color palettes

Win $2,500 from Glidden Paint to Design the Perfect Nursery

by Mandi on May 25, 2012

source: Mandi Ehman

I’ve always loved designing our little one’s nurseries, which tend to use soft, pastel colors that we pull from the Classic Winnie the Pooh crib set we bought when pregnant with our oldest daughter. In our first nursery, my dad painted an amazing mural to match that set, including a tree with our daughter’s name “carved” in the trunk. I cried when we sold that house because I dreamed of adding all of our other babies’ names to the trunk as well!

If you’re planning for the arrival of your little one, find the nursery paint you and your baby will love with Baby Room Colors from Glidden® Paint, as seen in What to Expect When You’re Expecting (only in theaters).

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Splashes of Color: Decorating with Carribean Blue

by Mandi on July 7, 2011

The Splashes of Color series is designed to inspire you to look for ways to incorporate color in your home, regardless of your style!

Caribbean blue, aquamarine, turquoise…whatever you call it, this is definitely my favorite color of the season. I bought a few new shirts and dresses this spring, and this color was calling my name. It’s a bright spot in my mostly-grey-and-black wardrobe!

If and when we finally move the baby out of the closet-turned-nursery to make room for my craft room, I really want to paint one wall caribbean blue and then add a large pinboard to it.

But there are a ton of different ways to use this color, and it can fit in virtually any style decor, as you’ll see from the pictures below:

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Splashes of Color: Decorating with Natural Elements

June 9, 2011

The Splashes of Color series is designed to inspire you to look for ways to incorporate color in your home, regardless of your style! Okay, so natural elements aren’t exactly a color, but I couldn’t resist featuring some of these great ideas for this week’s Splashes of Color post. I love incorporating wood and other [...]

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Splashes of Color: Decorating with Bright Red

May 20, 2011

The Splashes of Color series is designed to inspire you to look for ways to incorporate color in your home, regardless of your style! I absolutely love red! In our first two homes, we had red accent walls, but since our palette is much more neutral in our current home, I’ve stuck with red accent [...]

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Color Palette Inspiration

May 6, 2011

The following post is from Lindsey M. Roberts, a design & décor writer: Design inspiration can be found everywhere. And recently, I’ve been looking for inspiration for a cohesive color palette for our home. I know I like cobalt blue and tangerine orange—but how should I pull them together, especially if we live in a [...]

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Splashes of Color: Decorating with White

May 2, 2011

The Splashes of Color series is designed to inspire you to look for ways to incorporate color in your home, regardless of your style! Although white is often thought of as a default color when you’re not sure what color to use, it can also be very pure and refreshing when used intentionally. If you’ve [...]

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Splashes of Color: Decorating with Sunshine Yellow

April 14, 2011

The Splashes of Color series is designed to inspire you to look for ways to incorporate color in your home, regardless of your style! This week, we’re looking at sunshine yellow. Yellow is really a very happy color, no matter how it’s used, but it can be dressed up for formal spaces or down for [...]

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Splashes of Color: Decorating with Turquoise

March 28, 2011

In our first Splashes of Color post, we looked at various ways to use honeysuckle, which is the Pantone color of the year in 2011. Last year’s color was turquoise, so I thought it would be a fun one to look at this week. Unfortunately, none of the design sites can really seem to agree [...]

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