I can't get over how beautiful that door is.

You inspiration is beautiful. Somehow, the colors in the room example seem disjointed, though.

Gorgeous! I think the room might be improved upon if an element of rusticity were introduced, as the old-denim hued door. I'm not sure what it could be to accomplish that, though.

Annie, I used those exact colors in a guest bedroom in our new home! Wanting something fresh and different from the green palette that has always dominated my homes, I decided to embrace the blue. It’s so cool and restful!

Funny, Kswl, blue is my favorite color and yet I have very little of it in my house. Don't ask me why....

Fun2bhere, I wonder if it's the camera angle that makes the pieces and parts seem more scattered...if the pic was taken through the other doorway it might not be quite so imbalanced.

Here's another...

And this room maybe...

Or this one...

But then again, you never know what you're going to find...perhaps even step in a poodle! Yikes!

Annie tell me please, how exactly you use Design Seeds? Do you start with a color you have in something already and then see what other colors they put with it as room inspiration? I am in such a decorating rut and feel stymied at every turn.

Jinx, no pink poodles for you?

lisaam, they might traumatize our cats. 😄

I wonder if the owner of the room decorated with the poodles has actual dogs. I also wonder what material is used for the lampshade in that room.

I am slow. Is a design seed a color palette?

design seed is a website that collects and sorts pictures of various types and pulls colors out of the pictures to be used as design inspiration for whatever it is you want to color...be it a room, a website, an outfit, whatever.

https://www.design-seeds.com/

In these cases, I selected a color, looked for a design seed I liked, and then went to houzz to look for a room that uses those colors...

If you're decorating, it's far easier to select colors if you have an inspiration piece, be it a piece of art, a vase, a sweater, a fabric, whatever. design seeds are just an option to use as an inspiration for a color scheme.

What were your Houzz search terms for the dining room above? Blue and orange dining room?

No I searched on teal, in photos and then selected dining rooms

In the OP dining room I wonder if an area rug with some texture might have been better.

I always thought Design Seeds used an app that scanned a photo with colors you like and broke it down into a palette.

Beautiful selection of seeds, Annie, especially the first and third! You probably already know this - all around the Mediterranean Sea and going east, blue is considered a most lucky color, particularly in Arab/Muslim countries, and a blue door is loaded with good luck wishes. On many homes the outer wall has a blue hand painted on it; this is the lucky hand of Fatima, Muhammed's daughter. And taxi and bus drivers usually have blue beads hanging from their drivers' mirrors.

Bunny, I believe design seeds selects the colors by hand pulling from those in the image. She looks to pull colors that work rather than necessarily match what's in the image.

sable, when I was in Bethlehem it seemed all the doors were some shade of blue.

Love this design seed:

Now here's one that gets me going, hmmm.

I love the Phoebe Howard room for it's softness and gentle palette, yet she sprinkles in an accent that I would've never thought of that just gives it a special touch.

I wonder if a design seed would help me find that 'just so' accent that I'd never even think of otherwise.

Now the design seed is probably one I would never choose because I find the vibrancy of the colors off putting, but proportion and how and where those colors are used make all the difference.

From the old design seed thread, I thought it worthwhile to rerun as it really illustrates how the proportion of color used can impact how a design seed looks in a room.

I was making a quilt and was trying to decide on which color to put where. The pattern in each square is exactly the same. The colors used in each square are exactly the same. It's all about contrast and proportion.

That's fascinating. I can't even imagine how you did that.

Here's one I made myself...took the photo yesterday

I *love* the colors in this design seed

Holiday colors, not just for holidays..

Lavender...not just for little girls.