Four Hip Hues for 2013
Although Emerald was named Color of the Year, Pantone has forecast Lemon Zest, Poppy Red and Nectarine as hot colors for spring 2013. Peachy Keen and Lemon Sorbet are among Benjamin Moore's color picks for the year, and shown here is a selection of on-trend colors from Sherwin-Williams: June Day, Kumquat, Exuberant Pink and Gladiola.
by Jennifer Ott
Although Emerald was named Color of the Year, Pantone has forecast Lemon Zest, Poppy Red and Nectarine as hot colors for spring 2013. Peachy Keen and Lemon Sorbet are among Benjamin Moore's color picks for the year, and shown here is a selection of on-trend colors from Sherwin-Williams: June Day, Kumquat, Exuberant Pink and Gladiola.
1. A Softer Orange
This orange is a bit tamer than superbold Tangerine Tango, Pantone's 2012 Color of the Year, but it still packs a nice punch. Use it for an accent wall in an otherwise light and neutral space.
by Nick Noyes Architecture This orange is a bit tamer than superbold Tangerine Tango, Pantone's 2012 Color of the Year, but it still packs a nice punch. Use it for an accent wall in an otherwise light and neutral space.
If you fall in love with a colorful material, such as this backsplash tile, try incorporating the color elsewhere in the room for balance.
by Dalton Distinctive Renovations
Here's another gorgeous orange accent wall in an otherwise neutral space. One of the benefits of such an open, light-filled room is that you can use lots of bold colors and medium to dark grays without the space becoming cave-like.
Contemporary Living Room
If you prefer keeping your walls light and white, you can still add color via furniture and accessories.
by Osborne Architects
Intense orange walls can be a bit too bright for a bedroom, where you may want a more relaxed vibe, but smaller doses of the color via furniture and linens work well.
by My Design Studio
If you do opt to paint your bedroom walls orange, go with a softer, peachy hue — it's way more soothing than an electric orange.
by Bella Villa Design Studio
Suggested Orange Paint Picks
If you like soft orange hues, here's a selection you can try in your own home. They would all pair well with warm white oak floors.
From left to right: Peachy Keen from Benjamin Moore, Sweet Melon from Valspar, Mesa Sunrise from Behr and Orient Blush from Pratt & Lambert.
by Jennifer Ott
If you like soft orange hues, here's a selection you can try in your own home. They would all pair well with warm white oak floors.
From left to right: Peachy Keen from Benjamin Moore, Sweet Melon from Valspar, Mesa Sunrise from Behr and Orient Blush from Pratt & Lambert.
2. Poppy Red
Dramatic color will make dramatic architecture really stand out. This poppy red captures attention and contrasts nicely with the gorgeous view of the greenery beyond.
by Archer & Buchanan Architecture, Ltd.
Dramatic color will make dramatic architecture really stand out. This poppy red captures attention and contrasts nicely with the gorgeous view of the greenery beyond.
This version has more pure red in it — a happy color that will be hot in 2013.
by Nicole Lanteri
Don't neglect your outdoor spaces when it comes to color. This soft red-orange is gorgeous on this modern stucco home.
by Suzanne Anderson Designs
If you love this season's bright red orange but can't see it splashed all over your own walls, consider painting it onto an interesting piece of furniture.
by Mindi Freng Designs
Suggested Red Paint Picks
These reds look fantastic against a red oak floor, with its slightly pink cast.
From left to right: Strawberry Hills from Mythic Paint, Poppy from Benjamin Moore, Heartfelt from Sherwin-Williams and Salsa del Sol from Kelly-Moore.
by Jennifer Ott
These reds look fantastic against a red oak floor, with its slightly pink cast.
From left to right: Strawberry Hills from Mythic Paint, Poppy from Benjamin Moore, Heartfelt from Sherwin-Williams and Salsa del Sol from Kelly-Moore.
3. Lemon Yellow
Yellow tends to be a busy, high-energy color. It's best to use it in small doses or select a neutralized tone. This yellow has some cream in it and works well in this light and bright space.
by S&K Interiors
Yellow tends to be a busy, high-energy color. It's best to use it in small doses or select a neutralized tone. This yellow has some cream in it and works well in this light and bright space.
If you opt for zingier yellows, try sprinkling them in small bits around the room.
by Janet Paik
This yellow is darker and mellower, because it has some brown in it. Use it with dark gray and tan for a sophisticated palette.
by SEMCO Modern Seamless surface
Here's another toned-down deep yellow. If you want to use yellow in your bedroom, this is a good hue to work with. It's downright cozy here combined with all that gorgeous dark wood.
by Terra Firma Home
Here we have two of 2013's hot hues working together: lemon yellow in the bedding and raspberry on the chair. But because the bold hues are used sparingly and the walls and floor are kept neutral, they don't overwhelm.
by Chris Pardo Design - Elemental Architecture
Suggested Yellow Paint Picks
While not quite pastels, these yellows are soft enough to work as neutrals. They can look fantastic contrasted against a cool gray concrete or tile floor.
From left to right: Lemon Twist from Valspar, Lemon Sorbet from Benjamin Moore, Lemon Pound Cake from Behr and Lemon Leaf from Mythic Paint.
by Jennifer Ott
While not quite pastels, these yellows are soft enough to work as neutrals. They can look fantastic contrasted against a cool gray concrete or tile floor.
From left to right: Lemon Twist from Valspar, Lemon Sorbet from Benjamin Moore, Lemon Pound Cake from Behr and Lemon Leaf from Mythic Paint.
4. Bold Berry Pink
This room with deep raspberry walls is absolutely cozy, warm and elegant — the perfect space to retreat to on a wintery day.
by Annie Hall Interiors
This room with deep raspberry walls is absolutely cozy, warm and elegant — the perfect space to retreat to on a wintery day.
Pink bedrooms aren't just for little girls. These pinks are grown-up versions that can work in any space.
by Liv By Design Interiors
Suggested Pink Paint Picks
No saccharine-sweet pinks here. These pretty berry hues flatter your skin tone, stimulate your appetite and can be stress reducing. I like contrasting them with dark, cool-colored materials, such as a dark gray — almost black — porcelain tile.
From left to right: Raspberry Ice from Mythic Paint, Crushed Berries from Benjamin Moore, It's the Berries from Kelly-Moore and Feverish Pink from Sherwin-Williams.
Tell us: What are your favorite warm hues to decorate with?
by Jennifer Ott
No saccharine-sweet pinks here. These pretty berry hues flatter your skin tone, stimulate your appetite and can be stress reducing. I like contrasting them with dark, cool-colored materials, such as a dark gray — almost black — porcelain tile.
From left to right: Raspberry Ice from Mythic Paint, Crushed Berries from Benjamin Moore, It's the Berries from Kelly-Moore and Feverish Pink from Sherwin-Williams.
Tell us: What are your favorite warm hues to decorate with?
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I think eventually, I will reduce the number of pillows when I find the right pillows with the right amount of color. I bought indoor / outdoor pillows so that when the time comes, I can move these to my outdoor furniture.
And by the way my husband would not be caught DEAD in a PINK shirt...LOL
Works for us!!!
I don't have a clue... maybe ask his favorite color . I think if he lets you keep that living room, you're possibly in for a FAR bigger problem than decorating with neutrals..? : )
Maybe multiple personality disorder or something? YIKES....from the internet below! LOL
If your favorite color is RED, you are action oriented with a deep need for physical fulfillment and to experience life through the five senses.
If ORANGE is your favorite color, you have a great need to be with people, to socialize with them, and be accepted and respected as part of a group. You also have a need for challenges in your life, whether it is physical or social challenges.
Choosing YELLOW as your favorite means you have a deep need for logical order in your everyday life and to be able to express your individuality by using your logical mind to inspire and create new ideas.
If GREEN is your favorite, you have a deep need to belong, to love and be loved, and to feel safe and secure. You need acceptance and acknowledgment for the everyday things you do for others - just a 'thank you' is sufficient.
Lovers of BLUE have a deep need to find inner peace and truth, to live their life according to their ideals and beliefs without having to change their inflexible viewpoint of life to satisfy others.
Indigo lovers have a need to feel in harmony and at one with the Universe and to be accepted by others as the aware and intuitive spiritual beings that they are.
If PURPLE is your favorite color, you have a deep need for emotional security and to create order and perfection in all areas of your life, including your spiritual life. You also have a deep need to initiate and participate in humanitarian projects, helping others in need.
If your personality color is pink you have a deep need to be accepted and loved unconditionally.
If TURQUOISE is your favorite color your deepest need is to create emotional balance in your life, to be able to express your hopes and dreams no matter how idealistic they may be and to make your own way in the world under your own terms.
If your favorite color is MAGENTA, you are a non-conformist who sees life from a different point of view.
And may I just say, I assume you are relatively young, so you go, girl! You bought a house on your own and are diving in head first. Good heavens, you are probably ten steps ahead of where I was decor-wise at your age. All I was worrying about was keeping my single head above water. I think your place looks brilliant!
As for husbands, phooey. Don't even worry about it. I painted our sunroom brilliant raspberry red while my husband was at work, and it was days before he even noticed it. The only reason he noticed later that I'd painted the worn parquet floor cream with big turquoise squares was because it took days to do it, and I had to move a couple of huge birdcages into the den while I did, so he couldn't help but notice that!
Last month, I replaced our chintz rose swags in our bedroom with bright flowery curtains, and swapped the art out on the walls with some amazing modern block prints. Days later I finally asked him what he thought, and he was surprised. He hadn't even noticed.
The only time my husband ever expressed an opinion on decor was after we visited friends in their very beige, very unadorned home. When we left, he said, "Whew, I sure am happy to get out of there. That was the most boring house I've ever been in. I don't know how they can stand it!"
Maybe I live in a little happy place, but as long as it's clean, comfortable, attractive (and it IS) and he's well fed and has a dog or two napping by his side on the sofa and a remote in his hand, he couldn't care less.
When the time comes, ask the husband once or twice what he thinks about a decorating decision, and if he says, "whatever you think, honey", take him at his word and run with it. Your home is an expression of your self, and if you two are birds of a feather, then it will most likely please him as well.
Here's a picture of the revamped sunroom. I have to keep furniture to a minimum because one of our birds sheds his weight in feathers every day.
I've used coral with yellow, green, blue, cream and brown and have never tired of the color.
If you have any recommendations, I'd love to hear them... Im always open to tweaking.
Are the formal rooms your taste or your mom's? Yours seems so much more colorful! I especially liked your retro looking bar stools, btw.
Moms are near and dear to our hearts, but be sure to insert your own personality into your LR and DR. Make sure they're an expression of you, and not your mom. Your cockles should be warmed every time YOU come into your home. You should look around you and say, "I love this. I adore that. This picture excites me. That knick-knack is begging me to pick it up and stroke it."
I'm sure a lovely man is out there somewhere who will appreciate you for the person you are.
As for husbands - mine can't even match his clothes let alone anything else.
Merry Christmas to all.
I love reds, but would never use them in a bedroom, yet... I've had more than one client who wanted it. Red has been used in Central Asian wedding gifts (suzanis) intended to hang in the bedroom and contribute to fertility. It worked, unintentionally, for a client of mine in her 40's.
I think a softer red, terra cotta, is easier to live with (I don't like accent walls. I think it's non-committal and ungapatchka), and has a very magnetic quality. It draws people into a room.
And Kimberly... vavavoom! I love your kitchen colors, too! That's awesome. I saw some acid green tiles like that in an IKEA display, of all things, and if I hadn't just remodelled, darned if I wouldn't do that myself.
Well done barby.
I ripped out a traditional kitchen that was just like Kimberly's, tore out a bi-fold door pantry I'd always hated, and replaced it with the unfitted kitchen I had dreamed about for years. Where the pantry used to be is now a ten foot long Welsh dresser, filled with THE most colorful plates, pots, platters, pie birds, storage cannisters, cookie jars, polka dotted bowls, colored rolling pins and colanders I could find. It took me forever, but I finally learned that my house is to please ME, not some real estate agent or buyer that may or may not come along next year, in ten years, or after I die. I guess that wisdom came right around the same time that after years of caring, I no longer cared what anyone thought about me. I just didn't, ya know?
And ya know what? After being warned by the RE agent next door I was making a horrible mistake and killing my resale value yada yada, my kitchen is the heart of my home, and everyone who comes in my home flips out over it. It's ME, and it's very satisfying that they respond to something that is so strongly and personally ME.
Same thing with our garage. Years ago, when we decided to enclose our garage, add a breezeway and a new separate garage, our HOA had hissy fits. "You're overbuilding", everyone said. Well that was 18 years ago, and we've loved every stinking minute (stinking often being the operative word since that's where our beloved dogs like it best, too) of enjoying it. And when neighbors want to remodel their home, whose house do they come looking to? "Can I borrow your floorplans?"
What's the point of having a house you are too afraid to live in?
That's the same reason I turned my dining room into a library. I love my books a heckuva a lot more than I loved a beautiful but hideously formal room I never even entered except to dust once a week.
I think Barby's yellow kitchen is a 10,000% happier place to be in than the old glum green one, and bully for her for doing what makes HER happy. Happy is as happy does.
These are, btw, unretouched, un-picked up, photos I just took of a REAL house in REAL use by REAL happy people on a marvelous Christmas Day. My wonderful husband gave me a Rob Ryan for Christmas!!!! Something else to hang on my walls and swell my heart every time I see it!
Thats awesome!!! It makes perfect sense.... My mom shook her head when she saw my pictures but you know, it made me happy the way the room looked. Im going to stop worrying about the future. My baby now doesnt have a problem with it... He just jokes that he's going to throw himself on all the pillows and lay there :)
I think making your home about you and really enjoying it is infectious, people can't not like it when they see how happy and contented you are, it is the total package that others see and want for themselves. Your home is amazing and you can see it is lived in and loved - just hope you really enjoy dusting :).
I have one very difficult bedroom that gets poor light, faces south so is cold and uninviting in winter and in a desperate bid to cheer it up I painted the walls white to help bring more light in, put up white curtains with a bright childrens' design in bold yellow, bright green, hot pink and bright aqua blue, used bold yellow doona covers and pillowslips, painted the furniture the bright green in the curtains and painted the ceiling the bold yellow. It definitely cheered the room up but I have never been allowed to live the yellow ceiling down. Hey, it was the 70s!!!
I am dying to put some photos of my renovations up, I know they won't be designer rooms to write home about, but they are me and I love being in them. The house has been a construction site for months now but the worst is over and am moving to the 'work in progress' stage so hopefully I will find things again........ like my camera and battery charger for starters.
decorating in the new year. Art comes from the heart,and design should make you happy.