Because fall is finally here and we’re starting to wrap up, bundle up because it’s getting colder outside, we thought we’d weather with a tweed and texture post. We tend to also wrap up our homes for winter. We put away our brightly colored spring and summer clothes and wrap ourselves and our interiors in warmth. We put out blankets and deep, dark colors emerge as the fall colors appear outdoors.
Besides the tweed texture, I was taken with the thick, charcoal-colored Herringbone tweed that Markham Roberts used recently in this room featured in House Beautiful. This room feels cozy, warm and sophisticated and traditional yet with pops of modern purple and chartreuse.
Not to lose all color in a room but one way to counter the effects of the graying days of winter doldrums is to actually brighten the room with color. Barry Dixon does this well with his combination of pink and brown and some tweed in the room below. His inspiration was different shades of pink from a frothy, strawberry milkshake to a soft coral pink to a peony with a hint of raspberry. These pinks are all combined in the focal-point, framed print above the mantel, which I really like, as well as the reference to a peony makes me think of our removable wallcovering. As Dixon says, these pinks “feel happy and exuberant.” He grounds these light airy colors with “dark cocoa-brown fabric” in the niches, which “without it, all these pinks could have been too bubbly and feminine.”
Now doesn’t this just want you to settle down with a nice cup of hot cocoa AND chocolates!
Well, if you can’t do that or if it is too indulgent for your waistline, then what about chocolate walls!
We have our raw silk in these colors below but we may add a chocolate soon and of course you can always customize any of our designs.
You can always get a faux linen in chocolate as the inspiration for this color was matched to Benjamin Moore’s paint brown paint color.
To end on a velvety, smooth, soothing note, here’s a little mention of how the Drysdale Signature Colors for Casart Coverings were shown as “art” panels, hung Ellsworth Kelly style during a gallery opening at Mary Douglas Drysdale’s, where Jackie Greene entertained us with his musical talent. Kudos Mary to a fabulous event!
Here are two songs that Jackie played, Gone Wondering and Ball & Chain.
— Ashley
Leave a Reply