Name: Deborah
Location: Oakland, CA
Why I use color:
"Color is a defining expression of who I am and how I want to feel. Color helps me to organize the objects and activities I choose for my living space. Color welcomes my visitors and makes them feel something different. Color comforts me. Color amazes me. Color inspires me. Color removes what’s ‘blah’ and gives me what I want."
Color Tips:
1. Choose a mood for your environment and pick a color that sets that mood, either by contrast or complimenting. An apartment in the heart of downtown can look great when done in woodsy colors to buffer the views outside, or go with cool, stoic colors to enhance the urban vibe.
2. I look for something I truly love and then I use that as my main color and build around it. I have chosen the color of a favorite shirt, my best friends suggested color for me, and the color of the sky outside my new windows.
3. I have a thing about light. I pay attention to how my colors look during different times of the day and with my interior lighting. I enjoy the results, play with changes or get rid of something that may go from gorgeous in the morning to flat and boring at night.
Color Resources:
1. I like picking up brochures from the paint store that show a room with a color scheme, going to stores that have room displays (like Ikea), and websites (like West Elm) that show products used in a room. All of these places show color combinations and I can get ideas of what appeals to me.
2. I’m exploring the many ‘green’ products for the home and one of them is milk-based paint that has no harmful fumes. You can paint a room and sleep in it that night!
I like the room a lot. However, I think the third photograph is not helping your entry at all. Can we get any info on the prints?
I am wondering if it is a good or bad idea to include people in these shots. I have noticed it in some of the recent entries. I would think they would distract the viewer. The reduced resolution photos tend to remove most of the original appeal anyway. Just wondering.
This is definitely a color scheme built around relaxation. I can feel the blood pressure drop just by looking at that mix of blues.
Incredible! What a great use of color!
Great job. I like that you used one color all over but it's not overbearing at all.
The night shot of the room blows my mind---I wouldn't have thought how a room in cool colors could become an amber cocoon in the dark, with just a few lamps. Soothingly cool by day, cozy-warm after sunset. I think the whole design is refined and sophisticated, subtle and insightful. It's amazing how far use of natural and artificial light can take a space!
Au
After looking at a lot of the other entries and coming back here, I realize this is one of my favorite uses of color. There is really a great total mood thing going on here.
I was originally frustrated by the pictures though. What is the wood-slat thing to the left of the third pic? I wish I could see a picture of the side of the room, rather than the first picture. Still, one of the best.
Where did you find your bed? I'm looking for something like that for myself.
Hi Cindy,
Suprisingly, I built all my furniture myself. You'd be suprised at what you can do with a piece of ply and some 4x4s!
Doug,
The prints are actually paintings by my daughter's friend, Ogi. You can view more of his work at ogigraphics.com.
Go Mom!
i love that blue. What paint color is it? Is it Benjamin moore or ???