I wrote part of this last fall, and my palette fascination has
only gotten worse.... Are you addicted
to palettes? I can't get enough of them,
it's completely ridiculous! I have
managed to group my favorite color combinations color palettes with favorite
furniture refabs, etc. on my "Furniture, Painting & Colors"
Pinterest board. I have yet to do anything with them, but they're grouped together, lol!
But I haven't always been so spoiled by Design Seeds! I actually have a secret and unproven but
cool way to see some (only some) design trends and color schemes before they
hit their peak. Find a luxury condo
rental company for where you'd like to feel your home is when you're in your
house--the beach, the mountains, the ocean floor, whatever, lol. You'll see some VERY expensive, very RENTED,
heavily designed rooms. And a lot of the
time, these trickle down to the rest of us.
The furniture is usually easily damaged cosmetically but photographs
beautifully so that people will want to rent their specific condo, even from
far away. The furniture is easily fixed
but not worth the effort, so it's sold to someone, who re-sells it, and
suddenly a Miami condo sofa is in New Mexico!
Turquoise and lime, which I can't get enough of right now,
was the 2nd major trend at luxury condos after the initial re-model from
Hurricane Ivan. Ivan was 2004, condos
rebuilt and re-decorated by 2007, furniture lasts at most 2 years, thus we're
in Wal-Mart in 2011 dreaming of bright blue seas :)
I'm no decorator, it could be a Southern thing, it could be
that I just love turquoise blue, but I think it's worth an evening surfing the
web with your loved ones, dreaming of new places to go and seeing what they
look like when you get there!
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