Today I came across Alcro‘s brand new paint collection and Graham & Green‘s Autumn 2011 Catalogue. The themes were so similar it must be honored a post: Greys & beiges! These are pics from Alcro’s ad.natur paint collection. It’s inspired by something that makes us humans feel good: nature. Claiming that neither whites nor bright [...]
I think colour theory is really interesting. Like how and why colours affect the perception of a room and what colours do when you put them together. Such as the thing with warm and cold colours. Broken down illustratively, the warmth of a colour is associated its redness and yellowness while the coolness has to do [...]
So, I had decided for beige walls in the bedroom (or we had, but my intended was onboard the black walls-boat and the wallpaper-boat aswell as this my latest proposal..) Isn’t beige the beigest word in English! Sounds terribly blah and weak. Well it’s not, it’s the new white and a loved child is given [...]
Spring news! Farrow & Ball paint is, we say deservedly so, world-renowned for their purity and depth of colours. This British Paint God today introduced nine new colours to their palette. The 2011 colours range from neutrals to moody greys and takes on a mild and serene scheme. When the muted shades come together they [...]
I just finished my remake of an old sewing box: A really ugly, scraped, brown and green painted one, bought last summer at a flea market for five bucks. It has been tucked away awaiting better times but when I got a spare paint sample from Henen (of Farrow & Ball’s Downpipe) an idea was [...]
This weekend we visited our overcrowded store room in the attic (how come storing rooms always so quickly turn into a mess?) on a mission to find stowed away Christmas decor. We found an old electric candlestick lamp in oak. Boooring. But look - a left-over paint sample (powder white) and some plastic lingonberries later: [...]
Every now and then we get questions about the colour “Stockholm-White”. Is it called Stockholm white because all homes in Stockholm are painted white or is it actually a colour? Both alternatives are correct :) I wrote about it in this post, about a year ago, when investigating the Stockholm interior style on my hunt [...]
Grey is definitely one of my top favourite wall colours at the moment. Below are rooms decorated in a mix of styles, all with a gorgeous shade of blue-ish grey in common. [pic sources: 1-Marie Claire Maison, 2-unknown, 3-Selina Lake, 4-Paul Massey, 5 and 6-vtwonen]
