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Name: Dorio
Location: Murray Street, NY

Why I use color:

"I am in a creative field and work at home. I need something to give me energy, especially when it is cold and dreary outside. I love walking into our apartment and seeing the bright colors! It fills me with optimism and wakes up my brain. Yet it is also very calming and is great for my creativity. This is a studio, so the bed alcove that you see is delineated in "tequila lime", while the rest of the space is 'delectable" blue, and white. Color is such a personal thing, like music, but these colors really work for us."

Color Tips:

"Take your color cues from an item you love, a textile print, plate, painting, etc. and use it as a cue for your color combinations. We fell in love with the blue and green hues in the painting of the woman's face and went from there.

Sometimes breaking the rules leads to spectacular results. I thought my husband Greg was crazy when he suggested painting the ceiling a darker color than the walls, and was going to leave it white, but at the last minute at the paint store, I decided to just go for it. Then I painted the mirror frame with the leftover ceiling paint. We love the results!

When using such strong colors, it is better to accessorize sparingly.
Too much stuff, along with the bright colors, can be overwhelming."

Color Resources:

"Benjamin Moore Personal Color Viewer software program. This is free on the Benjamin Moore website (www.benjaminmoore.com) and can also be found on the Janovic Plaza website (www.janovic.com). It is very useful to be able to see different colors together in a room, especially since you can choose trim, and adjacent room colors as well.

Janovic Plaza, which is located one block from my apartment. Very handy when you realize halfway though the job that your ceiling needs yet another coat of paint. The people there are very helpful, knowledgeable AND friendly."

Comments (13)

This entry should win the "I've Got God-Awful Color!"

contest.

Jenny, I couldn't disagree more. I think the colors are fresh and clean looking. I love the art that inspired the colors for this room as well.

I think it's a fun space. And I like the vibrant colors contrasting with the white. Jenny, I think there's an Ethan Allen sale this weekend...

Haha, thanks Jenny. I guess that's better than not winnng any contest.

I like this room. It's got a good sense of fun to it. Digging the bold colors--a lot.

Great line, Jenn McC, though I think it's wasted on a room in a color scheme that has been "in" at least twice in the past 15 years. (This is one where I wonder if the light/camera is doing the color justice.)

love the still life on the window sill.

I love it, the white accents make the others colors pop! so mod!

great room i really like the flowers in simple vases by the window nice touch.

My husband walked by as I was viewing this entry and said "That's the color our dressing room used to be!" He was painting over the walls in our new studio/condo today and discovered it under the last painted color (so undesirable I can't describe it). I never would have known the green was ever there.

Your entry is well set up, with the soft blues placed throughout, the tiny greens at the window sill, the blue contrast wall reflected in the mirror, the painting by the bed. Very nice......

Cooking Cajun

Thanks for all the comments. I really like getting other people's take on things. Colorwise, on my monitor two of the colors I've used, the green and the turquoise, exactly match the 2nd prize item group from CB2 if that helps.

I realize now after looking at so may entries, that colors can be wildly off depending on your monitor. Sometimes I would be very surprised when I learned the true colors of a posted room. Such a fun contest anyway!

Dorio, I love the color. (at least what I'm seeing, heh)

The darker ceiling I wouldn't have thought of, but your husband was right, it looks great. And I also agree with Victor - the walls make the other colors pop.