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Adding Color Without Adding Paint

September 30, 2018

adding-color-without-adding-paintThe walls, ceiling and floors are often the first palette considered when choosing a room’s color scheme. However, there are situations where this simply isn’t possible. Renting is one the first that comes to mind; sure, you can paint your walls but who wants to repaint them back to their original color when moving out? Or, sometimes budget is an issue. Repainting your living spaces isn’t cheap and it’s a laborious process to tackle on your own if DIY home improvement really isn’t your thing.

Time to Add a Little Color to Your Space? Here Are Easy No-Paint Options

In these cases, you have to use other tricks of the designer trade to keep your interior design both stylish and color-rich. Here are some ways to add a little color without the fuss and muss of paint.

Temporary Wall Paper. Believe it or not, there is a temporary wall paper product made just for people like you. The sticky residue on the back is sort of like the stuff they use for post-its so it peels away easily. It comes in a range of colors and patterns, just like regular wallpaper and you can buy it at a local home improvement store. Temporary wallpaper is on the pricier side but can be the ideal thing to add a single colorful accent wall from which you can build the rest of your design.

Go Big and Buy Art! Here in the Bay Area we have access to both ultra-high end art as well as a wealth of more affordable pieces that are equally as attractive for a fraction of the price. If you’re foregoing paint on the walls, I recommend looking for some larger canvases, prints, photos or 3-D art that will add color and interest to larger wall spaces, as well as a mix of other sizes that can be arranged creatively to fill in gaps around other furnishings.

Peel-and-Stick Backsplash Tiles. Here’s another excellent temporary option for enhancing the color and style of a typically drab space – the kitchen or bathroom backsplash. The average apartment or rental home has zero to offer in this department. You can find these peel-and-stick options at a home improvement stores and cut them to size. Like the temporary wallpaper mentioned above, the tiles are designed to peel away without leaving a residue – or at least nothing that can’t be removed with warm water and mild soap. You can take them with you when you go to use  for another project your the next living space.

Tantalizing Textiles. Now that we’ve covered the walls, let’s move on to textiles, which include upholstery on your furniture, window treatments, accent pillow shams and so on. These are all things that can be taken with you when you go and – outside of upholstery – are relatively easy to switch out periodically to keep things interesting from season to season. For example, the walls in this industrial living room were intentionally left white. Therefore, we added a woven textured coffee table, a rich cabernet-upholstered chair and throw pillows with complementary geometric patterns for splashes of color.

Don’t Neglect Your Reflections. Finally, don’t forget the importance of mirrors and/or mirrored furniture. When hung and placed smartly, your mirrors and reflective furnishings will amplify and multiply the color in your space.

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Get Inspired With Pantone’s 2015 Color Palette

January 15, 2015

get-inspired-with-pantones-2015-color-paletteIf you aren’t a fashion or design aficionado, the word Pantone may mean nothing to you. But for those of us who are in the design industry, Pantone is a Mecca of sorts. Each year, the forward-thinking folks at Pantone predict the colors that will trend in the fashion and design world for the following year. So while they have just released 2015 Spring Palette they are already hard at work on the palettes that will be released for 2016.

Check Out Pantone’s 2015 Spring Color Palette to Inspire Your Future Interior Designs

In fact, one of the most exciting moments for those who are gaga for color is the announcement of Pantone’s “Color of the Year.” Once that press release hits (typically sometime in December, so keep your eyes posted), bloggers and designers go crazy, looking at how they can implement that particular shade in the homes and businesses of their clients.

We’ll let you know when the 2015 Color of the Year is announced. In the meantime, we are allowed access to the Spring palette and I have several ideas of how you can incorporate them into your home.

Look to the neutrals. Of course, every home decorator is looking for ways to enjoy an interior design that doesn’t require an overhaul each and every time Pantone releases a new color spread. That means creating a neutral palette and letting the easily-changed textiles, accents, art work and objects do the trendy color splashing. This spring, Pantone has selected a gorgeous Toasted Almond and this shade will look wonderful on walls, floors or large furnishings and will be just as attractive in five to ten years.

If you prefer cooler shades, the Glacier Gray is an equally appealing base color and will work well in modern designs. In this modern Craftsman, we used a similar gray on the wall and look how nicely it pairs with a canvas splashed with Tangerine – another of the Spring/Summer colors.

Make way for greens and blues. Perhaps one of the most notable things about this next season’s colors is their more understated hues (consider that last year’s Color of the Year was Radiant Orchid, which was about as vibrant as it gets!). In this newest palette, the greens and blues are present but they are all somewhat earthy and toned down, making them easier to integrate into homes that are less apt to use bold splashes of color.

Both the Classic Blue and Aqua Marine can be used in traditional interiors as well as their more modern counterparts. I can see them in window coverings, accent pillows or upholstery on your accent furniture pieces. If you like a little more life and energy, you can migrate into the Scuba Blue or Lucite Green departments. Look how a cabinet in a distressed-version of Scuba Blue adds a pop of color in this mostly neutral bungalow.

Warm up your home with a spring blush. Again, we see the even the blushier tones in the palette have a bit of earthiness to them, providing a more mature aesthetic. On the lighter side of the spectrum there is Strawberry Ice, which sounds like a cooler pink but still has enough warmth to work either way. On the darker side, Pantone offers Marsala, which they consider to be the foundation of the Spring/Summer palette. We used Marsala accents in a San Francisco living room design to add warmth and depth to the interior.

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