Whether your color tolerance is low or high, add a bit of happy modern by incorporating a color blocked element. It can be as small as a throw pillow or as large as a rug.
Shown above from left to right:
1. Hay & Scholten & Baijings' Color Carpet Rug #5 - 67" x 94" (5' 7" x 7' 10"), $1,600.00 from A + R
2. Ikea PS 2012 Coffee table - dark turquoise, $49.99 from Ikea
3. Parsons 20.5"w File Cabinet, $89.99 from Home Decorators Collection
4. Color Block Stripe Pillow in Kelly Green, Navy and Natural Linen - (12x16), $38.00 from Jillian Rene Decor
5. Interdesign Color Block Shower Curtain, Blue/Red, 72 Inches X 72 Inches, $19.19 from Interdesign
MORE HAPPY MODERN ON APARTMENT THERAPY:
• Examples of Color Blocking in Decor
• Cheer Up Your Home: 20 Happy Modern Lights for All Budgets
• Happy Modern Style Archive
(Images: As credited above.)
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I am loving the Parson's File Cabinet!
There's a fine line between color blocking and bad quilt-square-Cosby-sweater-80's. If you've ever shopped area rugs on overstock.com you know what I'm talking about.
http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Beige-Geometric-Rug-82-x-10/5543396/product.html
Can any comment on the negative review for the Parsons' File Cabinet within the link? The customer says it is equivalent to building your own file cabinet from scratch with a lot of dowels and screws that need to be glued.
Whoever posted the child sized $100 stupid filing cabinet needs to realize there's a difference between "color blocking" and "a block that is a color."