Category Archives: color
Mosaics a la Venice
mosiac photos are taken in the Venetian atelier of Angelo Orsoni. The company was founded in 1888, smalti, are made according to the original recipes with glass and pigments
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Filed under color, Faux finishes, Mosaics
Cultivated Pleasures
I’d share some bits of my garden
garden accessories and antique shop. I would have named it Cultivated Pleasures Continue reading
Veggies and fruits for your walls
it demonstrates a great way to transform your color preferences and ideas into actual colors for your walls, this sample of paint and water-based waxes,
find color ideas everywhere, even in the kitchen!
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Filed under color, Faux finishes, Inspirations, paint
A few of my favorite things
A few of my favorite things, color combinations, Ligne Roset, lushness of velvet in contrast with the aged roughness of the concrete Continue reading
Filed under color, Design, Inspirations
Monochrome
Monochrome, by Paula Rice Jackson. I thought I’d share some of my favorite photos from this quietly elegant book on one way to use color.
The Venetian plaster walls in these photos are so…well, you just want to touch them! These monochrome walls are inspiring! Continue reading
You Can Find Color Here (as in Peacock)
the luminous, brilliant colors of the peacock feather, peacock feathers featured as a décor item, Pantone selected Turquoise as their color for 2010
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Filed under color, Inspirations
Everywhere We Look: Yellow and Grey
Yellow and grey are one of the most popular go-to paint combos… Continue reading
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Trompe L’oeil Class for DPAP members
a free workshop for DPAP members… trompe l’oeil striping class, learn color mixing at Great Lakes Decorative Arts Studio, Marlow DeMars Continue reading
Filed under color, Faux finishes, studio, studio classes
