Wednesday, January 27, 2010
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By Owner, Window Bonnets
Set the mood for your room by utilizing contrasting colors. Set a high contrast room by the use of light and dark color contrasts (example: burgundy and gold). This will definitely define the formality of the room.
The use of contrasting softer colors (pastels, yellows and light colors) or low contrast will define the soothing qualities or mood of the room.
The use of contrasting colors such as black and white (which are defined not as color but the addition or subtraction of color) will set the very formal feeling while the use of, say, white and beige, will enhance the calmness of the room. If you use black and white but want a room with a restful atmosphere try adding a grey tone to create a low key, calm feeling.
With the use of contrasting colors you design and create the mood.
Find more examples in our Living Room Gallery:
Cheers,
Jan
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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By Owner, Window Bonnets
To create a color stream (theme) throughout you home, select a color you are using in one room and restate it differently in adjoining rooms (an example would be to use the sofa color in your den and use the same color for the dining room seat fabric). Many of our customers have used their dining room or living couch fabric in their cornice. Great coordination. There are many examples in the Gallery of Homes.http://www.windowbonnets.com/html/gallery_of_homes.html
Utilizing the same color through out the rest of your home in large or small degrees such as decorator items, placemats, lamp shades, rugs, etc. will complete the perfect color stream for your home.
Cheers,Janhttp://www.windowbonnets.com/
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
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By Owner, Window Bonnets
Can’t decide about the color scheme? Let the room decide. What is your dominate pattern? Is it in the drapes, the upholstery, a Southwest rug? This is ever so much easier and less expensive than painting the walls some really super color and finding that nothing in the room really goes with it.
Let’s say your southwest rug has reds, greens, earth tones. For example take the 60% red, 30% greens and 10% earth tones, or maybe 60% green, 30% earth & 10% red, just make the 60 that color that best says “you.”
Sounds simple, so what’s the catch? Colors are driven by the market… remember the olive green and harvest gold of the 60’s, the 80’s seemed to have a blue undertone to everything. The reds had a cool “blueness” to them, and the greens could be best be called sea foam (green with blue undertone). Thankfully today we enjoy a trendy undertone of yellow, thus producing “sage” greens, “hot” reds and “lilac” blues. Keep this in mind as you select your color scheme.
The Window Bonnet cornice pictured at the top takes a part of the pattern in the fabric from the sofa to cover the center. It is a great match for the color scheme and "feel" of the room, see more pictures at this link:
Cheers,
Jan
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
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By Owner, Window Bonnets
Look outside at the view around you. Kind of dark to light, dark colors on the ground: brown, black, some deep red, dark green, then medium colors: trees, mountains, buildings, then light colors: blue sky, white/grey clouds, and yellows at sunset. Nature is showing the way. What she is saying is balance the weight. Dark colors give a room weight, light colors seem to it float away. Balance from top to bottom and side to side. Try this: weighty or dark colors to ground the room, medium colors in some of the furniture, lamps, accent pieces, and lighter colors to finish to the ceiling.
Our kitchens and dining rooms section has some pretty good examples of this. Check out Ana’s “chicken” fabric for her kitchen/dining area. Here is a sample:
http://www.windowbonnets.com/html/kitchen___dining.htmlCheck them all out.Cheers,JanWindow Bonnetswww.windowbonnets.com
