I love spring’s bright, cheery colors. This season’s paint, fabric and wallpaper is such bold, happy stuff. I especially like the name of this Sherwin WIlliams collection. Tucked safely in my suburban home, I can paint my world in Restless Nomad
Nomad with a Pink Bed
and surround myself in colorful adventure as I wipe spit up off my shoulder and search, once again, for my keys. What wonderful things color and decorating can do to temporarily shift your mood.
All who have been in my house and have spent any time discussing color and design with me, know I have a soft spot for chairs. I have a bit of an obsession with chairs, really. A friend sent this picture and site to me. I love this mix of colorful chairs (and love the stripes on the walls). Chairs come in such a wide variety of shapes, sizes and styles. A well chosen paint color and fabric can completely change the look and feel of a chair. I look at them not only as seating but as a great accessory to a room. There are so many single and sets of chairs out there that are stuck in a decade or style and have so much potential to be reinvented into something fabulous. I find lonely chairs in need of a new home and love fixing them up or passing them on to a new family who will find just the right spot or them.
This photo is from Laura Casey Interiors. It’s a beautiful site to look around and get great ideas.
Adopt a lost chair. Make it new and beautiful. Happy hunting.
Which design will make our child even more brilliant?
I am the pregnant painter (as I was affectionately known at my last job). I am still painting put just on shorter ladders now. In addition to my client’s painting and design projects that are abundant this time of year, I’m working on a very important job of my own (i.e., creating life and a fabulous room for the baby).
Over the last 10 years, I’ve painted numerous nurseries; pink and white stripes, clouds, stars, baby blocks, animal murals, sports themes, trees and birds and butterflies and all things lovely and cute and unique for these newest entries into the human race. Now it’s my turn for our baby’s room. Our house is small and cozy, the master bedroom, office, bathroom and guest room are all within a very short hop, skip and half a jump away from each other. On my daily rounds, I visit the guest room, soon to be the baby’s room. I gaze into it and stand there at the door, waiting for ideas and insight. What is next? What lovely design potential do you hold? Right now it holds a queen sized bed, an assortment of mismatched paintings and photos searching for a more permanent arrangement, and an amoire (which, by the way is lovely and I found in the back of the building where I used to live. I insisted that my roommate at the time help me haul it into our apartment, despite her pleas to leave it at the dumpster and complaints about sore muscles and slipped disks. Sorry, Jenny).
My Saved Armoire
Anyone close to me (or for that matter anywhere close to the space near me), knows that I’m defenseless against a lonely, wayward piece of furniture in need of a new home. But I digress. The Room. The Guest Room. The Baby’s Room. I don’t want to be the shoe maker who’s children have no shoes but I admit, this painter, who easily shares and sells inspired ideas, is in need of help. Here’s what we’re working with: The baby will be a boy or a girl, we know that much. I’d like the space to be modern and colorful. The room is small. We’re working with the armoire, painted whatever color is needed, with the top doors removed and an accent color inside, a white crib, adopted from my sister and a white changing table, made by my brother-in-law. We’re starting with this piece of artwork of Eric Garner’s that I bought at Glen Echo , as inspiration.
"Circle Matrix"- inspiration for the nursery
Perhaps horizontal stripes (maybe tone on tone)….
We know this child will be brilliant and inquisitive and never cry. We’re simply looking for a design to support that temperament. Thanks in advance for all your suggestions. I’ll keep you updated on progress.
