Interior Design Ideas {With A Golden Touch}

August 4, 2014

Happy Monday! Can you believe it is already August? This year has just flown by and before you know it, we’ll all be putting out pumpkins and decorating for Christmas. I don’t know about you but I need life to slow down just a bit!

This weekend I tried to slow the pace a bit and spent a little time surfing the web looking for inspiration. One of the things I came across on Pinterest was a collection of beautiful spaces, all with one thing in common, a touch of gold.

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Trend Spotting at the Atlanta Gift & Furniture Show

July 16, 2014

In addition to attending the Haven conference last week, I also squeezed in a couple of days at the Atlanta Gift & Furniture show. The Atlanta show is one of the largest industry trade shows where the focus in home decor, furnishings and gift items. If you’ve read any of my previous post on the show you know that there are three massive buildings with hundreds and hundreds and showrooms featuring the latest and greatest design and product trends for home and gifts.

I always attend the shows looking for new resources to use in my design business but also as a way to stay on top of the newest design, color and styling trends in home decor. While I won’t say that I say any totally new trends at this market, I did see lots of trends that have been building over the last couple of years becoming even stronger. Want to know what’s hot, check out the trends I spotted (s0rry in advance for the not so stellar iPhone photos)…

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Color Crush: Mint and Gold

February 25, 2014

COLOR CRUSH:

Mint & Gold

We all have colors that we consider our favorites (red and hot pink for me) but every season there are one or two new colors that make my seasonal Color Crush list. This spring I’m head over heels in love with Mint & Gold.

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Even though pastels are really not my thing but this combination is just so beautiful that I can’t help but be drawn to it. On the pastel scale mint is one of those colors that sits between soft and feminine and modern sophistication. When paired with gold, mint takes on a whole new feel and becomes really elegant.

On the color psychology wheel, greens in general offer a feeling of freshness, tranquility, and calm. It can also signify wealth, stability, growth, and abundance. All pretty good reasons to love mint green.

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Easy DIY Sphere {inspired by West Elm}

February 21, 2014

Do you know what happens when you have a picture of an item in your head…..

West Elm Sculptural Sphere

followed by a major clean out of your craft room which yields a handful of raw embroidery hoops?

You create an easy DIY Sphere, that’s what happens!

This is such a simple project.

Supplies:

2 Embroidery Hoops

Gold Spray Paint

10 minutes

Pull your embroidery hoops apart and spray paint the inside out outside of each ring. Once dry intersect the rings to create your sphere.

I left the screw pins on my hoops so I could tighten two of the rings to keep the sphere from coming apart.

Easy DIY…my kind of project!

A Party: Inspired by GOLD

August 28, 2013

I love creating party themes and this time around I’m inspired by the color GOLD! What I love about a party theme based on color is there are so many items you can buy to create your look or if you’re the crafty type you can pull out a can of spray paint and the hot-glue gun and go the DIY route.

The ingredients:

Gold Paper Lanterns—Party City

DIY version: Spray paint white paper lanterns gold.

Gold Flatware—West Elm

DIY version: Buy some flatware at the thrift store and paint the handles gold. Here’s a how-to!

{tip: a coat of polyurethane will make the silverware suitable for hand washing}

Paramount Dinnerware—Z Gallerie

DIY version: Spray the underside of clear glass plates to get this look.

Gold Chevron Wrapping Paper— (used as a table runner)–Paper Source

DIY version: Cover dollar store white shipping paper with Gold Chevron Washi Tape.

Gold Stripe Stemware—Bed, Bath & Beyond

DIY version: Here’s an easy tutorial on painting stripes on glass. Dollar Store wine goblets of course!

Spike Napkin Ring—Z Gallerie

DIY version: Cut a small Styrofoam fall in half, insert toothpicks and spray the entire piece gold. Glue to elastic hair bands to create your napkin ring.

Gold Mirrored Tray—World Market

DIY version: Pick up a plastic tray from the thrift store and spray it gold!

Gold Leaf Gift Box—World Market

DIY version: Wrap a plain gift box from the Container Store in decorative gold and white wrapping paper. Paper Source has lots of paper options.

If you want a super glam look for your party, this project is a fabulous way to create a gold sequin backdrop for your event.

{hint: Gold Labels from Staples would also work}

Don’t wait for a special occasion, any day is a great day to celebrate with gold!

Design Details: Gold Edging

July 30, 2013

I’m all about gold accent these days and love how a touch of gold can turn an ordinary item into something chic and über stylish.

I’m sure you’ve all seen this DIY project floating around blog land where a simple picture frame is updated with gold corner accents. Who would have thought that such an easy project would yield such stylish results.

Here’s what the gold accent looks like on black frames.

How about this simple update, gold corner details added to a piece of furniture?

You can find my source for metal corner pieces in this post.

I’m also loving this idea of painting the page edge of thrift store books and turning them into a glamorous decorative accent.

How about detailing out the inner rim of a paneled door with gold paint? Pretty fab!

I also love the look of a gold edge on a piece of furniture. Emily over at Emily A. Clark transformed this table first by painting it black and then my adding a gold edge. Stunning!

COLOR CRUSH:

Mint & Gold

Do you know what happens when you have a picture of an item in your head…..

followed by a major clean out of your craft room which yields a handful of raw embroidery hoops?

You create an easy DIY Sphere, that’s what happens!

The ingredients:

If you want a super glam look for your party, this project is a fabulous way to create a gold sequin backdrop for your event.

{hint: Gold Labels from Staples would also work}

Don’t wait for a special occasion, any day is a great day to celebrate with gold!

I’m all about gold accent these days and love how a touch of gold can turn an ordinary item into something chic and über stylish.

I’m sure you’ve all seen this DIY project floating around blog land where a simple picture frame is updated with gold corner accents. Who would have thought that such an easy project would yield such stylish results.

Here’s what the gold accent looks like on black frames.

How about this simple update, gold corner details added to a piece of furniture?

You can find my source for metal corner pieces in this post.

I’m also loving this idea of painting the page edge of thrift store books and turning them into a glamorous decorative accent.

How about detailing out the inner rim of a paneled door with gold paint? Pretty fab!

I also love the look of a gold edge on a piece of furniture. Emily over at Emily A. Clark transformed this table first by painting it black and then my adding a gold edge. Stunning!

This metal bamboo table looks so much more expensive and high-end with a gold finish!

And how about the idea of up-styling your stationery or even your business cards? I’m so going to do this with my business cards.

So what do you think? Do you love a touch of gold as much as I do?

One thing I’ve learned in my years in design is that it is the little details that really make design come to life!

images can be found on my Golden Touch Pinterest board