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Mood Board Monday: Deep Turquoise

by Kayla Kitts October 22, 2012 13 Comments

We saw a lot of blue this week at High Point Furniture Market (as you’ll soon find out in Farima‘s post-High Point color coverage post). I’ve really been on the bold and ultra-vibrant color wagon for the past few months, but this moody shade of blue is convincing me to tone things down a little bit for fall. Like the Eskayel wallpaper pattern (below) shows, this deep turquoise looks beautiful paired with brick red, mustard yellow and our favorite new neutral, gray. It’s the perfect hue for fall, and its warm tone will even transition us into the winter months with ease.

Mood Board Monday: Deep Turquoise Dining Room/via House of Turquoise :: Skirt/Style Within Reach :: Chair/Raoul Pop :: Wallpaper/Eskayel :: Necklace/Etsy :: Vignette/Mikkel Vang :: Living Room/Mix and Chic :: The Green Dancer by Edgar Degas

What colors, patterns or textures do you want to see used as inspiration for Mood Board Monday? Let me know in the comments below.

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HGTV Home Studio Presents Modern Wallcoverings + the Eames Chair

by Kayla Kitts September 29, 2012 4 Comments

Every three months, those of us that work at HGTV Headquarters are lucky enough to see the beautiful design vignettes created by the HGTV Home Studio interns as their final project before returning home. Over the summer, Savannah College of Art and Design students Rachel Kelly and Justin DiPiero worked closely with design experts and HGTV professionals, including Vern Yip, to create a unique concept to represent both current and iconic design trends that could ultimately live right here on the second floor of our building. What did they come up with? Find out!

HGTV Home Studio Interns Justin DiPiero and Rachel Kelly

The Eames Chair:

HGTV Home Studio Display - Eames Chair

Kayla Kitts: Why the Eames chair? What was your inspiration for choosing this iconic piece above anything else?

Justin DiPiero: Well, even if you don’t know Eames chairs, you actually do know them on a subconscious level. After working with Vern, he suggested that I expand upon something well-known and shed some light on the piece and the people that designed it: Ray and Charles Eames.

KK: Was there ever a period of time since its production where the Eames has been absent from design?

JD: No, never. It’s been in production since 1948, and you can find it in schools, churches, homes and restaurants. This is what makes it so iconic!

HGTV Home Studio Display - Eames Chair “Their clean, simple forms cradle the body. Today’s chairs are authentic, original design updated with eco-friendly materials and manfacturing and a large selection of base, shell and color combinations.” – from Herman Miller

KK: If you had to pick, what’s your favorite design setting for the Eames chair?

JD: Oh, that’s tough! It’s extremely versatile. It can go anywhere. It can be paired with an ethnic woven rug on wood floors (above). You can use it anywhere you want to — it’s a chameleon! But if I have to choose, I prefer the model with wooden legs. Or the gold-leafed seat with metal legs. (That’s my favorite, too! – KK)

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Daily Delight: The Beauty of Brown

by Grant Dudley September 4, 2012 6 Comments

Brown. It doesn’t jump to mind when you think of fun colors. However, a recent article from our friends at HGTV Remodels proves that anything is possible (with the color brown).

Brown Office Makeover

I can’t get enough of this David Hicks wallpaper, this chair (or this pooch).

Daily Delight: Moth Wallpaper

by Marianne Canada August 5, 2012 5 Comments

The website might be in Norwegian, but I think this gorgeous moth wallpaper from Fargerike transcends language, don’t you?

Moth Wallpaper

Real moths in my house? Freak me out. But delicate, colorful moths on my walls? Yes, please.

Daily Delight: Shadow Puppet Wallpaper

by Marianne Canada July 25, 2012 10 Comments

Even though my walls are all a stark white, I’ll admit that I love to pore over new wallpaper designs. And while Paper Boy may call their “Hand Made” design children’s wallpaper, I think it would make a statement in a powder room or even an office.

paper boy shadow puppet wallpaper

Don’t you want to try and recreate all of the shapes yourself?

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Daily Delight: Digital Wallpaper

by Grant Dudley July 11, 2012 7 Comments

This is a photograph, but it’s also wallpaper. Flavor Paper (out of Brooklyn, New York) offers a wide variety of patterns and mural options for your home and also specializes in turning any idea (or image) into a wall-covering.

This wallpaper (my favorite) is called “Undertow.”

Undertow Wallpaper

Are you swept away?

Daily Delight: Nautical Wallpaper

by Farima Alavi May 22, 2012 4 Comments

As the days keep getting warmer – and since today is National Maritime Day - I wanted to share a nautical-inspired design with all of you. I love this design style, from Cape Cod architecture to the classic navy and white color combo, so I had a hard time (and got very distracted!) choosing one delight today. This Whitby wallpaper by Mini Moderns really jumped out at me. It’s printed with water-based inks on paper from sustained forests. My favorite part are the whimsical curves and ocean-inspired colors it comes in.

Nautical Wallpaper

What room would you use this wallpaper in? Tell us in the comments below.

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Daily Delight: Magnetic Wallpaper

by Briana Mowrey April 13, 2012 6 Comments

Wallpaper haters gonna hate. I’m drawn to wallpaper like a design-loving moth to a design-y flame, in part because I admire the whimsical advances people have made with it. There are now varieties like temporary wallpaper, color-in wallpaper, tear-off design wallpaper, customizable art wallpaper, paintable wallpaper and this magnetic woodlands wallpaper by Sian Zeng.

magnetic wallpaper
The design itself has an enchanted feel to it, but I love the added aspect of being able to play with it, and change it with magnetic characters and dry-erase magnetic speech bubbles. It’s like Zeng has created a cool new version of Colorforms. I think it’d provide hours of delight in a kid’s room. (And maybe it’d prevent them from coloring on the walls themselves!)

[Via: Houzz]

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Daily Delight: Equestrian Wallpaper

by Briana Mowrey January 23, 2012 12 Comments

I don’t have any kids yet, but Hibou Home’s children’s wallpaper is so cute, it makes me want to start trying just so I could decorate a room with some. (Is that wrong?) All of the options are fun, but I think this equestrian-themed number, Gymkhana, is my favorite.

horse wallpaper

It’s rare to find something for kids that’s sweet with a sophisticated edge, but I think this wallpaper achieves that nicely. And though the pink* is stereotypically girly, I enjoy the fact that the print is sporty, too.

*(It also comes in Fuchsia on Soft Lilac, but that’s a horse of a different color.)

Conceptual Design: Brilliant or Out There?

by Brian Patrick Flynn December 1, 2011 2 Comments

The other day, I was shopping for fabric and came across something hideously wonderful. Almost a week later, I still cannot decide whether I hate it or kinda-sorta love it. Imagine a creamy, nubby, organic fabric. Got it? Okay, now imagine it printed with creepy drawings of nudists, muppets and pimps. Yep, that would be what I am talking about.

Some design-related inventions have so much wow factor that they force you to think outside the box. For example: anything Kelly Wearstler. Other times, conceptual designs are best categorized as crazypants suckmasters.

muppet

Here’s that fabric I was talking about, by the way. Wow? Or suckmaster?

updog

When my graphic designer, Ashley Bothwell, created this Up Dog pattern as wallpaper for a yoga studio, I instantly fell in love with it.

At first, it reads as a simple, graphic pattern. But look a little bit closer and see that the shapes are made up by several figures of women in yoga poses. Perhaps what makes it so successful is its less-is-more approach.

Anyone else see anything that’s totally “out there” yet awesome? Or something that’s equally conceptual but terriby awful? Do tell.