How do these work? Do we just look for fabrics and papers that have the colors above? Are we supposed to use all of those colors? Only those colors? Sorry if I'm being difficult.

I say interpret it as you like. I am planning to use that as the color palette for the room. I'm going to try to hit all the colors, but we'll see.

What color would you call that blue in between the navy and the teal? Dark teal?

Personally I'd call the lighter one turquise and the darker one teal.

I can see that.

I like individual elements in this room, but not at all convinced that it works together. Hits the colors needed, but I'm not sure how I feel about two geometrics and a floral.

Different rug.

I can't figure out the pink and the red with the teal and turquoise.

patrickthedestroyer, I'm no expert but I think it helps to find a fabric, rug or piece of art that has all or most of the colors in it to help tie things together. (Colors are so tricky online. I'm seeing more burgundy and salmon rather than true red and pink) I like your bedside lamps, when we finally get around to really finishing up our bedroom, I want to do that.

cawaps, I really like your navy paint with that headboard against it.

How do you make the background color? Do we have a link on how to come up with these boards, i.e. what software? So far, I've been using word.docx

nosoccermom, I think different people are using different methods. I'm working on an iPad and downloaded the moodboard app. It doesn't have some of the functions of what other people are using though--for example I can't strip the background from the images I use so you see white background around my furniture. And there is a custom background option on mine, but I haven't been able to get it to fill the whole background so I have mostly just used the wood background.

For the background color, I'm pulling paint swatches off of MyPerfectColor, and then cropping and enlarging them. I use the Olioboard website to do my boards, because it's an easy way to collect and organize images.

The old kitchen DATs had an "about the DATs" thread that included how-tos. Here's the link.

Darn, my Amy Butler fabric for drapes pattern didn't show well after transfer.

crl_ your room looks refined and surprisingly airy. I would need to see those curtains with that wall color in real life to see if I could actually live with them, though. You are right about finding a fabric with all the colors as a starting point, I just haven't had any luck doing that yet.

Cawaps, I also love the wall color. It's hard to think of anything not going with that shade of blue. That bedspread was a nice find for getting the red into the room in a nice way.

Justterrilyn, your room looks fantastically well put together. Maybe it's just the symmetry but I think the pieces all fit a kind of Hollywood regency vibe as well. On top of having the right colors the pieces go well together, which is a lesson I will take to heart.

Amy Butler is about the only person I can find who has fabrics with these colors in them. I thought your drapes some kind of modern art because of the distortion in the image.

Hi Patrick and thank you! Yes the image got distorted in transfer, that's why I posted what the drapes would look like ( something I didn't do when I first started DAT'S and what was in my head didn't show well in the actual posts). I love some of Amy Bulters fabrics. There used to be a gal on eBay who made purses/totes out of AB's fabrics and I had a few. I sort of used them as my jewelry when I dressed tone on tone. Check out Michael Miller fabrics on fabrics . com. I think you may find the colors there but there are a zillion pages to go through.

Someone please do a bathroom.

I actually found several nice shower curtain in these colors.

Wall paint: BM Mexicali Turquoise

Wainscoting: BM Ivory White (My bath has v-groove panelling; I think I was redecorating my bath when I did this)

Floor is hex tile in a rosette pattern from mosaictilesupplies.com (this is actually black and off-white; I wanted navy but couldn't find it)

Navy vanity; pic from decorpad.com

Silestone counter in Capri Limestone

American Made Rayne Tuscan Ivory wall mirror

American Standard sink in bone

Soap dispenser from zazzle.com

Towels from WorldMarket

Bath rug by Pine Cone Hill from finelinens.com

Art from the Word Shop via Etsy

Barclay slipper tub from Plumbing Overstock

Shower curtain from EBay

Third variation: Granny Boho. Lots of pillows, lots of patterned fabric. The rug is wool, and has an oversized knit texture.

Thank you Cawaps. I love the bathroom. I like the fact that the room is dominated by turquoise and white. Not that I love those two colors really, I just think it makes the room feel more solid to me. I love that shower curtain. It looks like it contains every color from the design seed.

Patrick did you even try what Crl advised you to do?

Yeah I did try, there are not a lot of fabrics that have that color scheme in them. The Kantha quilt has the turquoise, the navy, the pink and the red, the wall paper has the red, the pink and the off white. The red medallion print is an Amy Butler in the same color way as the fabric justterrilynn used for drapes, but its one of the few fabrics out there that combine that red, the pink and the turquoise and even then the shades are in the family but not a match.
Again, I like many of the elements individually, not sure that they work together.

Patrick Granny Boho: I've looked at those cable-knit rugs and love the look. My cats would shred them. The fabric above the dresser nicely pulls in most of the colors from the design seed.

Emmarene, I think the shower curtain lacked navy, but had everything else. My own bathroom is white and aqua. This wasn't much of a stretch.

Justterrilyn: Love the Amy Butler fabric and the ottoman. Are those spinal column lamps?

Patrick, 2 geometrics and a floral (2 versions): I agree (sorry) that these don't quite work. For me, it's the comforter, not the rug that isn't working. I think the first one would work better with a solid comforter. As to getting teal to work with pink/red, you are working with opposites on the color wheel--a blue-green opposite a red-orange. The combination actually comes up a lot in art, jewelry and fashion. Even the Miami Dolphins logo (although they skew more orange than coral/pink). You see turquoise and coral a lot combined in Native American Jewelry and Tibetan jewelry. If you Google turquoise and coral, you will see a lot of examples of the combination (sometimes with navy or aqua thrown in as well). A lot of the corals shift more orange than our inspiration, but not all.

Crl, the painting and rug tie this together nicely.

Cawaps lol, spinal column lamps! maybe they are called that...don't know, I just liked the looks.

Well that's much less disturbing. But there is a resemblance:

And apparently someone has done it:

I learn new things every day here lol.

Cawaps, I totally agree about turquoise and coral being a very workable color combination. I now think its the ruddy red that is throwing things off from me. I'm trying to map all the colors on a color wheel, but I can't find a website that lets you enter more than three at a time.

Gimp says that their hex numbers, if anyone cares, are

f0ebd8 ; 76d0c6 ; 348090 ; 142a41 ; 802a29 ; d6757e.

I didn't exactly embrace the ruddy red in either of my designs. It came in with the fabric in the first design, sort of (I think the red in the fabric is brighter by a pretty wide margin). In my 2nd, maybe it's in the shower curtain (but the design makes it hard to make out) and the red in the wall art is definitely brighter. The only reason the ruddy red hasn't been throwing me off is that I have essentially been ignoring it (or at least accepting other shades of red in it's place).

Thanks for stepping in, Cawaps! I'm too late to this party to participate in this one, but I would like to suggest that we can do a DAT around a vacation pic we took. Having just returned from vacation, I've been very inspired by the colors and textures I saw and it would be fun to concretize a vacation memory into a room, real or imagined.

Here are most of the colors mapped onto a color wheel. They don't fit any of the standard color harmony patterns, which may explain why they are tricky to use. The Navy is missing, but it is to the right and a little down from the teal.

Annie it is not too late, please do one.