Name: Amanda
Location: Akron, OH
Type: 2 story 1930's victorian home-owned
Why I use color: I can't get enough color in my house! I work with color on an everyday basis as an interior designer. Every room in my house is filled with warm and welcoming vibrant colors. I use color because it not only makes a space comfortable, but it makes it feel alive. So many people I speak with are afraid to use color on their walls or use colorful decorative accents.
Paint is only paint and can be changed at any time. I practice what I preach, and my house if filled with color. I have a theme of bright oranges, greens and chocolate browns on the first level and blues, reds and chocolate browns on the second level. It makes a bold statement and I have turned my 1930's victorian home into a modern delight!
2 Good color tips:
1. Don't be afraid to paint dark colors on walls
2. Paint trim white-it will make the color of your walls pop
2 good color resources:
1. A piece of art work or decorative object
2. Design magazines
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absolutely beautiful.
It's perfect.
Are your dining room chairs the Kyoto chair from DWR? I like both the chairs and table a lot, along with the patterned pillow on the bed.
I love the dining room, but there's too much pattern happening for me in the bedroom. I like the bedspread a lot, I think it might work better without the five circles with squares inside them over the horizontal stripe.
Insta-finalist! The only thing I would change is the color of the headboard. Perhaps a metallic gold as in the color of the pillow with the circles/dots would look good. Or else a busy pattern in brown and white.
I am so glad you showed more than one area of your home! I feel cheated by the entries where they send two shots of the same space.
Your use of colors is beautiful. The bedroom is a little overdone for me, I don't find it restful, but I still love the color combination of blue and brown. Your dining room is absolutely beautiful. Those oranges must look beautiful at night when the candles are lit.
Intriguing and ambitious.
Praise be to Zeus, it ain't friggin' green!!!!
This house is amazing!!!!!! Great choice of color. It puts all the other houses in this contest to shame. You must be an interior designer or something.
Amanda! It is beautiful! Especially your dining room. It is luscious.
However, 1930's is not Victorian. It is well past the age of Victoria. It looks Craftsman-like to me.
I like the color in all. I think you should spice it up and put a fish tank in the picture somewhere.
You know I love it!
The dining room is definitely INSTA, but the bedroom, not so much. So I had to split the difference. I think if the bedroom walls were one color, it would have been instantly INSTA.
yes, someone from akron has taste!
beautiful! brown is sooooo hot.
if only you had a brown & white pet to go with everything!
Beautiful! I love it when a house is a juxtaposition. Just because the house is from the 1930's doesn't mean that the inside has to stay in that era!
Well done.
Barbarella's boudoir...
Really beautiful!! I love the bedroom!! The stripes are stunning and the the lamps and bedspread are great. Is your headboard wood or fabric? I like that we see so much of the home in the second pic. I like all the different colors. The flowers on the wall are a great touch.
Insta-finalist? Insta-Winner!!! =)
Oh my goodness this room is fantabulous! How creative!
Definitely the work of a pro!
I agree - - Insta-fabulous!
Wow, there's a lot going on in that bedroom! I wonder if it makes it hard to sleep ;)
Amanda... Very unique use of colour and patterns. I believe the choices obviously reflect the vibrancy of your personality, and the courage to follow your convictions. Well done !!!
That bedroom is really something very special.
Table & Dining chairs look like C&B madison collection.
Great atmosphere in the dining room- I see it as a relaxing place to socialize. Your bedroom is really playful and fun. Excellent work- what's the rest of your home like?
Amanda has done wonders with this home. Rarely does one see a home with sleak, clean lines yet has that "homey atmosphere". I especially applaud her choice of colors and shapes. My hat's off to this budding, young, talented designer.
Interesting, it feels like pictures from two different catalogs. I like them both and they seem beautifully done and comfortable, but like they'd be in two different houses. Does anyone else get that feeling? Disconnected almost. I'd love to see the room or hallway between them to see the transition.
Wow, love the curved arch wall!
I absolutely love the dining room and view of the other room. The colors are rich and gorgeous and inviting, yet also so crisp. I love the color combination of the bedroom, but I have to say that the longer I look at the picture, the more I get a bit dizzy. There's just such a whole lotta circles everywhere, just a bit too much for me. But love it as a whole, and wish I could see the entire house.
Very nicely done. One question: was the wood trim already painted when you moved in? If not, did you have any reservations about painting it? I guess I'm constitutionally unable to paint finished wood in older homes (even though my house's trim is not as nice as this one's), and I'm wondering if anyone else has this hang up.
Bedroom well-composed. The stripes of the wall are graphic & ambitious while their horizontality, breadth, and the warmth of the brown maintain tranquility. I believe the headboard must remain simple - skip any busy patterns here. Loves the lamps! Shame about the electrical outlet above the headboard. The bedroom is hot yet shocks me, juxtaposed with the romantic warmth & simplicity of the dining space below. I'm sure this dining room serves as a joyously warm, comfortable, serene canvas to many a convivial evening. Bravo!
beautiful -- so crisp. you've done a great job using a brown color theme in both rooms while, at the same time, making them completely different from one another by pairing one with a pale blue and the other with a mild orange; one rounded, the other composed of straight lines. there IS a ceiling fan, but we'll let that slide since the rest of the space is seemless. good use of color. very nice job.
Amazing!
When looking at the bedroom,
I want to nap.
When looking at the dining room,
I want to eat.
How do you do it...!
SSSOOOOO cool!
shagadelic!
Insta Winner! You are so talented! I love everything about it. The shades, hues, shapes, juxstaposition. This house could only reflect the personality of someone who is bold, beautiful, strong and talented in all areas of her life, not just her decorating skills! Wonderful job!
9 out of 10 times stripes make me see red, but they actually work for me here. The little paintings are a tad overkill. But the bed and chair are stunning.
I like the dining room too, save for the 3 candles. I think one would have been enough.
I love, love, love the play on color.
Outstanding
Wow!! Target would love this for their ad, but I can't imagine living with it.
perfect use and balance of colors!
i really love this. i love the tones of the colors that you used. brown and orange speak comfort to me and i love your take on them.
lovely. femme without being frilly.
Love the textured pattern on the walls! Great how the brown color and textures subdue that lovely earthy orange.
Fabulous! Still trying to find that perfect shade of brown... what exactly did you use?
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