Day 6, My House in August: Colo(u)r Pop!
Oh, how I love color! I used to have vibrant colors on the walls of my previous home, but now that I live with Sherwin Williams Accessible Beige throughout my house, I like the way it really allows the artwork to take center stage. This painting is in a large niche in our foyer. It was done by the wife of a Native American fancy dancer named Allenroy Paquin from New Mexico. I've had it for years and am still drawn in by its energy.
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1929Spanish-GW
6 years agoThis is a piece my dad and his wife brought back from a trip to Turkey. I threw it over a door 12 years ago and it's stayed ever since.
Olychick
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Comments (36)ali, what about putting an arbor in and growing a honeysuckle up it? From the edge and in from the driveway to the tree, I'd edge out the grass from that area and curve slightly to the end of the concrete pad in front of your home, the patio area. All the way to the end. Let's give you some curb appeal ;) Put the middle of the arbor in front of the edge of the concrete pad where the car is sitting, about 3 feet in. From the middle of the arbor to the drive and then going up your house, you could create a path that would curve over to the sidewalk and to the front door. For right now, using newspapers and a 5 gallon bucket filled with water, cover up all grass with layers of newspapers you've plunged into the water. Lay them down, overlapping as you go. I typically use about 10 layers of paper. The more, the better. If you can create your path first, either using stepping stones or gravel, lay down something like visqueen and lay the stepping stones or the gravel over to create the path. Remove the grass where the path will be so that nobody trips over stepping stones or gravel. Take out a V shape where you're going into the lawn from driveway to tree and up and over to the end of your home. Remove the dirt and the grass from the V, so that you've got a drop off of sorts and lay your wet newspaper to curve down into the area where the dirt is. Cover the area up with mulch or mushroom compost if you can get your hands on some, except for the path area. By next year, the newspaper will start to decompose and the grass will be dead, but it adds to the organic matter of newspaper and the dead grass. Worm heaven. From now and thru winter, study up on various perennials and possibly a few shrubs that produce berries for our other feathered friends. Next year, push back the mulch or mushroom compost and dig holes to plant. There should be enough room to the right of the path up to your front door, to add in a shrub. Then the other shrubs could go in front of the poles, under planted and going out to the edge with perennials. I prefer natives. They're adapted to our weather, our soil, they make up our ecosystem. Find a list of native plants for your area, and research those plants as to what hummingbirds like and also which ones make seed that other birds will like to eat on. The native plants won't require dead heading, don't need pruned or cut back so they look better....I just prefer them over all. Now an iris in there isn't going to hurt anything ;)...or a peony....both left by the previous owner that I decided to leave and a friend of mine from TN also gave me a beautiful iris that is sentimental to me. But again, those 2 are easy plants. Hummingbirds will love to sit and rest a spell on shrubs you provide and give you a closer look at their beauty. Too much?? Where do you live? Zone 5, but where? lovefornature, you're doing a wonderful job! It's people like you who join GW that make it an enjoyable site to visit. If you like butterflies and are interested in attracting some of them to come to your yard, you could plant a Aristolochia tomentosa or Aristolochia durior. Another plant I love that I don't know draws anything in, but blooms in late summer, is Clematis virginiana. Another neat native clematis is Clematis glaucophylla. I also answered the e-mail you sent, I hope you got it....See MoreMy mid-August blooms
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dedtired
6 years agoAlways love your art, Ida. The throw looks very cool, 1929. I thought I might have to sit out today since I am the queen of nearly- neutrals. However, this guy, my neighbor's Burmese, slipped out of the house and took shelter in my carport. Look at those eyes! A pop of color, for sure.
gsciencechick
6 years agoI seem to have missed this the past couple of days. Definitely a color person!
Of course, many of you have seen my beach blue Big Chill fridge. I posted a couple of weeks ago we had our vintage sofa reupholstered and it came out awesome.
raphaellathespanishwaterdog
6 years agoWe are colour/color people too, although often ours choices lean towards darker tones. This wallpaper is on the chimney breast above the fireplace in our (unfinished!) kitchen. Love the CFA Voysey inspired design - so much we have it in different formats/colourways about the house ;)
Yayagal
6 years ago
Bonnie
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoSo many yummy colors! Gsciencechick, your sofa is beautiful! Nice choice.
This is a pop of color on our bed:
torreykm
6 years agoI couldn't find any pops of color in my house, but this planter gave a welcoming color pop to our entry a few years ago.
Love that painting IdaClaire.
aprilneverends
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agohard, guys..like, what new i can show? except for the pop of neutral lol..that's my tiny netsuke etc collection
( I know I'm not big on photography..unless it's somewhere in Bora Bora and then the light is so great even my pic can get published lol)
ok..some color
(oh how I want printed sofa, colored fridge, wallpaper..and say if a cat could take care of me..))
btw I lost a pic of another light that I wanted to show you. Maybe later. It's one of two Muranos. I got obsessed with Muranos while I was looking for stuff for the house. Actually got obsessed with lights as a class. Still collecting. Virtually of course since everything we needed is installed, and not much more place for table or floor lamps either.
Lars
6 years agoWe have quite a bit of color in our house, but I do not find it overwhelming:
This is my brother's self portrait again. We do not use those pillows any more, as I have recovered them.
The is in the hallway next to the dining room and features a portrait of me done by a friend in San Francisco 1982. I hung this opposite where my brother sits at the dining table, and so now he has to look at my portrait as much as I do at his!
More of the brother's paintings, plus some orchids in bloom in the living room. I bring them inside when the flowers open - otherwise they spend most of the year outdoors in a shaded area that I built for them.
Indonesian mask that I bought in San Francisco back around 1979 or so, with another orchid brought into the living room.
Red stove plus mixer and teapot in kitchen. My brother bought this because he was tired of stainless steel, but we did put up a SS backsplash behind the range.
aprilneverends
6 years agolast modified: 6 years ago1929Spanish-GW
6 years agoOly, this is supposed to be a shawl, so the textile is super thin and doesn't impede the old door from closing.
April, I came across your light fixture on Pinterest the other day. I love it! Maybe I need to swap the vintage chandelier in my pink office for one of those in pink! ...runs off to think about things.....
I love all the art and color here.
aprilneverends
6 years agoLars
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ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoA week ago this oriental stool was a boring brown color. I got out my acrylic paint and did a little mixing of shades and this is the result. If you look very carefully there's an orange spot of color which is Jason the cat, hanging out where the cold air blows down from the AC vent.
sableincal
6 years agoUser
6 years agoOne of four burgundy background, white flour needlepoint seats in the breakfast room.
Olychick
6 years agoLynnNM
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aprilneverends
6 years agoroarah
6 years agoSomehow missed this day over the weekend. My first ever attempt at wallpaper. It is my very small front hall vestibule.
Sueb20
6 years agoMy phone is dying and one of the symptoms seems to be blurry pics...but this is the most colorful spot in my house.
mom2sulu
6 years agoI'm very late for this one. :)
I chose the art over my DD's bed (although her entire bedroom is a pop of color--lol). Fun thing though is that every day when she wakes up she chooses a different butterfly to reflect her mood. It's a sweet game we play.
cliff_and_joann
6 years agoWe have a sofa and three chairs in our family room...
this is the only chair not covered in leather...my Ferrari chair! :)
IdaClaire
6 years agomicheletx
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MtnRdRedux
6 years agoI got this mirror for my girls' bohemian bunk room here at the beach. The flowers are actually dimensional!
And a favorite tray on the back porch here...
juddgirl2
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoMy pops of color are new carribean blue glider chairs I just got for some rockin' and sippin' on the front porch. I think they complement my turquoise front door and haint blue porch ceiling :)
sableincal
6 years agoBonnie
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havingfun
6 years ago
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