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What do green olives, pretzels, coffee beans and blue napkins have in common? They're all part of the color palette for a living room makeover in Jane Lockhart's new Get Color! series premiering on HGTV this month. Lockhart, a veteran interior designer and color expert, takes the basic color wheel and gives it a custom whirl by creating palettes from inspirational items, such as colorful spices from the Orient, brilliant floral arrangements and other vivid displays of hue, including the premiere show's celebratory palette pulled from party foods and supplies. For more Get Color! decorating advice, read on >> |
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When couples vow "for better or for worse," few foresee the fights over the flowery drapes, the beer-can pyramids or the style of the living room couch. For more on the challenges of decorating for two, read on >>
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An immediate response to color is one of the most basic aspects of being human. Colors can depress or elevate our moods, soothe or arouse or call up vivid memories. Color memory and association are so strong that people often hate or love a color forever based on childhood experiences. "I can walk into a house and tell who someone is, what their likes are, how emotionally well they are, by the colors they've chosen," says Mark McCauley, ASID, author of Color Therapy at Home (Rockport, 2000). Read on >>
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wabi-sabi n.
a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent and incomplete; the beauty of things modest and humble; the beauty of things unconventional
This definition of the Japanese worldview that is catching on in America comes from Leonard Koren, author of Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers. Wabi-sabi celebrates humble objects with a timeworn beauty—a hand-carved wooden bowl, a collection of pebbles, your grandmother's faded curtains. For more about the style's use of muted earthy colors and natural materials like rice paper, wood and stone, read on >>
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For 16 days in February, 7,500 saffron banners fluttered from steel posts turning New York City's Central Park into a van Gogh-like contrast of deep golden orange and vivid blue skies. The golden river of color is gone now, but the colors remain etched in our minds—and perhaps in our homes? Read on >> |
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