Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label design. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

COLOR, yum!

I’ve had a life-long affair with color. (Don't tell B!) More specifically, I LOVE combining colors into a pleasing palette for interior design, graphic design, or events. I wanted to share one of my favorite color tools I’ve found online:

Color palette generator… love it!

So. Say you are decorating a room in your house. I could totally see using this by picking a (color) photograph that you LOVE the feel of, one that you really connect with, and using this tool to plan your room.

I chose this one for this exercise:

(Building/palette photo)


I loved the blues together… I could see this being a bright and fun family room that has a modern feel.

Based on the colors it pulled out, I could see the walls being painted one of the “dull” colors in this case – maybe the second to the top blue one.

I didn’t fuss with this too much, but I think you can get the gist of what the room would look like.

(Room photo)


How cool is that?

All of the furniture is from CB2… if I were doing this in real life, I would mix and match different pieces from different places, and add a few of my own touches.

This technique would also work for different things as well – an outfit, wedding, kid’s birthday party… FUN. If you go back and look at my wedding post from Saturday, you might notice that I used the sunset picture to generate the colors on the bottom right and based the rest of the images and colors from those.

love!

Thursday, September 4, 2008

fashion help, please!!

So, I bought a $350 dress. For $40 incl shipping! The joys of eBAY... (link goes to the other items that the seller has who I bought from)

The outfit is for a formal dinner/social on post with B in a few weeks... I am under strict instruction to not wear anything too flashy :)

The outfit in progress:


(click to view a bit larger)

I think the dress fits the bill PERFECTLY. I love it. But, I have no idea where to go with for the accessories... I can't figure out the fashion puzzle...

**Side note: the reason I love fashion is because putting together a great outfit is such a challenge! You want the perfect blend of color, texture, excitement, etc... it's a lot like graphic design in that regard. Once you solved the puzzle, you just KNOW it. The outfit FEELS right!**

... I'm thinking two MAYBE three of the accessories will be plenty, I hate looking overdone. Thoughts??? Back to the drawing board?


The pretty clutch is from etsy:
CLUTCH

The hair flower and simple cluth are on eBay.

And the GORGEOUS necklace would be a splurge on etsy:
NECKLACE

I'm thinking a cheaper forever21 multi-strand necklace would work well too.


love!