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Thanks for the Mention Grange Furniture

Kate Smith — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:04:59 +0000

Thanks Grange Furniture for mentioning our ‘I Prayed for Gray’ posts on your Facebook fans page!

Check out the Grange Furniture page on Facebook and become a fan, too…

Color Quote of the Day: February 15th

Kate Smith — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:05:55 +0000

“The man who can see all gray, and red, and purples in a peach, will paint the peach rightly round, and rightly altogether. But the man who has only studied its roundness may not see its purples and grays, and if he does not will never get it to look like a peach; so that great power over color is always a sign of large general art-intellect.”

John Ruskin

Color Quote of the Day: January 29th

Kate Smith — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:05:34 +0000

“Better gray than garishness.”

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Quilt of Many Colors

Kate Smith — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:29:25 +0000

Eddie Ross put up a post of how he created a color scheme for an apartment from a vintage quilt. One of my favorite schemes was this grayish green and lavender with deeper accents.

He pulled six different schemes and each of them works on their own but by using the same inspiration piece the colors of the entire apartment flow beautifully together.

Tree at Williamsburg Inn

Kate Smith — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:29:32 +0000

I was in Williamsburg over the Thanksgiving holiday and during a stroll in the garden behind the Inn I was taken with the pattern and colors in the bark of this tree.

The gray and orange combination would make a very sophisticated color palette for either an interior and exterior of a home.

Quite a different look than the orange in yesterday’s Etsy Inspired color palette. These tones of orange are much more sedate and complex.

With gray moving to the forefront in 2009 we will see it being used with many complex neutrals and looking at nature for inspiration is a perfect way to find neutral schemes that are breathtaking rather than boring.