Interiors: Energizing Color

images: 1) avotakka (via design is mine) 2) avotakka 3) apartment therapy 4) covet garden 5) sweet home style 6) design*sponge

What better on a Monday morning than some bright, cheerful color inspiration? I'm loving these bold spaces with their bright hues and daring color combinations. I need a bathroom just like the first space to wake me up every morning! The tile alone makes me want to dance. Happy Monday :)

Interiors: Beachy Cool

House Beautiful was the only magazine that that miraculously found its way to my new home in Raleigh thanks to the forwarding power of the post office. I'm thankful it did too because I adore the 60's style beach house featured in the Sept 2011 issue. The aqua, yellow and peach hues are invigorating yet clean. Perfect spot to relax after a dip in the ocean, don't you think? 

"Oops" paint = Happy Accident

We've been busy bees, painting all weekend long. On our second trip to the paint store, we requested another gallon of Tide Pool (from our color palette to finish our bedrooms) and the paint mixer guy accidentally gave us Marina Isle, one shade darker than Tide Pools. We were initially going to paint the bathroom yellow, but since we now had this "oops" paint in our possession (it only cost us $5), we decided to give it a whirl and we're do happy we did! 

We still need to replace the mirror, those awful blinds, and get a new bathmat, but our space is beginning to come together. The bathroom is teeny-tiny and the orange was too overwhelming for such a small space. Thanks to our happy accident paint, I'm feeling soothed and calmer already. Happy Monday! 

Orange Bathroom, Two Ways

marie claire maison

We currently have an orange bathroom in our new home. It won't be orange for long, but our humble bathroom did prompt me to think about this space I've run across, twice.

design*sponge

The moroccan theme remains true in both examples yet a few different styling tricks make the bathrooms  just different enough. I like the addition of the orange paint to the tub in the second example. Can you spy the other changes? 

Interiors: Pretty (Girly) Bathrooms

I was going to describe these bathrooms as "romantic" but I think that's the wrong word. These spaces are utterly feminine but not really sexy or romantic. I'm always curious about spaces that so obviously cater towards a stereotypical feminine aesthetic, perhaps because I'd never want a room like these in my own home. That doesn't mean I don't think these spaces aren't pretty. They're obviously pretty and there are moments in each space that I really adore (i.e. the mirrors in the first room and the chevron floor in the last) but overall, they're just too overtly girly for my tastes (the exception being the third space thanks to the neutral palette). What do you think about these feminine bathroom? Too much or just right?

images: 1) lonny 2) rue's pinterest  3) atlanta homes & lifestyles (via coco cozy) 4) designinspirationsk 5) lonny 6) the decorista

Interiors: Bold Green Walls

Whoa, now those are some green walls! Perfect for the I'm not sure I want to start the week but I know I have to because I don't have a choice kind of Monday morning, don't you think? I love this bold use of green and I'm surprised at how well the pink and purple accents compliment the chartreuse tones in the third and fourth examples. Cheers to a bold new week! 

1) anthropologie 2) marie claire maison 3) the city sage 4) terre d'lang deco 5) brie williams (via desire to inspire)

Interiors: Neutral Zone

It has been a few months since I've posted some of my favorite "neutral" toned spaces. Spaces that are entirely white are generally too cold feeling for me. I enjoy whites mixed with cream, wood, and soft color. Simple and lovely, no?

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images: 1) the smithy (via miss moss) 2) marie claire maison 3) home vaganza (thanks beauty comma for the source!) 4) design*sponge 5) alltihemet 6) bright bazaar (source unknown) 7) undecorate 8) decorology 

Interiors: Whisper Softly

Piggybacking off my interiors post from last week, I'm still seeking spaces that soothe the soul. Are you feeling calmer yet? 

images: 1) derek swalwell; 2) design*sponge 3) mrs hardy 4) derek swalwell (via desire to inspire) 5) stylizmo 6) livet hemma 7) escapade 8) here (source unknown)

Interiors: Warm Mint

Aren't these interiors just easy on the eyes? They're all emitting a sort of warm glow. It's hard to tell if it's due to photo editing or the combination of cool green and warm peaches and browns (perhaps a bit of both?). Either way, I think this color palette is soothing to the soul. 

images: sarah.wandering (original source?) house to home; remodelista; geninne's art blog; marie claire maison; agent bauer; lidyll; house and home; a mad tea party with alice