Color Trends 2012 video

Benjamin Moore, along with other paint providers, publish great color trend guides to serve as inspiration for your home projects.  What I love about this video is that it features the same vignettes and spaces with two completely different paint colors in a side by side comparison, allowing you to imagine how different your own [...]

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How to Rock the Color!

So who remembers this: That’s right, the color wheel.  Favorite of elementary school art teachers everywhere and essential to understanding relationships between colors.  These relationships are the key to using color to manipulate emotions in your space.  In other words, knowing the color wheel will help you figure out how to design or decorate a [...]

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Black is the New White

Conventional design wisdom:  In a small space, use light, bright colors to make the space seem larger.  Spaces that are too dark will feel like a cave instead of a home. Well, nobody told the designers of the following spaces.  In fact, I can’t turn around in the design blogosphere without seeing black walls and [...]

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Coloring in the Lines

Color-Blocking is one of the easiest (and cheapest!) trends to bring into your own home.  But how do you know if it’s right or not? Consider the following: There is nothing wrong with this picture.  The plant, rug, and architectural details in the door add visual interest.  It is still a little boring, though.  In [...]

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What’s New – Color Blocks

All the rage on the fashion runways last year (so, of course, invading our homes this year) is the color-blocking trend.  You may remember this fashion trend from the first go around in the 1980′s – turquoise tights with red heels, black lycra minis, and yellow shoulder-padded sweaters.  Of course, this time the lines are [...]

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Friday Fundamentals – All that was old is new again!

Today, we are talking about color schemes.  Palettes.  Combinations.  And how to update a tired and dated color scheme into something new and exciting. On Wednesday’s post, we talked about gray and citrus which is a huge trend in interiors.   Another is pink.  Specifically, a shade of hot pink that Pantone (THE color company) calls [...]

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What’s New Wednesday – Gray and Citrus

Here is Minnesota, Schneiderman’s Furniture is familiar with gray.  Gray days, gray skies, gray winters.  But now there are fabulous ways to use gray in our homes.  As a neutral, gray is versatile and interesting.  It pairs well with all kinds of colors.  Gray and purple creates a regal sophistication.  Gray and white is a [...]

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