Color Me Lovely: carpet

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Where has Susan gone??? Oh yes, and Pantone 2013 Color of the Year!!!

Well as you can tell, when I'm a busy working woman, in addition to those other areas of my life...mom, wife, girlfriend... my posts go out the window. Not complaining, being busy in my field is a good thing (thank you Martha). Not that I don't have anything to write about either. In fact, topics pop into my mind numerous times a day, in addition to the little birdie sitting on my shoulder saying, "When you get home, sit down, and make it short and sweet." Yes, well a lot of good that birdie did for me. Thank goodness it's flown south for the winter.

The number one issue I HAVE to talk about is the new 2013 Pantone color of the year -- #17-5641 Emerald. I love it! But I'm biased since green, and all of its variations, has always been my favorite color.

Let's look at some of my favorite Emerald Green room designs, shall we?

Infamous Stark Carpet advertisement

Photograph by Michael Eastman

Interior design by Tobi Fairley

Interior design by Jamie Drake

Soft mint green in this front room, but notice the stunning emerald green square, not the whole wall, behind the shelving in the distant room. Interior design by Jamie Drake

Image from The Decorista

Interior design by Kelly Wearstler

I use a lot of chartreuse (more of a yellow green) in my interiors, but not a lot of Emerald Green. That's my goal for 2013!

On to Oz! Susan

Monday, June 27, 2011

The Shining--Patterns

Hello, hello!

Last night my family and I watched the movie The Shining with Jack Nicholson, and Shelley Duvall, remember it? Actually it was my 13 year old daughter's suggestion that we watch the movie, if you can believe it!! It wasn't quite as horrifying as I remember when I was younger (of course, not that much younger ~~ tee hee :) It's really about the last 10-15 minutes it gets gruesome and scary--the rest is a huge build up. All I could think about through a lot of the movie were the sets, particularly the awesome carpets! As soon as it was over, I immediately got right on line googling images from the 1980 movie. Talk about history repeating itself. The patterns and some of the colors are currently very popular within the design industry right now, and of course, I was in love with them! Let me show you!

This was the main carpet throughout the Overlook Hotel in the movie. Isn't that awesome, and that pattern is sooo popular right now. It also totally makes the space, granted I would have added a bit more color to the pale, cool walls going down the hallway.

This was the fancy ballroom/party room with gold, textured walls. Look at the carpet pattern again~~the scale is magnificent!

This pic is a bit dark. Sorry! I think you can still see the purple/green rainbow arcs, large scale patterned carpet, can't you?

And this was the men's bathroom! It would be a wonderful commercial bathroom even in a large hotel today. Interesting how modern it is when the rest of the hotel was so elegant. I wonder if that was intentional for some reason as part of the subliminal messages.

And here are some examples of carpets and fabrics today: