Green + Blue Decor Inspiration

Green and blue go perfectly together, and I love how lively and fun they can feel when layered in a room. Recently, I've been especially feeling this color pair, when layered with a range of different versions of green, blue, and teal/turquoise colors in between.

This living room took a bolder approach, but I think the green in the sofa helps break up what could have otherwise been an overpoweringly blue room.

These beautifully graphic green curtains are perfectly complimented by the turquoise sofa.  A standard beige sofa wouldn't have nearly the same impact!

Polka Dot Walls

They're not just for kids rooms! I've bookmarked a couple of awesome examples of how polka dots (one of my favorite patterns)  can work in a totally adult room (including the bedroom of miss Serena van der Woodsen)

My next place will most definitely have a polka dot installment.

Serena's extended polka-dot headboard and wall hanging

bathroom with perfectly oversized black polka dot wallpaperallover polka dots...

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Orange Decor Inspiration

I'm in an orange kind of mood.  If I had a front door, I would want it to look like this:  

 

Pink Upholstery Style-Edition

While I used to think it was a color only for the cutesiest of cute, I've recently been won over by pink. Specifically, I think pink upholstery can look totally fresh in a home for men and women. Seriously, check out these fun rooms!

 I love this pink sofa, in a mostly black and white room from Lonny Mag.    

 

If you can't commit to a sofa, maybe a breakfast nook makes sense?

Speaking of zebra, I think the hot pink is the perfect fun color on the dining room seats in this eclectic room. 

I love how the pink upholstery on these chairs spunks up this hallway :) 

If these rooms seem too bold, you can always add  a little pink upholstery to your bedroom. Check out the awesome new upholstery from Caitlin Wilson.

Why not blow up your family photos?

        

I think photos are a really important part of personalizing any home.  However, homes can often be cluttered with tons and tons of photos leaving visitors overwhelmed with where to look.    So,  why not pick a favorite (and fun) photo to make the focal point of a wall?  One of my favorite examples is this underwater photo (above) from of Lulu de Kwiatkowski's Los Angeles home in Lonny Oct 2010.

Here is another one of my favoites,  that designer and photographer Lori Andrews did of just a family's legs. (how cute?!)

    

This big black and white photo in an orange accented dining room is also darling.

One last example (probably price prohibitive for many), the Novogratz blew up a black and white photo to wallpaper a bedroom.  (Pretty fun, until they're teenagers...)