Showing posts with label color inspiration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label color inspiration. Show all posts
The Perfect Blue Door
First off I would like to preemptively apologize for not showing you the inside of this barn. Believe me I would like to see the interior. I'm just "stalking" this art studio. I don't know the people who own it, use it (rarely) or live here. I visit it often and dream of how amazing it would be to have it as a place to paint furniture and do all my projects. I love this space because the blue door is perfection. Perfection as a design choice is rare to find, simple and decisive, this point just thrills me.
Here are my other points of inspiration.
Labels:
color inspiration,
design idea,
painting techniques
A Still Life of Flowers
The Simple Life
Decorating
I’m quite infatuated with the
trend of massive amounts of flowers displayed in a still life with many framed
paintings of flowers shown behind.
To me, it evokes a past era when people studied and painted flowers.
“If you could say it in words
there would be no reason to paint.”
-Edward Hopper
Labels:
color inspiration,
painting techniques,
simple life
Painting on Leaves - Inspiration for the Table
I have seen someone paint on dried leaves in Italy very intricately and just gorgeous. Today I thought it would be inspirational to show how I painted on these fresh citrus leaves very simply, to use as a little touch of creativity for your table setting or just as a vase of leaves and bloosoms.
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color inspiration,
design idea,
painting techniques
Rise Early Quotes and Mustard Fields
Good Morning Everyone
I’m on a new plan to try to wake
up early and start to work on my business before my girls or the sun has risen.
This morning for me the sun rose at 6:56 am so each day there will be a little
bit more light in the sky. Does
anyone want to join me and give it a try? I already feel kick-ass and I only
began this morning. Laugh with me
not at me o.k.
Labels:
color inspiration,
cool ideas,
simple life
DIY Wire Heart
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color inspiration,
cool ideas,
design idea,
simple life
Red Walls
Probably all of you at some
point have considered painting a room in your home RED.
Maybe you already have… congratulations! I have not, shameful as it may be. Right now I’m obsessed with the right shade of blue.
I believe that there are many
ways to make a red room work. Here
is what made it work in my opinion in this space that I painted in San
Francisco.
Design View Modern and Antique
I love this photo for its beauty
and feeling of solitude. It may be
just that January feeling. This is
a palazzo in our main Piazza in Foligno, Italy. I know the view well. I like the contrast of the modernity of
white lights with the antique façade behind. It warms my heart.
Labels:
color inspiration,
design idea,
simple life
Warming our hearts of the Holidays
I love December and the Holidays, it warms my heart. Tomorrow we leave to go back to Umbria for Natale in Italy with my darling Alfredo and all our friends. I still haven't packed! It would be lovely to return dressed elegantly, instead of the painters whites that I usually bicycled around the city in.
Labels:
color inspiration,
cool ideas,
simple life
San Francisco Colored Houses
Recently I finished painting an
apartment in San Francisco. It is
a space I have worked on before, twice actually traveled from Italy to work on the interior. Every time I return to the
neighborhood of Pacific Heights, I find myself in dreamland, architectural
wonder, full on cloud nine o.k. ! It
is amazing. On the top of the hill with views of the Bay, Alcatraz and the Golden Gate
Bridge. Then I fall in love with
every single house. Watch and see if
you don’t do the same.
Labels:
color inspiration,
design ideas
Pretty Festive Photos
I’m feeling excited for the
festivities and to be home in America for Thanksgiving, everyone is heading out to the
beach house, the whole big family together.
I have been working so hard and
just finished painting an apartment in San Francisco. Soon I’m going to show you all the amazing houses in the
neighborhood I was working in, each one looking like a jewel.
Labels:
color inspiration,
faux finishes,
simple life
Happy Third Anniversary Sette Design Blog
#3
To tell you the truth. I forgot and I got the date wrong. I'm that bad. I actually love this blog and so I should have remembered her day. To be honest I just have too much going on right now. It was November 5th 2012 when I took the leap and started it up. I was living in Umbria, Italy then. Click Here if you want to flash back and view my very first blog post.
Pendant Pomegranate
I can’t believe it is
raining right now in California as I write to you. The ground is quenching its thirst from months and years of
disappointment. It is November first
and it is raining! Happy November everyone.
These photos I took earlier
in the week. I wanted to pay tribute
to this pendant pomegranate. I
have been tentatively watching it remain, consistently hanging low for
weeks. To me here at Sette Design
it is poetry.
Labels:
color inspiration,
design idea,
inspiration,
simple life
Charcoal-Grey Painted Dresser and a Bunya Cone
Labels:
Color,
color inspiration,
cool ideas,
faux finishes
Display Empty Frame and Flowers
Oh it is almost the weekend… and
today for your pleasure I have a simple display of just a single empty frame
and flowers.
Labels:
color inspiration,
design idea,
inspiration
2 Houses I Love
Do you ever find yourself
driving to work or walking around your neighborhood and falling in love with certain
houses, maybe you pass a certain way just for the joy of seeing your special house.
This is how I carry on my days
here at Sette Design.
Labels:
color inspiration,
inspiration,
simple life
Homemade Chalk Paint
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color inspiration,
design idea,
painting techniques
Living in the Wine Country
Sometimes in the fall in Umbria,
I would make the girls stop in their tracks and smell the air of pungent fermenting grapes. I would say
that is the smell of the crush, the smell of home. Elisa and Lucia would undoubtedly respond, “but Mama it’s
GROSS”.
Labels:
color inspiration,
inspiration,
simple life
Love Wins
I’m sorry that I have been away
for more than a hiatus.
What is more than a hiatus anyway?
My daughter recently told me
that in medieval times a moment was measured as 90 seconds.
The dictionary describes a
hiatus as:
2. A
missing part; gap or lacuna.
I like it that a hiatus refers to space and action.
Labels:
color inspiration,
inspiration,
simple life
Painting Furniture
For Inspiration
Today I’ll show you some of the
furniture I have been painting.
I always want to keep all the
pieces for myself. This is silly
because it is supposed to be my job not a hobby, but it is like they are my babies. This little five drawer dresser I really could have put
anywhere in our cottage here in the wine country. It would have even fit up on my loft
bed right below the eves.
Labels:
color inspiration,
design idea,
painting techniques
Bohemian Loft
Here is the loft I finished
painting a while back. Everyone
who walked into this space wanted to move in. I called this loft the House of Doors. There are five doors exiting the bottom
of the loft and no inner doors at all, except one going to the bathroom. All the doors lead to the huge garden
and courtyard area. To me this is a Bohemian Loft because of the mix of elements in the design and also because I know the people who own it will fill it with books, art, wine and unmade beds. The Bohemian life we all want.
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