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Color Scheme Ideas

August 16, 2011 by Allison 5 Comments

color scheme ideas - purple yellow blue black color scheme for a child's playroom - Architectural Digest via AtticmagInspiration for color scheme ideas often can be found in unexpected places.

Several friends have asked me recently how I come up with ideas week after week.  A previous post — Citrus Color Twists — was inspired by a bag of M&M’s.  I’ve been experiencing a bit of writer’s block lately so I started going through magazines that needed to be recycled.  I noticed a full page AT&T ad (a portion of it is posted above) and thought: “what great color scheme ideas for a nursery or playroom!”

color scheme ideas - kids playroom with chalkboard walls in an Atlanta show house - Westbrook Interiors via AtticmagThen I discovered while writing this post that the colors are all there —  in Jane’s child’s room post Blackboard Jungle Gym.
color scheme inspired by Venice cruise adAs I turned a few more pages another ad caught my attention. I love this earthy palette.  My first trip to Europe changed the way I saw our home and literally shaped all my future decorating decisions. Dining room walls were soon repainted the clay color of European roof tiles and the ceiling a soft moss green.  On my monitor this Venice canal seemed too blue for reality. I decided, instead, it would be beautiful on walls of a room where with the furnishings and woodwork repeating the color of the buildings.

color scheme ideas - green and terra cotta color scheme in Herbert Kasper's NYC apartment - Architectural Digest via AtticmagSeveral pages later, it was as if the creativity fairy had been heavy handed when sprinkling the magic dust. My thoughts, only a minute old, were appearing in front of my eyes in the form of fashion designer Herbert Kasper’s apartment library.  Instead of scanning entire pages, I went to the Seabourn website only to find the ad had been tweaked color-wise (no shock there), and the original colors [below] perfectly echo Kasper’s Manhattan apartment.

color scheme ideas - venice canal color scheme inspiration - Seabourn via Atticmag(Source: Architectural Digest)

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Comments

  1. Jordan@the2seasons says

    August 16, 2011 at 9:18 am

    This is so true inspiration for color can be found everywhere. I need to remember that because I am trying to figure out a color for our guest room.

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  2. Beth says

    August 16, 2011 at 9:21 pm

    Love that blackboard playroom! Love these color combinations too and the fact that these color combinations were found in so many unassuming places!

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  3. mbwife says

    August 16, 2011 at 9:34 pm

    you do have a practiced eye for color! I don’t think I would have noticed the palette, but then in my house, Mr. Molto Bene is the color expert.

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  4. Allison says

    August 16, 2011 at 10:40 pm

    I’m glad you all enjoyed the post. Color schemes are truly everywhere – some good, some bad – but just by stopping for a moment and soaking them in, it’s easy to find common threads – palettes that draw you in.

    Allison

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