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Brittany's 70's Garden Party
Room for Color - West #34

Name: Brittany
Location: Portland, Oregon
Type of Home: single family home

Color Inspiration: This might not be a popular way to plan color, but I love themed rooms. Even if nobody else knows what the theme is, I still use it to guide my color and and accessory choices. For this dining room, the theme is 70s Garden Party. These colors made it possible for our family antiques, mid-century pieces, art from friends, and Oregon collection (in the built-in cabinet) to live together.

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70s Garden Party



Colors Used: The main color in the dining room is Liberty Park (487). The adjoining living room is Green Frappe (484), and the background for the built-in cabinet and framed piece next to it are Oak Grove (489). All Benjamin Moore.
Color Tip: If it doesn't work the first time, repaint.


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Absolutely lovely. I love the combination of the beautiful wood tones with the greens.

posted by no accounting for taste on October 16th 2009 at 7:24pm
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Just love this room! It is the perfect merger of traditional and modern!

posted by KWorld on October 16th 2009 at 7:30pm
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The colors used in this room are great, they really show off the wonderful natural light.

posted by kendrajlarson on October 16th 2009 at 10:05pm
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love the sagey green. it is very refreshing. reminds me of the kitchen of a grade school mate. even the linoleum was in this color.

posted by Lady J on October 16th 2009 at 10:26pm
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Although I don't love these colors personally, I think this is really well done. Good concept and great execution!

posted by sally305 on October 16th 2009 at 10:32pm
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this is breathtaking, I love the green, the white trim, the woodfloors, the antiques, it all just works together.

posted by LaDonnaNichole on October 16th 2009 at 10:53pm
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I'm thinking of a creamy avocado dip...mmm...

posted by KidMoe on October 17th 2009 at 12:25am
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these are not my usual colors but... damn I just love this. Great job. Really clean.

posted by tucker on October 17th 2009 at 10:07am
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This is beautiful. I really love the needlework art. What does it say?

posted by applesnkids on October 17th 2009 at 10:43am
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Thanks for all of the nice comments. We're finally getting the house to feel like home, after living in it for a year and a half.

KidMoe--Yesss. I wish I could change the title of our room to creamy avocado dip. That is exactly what color it is.

applesnkids--Thank you, but it isn't needlework. It is actually cut paper words that say, "hooray michael and brittany, congratulations, love tae and koi." A friend cut the words out for our recent wedding and put them in our card. I couldn't bear to just file them away, so I thought we'd display them for a while.

posted by brittanykate on October 17th 2009 at 10:57am
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great colors ... very relaxing

posted by parichb on October 17th 2009 at 11:19am
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Absolutely beautiful. This room is so relaxing and inviting!

posted by Mekow on October 17th 2009 at 12:21pm
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Unusual and beautifully executed!

posted by luna on October 17th 2009 at 2:44pm
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Green is very soothing. Looks like you can really unwind in this home!

posted by junklover on October 18th 2009 at 9:29am
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Beautiful room(s)! I'm not seeing the "70s" aspect, though. More like 40-50s.

posted by manys on October 18th 2009 at 2:09pm
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I'm really sorry don't arrive at time. I absolutly love this space, it's calm, creative and entertainment at the same time.
I'll choise each one of the decorating object form my own home.

posted by gberriel on October 19th 2009 at 7:45am
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This is just really pretty. Very well done.

posted by queenbee1230 on October 19th 2009 at 10:09am
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I was too late to vote but I love the use of color and the flow of color to the next room. Thank you for sharing your space.

posted by caligirl_in_jersey on October 19th 2009 at 1:46pm
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Green is my favorite color and it is a hard color to pull of in design I think. They did such a good job of balancing it and there are some really nice peices too

posted by jessroo on October 19th 2009 at 4:02pm
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This is absolutely gorgeous. Everything works together is perfect melody!

posted by ktkatherine on October 21st 2009 at 12:12pm
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Where are the curtains in the dining room from.....I love them!

posted by rgn on October 25th 2009 at 12:15pm
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Your lamp is perfect for the space - where did you get it?

posted by robink on October 25th 2009 at 9:15pm
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Very well done!

posted by itskevin on October 26th 2009 at 2:18pm
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Hey--I've got answers:

rgn--The curtains are actually a duvet cover I got on sale at Anthropologie last year, hacked up, and sewed back together as curtains. I couldn't find other fabric that was cheap enough, big enough, and such great colors.

robink--I'm guessing you're talking about the little table lamp. My husband found it at a thrift store (it has a chrome tulip base) and I got the shade at Lamps Plus.

Thanks!

posted by brittanykate on October 26th 2009 at 2:52pm
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i really love your place! this is a refreshing palette, i dont see this color often. it's colorful but not over-the-top. this one shows a real understanding of color.

posted by amandla on October 28th 2009 at 9:25pm
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Soothing and very, very clean. Mint / sage gets such a bad rap in design world. I would just like to suggest possibly adding a deep emerald element in way of an accessory or even a broad-leafed plant to pull even more of the garden party vibe.

posted by 1GH on November 16th 2009 at 2:00pm
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