This lovely Elwood apartment featured on The Design Files is a great example of how a consistent colour theme can bring your home together. Orange highlights are used throughout in the form of furniture and personal objects, while green creates a complimentary backdrop colour. The owner is based in Melbourne, but her style influences come from her New Zealand home and the ‘Pacificana’ aesthetic of the islands around NZ. See below for more images.
Orange & Green Apartment
Melbourne
The 2 bedroom apartment is in a 1950’s art deco building near the bay and features an enviable layout where both the loungeroom and master bedroom open out to the garden. We particularly like the cleverly styled details like the collection of cowrie shell necklaces hung from the ceiling, the vintage green glass containers in the bathroom and the all-orange kitchen utensils – simple but full of visual impact. For more images of this apartment check out The Design Files here.
[ Images by Lucy Feagins, The Design Files ]
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Orange is such a great color to decorate with -- especially in the winter {if you live in a cold climate}. It adds so much warmth and energy. I've definitely been on an orange kick this week:
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view Kelly@Color Sizzle's profile
I love orange! It really pops out at you.
view suzy8track's profile
Wow, those displays of the shells is really unusual and cool.
view Pixie's profile
Such a nice place. Well put together and looks so comfortable and livable with no pretentious or ostentatious design tricks. Really like the warmth and the use of orange as hits is not over done. Thanks for the share.
view click212's profile
i love the necklaces! and orange is my favorite color, so i love that as well ;-)
view brand-eye's profile
Oh man, I LOVE this place. Why couldn't my "antique" bathroom in my condo have been green instead of pink??? (still saving $$ to redo)
view Charlotte's profile
It's totally true that repeating a palette throughout a home will help it feel cohesive. The trick is to vary where the colors are used. I have the same colors in every room, but they're rotated around and it's not obvious at all. E.g., in the dining room I have oatmeal linen curtains, and in another room I have nearly the same fabric on some chairs, and in the bedroom I use it on the headboard. Same thing with my favorite color -- a verdegris or "spa" or "silver sage" blue, depending on which retailer you're buying from. In one room it's on the couch in another it's the drapes, and in the bedroom it's in the coverlet.
view kimg924's profile
Does anyon know where to find that bedspread? Love!
view HeatherHLP's profile
Love this home!
view speck's profile
What a great place!!!! And I bet she didnt hire a designer to do it.
Thanks so much for sharing!
view sassydo's profile
love it!!!
view ocmrsb's profile
love love love it
view sunrise's profile
Love it all except for the necklaces. Instead of being artistic, it comes off as being more retail.
view Seaside's profile
Inspirational, great stuff!
view topia7's profile
oh... look at that beautiful original kitchen and bathroom!!!
I too live in Elwood, and it is so sad to see all the apartments that have been "updated" with very ordinary new kitchens and bathrooms. There are so few of these original beauties left in our area.
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