The perfectly composed room
Working with my living room, dining room-turned-office and baby room (in brainstorming phase), I'm realizing more and more the importance of balancing your palette. Not just through lights and darks, or saturation levels, but also through warms and cools.
Browsing online, I notice many beautiful spaces that seem to lack that balance.
Or this image, from the same house. Once again, what would we do without that shot of green? Thank you stylists! I also wish there were more contrast in here- maybe some midtones or darks? Everything is floating on that white carpet.
Reminds me of an experience I had with an ungrounded space...
I was visiting my sister, walked to the very edge of the entryway tiles, and froze in place, too intimidated to continue forward onto the pristine white carpeting. Any of you experience something similar?
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I'm often surprised to see the monochrome designers do. I don't find it intimidating, just surprisingly dull. But then I famously have white fatigue. Yes, it's timeless, nothing wrong with it. But I'm more of a red rug with a vivid purple sofa type myself, LOL!
Not quite the same thing, but when I was a kid, my friend's mom would vacuum their living room carpet so that the vacuum lines were perfect. And nobody was ever allowed to step on the carpet. The power of the vacuum pattern!! ;-)
Personally, I think every room needs lots of colour. The all-white room above is so boring and bland -- there's nothing interesting to look at, end everything just blends together. But imagine if the carpet was a bright citrus green and the walls were lilac and there were bright orange cushions scattered about....
About my New Orleans post -- the juicy details about the orange walls came from the write-up on the House Beautiful web site :-) I'm sorry it's not more exciting than that, like secret insider information!!
Kelly
There is definitely an off-putting energy going on in a monochromatic room. Like the way you felt with the white carpeting. These rooms say, "Stop! Don't come in here!"
How many times have you heard someone describe their childhood home's living room as a "museum"? Not necessarily any place you'd want to get cozy and chat.
Color is inviting. It draws you into the room. And definitely gives it a personality.
Wouldn't you just love to get into these rooms and finish them off?
You hit it with the warm/cool balance. That's what it's all about.
Great post, Rachel!
Haha - I like Kelly's comment about the vacuum tracks in the carpet. Harkens memories of when I housecleaned in high school. One of my jobs was to clean this multimillion $ house - that had empty rooms! So all I could do was vacuum in the opposite direction than I had the week prior so it would "prove" I "cleaned"...anyway - I digress. One of my recent blog posts featured a staging job I consulted on in what I feel was a very unbalanced home due to its lack of color and texture. I think some people forget about the feel of the room when they decorate/design which is greatly dependent on a coming together of so many elements = balance!Great post, as always, Rachel.
Good Eye, Rachel, it is all about the balance. And part of balance is thoughtful proportion and placement--of any colors and textures that are being used.Like a symphony.
On another line (line?) the vacuum lines remind me of the very cool pattern you see on the field at Fenway Park in Boston (OK, it's the RED sox place). Can I learn to mow my own smallish lawn like that?
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