Name: Dan
Location: Boulder, Colorado
Why I use color:
"Most importantly: It hides dog hair. It’s not all about color on the walls. I like strong colorful pieces (like a red sofa). It causes actions and reaction. It changes moods. It is an outward display of personality. Did I mention that color hides dog hair?"
Color Tips:
" Build around a piece (like a red sofa). I like color but I’m not looking for a seizure. Use the light in your room. Light from windows can be color itself. Tie rooms together using color or use color to separate rooms or distinguish space."
Color Resources:
1.colormatters.com
2. crayola.com
It's nice. It's a really nice room.
...But there's no color in it!
Also, that dog must wear little clean-room booties all the time. My sister's lab would have the walls, floors and ceiling coated with dog prints in NO time.
Um...you reaaaally need art in that space. It's a great space, nice furniture, but the walls are so bare!!
Total kudos on picking a sitting-area color scheme around the color of the dog! Every pet-owner has probably made the threat to just decorate to match what the pet sheds.
I'd love to see something on the walls or other areas that responds to the bold red sofa, though.
I agree with Adam. The walls are so bare! A few well picked pieces from a local art gallery would warm the room up a bit and give it more personality.
I'm seeing some 2 tone color on that one wall with the block shelving . . .
I think it's a friendly space that needs some work. And I'm glad to see non-designy entries added to the contest. Thanks for showing us your place and pup!
great room
Great room, great dog, great repetition of blocks throughout the living room space. I too would love to see some art or color or texture on the wall, especially in the dining area. I love the forest of framed photographs next to the couch. More blocks to echo the shapes of the rug, couch cushions, bookcase and windows.
I too would like to see a huge piece of art behind the dining room table, but I do like the red seating area.
- fellow dog lover, but I have a beige dog, beige carpet and beige sofa.
What a wonderful room. I like the rug and the hardwood floors, they complement the rest of the room very well. I also am taken with the book shelves and the use of the plants.
Overall, I think this is a spectacular design.
- What an adorable dog.
I like it, but I agree with the comments about it looking a little bare. My first thought wasn't about art. It was about the windows. Those windows want curtainy friends. And your dog is a beautiful addition to the room! :)
If art is added, I think the area by the dining room table would be good. You wouldn't even need to get anything fancy... just get a big canvas and paint it the same red as the sofa, then add some tonal blocks in a few places for balance. (IE, take the red and add a little black to it; paint a block that's maybe 1/16th the size of the canvas. Add a little more black, and paint another block somewhere else, maybe on the other side of the canvas at a diagonal. Etc. Or paint the canvas the 3pt red, 1 pt black, and then do tons and tons of squiggles in pure red over it.)
The couch color is very nice. The colors in the rug, if used more throughout the room, would pull it all together.
The block shelves are very nice as is the trio of pottings in front of the windows.
Cooking Cajun
This person really has a keen eye for decorating.
Even Fido fits in to the scheme perfectly! Good job.
I like the lesson here that color commitment can mean furniture, not just walls.
Great repetition of grids and squares. Love the rug. JEALOUS of the space!
That dog-and-red-sofa combo have to be awesome when winter rolls around!
How 'bout a big pop-art inspired portrait of that inspirational dog on one of your (ENVIABLE) large walls?!
If you do decide to keep the color wheel rolling, I think the niche wall (behind the bookcases) or the dining wall (opposite the couch) are two ideal candidates for experimentation. Need not be red, and the rug offers lots of possibilities.
I like it. and chicks do to. can you guys hook me up with some chicks if I learn how to make my apartment as swankie as yours.
clean walls mean a clean mind.....
the red red red is very potent and can spark anyone's imagination as to what they might WANT to be seeing on the walls.....
so, enough about the walls, already.
the dog is great.
some little golden stars or puffy white clouds or wiggling hula dancers hanging from that thing on the ceiling might give everyone a little something to watch swaying when they look up....
but it's all good.
aloha.
ehu***