SANITY FAIR: Color

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Wednesday

INSPIRATION SPACES

What's the one space that you wish was your place? Have a style that would make you stay a while? Did you just see a look that's right out of your book? Since I recently moved to Washington, D.C. I'm decorating a new home - and that means a lot of looking for inspiring spaces. This apartment by Elizabeth Bauer is one of my very favorites (featured in Lonny, June/July 2010). Scroll below to discover.

Not only is it a stunning design that makes a grand statement...

But all that grandiosity is contained in a STUDIO!

The eating area is mod and vintage, white-washed and colorful... and fun to eat in.

This can't be the same apartment... but it is. The hallway leading into the main living space is layered with style.

Calling Paul Smith, your couch is ready.

All the pretty piles! A strict color palette keeps it mesmerizing instead of messy.

All images, Lonny Magazine.

Thursday

FOR SPRING: THE BUMBLEBEE

Yellow is summer sweet; black is a bit of a sting. The striped contrast of the bumblebee is a spring sign of both, and it's equal parts softness and daring when designing a room.

As it happens, I'm not designing anything right now, seeing as how I'm still moving/lacking most of my furniture. I'm also not decorating with black and yellow, but for some reason, I have rather a lot of it laying around. So I piled it all in one place (hoping against hope that it would resemble a couch). And then I went in search of other, better-composed palettes.

A pile of similarly colored items in my apartment.

Other people's piles...

Wearstler, Apartment Therapy, Canadian House and Home, Jenna Lyons, Wearstler.

Sunday

The Aquatic Life

I know that PINK is supposedly the color of the year, but pardon me if I disagree... what this winter season needs is blue: blue skies, blue seas...

Something old, something new, something Joe Nye, and something blue...

House Beautiful has some lovely examples of polished azure.... Room by Ashley Whittaker.

And turquoise + black and white makes everything right in an eclectic mix by Kim Coleman and Michele Green.

Z Gallerie, one of my favorite decor shops, has gone all out to sea for spring - from foam blue frames to deep sky ikats, they have a beautifully, reasonably price selection of accessories and furniture. These are winter blues we can all love!

All images, Z Gallerie and House Beautiful online (www.housebeautiful.com).

Thursday

RASPBERRY CRUSH

I adore a pink chevron, so perfect to sit upon -

Or charming and cheery for serving a bon bon...

When calling it's polite to leave behind a stripe,

Or say "merci beaucoup" in raspberry type

It's oh so handy for obtaining those treats -

And even working is fun on zig zag repeats

Framing a scene is chic in deep Vs,

As is tagging one's play things when crossing the seas

Think pink! while in comfort reclining

Or carry these lines - so very refining

There's sugary delight in a House of Pink Gables -

And it's such fun to stroll in linking pink cables.

How long I enthuse!

Chevron's pink with a blush

A shy little muse

For my raspberry crush.

Credits: Chairs, Tray, Business Card, Wallet, Rug, Frame, Luggage Tags, Purses, House, Notecard, Shoes, and Chevy Car.

Monday

REESE'S PIECES

The best part about a road trip is the food. This is because, as everyone knows, when you drive a car speed exceeds the base level of caloric burn, halving calories and permitting higher net consumption for a reduced fat intake. In other words, if you eat candy and you're driving, you won't gain weight. In fact, if you drive fast enough, you'll even LOSE weight, becoming more svelte with every passing mile. This is why, though I am a strictly dark chocolate and diet cola kind of girl, when I go on a car trip, I eat lots of Reese's Pieces.

The equation looks something like this:

Anyway, it struck me the other day, as I was rolling along the interstate, losing inches by the second with my candy and my jumbo iced latte, that Reese's make a fabulous color combination for fall. The palette, after all, is patterned after nature herself. Here are a few spaces where autumnal oranges and browns are always sweet (if not slimming).

Jeffrey Bilhuber

Sara Story Design

Unknown (But Lovely)

Apartment Therapy, Benjamin Moore Colors

Palmer Weiss

Massucco Warner Miller

Images, Kidman, www.318ti.org/ room 1: roomlust.blogspot.com/ room 2: nothing-elegant.blogspot.com/ room 3: decorpad.com/ oom 4: www.apartmenttherapy.com/ room 4&5: palmerweiss.com. Rooms 6&7: massuccowarnermiller.com.

Wednesday

GREEN, WHITE, BLACK, AND BEAUTIFUL

Browsing through the remaining Vogue Living, Aussie, that is, I came across this lovely room in green, black, and white. I love it! Black and white... serious. Green... fresh. Combined? Stunning. Enjoy some beautiful examples of the look below.

Vogue Living, designer Andrew Parr. Wicker gets a formal look - and a touch of animal print.

Chinoiserie style, via The Lennox blog. Very Fifth Avenue.

A touch of citron green makes everything bright, via Apartment Therapy.

Kelly Wearstler isn't scared of color. I'll bet color's scared of HER. Via Apartment Therapy.

Designer Carleton Varney a la Dorothy Draper, via A Shopkeeper's Blog. The green and raspberry looks a tad garish to me - probably because the black ceiling makes this room a tad TOO serious.