Color Shy????

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"Fearless Color" is the title of this week's special Home By Design article that I share with you.  Fearless??  So often we live in fear of the unknown or of doing something that just may stand out from the crowd.

Designer, Hilary Unger, found a couple with 5500 sq.ft. that was a blank canvas and a real desire for color in the space.   As you read, you will note color wasn't used from color's sake but to align areas and to flow the palate through this Manhattan condo.

A segment of the article provides a sample of this design:

"The living room and dining room flow together with ease, and neutral walls allow colorful upholstery, artwork, and case goods to shine. A special artifact for the owners—singer Madonna’s first keyboard—holds a place of honor and is flanked by a simple chair and two ornate candlesticks. A faux embossed leather coffee table centers the main seating arrangement, and the persimmon colored chairs from the foyer appear here, too.

No doubt the help of a designer is very valuable to take a concept into a reality that has a cohesive sense throughout the space.  A great lesson shown in this article is the essential element of establishing a design for the entire area.

Whether completing the entire design today or tomorrow, the concept has been established and can be carried through out a house, condo or an apartment.

By simply noting the details of Hilary's design, one can learn that adding a given piece to a room will tie that room to another.  Thus, you or I can carry a design with a simple change or a total

remodel of a room.

   To read the entire article, the 
    link is below:



Color Shy??

Wake that Drab Room Up this Summer!!!

 There is no need to leave the beauty of color and warm sunshine 

  outside.

  With a little bit of creativity and work, you can give that boring 

   grey room a bit of bizzaz with a quick coat of paint and some bric    brac.  You also don't even need to paint the room!

   As you can see in the picture, a piece of furniture(perhaps re-

   purposed) with a rug and a few billows can brighten up a room.

   Yet as you tour the ideas found in the link below, you will find

   many great ideas that should get your creative juices going to 

   design that splash that fits your place and your personality.

                    Do it Yourself Room Makeover

     courtesy of Better Homes & Garden!!!!

Losing Weight by Painting

The New Diet

 Don't be too sceptical!!   I know it can sound a bit funky that color can help you loose weight.   

Logically, it seems that if you could wear blue clothes, live in a blue house and drive a blue care and lose 10 pounds that you or I would do this. Imagine what a monochromatic life we would all lead for the sake of slender waist lines.

Yet, though no such promise could ever be made, the information below does make sense.  It would seem a very easy change to make to help the battle of the bulge!

Let me know if it works for you!!!!

LOSE WEIGHT BY CHANGING YOUR KITCHEN PAINT COLOR?

Can You Kitchen Color Help You Lose Weight? Trying to eat healthier and maybe lose a little weight before bathing suit season? Repainting your kitchen might help. Ever since researchers discovered a particular shade of pink calmed  inmates at the Naval Correction Center, psychologists have examined the relationship between color and emotion. Here's what they, along with interior decorators and feng shui experts, say about your kitchen color choices: Red There's a reason McDonald's and Wendy's have yellow and red logos ? they're stimulating colors that encourage you to eat. Put on a red shirt when you head out to exercise, but don't put it on your kitchen walls. Green Feng shui says green is a healing, calming color, so using it in the kitchen ought to calm your appetite. It can also remind you of your plan to turn over a new (green) leaf in your life by eating a healthier diet. Purple Because it's soothing, purple might help lower your blood pressure and keep you from stress eating. But it's also sleep inducing, so it's probably a better paint color choice for your bedroom than your kitchen. Blue Other than blue corn chips, blue cheese and blueberries, there isn't much in nature that we eat that's blue. But there's a lot of food we don't eat because it's blue ? think of mold on an orange. That makes it a good choice for your kitchen color. You can take the blue-food aversion link to another level by eating from blue plates or putting a blue light bulb in your refrigerator to make your food look unattractive. Yellow A lot of people like yellow walls because they're energizing. But yellow is the most tiring color on your eyes because it reflects so much light. Some people believe your baby will cry more and you and your spouse will fight more in a yellow room. No Time To Paint? Not in the mood to paint? Try these four tips for getting your kitchen into clean-eating shape this spring: 1. As you spring clean, set aside processed foods and donate them to the food bank. You know they're going to get in the way of your plans to eat healthier. 2. Put the healthiest foods at eye level in the fridge and in your cabinets and pantry. Put high fat, sugary foods where they're hard to see and hard to reach. 3. Seal your chocolate in a plastic food storage container and put that container in your garage. You'll eat less chocolate if it's in your garage than you will if it's in a kitchen cabinet or in a candy dish you walk by several times a day. 4. Buy a red or yellow dish for displaying fruits and vegetables on the countertop where they'll be top-of-mind when you're hungry. 5. Purchase small blue dinner plates. The blue tone will make your food look unappetizing, and a smaller-size plate will make it seem like you have more food to eat. -Photo source: Kraftmaid courtesy of Albert Clark's HomeGain newsletter