One of our favorite ways to update a home is through inexpensive thrift store finds (and then painting the bargain piece a fun color). Liz, of Mabel's House does a great job by selecting solid pieces and updating them in one of our most-loved colors--seafoam green. Plenty of inspiring ideas incorporating seafoam green into your home's decor after the jump.
A hutch used for storing books gets an upgrade with a coat of seafoam green. We love the antique typewriter and red bins below for extra storage.
A roadside find, Liz removed the cabinet doors and painted the table seafoam green to use as a landing strip.
A light shade of aqua, this old water jar twinkles with a strand of christmas lights.
Incorporate a seafoam colored blanket into your bedding combo (it goes great with red, blue, green and yellow).
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Comments (11)
I extremely love this. Typewriters! Just before seeing this, I found a large bottle on the porch all dirty and washed it thinking Christmas lights would be pretty inside it. Where is the plug? Does this bottle have a hole drilled in it?
Seafoam green is a little too Martha Stewart for me.
I want that quilt.
BambiJo - I feel you. I want the quilt and the sheets.
I'm not for painting much so most of the rest I can deal without.
Sea foam green is my favorite color. Mainly because of the sea foam green fender I've always wanted. But I painted the trim on a 1950's kitchen hutch sea foam green, and just painted a small side table a couple days ago to match. Our dresser top I also painted is like a dark sea foam or robin's egg. I tend to lean towards these colors a lot.
I definitely feel at home in Liz's world (similar to mine in color choices). She discovered a smart trick: paint otherwise undistinguished finds from thrift stores, attics, etc., a uniform color, and suddenly there's cohesion! That it's like living inside a Deruda ceramic piece makes it even better.
It seems seafoam green is making a come-back. It's a great soothing color that blends in so well with any style of decor.
Love the mix of colors in Liz's home.
What a great color and a beautiful quilt, I LOVE it!
It is a very pretty quilt indeed. The pattern is called "Grandmother's Flower Garden". My own grandmother made one for me when I was a baby, and I'm sure you can find lovely commercial versions by searching for the pattern name. :)
Lovely photos. Lovely ceramic pieces on the shelves!
Seafoam green. Very 1950s. Nice on accent pieces. Less charming on walls. I was there, and it was everywhere. Schools, hospitals, department store dressing rooms, and gas station restrooms.
The vignette of the seafoam green 'landing strip' table with the pops of red, the typewriter and movie poster above it is perfection. Love it.