ideas and inspiration

guys, it's only been a week since my last post, look out! mostly I'm here because I can't stop scouring random blogs and decorating magazine sites for ideas and inspiration for the new apartment. i can't wait to cozy in with a blank canvas to work with! so i decided i needen an outlet for all this stuff i was coming upon and so here i am! here's a few glimpses of what i've found:

here's one I'm super excited for

at first i passed through this picture almost immediately but just as quickly had to go back to it. i LOVE teal and red. i can't get over it. so i tried to think of where I could incorporate this into our new place without buying a bunch of new stuff. then it came to me... bathroom! the napkins here in the picture are toile which would make a lovely shower curtain that would pop perfectly against pale, barely there aqua walls no? Then between our towels, bath rug and coutertop accessories which are all brown, we'll have enough balance in the room and the dark will really stand out richly against the other colors. YUM!

and more fun

although I'm still slightly debating this, i think we're going to go deep blue in the bedroom. love, right? riiiiiight :) mostly the debating is between the shades of blue. I found this picture and fell in love with the richness of the blue wallpaper (it's hard to see but it's also patterned- which i love but i don't think wall paper is among my options... and probably quite the hassle too!) the other thing i loved about this picture is that it mixed the blue with browns and whites which is what we have and what i wanted in the bedroom although ours will be lighter with more beige that brown brown.

here's another shade of blue i'm loving. what do you think? too bold? or just enough?

here's a spontaneous one for you

i found this one yesterday and LOVED this color combo. we've got a pretty dusty rose, with the deep brown and cream and a slight hint of lime. NEVER would have came up with this my own but then realized this would actually be perfect for our kitchen (which i couldn't figure out!) and it would flow very well with our adjacent living room. for the living room I'm going to do a dark purple, think warm eggplant or plum. I'm not going to do this on all of the walls though. i can't remember for sure how our particular apartment was. i know we have crown molding at least around the ceiling. however if we have it halfway down the walls too, I'll do the purple on the bottom. If we don't have it on the walls, I'll paint the focal wall the dark purple and the rest a sandy beige or something to go with our furniture. I haven't found a great picture that has inspired me for that one so i guess you'll just have to wait for the after pictures that will come somewhere down the road.

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does anyone else get this excited and crazy when the option of paint is presented to them?? I think i've lived with cinder block walls and roommates for too long... while it was wonderful that time has passed and I'm SO ready for my darling big girl apartment.

ooh boy are we just getting to the good stuff <3