Here's how to escape via a labor of love. Picture a Tudor row house in Brooklyn filled with a "laboratory" of painted floors, custom floral upholstered sofas and lots of whimsical wallcoverings often used in multiple patterns in one room.That's the setting for designers Jason Oliver Nixon and John Loecke's (pronounced Lucky) design firm, John Loecke, Inc. Continue Reading
Color Shades and Tints Plus Tennis
We seem to be obsessed with color lately (see 7/15 - how do you describe yellow and 7/18 - mellow yellow posts) and here we go again with color shades and tints.Color isn't a simplistic choice and is more complicated than you may think. See Worqx.com for all the nity gritty about color. More about the tennis later.Today, I'm speaking with Dustin Van Fleet Continue Reading
Mellow Yellow?
Taking Friday's Post on yellow one step further, yellow is anything but mellow...Some things never change in that yellow tends to evoke the same psychological effects in most people as described by Leatrice Eiseman, color expert for Eiseman Center for Color Information and Training and executive for Pantone Color Institute. Some thoughts in summary from her book Continue Reading
How Would You Describe Yellow?
How would you describe yellow?For me, describing yellow is difficult because there are so many shades of yellow; the pale color of an onion skin, the refreshing look of an iced glass of lemonade, the morning sun, the golden wheat field, a swallowtail butterfly, a daffodil.The dictionary defines yellow as: the hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying Continue Reading
Megan Yager – Top Ten Designer Tips
Please scroll down to read a interview with Megan Yager, a interior designer based out of San Antonio, Texas and one of our featured Design Minds.Just a reminder-Our Casart Contest is: answer the following question, "Which of the new Mary Douglas Drysdale Signature Colors makes you see fireworks?"-- You can answer in our blog or on our Facebook page. The Continue Reading
