An Arsenal of Color

As if I don't have enough "making our house a home" addictions....

I came across this little beauty on pinterest!

A whole stinkin site of these color palates!  I got so excited I just had to throw a post together right this instant!!!

I am soo impressed!  My mind just can't ever pull together this many colors...

But apparently I am one of the few people that didn't already know about Design Seeds as they have over 15,000 fans on facebook. 

 Have I been living under a rock? 

 I am in love!  I see lots of new inspiration in our very near future!  If only we actually had our slab poured:)  


On a little side note Dana at Make Them Wonder recently did a post about pulling color from the nature around you that you will enjoy if you like the above little babies!

Seeing a Trend Here

I have kitchens on the brain today(mostly because mine is a mess) so I thought I would take my mind off of the mess and into my kitchen inspiration file.  Yes..I have one of those.  I save almost any picture that has something in it that I want to remember or should I say try to imitate in a thrifty way.  Since we are in the very early stages of house planning and honestly have been foreva....I have a pretty good stash of photos of potential kitchen looks.  As I was scrolling through them I definitely saw a trend.  WHITE/GRAY/BLACK

I love it at the moment.

This first kitchen is a bit more rustic than we are but I love the barstools and love the look of old with brand spankin new and can't wait to incorporate more of it into our casa soon.

Again..Rustic...I am always drawn to exposed beams and we plan to have some transom(sp?) windows in the new casa so this caught my eye..Also love the flow...All one big room perfect for all those huge gatherings we have..NOT

But we want to..we really really do...

More exposed beams but white and bright and mod and lovely

Hmm..this one is blurry..but I think this may be the way one wall in the kitchen looks in the new build.  There will probably be doors on either side of the stove wall but with above mentioned "transom windows" above the doors to let light into the room behind the wall(we can't figure out how to get windows in the room behind so transoms and maybe a skylight will have to work.

Love the open shelving here but will I like dusting it...Or maybe I will just ignore the dust..I am pretty good at that now.

Gray Gray what can I say..oh and the stainless farmhouse sink.. so purdy

Another great open space...but I am picturing the light bright space to the left as our sunroom/breakfast nook.

I just like this...great colors, great light..love the black behind the dishes in the glass cabs

One of our main goals when we build is to have a huge island like this...Can you imagine seating 10 at your island..Who needs a table?  Uh oh...I already have one though...(hope the hubs doesn't read this one)..  I will work it in somewhere;)

Another option I am looking into...It is almost like having a window over the kitchen sink but your not as limited to a 'U" or "L" shaped kitchen.

Love how this has my beloved gray but is still warm...

Another more useable "window over the kitchen sink" look

What can I say...White and Dark...I like it.

Big happy island.. Oh and doors on either side of that back wall...This may be more similar to our flow and ceiling heights.

This one is just pretty..more clean lines for a less traditional look in all white.

Way more traditional but I love the open space...

Heavenly windows and great lighting all around

I want to be able to incorporate pieces of real furniture like this in the space as well..And love the glass pendant lights here too.

I have had a crush on this light fixture for a long time and can picture her right over the breakfast table..The colors in this photo are also Oh So Happy!

Clean and classic

Too "farmy" for us but love the windows over the cabinets for some extra light yet with privacy

So there it is.... my dreamy kitchen inspiration folder...It will be interesting to see if it turns out to look anything like any of these(I change my mind a lot)!  Only time and budget (and mood swings) will tell.

All pictures can be found and were linked to via my Kitchen Inspiration file on Pinterest

http://re.pn/b/0cpI

Window Shopping

How do you go about decorating your spaces?  Do you go out and try to pick out everything, have a big shopping extravaganza and then play with it when you get it all home?  Did I get a lot of "yea rights" out there?  That really only happens on H.G.T.V. 

So if you could go on a huge shopping spree would you feel totally overwhelmed?  I know I would and that is exactly how I felt when I was trying to put together an inspiration board for our future living room.

So here is what I came up with..I LOVE LOVE the " let's stay home" sign that I found on pininterest which is from Etsy but they didn't have the store listed so I will have to look into that! This was a little difficult for me because I just don't ever decorate a space all at once..If I see something and it is cheap enough, I have room for it and love it THEN I get it.  Actually most of the time I end up taking it back because I realize we just don't need it(we actually don't NEED any of this but it is a fun hobby anyway).  Drives the hubby crazy I know but thankfully he tolerates my sporadic decorating challenges and he goes with it.

That being said..this is "sort of" the look I want to go for..We will keep our current rug shown here but I couldn't find it so I went with this version.  I am also not so sure I want a gray sofa anymore.  Maybe a color closer to the leather accent chairs and then have gray on the accent chairs but overall the color scheme is what I am into right now..(this changes often) so who knows where my mind will be when we actually move in to the new casa.  As for paint...ehhh these colors may work but honestly we might go white or the taupe gray that we have in our current living room.  I have never been a white wall kind of girl but I am craving bright and airy spaces right now so we shall see.  Actually that is one of the reasons I get a little anxious when I think about how I am going to make a decision on kitchen cabinetry...part of me wants white and bright and part of me is afraid I will get tired of it.

I digress ....how do you go about decorating your spaces?  Have you ever put together a mood board..virtual or the real deal? Or do you just go with the flow and decorate over the months or even years?