Color of the Year!? Not For Me!!

 This is not another post about this years “Color of 2011!”

“In times of stress, we need something to lift our spirits. Honeysuckle is a captivating, stimulating color that gets the adrenaline going – perfect to ward off the blues,” explains Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute®. “Honeysuckle derives its positive qualities from a powerful bond to its mother color red, the most physical, viscerally alive hue in the spectrum.”

Did you read the part about, “perfect to ward off the blues?”

I for one do not want to ward off the blues.

In fact the color of the year for me, personally, is going to be BLUE!!

 

I have decided to add more blue and white to my home this year.

I have been a big fan of blue and white porcelain and when I did a post on Carolyn Roehme, I knew then that I had to have more of it  in my life.

Just look at how beautifully blue is displayed by Carolyne Roehme

 

 

I already have several blue and white pieces in my home…….

My summer dining room.

Kitchen counter lamp.

 

Vignette on my mantel.

I have several other pieces, but I think you get the point. Blue and white are not a new love, but an old friend that I plan on keeping in my life.

So the next question is how do I plan on adding more blue and white in my home for 2011?

This is what I would like to do, I am not sure it will happen this year, but I am  a planner and a dreamer so what the heck!!

Before I purchased the sofa that I have now, which actually has the color honeysuckle on a natural linen base in a floral design. I had a blue and white striped sofa.

I had the blue and white sofa for ten years. I had it for so long I thought I would go in a completely different direction (Bad choice on my part.)

I have had this floral sofa for six years and I have tired of its pattern. I now want the blue and white striped fabric back in my home.

A new sofa in this fabric! This is actually the same fabric that I had on my other sofa so it is not really new to me, just a good old friend coming back for a visit!!

It is not that I dislike honeysuckle. I have had it in my home for the last six years or so and I want to go back to my love of blue and white.

I will be adding some honeysuckle with the blue and white. I think bright pink looks amazing mixed with blue and white.

Below is a wonderful example of how beautiful honeysuckle can look with blue and white porcelain.

Carolyne Roehm

For those of you that adore Honeysuckle I thought you might enjoy a few more pictures of the 2011 color of the year with blue and white ( My own personal choice for MY color of 2011.)

To be honest I really love small doses of honeysuckle (bright pink) when it is mixed in a blue and white room to warm the room up.

 Decorpad

This is the picture that I used in my, “What is on my Mind post.” I had one reader comment and ask me what I was I thinking of when I looked at this picture.

Sue, now you know. I love the combination of the blue and white mixed with black and white and a dash of pink!

Joanne Barwick designer from Traditional Home Magazine

This is actually the fabric that I am in hopes of getting for my sofa.This image was also in the post, “What is on my mind!” It represents my love of blue and white striped upholstery fabric.

Nate Berkus Home Office

 

Lonny Magazine

So, there you have it! With the addition of more blue and white I will be keeping a sprinkling of Honeysuckle pink in small doses.

How about you all? Will you all be adding the color Honeysuckle to your decor? You know I already have a touch of it, but I am going to concentrate on more blue and white in my world for 2011!

What color would you name as your own personal color choice for 2011?!

“Enjoy The Process” Of:

Discovering the colors that you love and adding them to your home for 2011!

Kathysue

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What Is On My MIND!!!

This time of year makes all of us start thinking about the things we would like to do or change in the upcoming year.

Often we have a running list from years past. We also have new things to add to this years list.

We designer types are always spinning with ideas that sometimes can become jumbled in our brains. Or, at least that happens to me.

My mind has been spinning this past week and I have started writing several post about what is on my mind.

Blogging is a wonderful way to keep track of my thought process, however my mind can be a bit jumbled with thoughts from time to time!!

Of course family and friends are always in my thoughts, but no changes needed there, I love them no matter what!!!

Here are just a few of the thoughts  I have been thinking. They are in no particular order.

 I think you will be able to tell by the images where my mind has been going, all over the map!!

 

 

 

Meg Braff

 

 

Scalamandre Baldwin Bamboo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jacob Zwiegelaar 

So tell me, does your mind work like mine?

Can you figure out from the above images what I want to do to make changes in my life and in my home?

“ Enjoy the Process” Of:

Thinking about all sorts of productive things.

Kathysue

The Year Of The Purge!!

In the Chinese Zodiac calendar, it is the year of the rabbit!

In Kathysue’s Zodiac calendar and daily calendar, it is going to be the year of the PURGE!!!

I have lived in the same home for 33 years!! Yikes!! Needless to say I have lots of “ STUFF.”

Some of my STUFF is worth keeping and some of it is not.

I am going to go through my home this year and clean out. I no longer have enough space to put away the things I need to put away without, what seems like, moving the world.

In order for me to get started I have to have the rest of my home, the part that can be seen by me or a vistor, in order. (In other words, not what is behind closed doors, the closets!) That is where I start.  The Dreaded Closets!!!

As I have told you before, I have to have a general plan of attack. Of course this can change at any given moment.
 After all, I am a creative soul and I can get sidetracked very easily. When I am doing anything, I look at it from the perspective of how I can make it look pretty too. ( This is a blessing and a curse at times)


Let’s start:

Get the house picked up!!!

Clean out the most used areas first!

• pantry
• fridge
• laundry room

I have already straightened out the pantry and the fridge.

 Today it is on to the laundry room or the “PIT” which is what I like to call it.

The Laundry Room:

My laundry room is very small 5ft 8in.x 6ft.4in, not big enough by anyone’s standards.

The laundry room does have a closet that is as wide as the 5ft 8in wall and is 20in. deep. This is where I hide/throw all my little pretties. You know, the vases, dishes ,table linens etc.

You name it and it is in there-everything but towels and bed linens. I find that they get musty smelling from the humidity from the washer and dryer.

I am not sure that images are necessary, but I think pictures might hold me accountable to getting it done.

 I also think the condition of my small room might just make you feel better about your own laundry room.

So here is part of the ugly truth:

Half of my staging closet………

top half

Bottom

This is only half, so you can see I have a lot of unorganized stuff that needs to be purged.

Next my utility shelf where I keep my cleaning rags and cleaning supplies etc.

 I have tried to utilize every inch of space, but it is not a pretty site at all!!! I want it all to look "pretty!"

I don’t need to show you my dirty laundry, literally, or the washer and dryer. I know you know what that looks like.

This room has not been painted since we moved in 33 years ago.

Wow!! I just feel like I made a confession. Maybe this purging process will be a good one!!!

To be continued………

Will you join me in the

“The Year of The PURGE?!”

“Enjoy the Process” Of:

Purging, Cleaning and Beautifying

Kathysue

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