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Cottage Decorating – Pip & Whimsy

Yes, cottage decorating! It’s Friday and I am steeling myself to try some very bright wall color! Cottage can be really awful done wrong, like any design style – ducks and chickens living together in cloying country sweetness – or … Continue reading

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Color Trends 2012 – Ocean Color On Summer Tides

Yesterday’s article about trends compared the forecast with what real people are doing in interior design. An examination at the half-way mark reveals a belligerent disconnect between the color forecast turning away from watery ocean tones going toward 2013 and … Continue reading

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2013 Interior Color Trends – A Vision of Your Own

I was in Home Depot the evening before color sampling the Fantasies and Realities Palettes, and stopped to admire a dish garden of succulents. their colors comprised an array of frosted jewel tones. When I saw the palette above, the … Continue reading

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Spring 2012/2013 – 5 ways to Get That Watercolors Look

One of the freshest new Color Trends for Spring 2012 is the “…Happy collusion of colors and water color tonality…” expressed everywhere, but uniquely in the form of the “Co-llective” palette by Pantone. Today we stay inside the box to … Continue reading

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NYIGF Spring 2012 – Something Old is Something New

Resurrection of the past is a trend invoked in every economic recession, and 2012 is no exception. Here are a few hot retreads to look for in Spring and Summer 2012. Antique wall paper print motifs are hot and enduring … Continue reading

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Spring 2012 Home + Interiors Trends – A Taste of Spring

With the beginning of Design and Gift Market Shows, I have been receiving hints of what is new at market, and an opportunity to intuit what home and interior trends may be visible on the horizon. Here’s a small taste … Continue reading

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Interior Trends 2011 / 2012 – The Color of Velvet

My first inkling that I was to be smitten with velvet came on a cold December morning when I lost my gloves before residential interiors class. Motivated by the image of a useless designer with frozen digits, I stopped at … Continue reading

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Pantone Color Trends 2012 / 2013 – Radiate

Radiate is allot about the intense purple range, and mixing purples with the heat of colors like Carmine, Orange and a red that has oil painters know as a very transparent and unstable (meaning in oil paint form it’s prone … Continue reading

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Pantone Color Trends 2012 / 2013 – Lodestar

Wikapedia states: A lodestar is a relatively bright, easily found star that is used to find direction, particularly with reference to Polaris, which during the 20th and 21st centuries indicates the direction to the north within a fraction of a … Continue reading

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2012 Summer Color Trends Meet Van Gogh's Pallet

I talked about Benjamin Moore’s 4 Preservation Pallets last week. The Process colors in particular are made for this year’s Bohemian un-decorate trend. Process is a printer’s term usually associated to the Pantone Color Standard used universally for printed media. This pallet has similarities to those process colors in both … Continue reading

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