Quince is a cheerful and happy family of hues that is not quite lemon and not quite lime. This color has an unbelievable lifting effect!
Let’s look at how this wonderful uplifting color can be incorporated into your home!
Beautiful chair covered in a fabric appropriately named Quince.
Abrazo Arm Chair from bakerfurniture.com designed by Laura Kirar
Add a bit of retro style to your kitchen with this quince colored vintage mixer.
Vintage Kitchen Aid Mixer
Beautiful wrapping paper featuring white cherry blossoms with a quince backdrop from snowandgraham.com. You can use this product for gift wrapping or lining bookshelves or whatever creative idea you can come up with, how about a quince house?
#1655 Golden Cherry
Brighten up your living room with this tempting shade of quince on your walls. See how it brings the white couches to life and the dash of pink with the cushions creates a wonderful touch!
Pale blue and white are extremely popular color combinations for bedrooms. This color pairing reflects the white clouds and blue skies of the great outdoors, the tranquility of nature is harnessed to create a soothing, relaxing and serene environment that is perfect in any home but especially for those that dwell in the city.
This color scheme works well in many different styles and situations, the charm of blue and white always appeals!
A small and dark space will respond well to the freshness and airiness that soft and pale shades of blue bring. Painting a room in white or a very pale shade of blue will instantly open up a room and expand the space.
To add a beachy-vibe to her crisp, white bedroom, designer Carolyn Espley-Miller hung an old sea-foam barn door above her bed. This room has a lovely airy and beachy feel to it with the pale blue divider behind the bed and the crisp white linen.
photo credit: David Tsay from housebeautiful.com
To create a tranquil retreat for the home owners, designer Eric Cohler designed this master bedroom with a creamy blue color palette. Here you can see quite clearly how the blue and white work in combination to create a soothing, harmonious environment.
photo credit: Roger Davies from housebeautiful.com
Play with different patterns and textures. Use florals to create a more homey country vibe.
photo credit: Don Freeman from housebeautiful.com
This is a traditional blue bedroom. perfect for introducing a sense of occasion, Italian strung curtains have a beautifully soft, draped look. When lined with a contrasting fabric, they reveal a subtle flair of colour once they are opened. Here you see how well the color scheme of pale blue and white works in a traditional setting.
From housetohome.co.uk
Another example of a traditional bedroom decor with a pastel blue and creamy white.
French Style bedroom with white-painted furniture which looks great against pale blue walls in this fresh and light country-style bedroom.
From housetohome.co.uk
Another French style bedroom in white and light blue. Blue toiles and checks, distressed and painted furniture, and a delicate lace bedspread exude classic French charm.
from housetohome.co.uk
A relaxing sitting area in a master bedroom consisting of a gorgeous comfy armchair and ottoman in pale blue with a white bookshelf. This room also incorporates the serene color scheme making it a perfectly relaxing place for reading.
Shades: Camilla David Textiles Nandini in Powder Blue (Interior Design: Heather Safferstone of Sally Steponkus Interiors, Photographer: Angie Seckingerer) from freshome.com
A romantically decorated bedroom in light blue and white with lots of draping curtains in a white mesh.
Seen in elledecor.com
A modern and contemporary style bedroom featuring lost of pale blue with white creating a clean, airy and vastly open space.
Photographed by Vicente Wolf in elledecor.com
Calming blue bedroom featuring a silk blue throw and embroidered cushions giving this serene bedroom a sophisticated look, while the wrought iron bed makes a stunning feature set against the pale blue wall.
From housetohome.co.uk
Cool floral bedroom that mixes pattern and scale in a classic way to add depth and impact to a room. A palette reminiscent of delicate porcelain keeps the look fresh and uplifting.
From housetohome.co.uk
Create a soothing yet bold look with a monochromatic color scheme. Here, a cream floor rug and bedding are the perfect complement for a sophisticated gray-blue wall color. Blue hues create a sense of calm, making this bedroom a peaceful oasis to escape to at night.
From bhg.com
Use a metallic color to dress up an ordinary bedroom. Here, the combination of matte blue-gray walls and the metallic blue-gray bed skirt, wall art, and bedding details creates an unforgettable look. Add silver accessories to play up the metallic pieces.
My inspiration for today comes from this beautiful piece of fabric in a bluish lavender color and muted pastel greens and neutrals. It has an exquisite floral pattern that combines colors to create a gorgeous palette. The overall effect is one of serenity and tranquility, these colors create a peaceful and safe haven.
Let’s take a look at some rooms that incorporate this basic color theme so you can see how this color palette can take shape within your own home.
This first room is a perfect example of the color scheme of the fabric above at work. The color is put together beautifully with an arrangement of antique furniture. You can see how well different tones of purple and green work together to create a harmonious environment.
Next we have the same color scheme at work in a contemporary environment. The main colors of pastel purple, pastel green and whites working together to create harmony and take the edge of rigid hard straight lines, lending some softness to a modern look.
This color scheme is put to work in an outdoor environment with the veranda painted in lavender blue and white blending in perfectly with the natural greens of the plants and grass.
The following images are from a contemporary country house hotel in the Cotswolds called Cowley Manor who have created a remarkable guesthouse with each guestroom decorated and outfitted with handmade furniture and fabrics in fabulous pale pastel greens with touches of purple.
The fabulous courtyard.
The bedroom with tie dyed curtains!
From Lisa Martensen via D Magazine is this pretty fantastic dining room design in purple and green.
When most people imagine wallpaper, the first thing that comes to mind is the image of a pattern that is flat and repeating created to hang from ceiling to floor. Usually one of the most unobtrusive patterns is that of the vertical stripe.
Striped motifs in wallpaper can add a stunning elegance to many different interior settings. Stripes are an extremely versatile pattern. This motif has the advantage of being a timeless design, some wallpapers can have the effect of looking very passe after a few years but stripes are relatively timeless. Another advantage of striped wallpaper is that it does not impose a style on a room. Stripes work just as well when combined with a country feel as with antique furniture or a modern contemporary vibe.
Here we have a master bedroom with visually arresting broad vertical lines in a muted taupe with a close arrangement of matte and shiny textures.
Image courtesy of Good Housekeeping
The basic color scheme of the room above:
Neutral colors
The effect and character of a striped wallpaper is more defined by it’s combination of colors than by the width or arrangement of the stripes. In this next example you will see how the mixture of the strong and deep reds combined with white creates a more sophisticated effect, which in turn is a great background for vintage style furniture and fittings.
Basic color scheme:
Warm colors
By contrast in this next example note how the light beige colored vertical stripes when combined with white creates an entirely different mood, that while still somewhat sophisticated it is now fresher with a sunny informal style.
Image courtesy of The Lennoxx
Basic color scheme:
Beige and greens
This next room in beautiful stripes and yellow hues contains Empire stripes with different colors and widths which bring and element of vitality to the walls. Note how the pattern is continued in the fabric of the chair making it the central theme of the room. The pale yellow and white striped pattern with dashes of green creates and airy, fresh and light filled room.
Image courtesy of Thibaut
Basic color scheme for the room above:
Yellows and greens
You can also break the rigid symmetry of the hard stripe by alternating plain stripes with a floral pattern or a geometric design. In this next example the stripes are enlivened by the lively richly textured floral pattern.
I am Pandora. A lover of interior design, decorating, homes, gardens and all things stylish!
I have been studying interior design as a side project for a few years on and off and decided to make this blog where I jot down my ideas and inspirations in the hopes that they will help or inspire others.
I am particularly in love with devising new color schemes an will try to add some of that here too.
This home and decorating site is a work in progress for me so come back often to see new ideas!
