Colors and personality are a funny thing. You may love a particular color for one purpose in your life, but find it completely inappropriate for another.  You may stroll about town happily in a cherry red coat but the thought of breaking bread in a crimson room makes you itchy- a bedroom dressed in layer [...]

pillows and fabrics from Calico Corners

The addition of fleshy golds and fresh greens warms up classic blue and white in home, in fashion- add in a touch of dingy gray, coal black and metallics ( either gold or silver would work) and you’ve got a look that’s totally futuristic boho.

Diane Von Furstenberg Resort 2010, Marni [...]

image from NASA
I will be celebrating Earth Day today by starting a compost pile, planting some flowers, vowing to be more diligent about recycling, re-purposing, conserving water and worshiping all palettes blue and green.  Remember that old saying ‘blue and green never to be seen without a color in between’?  Well that theory has thankfully [...]

Last week I donned my blue and orange scarf and headed out to watch the New York Mets win there first ever home game at Citifield.  As I walked around the stadium awash in a sea of NY Met’s signature orange and royal blue- I couldn’t help but think about the use of complimentary colors [...]

Ah… coral motifs.  I have to admit I just can’t get enough of them. When their vibrant colored silhouettes first began popping up a few years back…my red/orange loving self was thrilled.  Their color was the perfect foil for the greens and jewel tones through out my house… slowly but surely tiny pops of their [...]

No, this isn’t my attempt at pop art but rather a collage of the pictures Jake Kilroy from over at Entrepreneur magazine send me.

I met Jake when he called to check facts for a story I was going to be quoted in and before I knew it we were chatting about color and Jake was [...]

Christmas is a time for believing that all of our wishes can come true.

The windows of Lord and Taylor in New York City capture the fantasy with a scheme of yummy gingerbread and confectionery colors.

At Macy’s the colors are

I am very excited to write about sapphire because it is the stone I use most in my work. The incredible sparkle and virtual rainbow of color choices make it a pleasure to design with.
When thinking about sapphire, the color that most comes to mind is blue. ‘Sapphirus’ means blue in Greek. [...]

With only an hour to browse before catching a cab to the airport I didn’t have much time for snapping pictures and matching colors but I did see a couple of rooms at Redford House that I wanted to share.
Both rooms had neutral furnishings, floors and accessories with a bold color on the walls.  The [...]

I continue my exploration of the Colors of India with a stop in Jodhpur.
Here a sea of aqua blue houses is beautifully juxtaposed against the dry browns of the desert that surrounds it.

But beautiful blue is only one of the many colors that you will find in Jodhpur.
Journey along with me through the streets to [...]