Yellow

The reason you have not seen the corner bookshelves in my living room yet is because I had lights installed on two sets of shelves going across all 5 of them and in between is a glass shelf. This means I can’t stick books on these shelves (except on the bottom shelf) or the light…

I’m here at High Point in North Carolina with some of my favourite people! It’s also the perfect place to test out the comfort level of the new fall shoes I bought with Angie at You Look Fab last weekend! Love this polka dot vase with the yellow wall the colour of my sofa! Here…

This will be the first time (since I started decorating for a living 10 years ago) that I will be decorating my living room from scratch. Image from Cote de Texas Being in the [decorating] business is so hard because next week I might see something better-cheaper-nicer-more-perfect-than-what-I-already-ordered which would make me cranky. A designer I…

The Skirted Roundtable interviewed Mary Douglas Drysdale on their podcast this week and Mary said that when her living room done in yellows (this is one of her projects not THE living room) was photographed years ago, everyone came to her for yellow after that, so much that she has a book which showcases her…

source Recently I chose a yellow for a bedroom in an on-line consultation (the house was empty). BM173 Then when my client started shopping for the room, everything she found ‘off-the-rack’ was too green compared to the orangy yellow we had chosen (above). She loves strong bright colour and doesn’t want to change it. source…

The reason I’m calling them ‘designer yellows’ is because [usually] the first thing a designer will do if they are helping you with a yellow is tone down (or muddy) the yellow you have chosen. Credit Yellow gets twice as bright as the tiny 2 x 2 square paint chip once it intensifies all over…