#21- NanaHu's Color Compostions

Name: NanaHu
Location: Chicago
Type: 2 bedroom apartment, renting since May

Why I use color:"Since We rent, adding color to an apartment really makes the space yours. Our apartment came with great built in cases, so we painted it with bright, graphic colors to highlight our collection of knickknacks that would go in the cases.We also wanted the house to have a rhythm, so we paced the a few bright walls with white space and used our toys, books, etc to pick up the color within the white space. I think it visually leads the eye through our house and creates different mixed color compositions."

2 Good color tips:

"We used really bold colors for 2 high traffic portions of our house, but didn't paint every single wall in the room...I would suggest when adding color to a space, especially a bright color, is not to cover all 4 walls with the same color."

2 Good color tips:

"I strongly believe in contrast. I love keeping within the same tone family and contrasting it with colors from other families in small objects or furniture. It allows the secondary color family room to really pop and your primary colors to breathe."

Favorite type and brand of paint:"We used Behr."

Comments (16)

I love the boombox

posted by nicolej on October 17th 2007 at 11:26am
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Nice...I like how you fearlessly display stuff that you like in all corners.

posted by meltendo on October 17th 2007 at 11:30am
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Where oh where is that ABC poster from?

posted by rasabasa123 on October 17th 2007 at 11:36am
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Rasabasa, I'll chime in on the answer to your question. The ABC poster is by Experimental Jetset for the documentary Helvetica, there are several limited edition posters, including that one, available on the site -- just click on "shop".

posted by kristin11 on October 17th 2007 at 12:08pm
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Bright. Fun. I like how you repeat certain colours and are not afraid to be bold. Keeping some white space is good, as is defining your palette to some degree (here: yellow, orange, white, black, brown/wood tones).

posted by otis on October 17th 2007 at 1:05pm
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i think the colors you chose for paint go really well with the wood trim and i love how bright it is. very nice.

posted by katishome on October 17th 2007 at 9:25pm
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Like the little shots of yellow. I really like that helvetic poster. I'ma need to get me one.

posted by BSmeltz on October 18th 2007 at 4:13am
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Would you please ship that yellow, black and red art poster in your living room to me right away? I'll give you my address. LOL.

This place is great. It isn't my personal style but I dig it. I have a friend who is really into second hand finds but his place misses the mark. Your apartment is how it should be done.

posted by orangejuce on October 18th 2007 at 7:13am
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P.S.
My only gripe is that you used a gloss instead of flat wall paints.

posted by orangejuce on October 18th 2007 at 7:14am
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That poster in the living room is some limited edition poster by the graffiti artist that now makes all those smoking rabbits for kidrobot. My boyfriend just about killed me when I put holes in the corners.
Thanks for all the lovely comments! I was really nervous about all this!

posted by nanaboo on October 18th 2007 at 9:55am
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I like the strip of green thats pretty original! Was that an accident?

posted by joshua3129 on October 18th 2007 at 1:34pm
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Reminds me of my grandmothers house growing up. And, I mean that in the cozy, unpretentiously happy way.

posted by Squeegee Beckenheim on October 18th 2007 at 5:25pm
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yeah, looks like a place to be happy in. also, should look warm even in the winter.

posted by godsfool on October 18th 2007 at 9:05pm
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The green strip, was a left over from when we painted the dining room back to white.

posted by nanaboo on October 20th 2007 at 7:33am
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I'd like to see a house tour of your place...it is unconventional, eclectic and inviting...i like your color combos and collections.

posted by polkadot on October 22nd 2007 at 7:38am
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I like happy clutter.