Name: casacaudillLocation: Oakland, CA
Type of Home: Craftsman bungalow
What inspired you to use color? Not only does color help define your style but it can change your mood. When I walk into my house at the end of the day and I see my blue living room, green office, peacock bedroom and orange dining room, I feel my mood shift. It makes me happy...
Color Tip: Paint your rooms the colors you like, not the colors magazines or catalogs tell you are popular.
Colors Used: Ralph Lauren Cairo Ralph Lauren Egyptian Nile Behr Tropical Skies Behr Bold Edwardian Dutch Boy Summer Lake
Veronica & Keith's Handmade Chic 
The World's Ugliest Condo: The Big Bathroom Reveal 
Good Food to Share 
The Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces 
Apartment Therapy Presents 
The Eight-Step Home Cure 
Hunslet Dinner Plate
A Beginner's Guide to Superb Stir-Fry: Quick, Healthy Meals from a Wok
Homesteaders' Cocktail Recipe: Lovage Simple Syrup
Comments (21)
"Paint your rooms the colors you like"...Couldn't agree more! :)
Don't be scared, that's just me sleeping on your couch since your house is AWESOME.
Oh, this is gorgeous! Your bedroom is essentially the color theme I want do with my tiny studio (which is also a craftsman, go figure). It's nice to that the colors DO work together as well in real life as they do in my mind. :)
Really nice.
very nice - great use of colors
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not sure what a craftsman bungalow is but you have so much light with all those beautiful windows.
beautiful colors, even down to the colorful cook books.
nicely done--woodwork in DR is so lovely too.
Where did you get the chairs in your dining room? I've been searching for these forever! Lovely house!
Very beautiful, it looks comfortable and inviting, very nice choice of color.
love the bedroom color! i think i would have brought it higher or painted another color above the rail up on to the ceiling. the room is great though!
This house is really nice. I love how the colors work WITH the house instead of just being slapped onto the walls in spite of the house.
This looks like a comfortable, lived-in, and well-loved home!
What a beautiful house/home. Impressive that you have respected the style of the house yet keep it looking modern and very elegant.
Really lovely. I love the blue in the bedroom and the other blues and greens.
The shot with the wing chair in the corner is my favorite!
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Nice!!!
Thanks for the positive feedback everyone!
sparkle - that color is Behr's Tropical Skies. We color-matched to use Ralph Lauren paint since we don't actually like the coverage BEHR provides.
sassydo - a craftsman bungalow is a style of house that was built during the American arts & crafts movement. Here are a couple of good Flickr pools that show more of the style: http://www.flickr.com/groups/craftsman/, http://www.flickr.com/groups/hewn/, http://www.flickr.com/groups/bungalowusa/.
aande4414 - the table & chairs are from Cost Plus World Market. They are always on sale, so you should definitely keep an eye out. They're solid wood and really well made.
love the green behind the bookcases!
lovely
What a great house...nice sense of style and color! It doesn't appear "staged", instead really comfortable. On the flip side, I think it is a stretch to say that anything at Cost Plus is "really well made".
where is the sofa from??
love the colors!
bgirl_nw - normally i'm not a fan of cost plus furniture b/c it is cheap, but this table & chair set are STURDY. And yeah, I do think they're well-made. But not everything at CP is. :-)
ashnwest - the couch was a special order from Macy's a few years back. It's a Lee couch with sunbrella fabric which works out fabulously with pets (and I would imagine children).
I agree that the colors are bright and cheerful, but they don't seem to come from the same color palette. It makes the color scheme somewhat discordant.