Decorating with Color!

Have you ever walked into someone's home and it's pretty and all, but you note that it's all the same color. Light carpet, light walls, light drapes, light furniture, light everything. It's light and airy, but enough already with the beigh! They need a major "contrast intervention". Now do you go off the deep end right off the bat and pick a crazy color and splash it all over the house? Well, no! But you can start easily with finding a nice contract color that blends in with your rug or your furniture and paint one accent wall. Then, sprinkle that color through your accessories and a silk floral arrangement. If you look at the picture of my formal dining room with one of my arrangments in it on the bottom of my website, you can see a border and accent color wallpaper that I did. Everyone that walks in says, "You have a beautiful home!", but they wouldn't believe how inexpensively I did it by myself. I found the border and painted the light color and papered with the contrast paper. These days wallpaper is not as in vogue as it was, but the concept is the same. Start small with painting just one wall. You will be so surprised how it just makes the room blossom! Try to find a lovely silk orchid like this Phalaenopsis on LuxuryInBloom.com. These light and airy silk plants in the same accent color can tie it all together and make a huge statement with a very small investment. Try it and let me know how it looks! Keep those emails and pictures coming! We will post them all on our website!

Until next time,
Julie