Ideal Home: February Issue 2014

In this month issue I was mostly impressed by very bold interior design of a 4-bedroom Edwardian house from "Take the 60-second Tour" section. The owner of the house mixed bright colours of orange, red, yellow, green, blue, etc. Usually I skip right through designs of this kind of colour calibre because I'm not a big fan of too many colours in one room (in my opinion combination of too many bold colours usually causes rather a chaotic damage than a beautiful design). This time, I have really given a time to absorb those colours and I've found myself being a fond of this particular well-balanced colour mixture. Well, judge yourself if you like it:

Recently I've became a real marine lover. I love the navy blue colour, love the marine prints on textures, love blue and white stripe clothes, I just love it all. Therefore, there is no surprise I was really excited about "Make everything Shipshape" article. It covers a house turned into home celebrating marine moodboard. You can find there everything: from blue prints, industrial elements, lanterns, pictures of boats; it has it all.

Here, on this page, I was especially nicely surprised with image of my favourite joules wellies, which I used in my St. Nicholas poster. One day I'll have them in my possession (:

My last contribution to the magazine follows Colour School section, where their stylist works with Teal blues this time. I couldn't decide if I like it or don't. The combination of colours is great, I used it in one of my designs: teal blue goes perfectly with primrose-yellow, put there some beige or brown and you've got a nice colour palette. However, it might be easily overdone, as I think happened here:

The design has a potential but in my opinion it ended up looking like a section from Ikea. However, it's only about my personal taste and since I would give it like 3 stars out of 5, I decided to include it my post as some braver people might like it or even love it ;)

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