WALL COLOR AND WOOD TONES

<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">MAKING THEM ALL HAPPY</span><br><br /><br><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Most of us have wood tones in our home.  If not on the floor, then as furniture or kitchen cabinets.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">While wood isn't considered a 'color' in your color palette, their tones do need to be considered.  Wood can have red, brown, yellow or in some cases, gray tones.  </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBYJgEeNkFK7LirSzDxczhFProDB-R8fTbsWXpvKSUqQUJdjTW-6vlUFaIgmKtJZMbtMwvYaQ8TJYKXJBFvN0buaTlXsAGN69YtcUD5Ro7dAFJURsVRMYJRrwbZoTtTCgUTCQi8tscHHY/s1600/cbid+043.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="518" lwa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBYJgEeNkFK7LirSzDxczhFProDB-R8fTbsWXpvKSUqQUJdjTW-6vlUFaIgmKtJZMbtMwvYaQ8TJYKXJBFvN0buaTlXsAGN69YtcUD5Ro7dAFJURsVRMYJRrwbZoTtTCgUTCQi8tscHHY/s640/cbid+043.jpg" width="640"></a></div>Red toned woods, like mahogany or cherry look great with cooler wall colors - cool greens, blues and grays, and gray toned beiges.  Yellow toned woods, like oak, also do well with greens, grays and purple tones.  Dark woods can handle both cool and warm tones.  If you have a mix, a grayed down neutral may work with all the wood tones.   When in doubt, choose the wood tone you have the largest amount of, or the most dominant and find a color that makes it look beautiful.<br><br /><a href="http://yournestdesign.blogspot.com/2013/06/wall-color-and-wood-tones.html#more">Read more »</a>

WALL COLOR AND WOOD TONES

MAKING THEM ALL HAPPY Most of us have wood tones in our home.  If not on the floor, then as furniture or kitchen cabinets. While wood isn...

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BEACH HOUSE NEUTRALS

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br><br />Sometimes I feel that we are overdone here in the OC.  We have the ocean close by, the warm sand between our toes, ocean breezes to cool our summers, palm trees punctuating our neighborhoods and a surf board in every garage - but our homes look like carbon copy Spanish villas with red tile roofs and stucco walls and our interiors bear no resemblance to the coastal region we pay so dearly to be near.  </div><br /><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3hlWVwBjZSNgWzkpihCbvivu7qRQj18x3gjErmSJEKmjvBejjdYj9o2eRZ3HEeLac_64Cph5Ked21qovWucabVT7HrXQ9NKx8BdmnU920hyf0it1Ij9_yYrQ6gXHAtXg13nC3VKZgGpE/s1600/nzflavour+bs+com.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3hlWVwBjZSNgWzkpihCbvivu7qRQj18x3gjErmSJEKmjvBejjdYj9o2eRZ3HEeLac_64Cph5Ked21qovWucabVT7HrXQ9NKx8BdmnU920hyf0it1Ij9_yYrQ6gXHAtXg13nC3VKZgGpE/s640/nzflavour+bs+com.jpg" width="640"></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><a href="http://yournestdesign.blogspot.com/2013/05/beach-house-neutrals.html#more">Read more »</a>

BEACH HOUSE NEUTRALS

Sometimes I feel that we are overdone here in the OC.  We have the ocean close by, the warm sand between our toes, ocean breezes to cool our...

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