Pantones 2014 Color of the Year

Radiant Orchard is Pantones 2014 color of the year

 

 

 

 

 

I'm not sure if I'll be adding any of this color to my home, but I did buy a orchid cashmere sweater...

 

 

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Paint the Front Door...

My front door is black, I wonder what emotion that evokes!?

 

 

It's All About Blue

Blue is the color of the season...

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Pantone 2013 Color Forecast

These are the colors we'll be seeing everywhere in 2013.

What do you think?

 

 

Monaco Blue appears to be 2013's color of the year

 

I like it, not love it...I prefer the brighter colors of years past.

 

 

 

 

Red, White & Blue

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Images: Houzz

Happy 4th of July!

Chartreuse

Love this color! These rooms look fabulous filled with eclectic furniture and accessories...

check out Homeportfolio to see these images more clearly!

Tangerine Tango

Pantone 2012 color of the year is Tangerine Tango

“Sophisticated but at the same time dramatic and seductive, Tangerine Tango is an orange with a lot of depth to it,” said Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute®. “Reminiscent of the radiant shadings of a sunset, Tangerine Tango marries the vivaciousness and adrenaline rush of red with the friendliness and warmth of yellow, to form a high-visibility, magnetic hue that emanates heat and energy.”

I was rooting for this color, orange happens to be one of my favorites

My bedroom is full of this color

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These rooms have just a touch of orange

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Such a warm, vibrant, fun color and now it should be easy to find.

Pantone 2012

These are Pantone's 2012 colors and one of them will be the color of the year. I'm rooting for Tangerine Tango or Grass Green. What do you think?

I know it doesn't really change how I decide on my home's interiors or what paint color I choose for my furniture, it's just fun to see what the experts pick.

Last years honeysuckle was not a color I really cared for at first, but it has started to grow on me and now look at these beautiful pink rooms.

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Color your World

Do so many people really love a home filled with burlap, sisal, and natural linen with white painted and bleached wood? Not me and I'm thrilled when I find a home filled with lots of color.

This is why I would like to introduce Susan Sargent. Susan is an artist, fabric and rug designer living in Vermont. Her book Colorscapes, explains how to create a personal color palette and presents an original approach to the process of picking colors for your home. Each chapter features a different location and is devoted to a unique color concept. Colorscapes, is what made me start to rethink how I could combine colors in my home.

"My color choices are guided by my strong belief that bringing the right Colors into our homes is a sure-fire way to improve our moods, creativity, and energy.  My colors are lively without being overwhelming, saturated and vivid without being electric. The yellows are warm, tending towards apricot and mango. The blues have an appealing nod towards periwinkle. My signature green tilts towards lime, which makes it work beautifully with the yellows, reds and blues in the range. I believe my colors are balanced in a way that promotes a warm, comforted feeling when used throughout the home.
And while I have colors I believe in, and which I feel are for thriving, there are also colors, which I personally abhor, and find repellent! I strongly believe living with these colors induces lethargy, boredom, lack of energy, and sadness. These include: Beige, beige, and beige!! Muddy browns! Mustard, all variations! Somber maroons, drab olives, uninteresting navy blues, and enervating dark greens. Other Environmental and Well-being misses: Kelly Green, acid lemon, flat brownish pinks, brownish institutional greens, sharp purples and oranges, screaming pinks, dispirited mauve's, fire engine reds, and brown, beige, and brown!" Susan Sargent

Although I don't agree on her color choices, I love how she has such a definitive palette. I've been working on my own color palette for a few years now, as I have mentioned many times before, aqua is my favorite color and starting point to my homes color scheme.

I love all blue-green colors, from teal to aqua and a close second is yellow/green, from chartreuse to apple. My warm side choices are apricot, yellow and red. I prefer colors that look aged and I don't care much for pastels. My latest color crush is brown not to be confused with beige, and I think black is needed to add a little sophistication. The colors I can live without are fuchsia, gray, beige, and anything neon.

I had fun making my color collages on Picnik