splashes of color

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

by Mandi on 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 natural elements into our home, and some of these examples are absolutely gorgeous. Among my favorites is the rustic table setting (#5) and the apple crate shelving (#4).

That said, here are 9 ideas for using natural elements in your home:

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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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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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Splashes of Color: Decorating with Honeysuckle

March 8, 2011

A couple of years ago, I was the editor of Simple Nest, a blog dedicated to simple ways to make your home beautiful. One of my favorite features from that blog was the Splashes of Color series, where I shared different ways to incorporate color through paint & accessories. Although that blog is no longer [...]

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