Colorful Living Rooms

Lots of people are afraid of bold and colorful living spaces but what do you do when a beautiful room is among you and it’s very colorful? Do you embrace it, shun it, or love it? Well I choose the latter I love it because when you see rooms that you can’t do anything but respect, you have to embrace it. Check out these very colorful living rooms below.....

How about this lovely room, isn't it beautiful? It has all the right color combinations that make this room works. Check out all the pattern but yet it all works. I love it....

I absolutely love the rug. Its beautiful!!!

I love this room because its colorful in the reverse, the green sofa stands out with color but the white walls are so subtle but yet allow the sofa to stand out and claim its colorfulness.

Here we go again with the white walls but still burst of color with the orange sofa and touches of orange sprinkled around the room. It goes to show that you don't have to paint your walls a bold color to make your room colorful.

This room I love!! I love the dark walls and the pops of color throughout, the orange coffee table makes a statement along with the cute blue and green lamp. I love this colorful living room.

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Masculine Living rooms

Decorating for a man can involves creating a space that is masculine and bachelorism, most men like to prove how manly they are so a lot of times most men will lean more to the dark side of the color wheel. Pinks and pastels are normally out of the question, as a designer I can respect that but what happens when there is a woman in that mix. How do you create a space for him and also keep her happy? I think I solved the problem, check out these amazing masculine living rooms that are made for a man but will make every woman happy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Rustic Orange Dresser

I've been working on this dresser for a client for about a month. 

That's way longer than I normally take to finish a piece, but the first redo didn't go quite the way we planned so the redo ended up being redone. 

Here's the before.

The redo.

(Cringe)

And the redo, redone. 

So much better!

The major problem I ran into was finding the right orange paint. 

The original color was Masada by Benjamin Moore, a very rustic orange. 

The problem with it was that since the paint already had a lot of brown in it, the dark wax and stain I used over the distressing just made it look dirty. 

So we chose a new orange, Marquis Orange, by Sherwin Williams.

At first I was concerned that it would be a little to bright, but once the stain and dark wax were put on it darkened it enough to give it the rustic look we wanted. 

Third times a charm right? :)

PS The stuffed animals used to stage the dresser where donated by Rhett. Meet Bruce the moose, Bear the bear and Tornado the horse.  They are beloved toys around our home. :)

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Before and After- Twin Beds Guest Room

This room was done for a couple who loves to travel all over the world but yet still have a few places they haven't been. Because they travel so much they’re able to meet lots of people and acquire a lot of photos from their travels so it was only fitting to have a place for their friends and family when they come to visit.  My clients called me to do their guest room for them because they wanted to finally have a place for their guest and all their beautiful photos they take on their travels. Now as you all may know in most of my designs I’m always challenged to use something or use a color the homeowner already chosen and this room was no different. My challenge this time was the paint color the homeowner chose himself and his wife was dead set against but guesses what? This was no challenge at all for me because I was so happy he made the choice because I didn’t have to be blamed for it! “hmmm isn’t hat selfish of me” but no really I loved the color from the first time I laid eyes on it. The Smokey gray color is very modern so the real challenge was discovering how to bring traditional and modern together.  

Did I do it?

Check out the before picture of the guest bedroom

Beautiful Smokey Gray Walls and a beautiful cherry-wood twin bed. Love it!

How about that bed! Pretty right! Check out the After Photo

After

Like a lot of rooms I do. Something has to stay,this was a beautiful piece of art the homeowner loved so much she wanted to honor it and keep it in the room. Here is where I used it in the room..

Here is the picture on the side wall next to the bed

This a rocker chair the homeowners wanted to keep but you know,"I couldn't allow it to stay as is although the color weren't bad for another room scheme"

After!!! Yellow! I love it...The new painted rocker chair.

Yellow trim on the canopies

Yellow artwork

My DIY Project For This Guestroom 

DIY Pillow not quite!! This pillow was a store bought pillow but was not the colors I had desired all but the red so I painted the flowers yellow and the heart gray made for a perfect color combination in the room design.

5 dollar table!! Spray painted with the color red and a touch of yellow- look how good it looks in this room.

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Bold Room Colors

Getting BOLD with it!

This is bold design at its best. The designer who designed this room went for the jugular and brought it home. When I was researching bold interiors I came across this lovely design done by panacheinteriors and boy was I impressed with this design. If you were afraid of going bold before. If nothing else I’m sure this room boosts your confidence.

Hmmm what should I say?? Getting stripy with it… WOW this designer wasn’t afraid at all taking two bold patterns and bringing them together to bring complimentary and interest this is bold gone wild!!! Love it. Done by designer Wendy Blount

 If you were looking for a Bold date!! The color Orange would be your guy/girl because the color Orange most of the time screams Bold. This room (above) raves with the color orange or should I say Terra-Cotta + Peach the designer wasn’t at all afraid to use different shade of orange in this lovely room.

Give me the green light!!!  I would love to eat in this Beautiful Bold Green Dining room I’m ready to go right now. I got an obsession for this room. Green happens to be one of my favorite colors Give me the green light I’m ready to get  

BOLD with it.

Should I say !!  I only want to see you in the “Purple Rain “

What a beautiful Modern bold purple room. This room is amazing !! The pattern blue wallpaper is peeking through with much authority but some how it  works with the purple curtains.. This room can rain purple on me all day.

 

The yellow art in this room is making a statement against these white walls

It shows intense contrast  done right. Love it !!!

LOVELY!!  If this isn't Bold I don't know what is, this is called color and pattern confidence by the client and amazing work by the designer. Room created by: Dana's design studio

So go ahead tell me what you think!! Are you ready to get BOLD with it? Come on and SCREAM  Bold with it and leave me a comment on this bold post.

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