Tag: Decorating

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Blue is Back Baby!!

Paint above: Benjamin Moore

Welcome to the new age of design.  As the new generation starts to move into their new homes, condos, apartments and swanky lofts, they long for something different than what they grew up with.  They want to spread their fashion wings, and let their individuality shine.  We spent most of the 80s and 90s saturating homes in greens and burgundies.  One of my first jobs, as a designer, was to help a client who spent a fortune on a turquoise leather sofa in the late 80s.  Yes, you just read that.

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Wallpaper Revival

It’s back!  It’s been back for quite a while, and although most of us associate wallpaper with the 1970s velvet flocked granny papers, modern times have propelled wallpapers into the future.  No matter your design ethic, wallpaper can add anything from some simple texture, a splash of colour or an artistic element.  Use it to complete your design, add sophistication or even frame it as an inexpensive, yet unique, piece of art.

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Colour Trends 2014!!

The colour trend Guru of the design world is Pantone, a company offering up their “decision” of colour trends for the year to designers of fashion, interiors, textiles, accessories and so on.  We, like bees to coveted honey, lie in wait until the big announcement.  So, in the very end, what, exactly does this mean for you, our clients?  Well…

Let’s examine the last two years of trends announced by Pantone.  In 2012, it was Tangerine.  I seem to remember everything being turquoise. Ah…maybe with a hit of Tangerine.  In 2013, it was Emerald.  Things were still turquoise.  Maybe with a hit of Emerald?

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