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Beautiful Painted Pottery Barn Rooms

Wednesday, April 11th, 2012

woodlawn blue

Woodlawn Blue HC-147

I know that everyone loves to look through these photos of Pottery Barn rooms painted in Benjamin Moore colors:

mt.lane

BM Mountain Lane 488

decoratorswhite

Decorators White Int.Rm.

Me too! It is a great way to get ideas and inspiration:

millsprngblue

Mill Spring Blue HC-137

This blue-gray color is getting a lot of notice lately (it is the color on the bottom of wall):

silver

Silver Spring 2120-50

redmaple

Maple Leaf Red 2084-20

Such a beautiful color for so many different spaces:

shakerbeige

Shaker Beige HC-45

powellbuff

Powell Buff HC-35

Beautiful and bright:

Hawthorne Yellow HC-4

chinawhite

China White Int.Rm.

You can not see the walls very well in this photo:

cameowhite

Cameo White 915

But the room looks so inviting. Cameo White has a tint of yellow in the color. Bed linens are the Pottery Barn Collette Paisley Duvet. So gorgeous!

blue

Blue Bay Marina 1655

I hope you enjoyed looking through the photos. This is a great way to get ideas for your own home. Remember that the color you see in the photos are just a representation of the actual paint color. Just be sure to always test at home!

If you need help choosing colors for your home, contact me today.

You can see all the rooms painted in the new Spring collection for 2012 at Pottery Barn.

Seasonal Tabletops

Thursday, April 5th, 2012

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Do you decorate your table tops for the different Seasons and Holidays? I always love to decorate tables, shelves, hutches or any flat surface where I can tell a little story and bring more personality to the room.

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I am not the craftiest person, but I love to try different ideas and Holidays give me a good excuse to play around! If you look at the photos, you will notice that most crafts are pretty easy to duplicate (even for UN-craftsman people like me!).

I went to my local florist and bought three cherry blossom branches and a handful (ten) of tulips for $12.00 all together:

A tip she gave me that I did not know was if you see any leaves drooping:

Tear them right off when you get home because they will never perk back up and will make your arrangement look messy. So I pulled off the droopy leaves:

Put the branches and flowers in a vase together:

Don’t you think you would pay a lot more if you bought this arrangement put together?

Sorry about the mess and my reflection. I am working!

This was another easy project! I just tapped off the top of egg:

I rinsed the shells out well and stuck little pansies in them I had picked up for $2.50 for a six pack:

Pretty cute!:

Can’t wait to see them all bloom!

Another easy, quick way to decorate an egg:

This was fun! I had everything on hand; pretty napkin, scissors eggs, Mod Podge glue:

Very easy! A little tip- even if you use a brush to put the glue on, the edges of the napkin tend to get all wrinkled. You will have to use your fingers to work out evenly. But it all washed off easily! Here are the fun results of my paper napkin decoupage eggs::

Just another little piece of a story.

So do you like to decorate for the different Holidays? Easter was always a good craft time at my house when the kids were growing up. I guess I still enjoy making pretty things! I hope you enjoyed!

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Tags: cherry branches, decorating tabletops, Easter decorating, Easter tablescape, tulips

Top Five Tips to Understanding Beige Undertones

Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

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1) Determine the undertone. All beige colors have either a red/pink, yellow, green or orange undertone. Period. That’s all you have to understand and learn. The color examples I have chosen below have very obvious undertones to help you ‘see’ the color underneath.

stonehouse 1039 red undertones shelburne buff hc-28 yellow undertones

orange undertones manchester tan hc-81 green undertones

2) Remember to Compare. The easiest way to see the undertones in beige is by comparing the color to another beige that you know the undertone is either red, yellow, green or orange. Illustrated above are good examples of the undertones. Pick up a sample of each and carry them with you to help you compare to each other.

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3) Understand the color red. The most difficult beige undertone to work with is:

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Red. Those red undertones just do not play well with others! Especially pinky beige with yellow beige because the yellow beige ends up looking ‘dirty’ next to the pinky beige. I have found the best colors to work with a red/pink beige are browns, cream and dark blues.

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4) Know which undertones to mix to create a unified room. To create the best put together, coordinated look when mixing undertones is to keep the red undertones with red undertones, yellow with yellow, green with green and orange with orange undertones.

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5) Practice makes perfect! The good news is that after you learn what is not working in a room with the undertones, you will be able to correct the mistake. Take a look at your carpet (is it a pinky beige?) and compare it to the beautiful Powell Buff that you painted your walls. Now that you have learned that pinky beige and yellow beige do not work together you can easily ‘fix’ the whole rooms looks by changing the wall color to a pinky beige also, such as shaker beige hc-45.

So I hope this helped you understand beige colors and their undertones better. If you want to be a color superstar like me, you have to take Maria’s True Color Expert workshop!

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Benjamin Moore’s Top Searched Colors

Thursday, October 20th, 2011

This week on Benjamin Moore’s facebook page, they posted a collection of colors that are the most online searched. And the winner is…..

Shaker Beige HC-45:

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This list from Benjamin Moore is again a list full of neutrals. In my post Top 20 Selling BM Paint Colors for 2010, I noticed the list was all whites and neutrals. It really surprised me until someone pointed out that it probably was paint that was bought for trim and doors. That makes sense. I’ve also listed the entire list of runner up colors with photos below. Are any of them surprising to you?

linen white 912:

Marzia620: Home - Bedroom in Linen White and Cream - bedroom, white, cream, linen decorpad