Palette #21: Dainty Allure

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Palette #19: Feminine Grace

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Palette #16: Woodsy Cabin

With my New Year trip to Sunriver coming up, I'm getting into the snowy cabin mode. Doesn't this trip look delicious and cozy? Tomorrow I'll show you a playful side...

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Stick-On Decor

There's just something I love about wall stickers. Do you ever get tired of having one color walls and not being able to find the perfect painting to hang on your wall? I do. And when I discover such beautiful wall stickers, I get all excited. I have a friend who hired her sister-in-law to paint a tree on one of the living room walls and I think ever since I saw that tree, I've been in love with wall art. So painting is a little hard for me, so a sticker works wonderfully for people like me! Especially ones that are showcased as polaroids. Check out these wall and furniture stickers from Harmonie Interieure.

Blog Lovin' 1: Fryd + Design

Have any of you ever heard of Fryd + Design? If not, then you have now! It is quite the delectable blog! I love the inspiration that seeps from within its posts! 

Don't you just love these images? It's a Scandinavian Christmas!

Palette #13: Sparkle Silver

How are you setting up your New Year party?

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Palette #12: Wintery Wonderland

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Palette #10: Needles & Cones

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Christmas in the Bedroom

This year one of my friends told me that her mom put up a Christmas tree not only downstairs in the family room, but also in her own bedroom. What a lovely idea! Both my husband and I always talk about dragging up our ginormous tree upstairs into our bedroom where we can enjoy it as we fall asleep or drink a cup of tea and nibble on cookies. Did you decorate your bedroom for Christmas this year?

{image credits} 1 Country Living 2 Country Living 3 Country Living 4 Baer Home Design 5 unknown 6 unknown 7 Interior Arcade 8 Homey Designing

Interiors with Ulrica

Hello Monday! How was everyone's weekends? Mine was quite enjoyable indeed! Very festive, but not so festive when my husband got called into work right when we were walking up to church on Sunday!

But anyhoo, I love stumbling across fantastic photographers! Last week, I came across Ulrica Wihlborg. One word: amazing. I especially love how she captures interior design with her lenses, yet she also does wonderful with lifestyle as well! Make sure to visit her website for some more image goodness.

Anthro Love

I just received my December Anthropologie catalog in the mail a few days ago and I LOVE it. So woodsy! I guess I will never get out of loving woodsy things after being a part of the woodsy-ish photo shoot with Daniel Usenko and Short & Sweet Design. {For pictures, visit Daniel Usenko's blog post.}

But this catalog is stunning. As usual. If you're intrigued, make sure you see the whole thing online.

Feel Color

I was going through some old school work that I found...and started reading a paper I once wrote on how color impacts your mood. Here's a little snippet...

"...reds, yellows, and oranges warm the room because they remind of cheerful things like the sun and warm fires. Blues, greens, and purples cool the room because they remind of calming things like water or shady trees. Browns and grays are considered neutral colors because they don't add or take away color, they just enhance what's already there. As one can see, choosing the wrong color may produce emotions completely opposite than intended. For this reason, many designers have described color as touchy.

The bedroom is only one example of how color may affect a person’s mood. For the most part, color is used outside of the bedroom. One of its main users is the printer with cards, brochures, book and CD covers, journals, letterheads, maga- zines, billboards, etc. as products. Statistics show that ads in color are read up to 42% more often than the same ads in black and white. Colorfully printed material holds the audience’s eye a few seconds longer than black and white printed material, and for this reason, designers generally opt for using color in their work over black and white.

With this choice made, designers have one big thing to consider. If a certain color on bedroom walls can alter a person’s mood when in the room, how will the color choice on printed material alter a person’s mood when viewing the printed piece? This is when color choice becomes a life or death choice for many designers. For example, an advertisement for a tropical getaway is in the making—shouldn’t then tropical colors be used for the advertisement? Rich, vibrant colors would attract the audience’s eye quicker and for a longer period of time than muted, pastel colors.

Another example where color choice plays a part on the mood is when thematic pieces are made, such as a brochure for a Christmas play or an advertisement for Halloween candy. Red and green are known colors for Christmas and, more often than not, have that association with that time of year. The same goes with orange and black for Halloween. How would one view a Halloween candy advertisement that displayed pink and purple hues as the main color choice? A spooky Halloween mood would definitely not be the result, even if the advertisement had the word Halloween boldly printed on the top of the page.

Color choice is more than just a choice. It’s life. The world evokes many moods depending on where one would find oneself. Just as a cemetery would produce a different mood than a wedding — color choice does the same..."

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