SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHINGS OLD…..

Okay I’ve finally done something with the vintage wallpaper samples from my cottage. Click here to read my previous post about the wallpaper sample book..

In June when hubby and I went to Vermont I coerced him into checking out some antique stores and a salvage yard.  I love to be inspired by the many different and unique items in those kind of stores – sort of like treasure hunting.  Anyways, I did find some treasures – three old skeleton keys and two antique iron trivets.  

One trivet has a “M” initial for “Mom” and the other has two hearts back to back.  I thought they were so cute even though hubby said “What are you going to do with those?”  And even though I said that I had no idea – he knows me well enough to know that I would eventually find some way to use them.

Well, my next stop was Ikea to pick up some of their Ribba shadow boxes.

I thought I would rummage through my fabric remnant pile or use some scrapbooking paper to back the keys and trivets.  But then I got to thinking about the vintage wallpaper samples I had and I decided to go through and see which one I could use as a background.  Well I decided on this one:

Subtle but with enough of a pattern that it shows up and it would really showcase the black iron of the keys and the trivets. 

I did actually feel a twinge while I was cutting the page out of the book but I did it!! The paper is quite fragile so I made sure that the utility knife was good and sharp and I got it done without too much trouble.

Here they are in progress.  I glued the wallpaper to the back of the frame and then hot glued the trivets and keys in place on the wallpaper.  Hopefully the hot glue is strong enough to hold everything in place – I’m sure I’ll find out soon enough if it isn’t!!

I placed the matting on top and fit everything back into the frame and voila!

I think they look great and I’ve put them on the small wall in my entrance way.

I know, I know I still haven’t gotten around to painting those closet doors or the powder room door black yet!  But it will happen, probably in the fall, when life gets back to normal.

I think they are the perfect way to say “Welcome!" 

I believe that every space can be comfortable, warm, elegant and beautiful. I would love to help you achieve your beautiful space!

Email me at lisa@lisagouletdesign.com or if in the Ottawa area call me at 613-762-0818.

Lisa

THEY CALL ME MELLOW YELLOW!

Love that song!! 

“Colour is but a sensation and has no existence outside the nervous system of living beings.” Nicholas Ogden Rood

Okay, I have been very delinquent about my colour posts. 

So I am back at it with

YELLOW!!!

Most people have strong feelings about Yellow – they either love it or hate it!  I used to hate it but there is one thing about studying colour and design – you really do learn to love all the colours – as you find out all about them and how they all have their place in the rainbow!

Colour psychology tells us that extroverts like warm colours and introverts like cool colours.  Yellow then is a colour for extroverts.  If you like yellow you’ll find it cheerful, radiant and expansive.  If you hate yellow it’ll make you nervous, anxious and irritable. 

Physically yellow can annoy and agitate us but it also sharpens our memory (think yellow post it notes) and stimulates us intellectually.  It can make you cautious – as in yellow street lights or very talkative. 

Yellow doesn’t seem to stay put – it seems to float into the air like sunshine.  It falls between the extremes of red and violet – it is closest to visual light and is perceived as sunlight’s natural colour.  It appears to illuminate and so it advances towards us. 

Now for some interiors.  Yellow can be glamorous and classy as shown in the following photos.

 Isn’t this a breathtaking bathroom?  It’s so glamorous!

Here’s a transitional living room with a pale yellow wall that works beautifully with the stone wall and the navy couch.

A modern, feminine space where the turquoise background wall and even the exterior blue light compliments the hits of yellow. 

What a handsome vignette!  Showcasing how beautiful yellow and gray can be.

Or it can look fun, playful

and flirty as in the

following rooms.

This room has yellow and it’s compliment purple to showcase both the colours. It is fun and young at heart.

A fun children’s room highlighting again how well gray and yellow works together.  Cute monkey!

It can even have a welcoming and classic country feel…see these below.

 COME ON IN!!

A warm entryway that has classic tones with the marble tile floor and the urn on the console – not to mention that beautiful wooden door and transom window feature.  Painting it yellow makes it less formal and more casual.  Did you notice the cute painted scene on the console table?

Navy and yellow is such a timeless combo and works its magic in this room. 

The dining room in the same home – can’t you just smell the apple pie?

And last but not least striped yellow & white fabric used in a modern way on the headboard. 

Hope you enjoyed this trip

through the colour yellow!

 I believe that every space can be comfortable, warm, elegant and beautiful. I would love to help you achieve your beautiful space!

Email me at lisa@lisagouletdesign.com or if in the Ottawa area call me at 613-762-0818.

Lisa

 

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COME RIGHT IN!

Well here's another one of my transformations.  I have a typical suburban entry way that was okay but needed some style.

Here's the before:
 

So I had been debating and debating about painting the interior of the exterior door black. I love black doors, especially black french doors but I had been waffling around about this. Probably because all those mullions were scaring me off.


So finally one day I said enough take a chance and just do it - just like Nike says - though after Tiger Woods I don't know if that's a tag line they should keep! ;0
After all that's what I tell my clients -

"It's only paint!"

So here's the afters:

If you look closely in this photo - at the right bottom corner of the door you can see Milo pouting because I locked him into the den as he kept jumping on the chair!!!

Okay I let him out!!

I'm loving these faux vintage keys from Pottery Barn - aren't they the perfect thing to put at the front entry?

I am thrilled with in and how do I know it was the right thing?

No one noticed!!!

The hubby, the four children - only noticed once I said "DID YOU NOTICE THE ENTRANCE WAY?"  They all said it looked like it had been like that all along.   So there you go - all that hemming and hawing about painting and it was perfect after all!  And by the way there was no paint smell to give it away as I used Benjamin Moore's Aura paint in Black Iron (it's a dark gray black).

Click here to check out more transformations at Between Naps on the porch - Met Mondays.

I believe that every space can be beautiful and comfortable.

I'd love to help you achieve your beautiful space – email me at lisa@lisagouletdesign.com or if in the Ottawa area call me at

613-762-0818.

Lisa