We are going to take a look at a bedroom or potential guest room that is warm, traditional and inviting. These types of rooms lean toward traditional decor incorporating a variety of metal and wood finishes for dressers and beds, antique furniture, amenities and soft furnishings with florals and luxurious window treatments. This kind of room is perfect for showcasing family heirlooms or other collectables in the decorating scheme.
The focal point of this Victorian period room is the large Victorian bed with an ornate metal headboard and footboard. Luxurious fabrics in muted warm tones with varying patterns and textures in stripe and damask play off the color of the wood of the dresser, bedposts and bedside table. Reds create a powerful room. When working with reds it is a good idea to combine it with neutrals and keep the red to a minimum like in the photo below so that it doesn’t overwhelm the room.
Pure urban inspiration with blue doors. There is something so intriguing, urban and decadent about blue doors. I can’t quite put my finger on it but it’s so sexy! There is no mistaking the great color combo of blue with white, gray, off white or any other neutral color.
Love everything about the urban decadence of this image, this blue door, the beat up unfinished walls and those floorboards encrusted in filth, it just works and the blue door brings it all together!
The makings of pastel colors involve the mixing of pure colors with white. Due to the common white base in all pastel colors it means that they can easily and harmoniously be combined together. Pastel colors used in a kitchen can create a most striking effect and are absolutely ideal for softening up a room. It can take the edge off most hard-edged modern kitchens. Pastel kitchens can create a look that is quite vintage in feel.
In this kitchen pastel blue and pink are harmoniously combined with the use of much white to help open the space up.
Another example of a combination of pastels creating harmony in the kitchen, this time in blue and pink with pastel green accents!
In this kitchen you can see the pastel pink combining with the contemporary modern white kitchen to give this hard edged kitchen a softer more rounded look. Admittedly the pastel pink enamel Smeg fridge, a replica of those from the 50’s sure helps create the vintage mixed with contemporary vibe.
In this next kitchen you can see the adaptability of the pastel hue with blue pastel blending in superbly with stark white, glossy counter tops, black chandelier and bright red cooking pots. This is also a great example of a kitchen that incorporates various different styles in a harmonious way.
Image above from Domino Magazine
Here is a beautiful retro kitchen with 50’s era chairs and appliances. I very popular era of style to replicate. Pastel colors really come into their own in this decade of style. Mostly white kitchen with splashes of pastel green that give this retro kitchen a fresh and sunny look. Love the accents in red and turquoise.
A country kitchen with a real vintage vibe with a pastel pink enamel refrigerator and old style stove. Another example here of the harmony created between pastel colors.
A pink bathroom in your home makes a statement! Love it or leave it, people are going to talk about it. It will have more of an impact on people, whether it is a contemporary, vintage or retro design than if you marbled your bathroom from floor to ceiling! If you want to have a pink bathroom you have to be one with the pinkness of it! for this is something that you shall be staring at everyday of your life and various times a day too!
In order for a pink bathroom to work well and not be an overwhelming experience (especially for the males of the family) the key is to create balance. For a crisp and clean feel choose white and pink, you may also create great contrast with pink and browns. Make the doorframes and window-seal stand out in a pretty dark brown.
Let’s have a look at different examples of pink bathrooms to inspire your creativity!
In this first bathroom idea we have a simple hot pink bathtub as the main feature of a pure white bathroom. This is a great minimalistic look, very clean, crisp and flattering.
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Here is the gentle complimenting color palette for the bathroom above:
Next is a modern pink bathroom with a retro twist. Love the bubbly circular retro patterns in this latest Mimo bathroom design from Laufen. This is a more daring version than the example above with a room more heavily doused in pink. But by confining the use of the pink color to the walls, shower curtain and toilet seat cover this makes it easier and cheaper to change the color scheme later on. Keeping the most costly bathroom items such as the bathtub and toilet in a classic white means you can alter things inexpensively later.
Modern pink bathroom with a retro twist.
The color palette for this bathroom consists mostly of a bright dark pink with white, but you see splashes of orange, blue and green for accents:
Check out this beautiful pink and white bathroom from San Francisco based designer to see how a touch of hot pinks mainly just on the walls can vamp up and refresh and entire bathroom:
From http://www.houzz.com/photos/professionals/6849/tineke-triggs
Bohemian bedding design with all it’s patterns, colors and textures is a very popular style in which to dress your bed. Here are a few of the ones I have found to be truly beautiful.
I am Pandora. A lover of interior design, decorating, homes, gardens and all things stylish!
I have been studying interior design as a side project for a few years on and off and decided to make this blog where I jot down my ideas and inspirations in the hopes that they will help or inspire others.
I am particularly in love with devising new color schemes an will try to add some of that here too.
This home and decorating site is a work in progress for me so come back often to see new ideas!
