November 7, 2013

Color Inspired by Nature

The banks of the James river are one of my very favorite places to spend time. We have so many photos of our adventures in and around the River, wouldn't it be cool to use some of them to inspire an interior color palette for our new house? Here are a few photos from today.













5 comments:

  1. Yes! I especially love the first and last color palate. Is there a program you used to create these?

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    1. I like the first one too. I don't know that any of these are perfect, but it's fun to consider different monochromatic looks from nature. Especially if the palette comes from a meaningful place or memory. I would like to pull some inspiration from the lot itself, of course!

      Here are a few apps that are fun to play with if you want to give it a try:
      http://www.colorexplorer.com/
      http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/
      http://www.colorhunter.com/
      http://patorjk.com/color-palette-generator/

      If I had photoshop I could color-pick but for now these other programs will have to do!

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  2. When I painted my sunroom a color from the outdoors it really brought aseamless feel to the room. It sort of brings the outdoors in and feels very calming and natural. I love the way the palettes picked up the colors in your photos. You'll have fun with this at your new house!

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  3. You may want to check out the Earth's Color Collection fan deck from YOLO Colorhouse. You can see it virtually on their Pinterest page - http://www.pinterest.com/yolocolorhouse/the-earths-color-collection-paint-color-swatches/. YOLO was founded by artists and they developed all the paint colors in this fan deck from nature inspiration, not unlike the images you have in this post. The other thing that is awesome about this paint deck is that all of the colors are designed to go together so you can't make a bad color combo choice!

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    1. Yes, i love this! They are beautiful, and I just picked out a palette from their pinterest boards. You have so many great resources.

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