Do you have a love affair with home office supplies? A penchant for color? There's a whole rainbow spectrum of colors to brighten up your workspace, from stationery to peripheral accessories...

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Mixing wood grain with crisp white is a great way to introduce modern pieces into a more traditional room. Get the look with one of these pieces or get creative and DIY an existing piece of furniture.

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I spent many years of my youth stacking and un-stacking chairs in church basements and cafeterias and have a special fondness for the ubiquitous colorful chairs found in those spots. Here are some contemporary examples with a similar vibe, perfect for small space and outdoor entertaining. 

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A few weeks ago Jason wrote about blue outdoor furniture to match the springtime of his dreams, and now that it's finally sunny here in Chicago, I've decided to compile a roundup of yellow furniture to match mine. Here's a list of ten sunny tables, bistro sets, chairs, lounges, and rockers, all for under $200.

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I read this morning on one of my favorite garden blogs (Black Walnut Dispatch) that it was once a very common thing for gardeners to avoid the color magenta because people associated it with poison —  arsenic was once commonly used in pesticides, giving crops that had been dusted with it a magenta color. 

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We've all likely looked to movies and TV shows as sources for home decor inspiration at one time or another (mine has long been the midcentury set design of the John Lautner's residence in Tom Ford's A Single Man). Usually it's the furnishings and decorative pieces that sparks our imagination, but movies can inspire our visions of home via cinematography too...

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Our Small Cool homeowners may be living in little spaces, but they've never shied away from big colors. As we gear up for Small Cool 2013, here are 10 of our very favorite colorful small spaces. 

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While white seating inside the house may feel like a risky proposition, especially for the butterfingers among us, white outdoor seating is a safe bet. The finishes on all of these white seating options are washable so there's little risk of red wine and chocolate stains. Plus, they're all so nice looking you may want to use them indoors, too. Go ahead, you rule breaker, you. We won't tell anyone.

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I’m not a designer, but working at an agency I'm surrounded by inspiring visual design. Because of my work environment, I’ve become familiar and learned to appreciate the tools designers use on a daily basis, including Pantone swatches. 

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Spring flowers are defined by bright oranges, pinks, and reds to reflect the colors of the sunshine that is suddenly filling our homes. Here is a guide to some of the most architecturally stunning flowers to be found during spring.

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