Name: Lori Kass
Location: Mamaroneck, NY
Type of Home: Center Hall Colonial
What inspired you to use color? My New Year’s resolution was to walk more boldly in this world. No one was cutting in front of me at the movies! That hum-drum job - well, it had to go! And my loved ones now know exactly how I feel about them! And oh yeah, that boring colonial in the suburbs got transformed into the perfect symbol of energy, creativity, animation. To be a colorful person is to let your individuality and positivity shine. My close friend and interior designer Phillip Hunsaker helped me translate those feelings into a space whose color inspires me to be colorful, to live life to the fullest...
Color Tip: Ignore the rule of no dark colors in a small space. It’s a myth.
Colors Used: BM Bayville Blue BM Kensington Blue BM Red Parrot
Fall Colors Introduction -------------------------------
Welcome, everyone, to our Fourth Annual Fall Colors Sharing & Contest. We're looking for the most beautiful & colorful home in the world and sharing all of the great ideas we get with our readers. This year we're amping things up and hoping to do things better than ever. There are two basic phases, the Sharing Phase and the Voting Phase...
1. Sharing Phase - you comment, judges decide
The 40 best, completed entries will be posted on a daily basis for three weeks. You can view them all at anytime via our new, improved contest pages under ALL ENTRIES. During this time your comments are VERY IMPORTANT as our six judges will be choosing 16 finalists from each region based on comments and their own colorful opinion.
2. Voting Phase - you vote till you drop
Starting October 20th, finalist voting will begin on a daily basis through our new bracketed voting system, which will pit our 16 finalists against one another until only one remains. Sound exciting? We hope so.
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Comments (11)
Your designer friend has great taste. I can tell you lean traditional, but it looks like he really worked with you to kick your color palette up a notch and mix your traditional with some modern, hip pieces. No so 'burby anymore.
Your colors seem more fall-ish to me than most of the entries with the bright tones. Not that I don't love many, many of them... I just don't see them as seasonal.
and I love your labyrinth rug. Nicely done.
to the above noter: I don't think the 'fall color contest' is supposed to be about fall colors, it's a color contest that happens to be in fall... at least this is my impression, what do you think?
Love the detailing on the stairs!
I absolutely love this - it's clean and modern while respecting the underlying architecture.
nice colors....beautiful dining room
A little staid and traditional, but lovely. I agree (of course I do) that bringing some modern pieces (and colors) into a traditional setting can really make the place pop a lot more than all-one-or-the-other.
Is this Lori ABRAMOWITZ Kass??????
I loved the colors, it´s a lovely home :) Congratulations!
I love that lamp in the living room - where did you get it?
awesome...i grew up in a town right near bayville, long island. this is a very appropriate blue : )