apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

This is fantastic! There's complexity, and detail combined with daring (look at those walls!).

Plus I love that you were able to incorporate older furniture (which you surely didn't get to pick colors for) into a color scheme you clearly love.

Way to go!

I like this a whole lot.

This looks great!!!

Oh and I love your Dewey reference!

I like that red bedroom! It reminds me of India. The other pic seems more ordinary in comparison. Can you explain how you have done your curtains? Clever!

I like the paintings in your living room and the colorful pillows, but wonder whether a less shiny fabric for the pillows would make them feel less garish, especially with the shiny sofas. I find all of the red in the bedroom overpowering; I think I would feel like I was sleeping in nightclub or returning to the womb. My preference would have been for just one wall to be painted red. Using a white or cream for the trim and mouldings would also help the room feel bigger and brighter.

I am not crazy about the living room, looks too cluttered for my taste. I do love your sectional though.

But that bedroom - amazing! I love the red/fushia whatever color that is. Inspires passion for me. I think you should take that theme and do it throughout. The turquoise of your living room looks timid compared to your bedroom. And I think red would look great with your sofa and orange pillows.

Thanks for sharing. And I got a kick out of your Dewey decimal reference!

P.S. - See Mark Chamberlain's blog on color therapy about his client's red apartment. Wonderful! I'm seeing so much red and pink lately I'm feeling inspired to redo my place.

Some nice touches: the plates on the wall, the pendant lamp. It's clear that you care about your home and I bet it's nice to come home to.

I really like the bohemian look you have in the apartment, gorgeous. My first impression wasn't good, from the first photo, I think also because of the cushions on the couch - but also the multi-colour in the rug which seems to make everything instantly compete against each other. Maybe a soft white rug would be easier on the eye? I also think a unifying of the decorative objects in the room could give it more impact. Love the turqouise walls. Don't ever change a thing in the bedroom, its beautiful. After thinking "no-way!" I saw the bedroom and voted "insta-finalist"!

Love the dark wood with the red. I wish I had some of that vintage touch in my place.

I love this... it seems so comfy and lived in, and has that thrift store chic vibe I have in my own place.

I bet that was a happy day when you found that couch.

thanks for the positive comments! My bedroom isn't as red as it appears in the photos. it's actually 3 dreamcicle colored walls and one coral wall with dreamcicle colored spider mum stencils on it. the curtains are just clothespinned to picture hanging wire. when we moved in, the house had been painted white everywhere. we stripped paint off of the floors, the transom, doors and trim to bring back the beautiful wood.

The living room needs to meld better IMHO. The pillows, ottoman and rug seem out of place.

I love the bedroom, though something to break up the red wall would be nice. Art, hangings, texture or a border would all work.

Bold use of color though. Good work!

orange and turq, and is the sofa like dove grey??? i'm FEELIN' it. wine, melon, orange, pink along with polka dots is how heaven is decorated.
excellent, thank you. you have shown all the wild and crazy people who think a dark brown bedroom is radical what color really is.

Denver represent! Looks good, I like! I especially like that you used those awesome high ceilings to wrap the colour up and around. Thumbs up!

Also, I knew without looking that this was a denver post. Nothing like that rocky mountain sunlight!

that sectional sofa is pretty awesome. some day you could get it recovered with a nice wool tweed or synthetic tweed in a warm grey or brown.
I love the turquoise.
I love the quilt in the bedroom too. Is it handmade?

Great use of color. Love the bedroom!! Living Room looks very happy!! BUT...all those sad, sick and dying plants are bringin' me down! I think you should give them a proper burial in the dumpster and buy yourself one or two really nice, lush, healthy green plants! That would be a great, inexpensive investment and add to the overall happy feeling of your home, sure to put it over the top!!

YAY! A home that actually looks like a home and not a dammn catalog!!!! I love that living room. makes me think of a very easy early summer day.

i knew that my plants looked sickly in the photo but really they're not. they're all quite healthy. the sofa is more like a sage green and it's shiny becuase it's so old. everything in that room is secondhand, family heirloom or something i made. the only thing store bought is the rug which i got because it has every color in the room in it. i have since rearranged the furniture to cozy it up more.

Love the color in the living room what's the name or who makes it?? I like the way the color of the paintings go with the color on the wall. I'd think it be too much but it works. Good luck with the contest!!

Your home would be a great place to hang out. I'd get just energized by walking through the door

thanks again for the positive comments. on a side note, while i realize that everyone has different tastes, i am disappointed with the 'bitchy' comments i see on these boards. i'm all for constructive criticism, yet it is unconstructive to rag on someone's knick knacks or personal tastes. this contest is about decorating with color not whether your stuff comes from West Elm or Goodwill or how "tired" it is. i think you can appreciate someone's use of color even if you don't like their style.

I just posted on another entry kvetching about all the painted woodwork. So - Kudos to trish for stripping it!

Question: Did you find that the dark wood constrained your color choices at all?

I am just starting to define my taste and pick a color scheme. I am going to break down crying if another person insists that I paint my trim so that the walls "pop"

Like the crazy vintage furniture pieces together...but the particular shades of orange & blue pillows in the living room however conjure up for me...Howard Johnson's!? The bedroom is cozy & warm, I like the warm "Eastern" feel & tough of exotic.

oops I mean 'touch of exotic" sorry, typo!

anna- some of the wood is actually painted to look like wood with a glaze because there were so many layers of probably lead based paint. i would have liked it lighter but this is a nice look. even dark ,it's still an accent. i can't stand it when wood is painted or covered up with wall to wall carpet.

oh, and i do, however, love the turquoise with the chocolate brown wood...!

Good example of someone gone crazy with red paint! How this bedroom doesn't hasn't given you a heart attack yet is unclear to me

Not pictured: the genie and talking pterodactyl.