These are a few pieces from my inspiration files for our new home. I'm totally on the band-wagon with the nature colors. I hate when I jump on the wagon, but I'm on it. Loving it too!
The brownish-grey background is the paint color currently on the walls in the foyer and living room. That's about the only color that is staying. Other colors I'm adding are mainly greens and blues. I'd love to bring in some orange, but dh and I are both not fans of orange. I might accent with it where I have the complimentary blues, not sure.
These were just a few images saved on my computer. I have two 3-ring binders full of magazine pages, all organized by room. I get a bit A.R. when it comes to this decorating stuff. Aside from nature colors, I'm totally in love with graphic elements painted on the walls and large painted canvases. My dd9 wants a peace tree painted in her bathroom (how fun!) and I'm going to use that guy under the umbrella in the foyer with a tree - so excited for that one. I can see it in my head. I attempted to describe it to dh, but his forehead got all wrinkly. He prefers to just see the finished result! : )
The blue damask scrapbook paper will be on the bottom half of our hallway walls. I have a stencil and a stiff, scratchy brush. That one is what we call an "experiment"!
I have this litle fantasy of having black sillouette creatures/images painted tiny in hidden places around our house - like fairy or the kids on the seesaw. We'll see.
This will probably be a year-long project to get everything finished, but it will be fun!
If you have any nature/graphic elements to share, please do! I'd love to see them and add them to my inspiration files! thanks
Hey Diane...like you I collect loads of magazine clippings...I now use "magnetic" albums to organize my files. For multi page articles I just staple them together and punch holes to put them into the albums. Another great on-line "album" is houz...it's free and you can put together you own story boards/albums from all the great available photo files. Hope you like it...enjoy! Fondly, Roberta
http://www.houzz.com/
Posted by: Roberta | June 14, 2009 at 12:11 PM