one would think this would be a vital and key area in a girl’s home. A quick Google search on makeup vanities depicts sad results. There are scarce findings, and very few gorgeous makeup areas to be found …anywhere. Since this is an area most of us utilize every morning, it should be beautiful and inviting, and a gorgeous place to start your day.
I have, however, found a few examples where they got it right. Check out the amazing spaces below.
What they’ve done right: Crisp and clean white walls and curtains makes this makeup area feel light and breezy. The carpet and chair add a nice punch of color and contrast. The over head chandelier brings beautiful elegance to the room.
What they’ve done right: They stuck with a theme …old Hollywood with a twist of French decor. The furniture is ultra-feminine and girly, the lamp picks up the color from the pale pink walls. Sunlight streams in for the back, reflecting off the mirrored table. Gorgeous!
What they’ve done right: Beautiful architectural details with the arches, filled with a wall-sized mirror that reflects the light from behind. Beautiful tiled flooring in white with flower accents brightens the space. Small mirror attached to the wall for tasks such as putting on mascara.
If you adore design, visit my friend Julia’s blog, over at Hooked On Houses. She has an amazing blog that features everything “houses.”
Did you know you can do something about those dusty fan covers in your bathrooms? Chances are, yours is loaded with an inch and a half of dust unless you clean them regularly. This is a really simple fix.
Gently pull the fan cover down and unclip the hooks on either side, remove from base of fan. Rinse the fan cover under running water in a sink from both sides (front and back) to rinse out the dust. Then throw the fan cover in the dishwasher on the top rack. Good as new!
Not only will this help your fan to work more efficiently, which will help with electric bills, but it also makes the air cleaner.
