My Skirt / Throw Blanket / Florals / Wallpaper / More Room Details
Good MORNING! I am so happy you are here! Today begins a new series… WONDERLAND WORKSHOP… one that will be a really long running one and one that’s been a really long time coming! For the last nine years, I have been yapping about my life and sharing everything I’ve designed and created. From the home that got me going here on the blog and social… the Pinterest viral ombre staircase one… to numerous flip homes, several cabins, the year long renovation of our 1908 personal home, a divorce, a marriage, new kiddos and even a new dream home overseas… I’ve shared LOTS. But the thing is, I have never really dug into the how and the why. Not because I don’t want to but quite honestly because I didn’t really know how. As you have probably seen, I am not one to follow a trend or a defined style. I just do my own thing, eye it all and say a little design prayer that it all turns into something beautiful. However, I have been compiling your questions and my thoughts over the years into the little digital notepad on my phone and I am finally ready to kick things off!
Wonderland Workshop will be a continual, hopefully weekly to bi-weekly, written and visual explanation of design tips, tricks and ideas that I have either figured out, learned or stumbled upon over the years. From how I create a super colorful yet cohesive home to how I combine lots and lots of patterns to where I find things, how I visualize and really just anything I can think of sharing. I am quite excited about it to be honest! I absolutely LOVE writing so I am also so happy to be back blogging very very regularly. Last year was CA-razy busy with things that are now all wrapped up so it’s smooth blog sailing from here!
Today I am starting things off with ONE of MANY ways I will share that I create a very colorful and pattern filled home that also feels COHESIVE. I think 😉 I mean… that’s what y’all say so I am going with it! This tip is actually the very first and really the main way that I jumpstarted our home. I chose ONE COLOR… which is a color I created from a 50/50 mix of Sherwin Williams Stardew and Uncertain Gray… and I had it peppered throughout our main level. My thoughts are that if this color coordinates with each space in some way… even if the design of each room is really different… the coordination of every design around this color helps the entire home to feel cohesive.
First, every single door on our main level is this color. From our living room…
Florals
Vases
To our bedroom…
Rug / Planter / Tile / Chandelier
To my vanity room and our closet. And not just these… every single interior AND exterior door on our main level. And that peek of color in each space helps there to be a colorful flow.
Lamp / Mirror / Wallpaper
And it doesn’t have to be doors. It could be accents, cabinetry, trim… We also have this same color as our foyer wall color…
Our built-in closet cabinetry…
Our mud room trim…
And even our kitchen cabinets!
And although each room has different wall colors, different pattern accents and mostly a completely different vibe, the fact that whatever is going on in each space coordinates with this same color… the entire main level of our home feels COHESIVE and not crazy.
See you next time!
XOXO, Brittany Palazzo
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