Showing posts with label decorating. Show all posts
Showing posts with label decorating. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

my living room project!!!

when i took all of my christmas decorations down i realized how much my living room needed some major attention!!!  so i decided to take a designers approach to decorating my OWN living room! i do it for other people all the time but had never really taken the time to do it for myself! i would always just switch out accessories here and there along the way and that was suficiant for the time, but now i want to get a real style and feel for my living room!
first up... inspiration and color pallet
i chose this house to be the inspirational house for my because it has sooo much of what i want in the room.  and the style plays well with the architecture of my house too. this is the most bright and beautiful spanish bungalow! however my house is not in california so i cant get too carried away with the spanish theme but i do love the natural woven textures and and the white on white on neutral color pallet so there are still a lot of things that will work!



next up putting it all together... i already have chocolate leather furniture that will still work with this style (yay for saving money!). so then my focus will be layering lots and lots of textures. staying very neutral and light in the fabrics and then relying on all the textures to create the richness. 


i think the money maker in this style is to let nature be the staring role on the room!!!
let the room be filled with light cascading through the windows, let the earthy richness of wood grains be on full display and let beautiful fresh cut flowers be such a subtle pop of color the room begs for and i think you will wake up every morning and feel like you are on vacation!!! 
i'm so excited to start the process!!1 i'll keep you posted along the way!

thank you all for reading!!!
crystal

Monday, May 7, 2012

color code: decorating with teal

i love this happy color!!!!
this living room is so chic and tailored and the color is awesome.
 some pretty teal accessories








 i love how fresh the teal chair looks against all the white

thank you all for reading!!!
xoxoxo
crystal

photos: southernliving, manolohome, seltzerstudios, polyvore, etsy, swanklighting,
emilyhenderson, mokkasin, coco+kelly

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

color code! decorating with black

it may seem very extreme and a little scary! but it can be so chic! here are a few examples of how to make black work in a room!
black walls! (i know it sounds crazy) just be sure to use lots of light colors elsewhere in the room! look how classic!
on furniture! 
on everything!!!!! this black out vignette with gold is amazing!
black matted art
black floor and that amazing tailoring on the couch, plus the lamp shade and frames!
it all looks so perfect!!!

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

lovebirds!!!

well i finally finished up my closet! cleaned out, painted, put up new shelves and organize everything!!!! (pictures to follow!) but my spring cleaning/redecorating is far from over!!!! tomorrow i start on the bedroom!!!!
 may is annevesary month for my hubbie and me so i've decided to dig out some of our old love notes and momentos and put them everywhere!
some of those old notes are some of my very favorite things and i can't wait to have them out where i can see them everyday!!!
frames + precious things = what i want to wake up to every morning!!!!
thank you all for reading!!!!
xoxoxo
crystal

photos: redbubble, and denizhome