Where to find inspiration?
This past July we finally bought our for now dream home. Our move was such a blur. I bought the house over the Memorial Day weekend all alone as my husband was still in Afghanistan. We had just a few weeks to buy a home, move before he came home and we both started our new jobs mid July 60miles from where we currently lived. Talk about a whirlwind. Over all I am happy with the home and its blank canvas it provides me.
I was so focused on getting us moved in that I didn't even think about painting or decorating. My focus was get us in so we could start our jobs and we will sort everything else out at some point.
After weeks of packing, moving, and the stress of welcoming home my husband after a year I wasn't in the creative place to decorate. In a way I had a block similar to writers block. Has that ever happened to you?
After being sick of living in an unfinished house I need something to help me out of my block. We had moved 4 times in 4 years and this was the first time I didn't have the house decorated in a matter of days. I can usually go around and figure out how to make our furniture and decor fit into our new space but this time it was different. I think partly because I knew we would be in this house for the next 5-7 years and wanted to make sure everything was right. I didn't want to paint or decorate and not be happy with it.
One day while visiting Pottery Barn Outlet I picked up this book and began flipping thru it and came across a few pictures that I loved. I really wanted the book but my husband talked me out of it. Not knowing that while I was looking at it he had ordered it from Amazon to surprise me for my bday. What a good hubby!! When the book finally arrived I was so happy I spent a few days marking pages I loved with post it notes. I finally felt that this block was lifting and the creative juices were flowing.
If you haven't seen this book I recommend picking it up, they no longer sell it at the stores but you can find it on the internet used for a great price. The book is full of great inspiration from pictures to how to articles. A really good read.
One of my favorite sections in the book is the Color chapter. They really help you pull together groupings of colors that work really well together. Pottery Barn has really taken a lot of the guess work out of it. Of course I still had to buy 12 other sample colors just to make sure I was making the right choices but that is another post.
By far my favorite page is 307.
I love this article about building a color plan, which can be a great foundation to beginning the process of decorating your home. It shows you how to incorporate different colors in a similar color family and pull it all together so it doesn't look choppy. We bought a few of the colors from Benjamin Moore who sells Pottery Barn paint. We loved Collingwood OC-28 and Cape Hatteras Sand AC-34 both have been used in our home.
Are these not great color plans? Have you put together a color plan for your house? Where do you get your inspiration from?
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