Warm Colors: Browns, Yellows & Pinks House Beautiful

Warm Colors: Browns, Yellows & Pinks
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After a few weeks of cool purples and blues from the House Beautiful archives, it felt right to switch the spectrum and look at warm colors. Here are some examples of adding color warmth with paint and accessories in yellows, browns and pinks.

• 1 Designer Ned Marshall used Mango- colored walls to add warmth and coziness to his grand New Orleans apartment.

• 2 Designer Amanda Nisbet's own Manhattan living room with warm pinks, reds and yellows.

• 3 Kathryn Ireland's California home combines warm wood floors and red, pink, orange and yellow textiles in the grand living room.

• 4 A San Francisco home by designer Stephen Shubel uses a peony-like pink in the daughter's bedroom — Benjamin Moore's Tickled Pink— and combines with warm-colored textiles and bedding.

• 5 Patrick Wade and Dave DeMattei 's San Francisco home has a warm base of browns that is even warmer with the addition of yellow, gold and red accessories.

(Images: Kerri McCaffety, Pieter Estersohn, Victoria Pearson, Jeremy Samuelson, Jose Picayo for House Beautiful)

Comments (10)

Love the pinks in that San Fran room! ~Tracy @
http://www.dailydecorator.com

posted by Daily Decorator on August 21st 2009 at 11:46am
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Funny I was thinking about changing out my accents to pinks, peach colors and this pink room is what I had in mind except I would leave my walls the same as they are.

The first picture has great symmetry, minus the big plant on the coffee table.

posted by LoriSF on August 21st 2009 at 11:59am
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i love the pink bedroom!

posted by mysuitelife on August 21st 2009 at 12:00pm
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I also like the pink one (but my husband will never go with a pink bedroom...)
Here are to other beautiful yellow and pink uses:
1. eclectic kids room- with both colors:
http://www.houzz.com/photos/28203/Shoshana-eclectic-kids-new-york
2. Pink bedroom with a few shades of pink:
http://www.houzz.com/photos/19377/Brousseau-Residence-eclectic-bedroom-san-francisco

posted by modrngirl on August 21st 2009 at 12:41pm
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A refreshing antidote to the all-white interiors we've been seeing lately... the mango looks especially delicious.

posted by mirandabee on August 21st 2009 at 1:17pm
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I love the mango color on the walls !!! I am also partial to the brown !!! I wanted to do a milk chocolate or even darker brown on my walls with the ceiling bright white and the molding and trim a nice bright white to contrast, but after testing the color, the room was a bit dark, so I went with the more mango color !!!

posted by Eric-Keith on August 21st 2009 at 1:43pm
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This is really a nice photos that was posted. The color schemes are really great and cool to the eyes, in which these are the best colors to have cool mind.

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posted by hostwise on August 21st 2009 at 1:54pm
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For the first time ever I've been hesitatant about choosing a color that would peacefully cohabit in my living room with twin brown nubby textured sofas - the mango colored walls are perfect! It looks wonderful with all that beautiful white trim and I love the way the room seems to glow. It probably looks especially warm and inviting in the evenings too. I'm heading off to Lowes to look for mango colored paint.

posted by Motherbear on August 21st 2009 at 6:41pm
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I love the mango. Glad orange is making a comeback.

posted by citygirlincountry on August 21st 2009 at 7:00pm
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LOVE the yellow room in #2 and the pink bedroom in #4. #4 makes me want to go paint my armoire pink!

posted by kuroneko on August 22nd 2009 at 8:23pm
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