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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Dec 17 2006 : 2:27:24 PM
i just submitted my SPRING article for Mercantile Gatherings (Winter will be out sometime in January or February i think .. that one went in a couple weeks ago). but i got to thinking of the 'colors' we tend to generate towards when it comes to 'decorating' our homes .. and wrote my article about my favorites .. especially as they relate to PRIMITIVE DECORATING.
what your your favorite colors to surround yourselves with in your homes .. and why are these your favs?
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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| asnedecor |
Posted - Dec 21 2006 : 4:56:30 PM
Had to post my new recovered couch. Our love seat is now at the shop being recovered also, but completely in the paisley that is shown on the couch cushions with the piping in the brown.
The first photo is how our couch looked before. I loved the material, but it didn't hold up well and split after about 7 years. Sometimes a deal on material is really not a deal.
So I went with a heavier material this time, still got a good deal from the store - 40% off.
I will get the love seat sometime around the end of January/first of February.
Anne in Portland
"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them" Eyeore from Winnie the Pooh
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| ArmyWifey |
Posted - Dec 20 2006 : 4:46:40 PM
Red white and blue. And cabin, primative, antiques and old farmhouse "looks"
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord!
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| bohemiangel |
Posted - Dec 20 2006 : 4:27:28 PM
Oh Frannie the pattern is new as of 2006:) I want to buy some "cheap" material or pillow cases or sheets and make things out of it. I'm a sucker for gingham:) but the comforter is a rusty kinda/ colonial red with white/cream flowers on it.
"... to thine ownself be true." |
| verbina |
Posted - Dec 20 2006 : 3:38:31 PM
Hey Ann, did you use the powder or the ready made stuff? also is it washable? thanks so much randi |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Dec 20 2006 : 07:05:16 AM
oh bridget .. those lauren sheets sound devine .. are they and olde pattern .. or can they still be purchased new?
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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| bohemiangel |
Posted - Dec 20 2006 : 06:28:18 AM
Abbasgurl I'm similar. I adore red though the nice primitive red there's a ralph lauren bedding set called cold springs that I love and has gingham sheets! I shopped around on ebay and got them. I love it with my cherry wood bedroom set. I love browns as well. They are warm I like more auburny browns and the hearty browns. Not the dark ok it had to come out "poop" browns. I love white and white paired with navy blue. Navy is so pretty. Greens are outstanding and rarely one I dislike. I still have a bit of "young" or "girly" in me where I'd love to have a room in like pink and brown or black and brown like in those overpriced girly lingerie stores think better than victorias secret. I also keep dreaming of a pretty pink christmas tree or white with pink ornaments. SILLY ME!
"... to thine ownself be true." |
| Libbie |
Posted - Dec 19 2006 : 10:45:12 PM
This is so much fun to "see" everyone's color choices and learn a bit more about your homes - my farmhouse is old, old, old... right now, the colors range from a periwinkle blue in the mudroom with "tortilla-colored" beadboard and trim to a light green - a nice beachy-glass green - in the bathroom, with white trim, then the rest of the downstairs walls are the same color as the mudroom trim, with white woodwork. The stairs are painted that same tortilla, too. Then upstairs is the most wonderful warm apricot color with white trim - it positively glows in the morning sunlight. I love my house. When I repaint in a year or so, I'm considering doing it all one color with white trim. It seems like touch-ups would be so easy! And with boys and farm animals? Some of this poor old house takes a real beating, even though they "try" to be careful. My farmhouse style is really utilitarian because I love a clean house but I don't like to dust - so plain is my thing - I might just repaint the whole darn thing in that beautiful apricot with white trim and paint the outside periwinkle with white trim. My husband would faint... Oh well - he would also get up again !
XOXO, Libbie
"Nothing is worth more than this day." - Goethe |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Dec 19 2006 : 8:54:30 PM
Count me in on those colors!! I love earthy browns, greens (my favorite color!) and rusty reds. I love oatmeal, mocha and mustard colors too. My house has SOOOOO much painting needed and all my paint chips are those colors. My "theme" if there is one is woodsy, old and baskets and quilts I think. My kitchen is more 1940's happy bright and John Deere. I have my whole house pictured more primitive like the living room is now. (it needs painting too, but is the closest to my vision I think!)
I love that we all have such similar color taste!!
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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| Past Blessings |
Posted - Dec 19 2006 : 5:58:47 PM
Wow! We really are kindred spirits! So many like the same colors. I love brown, earthy reds, earthy greens, mustards, etc. I am kind of a mix of Primitive/colonial and English Country. My husband says I am a "mutt" but I prefer the word "eclectic"!
Jonni,
I think Cottage is very sweet and your home sounds lovely. I do think dining rooms are the rooms you can be the most dramatic in, so perhaps you might want to do the walls in a cinnamon or pumpkin, this way it flows with the rest of the house but has a bit more "punch". You can still incorporate your white painted furniture to soften the look, so it doesn't overwhelm your desire for softer decorating. Best of luck!!
Brenda
Past Blessings . . . Celebrating Life as it used to be . . . when people loved God, loved their families and loved their country. |
| ponyexpress |
Posted - Dec 19 2006 : 4:18:08 PM
The previous owner of our townhouse chose a color she liked - a neutral somewhere between cream and light tan - and painted everything that color. Everything! Walls, ceilings, woodwork, crown moulding, shutters on the windows....EVERYTHING! While it made for a nice neutral background, and worked well with the oak hardwood floors, I definately needed something else.
We had faux stacked stone installed on the fireplace - looks absolutely wonderful! On the walls on either side of the fireplace is wallpaper in a muted red - not quite rusty, but not barn red, either - with a little gold accent here and there. Added some area rugs under the dining table and in front of the fireplace (this room does double duty) which pulled together the colors from the existing upholstered furniture and the wallpaper. The family antiques are primarily in darker woods, so now the room has a very cozy, almost English library look to it. It is especially comfortable when it is cold outside, and we have a fire crackling to keep our toes warm.
In the warmer months, I change out the rugs for lighter colors and add different pillows. I'm a weaver, so I craft different table runners to coincide with the seasons and holidays. The only difficulty with living in "limited" spaces is that if I find something wonderful at an antique store, there is no room to bring it home. If something comes in, something must go out and DH stays very busy to make sure it isn't him! ;-) It's common knowledge that if you stay in one place too long around here, you might get rearranged!
Sandy in Missouri
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| Bluewrenn |
Posted - Dec 19 2006 : 2:38:31 PM
While I would love to have a warmer kitchen color theme, our current colors in the rest of the house are those retro greens, golds and oranges you mention, BarefootGoatGirl. And for me, chocolate brown is just wonderful with cherry cream pink right now!
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| BarefootGoatGirl |
Posted - Dec 19 2006 : 11:33:00 AM
Oh, I am the strange one here! I love funky retro greens, blues, and yellows mixed in with my antique farm impliments and quilts. I call my decorating style farmhouse funk. It's a comglamorate of found and repurposed objects (the more wear the better), worn furnature, and retro colors. I use the bright colors that I do because they just make me feel happy, like it is always spring time. Since I spend a vast majority of my time at home, I love the fun and energy they give to my surroundings. Hubby humors my decorating choices, but his library is painted in two shades of brown...buskskin and beaver tail (even the names suit him).
Strange as it sounds after reading my decorating colors, my wardrobe staple is chocolate. Chocolate is beautiful with sunset colors and those seem to be the best for my complection.
Trina
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Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. Proverbs 27:23 |
| Bluewrenn |
Posted - Dec 19 2006 : 10:32:58 AM
These are the colors I would like to have in my new kitchen - the chocolate browns, barn/brick reds, mustard/goldenrod, mossy green - all those colors that show up in the rooster prints... My current kitchen has not been updated since the 70s, except for the wall paint. The floor is a brick red faux tile (vinyl), appliances dark brown, the counters a honey gold/brown and the walls and cabinets a pale, icy blue. The blue would be very pretty in a bedroom and was added later. Not sure what the original color was (prob white) but the change to blue was for a specific purpose - something to do with it's appetite suppressant tendencies maybe.
Anyhow, once we build the new house, we'll have to see what the lighting is and then decide. If there is not enough natural light in the kitchen, we'll have to use more white/yellow than reds and browns. But I think that in a house with wood heat, the warmer colors at least help make you think you are warmer.
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| asnedecor |
Posted - Dec 19 2006 : 08:43:58 AM
My living room is "dead seaweed" green - sounds bad but looks nice, kinda a mossy green with yellow undertones. The trim is "pale straw" which is a nice pale yellow. Our front hall and up the stairs, the walls are painted the pale straw and the treads on our stairs are the seaweed green with ice cream white as the trim. Our adjacent dining room is sand stone city- kinda a dark tan with the ice cream trim. Our bedroom is pale green apple, with a yellow trim. In there I have wedge wood blue and lavender accents. I also use deep red, black and a warm brown as accents in our living room. Today I am getting back my couch, I just had it recovered in these accents - can't wait to see it.
Anne in Portland
"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them" Eyeore from Winnie the Pooh
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| Cindy Lee |
Posted - Dec 18 2006 : 8:23:22 PM
I can't believe how often the same colors keep coming up as favorites! It must be a farmgirl thing! I too like greens (kinda olive) and reds. Years ago I liked country blues and mauves.......who didn't? I think I wore myself out on them, as I'm not crazy about them anymore. Go figure!
If life gives you scraps, make quilts! |
| peapodjane |
Posted - Dec 18 2006 : 5:36:26 PM
Thanks for the information Jonni! My home does have dogs and cats, I would love to have the whites, but may have to go for them in a few rooms, thank you for the encouragement!
peapodjane |
| Phils Ann |
Posted - Dec 18 2006 : 3:45:33 PM
Randi, would you consider the "Real Milk Paint" Co? There's a website, and it's less expensive than "Old Fashioned Milk Paint". We used it (OK...My DH did all the work) on lots of built in cupboards and drawers, and liked it a lot. You can order a set of painted chips, and I highly recommend using them instead of the website color chart. Phil made samples for me with no sealer, linseed oil, and oil based varnish--changes the color quite a bit.
Ann
There is a Redeemer. |
| verbina |
Posted - Dec 18 2006 : 3:28:39 PM
HI ALL, can anyone give me some names of paint brands that have old time prim colors? i have tried Village brand .( did not look like the color on chart at all.) i would like a mustard or something like that . Its for a big floor to celling cuboard. thanks randi |
| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Dec 18 2006 : 11:37:55 AM
It's funny how much we all have in common--Go for the whites, Peapodjane!!! I'm always so envious when I see those lovely homes decked out in whites in Country Living--they always say they have kids and dogs, but I'm not so sure :) I've always loved the look, but with four giant dogs, I'm just not that brave!!
The Scone color is Martha Stewart, and the Pineapple Sage and Mourning Dove are American Traditions at Lowes. They weren't in any special collection, just on those little cards with the multiple colors. If you can't find the card, you can still request the color--they have the formula in the computer system. We've purchased cans for touch up here and there.
Just think of all of the roads there are...all of the things I haven't seen....yet. |
| Beemoosie |
Posted - Dec 18 2006 : 11:29:01 AM
Wow! How much our color tastes are in common.
Mine our tan/brown/most any shades of warm greens/deep blues and maroons. I call it woodsy.
O, Come let us adore HIM! www.beequilting.blogspot.com |
| peapodjane |
Posted - Dec 18 2006 : 11:24:20 AM
Hi!
This is a wonderful topic, thank you for introducing it. Jonni what brand are the Pineapple Sage, Mourning Dove and Scone?
What I like and what I have are not totally the same, I actually like whites very much, by that I mean the entire range and cool and warm, and then accented with dark lush colors, or sort of offbeat colors. I like these colors because, I feel calmed by them, and I can more easily see shadows of tree branches etc. against the white. And, well I just like them!
Our home is a work in progress, so it is nice that paint is pretty easy to change and makes a huge fresh difference. The living room colors are sage,cream and sortof a soft green grey, which I like.
Anyway, I think colors that people like really are a way of getting to know them a bit.
Take Care,
peapodjane |
| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Dec 18 2006 : 10:51:25 AM
Sounds boring, but I'm a neutral girl and I live in a cottage, so the space is small and I need to keep it light. I love color, but only as an accent, and get bored easily of things that are "out of the ordinary". My living room is a very creamy, deeper, vanilla color of which I never tire, and the floor is hardwood, but painted and roughed up, ecru and taupe in large checkerboard pattern. The accents and furniture are all colors you would find in nature, I guess--mossy greens, saddle browns, cinnamons, pumpkins, and different kilim fabrics for accent, which incorporate all those colors nicely, with dark woods (I inherited period mission furniture, and it's aged really dark). It makes sense for me--I have wooden bowls filled with gazillions of fossils that I find, and bird nests and feathers under glass domes, so the color mimics my interests, I suppose.
We are working on our two backrooms-the study is painted Pineapple Sage, which is a deep yellowy green, almost loden, and the bedroom is painted "Mourning Dove" which is exactly the color of a dove--it has a green base, though, and changes color with the time of day. It's very peaceful. All of my woodwork and wainscotting is painted high gloss Macaroon which is a fancy way of saying white, but not "optic" white. My kitchen is a color called "Scone" and it reminds me of coffee with heavy cream.
I have all of the house together, except the dining room! Can NOT decide on any kindof color, or style--more inherited mission furniture in there, so it will be dark.
Any suggestions?
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| blueroses |
Posted - Dec 18 2006 : 10:48:44 AM
I look around and see deep colors in red, gold, sage and some browns too. When I was younger I went for the blues, greens and reds of old milkpaint colors, but I seem to have changed my taste a bit.
"You cannot find peace...by avoiding life."
Virginia Woolfe |
| gregs_lil_farmgirl |
Posted - Dec 18 2006 : 10:46:13 AM
I certainly hope not, Lindy. That would mean I'm in winter, at 41!!LOL It is true though how our taste in color change..mine have also. The deep rich colors of fall have always caught my attention though. I still brigten up things with splashes of bright yellows and orange. I think Mary Ann said it best...so that you can bring the outdoors in with out upsetting the balance. Very nice thread by the way.
-Simple pleasures make my heart smile- |
| Sweet Harvest Homestead |
Posted - Dec 18 2006 : 10:34:14 AM
In my last two houses I have painted the walls a color called Spiced Applesauce by Behr. I love Fall colors. It is weird how you change. When I was first married, I liked the colors of spring and summer best. Now I have drifed over to Browns and Reds. Does that mean that I am in the Autumn of my life already at the age of 33?
Lindy
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