This post is for all my fellow gray-obsessed peeps. I saw this apartment in the New York Times this Sunday and couldn’t stop staring at this room:
All that gray on gray on gray ….. Dying. And look at all those pelts I was just talking about. The rest of the apartment is gorgeous too.
And here’s another charming view of the city:
It reminds me of this Stockholm view that I still think about!
(Photos: New York Times)
Until we actually close on our house, I’m trying to walk a fine line between planning our move and not getting too carried away in case it falls through. And that, my dear readers, is no easy task! It’s even harder not to talk about the house because that’s all I want to do! But on the off chance that things don’t work out, I’ve been doing my best to exercise restraint.
I’m going to make a small exception today (because I’m about to burst) to talk about the kitchen. The kitchen in the new house is very traditional – like the house itself – and the walls and cabinets are painted a cream color. It looks something these kitchens except with with a beadboard back splash in the same cream color and marble countertops that are just slightly reddish.
I’m entertaining the idea of having the cabinets painted gray. I know! That’s HUGE for me since I’m all about white. But we are going to have the whole house repainted (white, of course), including the kitchen, so if I’m ever going to do something like this, now is the time.
I’m planning on using a white and gray palette throughout the house so I think a gray kitchen would tie into the rest of the house.
But the kitchen opens onto the family room (or as I recently learned, a “keeping room” as it’s sometimes called in the South) which will have white walls. Do you think that would disrupt the flow?
I would probably go with a lighter shade of gray like the ones above or this:
(The marble countertops are just a little darker than the ones above and it has a farmhouse sink too – love!)
But this dark one is very appealing too.
In the end I will probably chicken out like I always do because I’m always scared that I’ll get sick of the color. But right now, I really, really want to go for it. I’ve even collected paint swatches. So what do you think? Should I do it? Or will my love of gray fade and leave me wishing I had stuck to my tried and true white?
[Traveling Thursday will return in the new year!]
(Photos: 1&4 via Cote de Texas 2,6,8.House Beautiful 3.Decorpad 5.via Apartment Therapy)
So most of you know that I’ve been completely enamored with yellow all year. And one of my favorite pairings with yellow is gray.
Isn’t this a lovely room? Well, what does this have to do with Rachel Zoe, you ask?
I’ll tell you. I was watching her show yesterday (recorded from Monday) and she went to New York for fashion week and stayed at the Thompson LES Hotel. Well, that reminded me that I had drinks on the terrace there back in July and I took a bunch of photos because I fully intended on blogging about it. But being a bit scatterbrained lately, I forgot all about it until I saw her show. Anyway, behold:
A yellow and gray dream come true. Yellow Bertoias. I die.
But wait. I’m not done yet.
In some ways, these cushions look gray but they also look taupe-y brown in others, don’t they?
And that leads me to my next point. (I swear this is going somewhere.) I fell in love with the Dwell Studio Draper bedding a while back. Even though I’ve only had white bedding for as long as I can remember, I gave in because I’m a sucker for stripes and in the yellow and gray combination, I couldn’t resist.
I had planned on using this in the fall with a wooly gray throw but the thing is, next to anything gray, these stripes actually look more brown and the yellow is more of a dark mustard. I still love it but it’s not the yellow and gray I thought it was. And that got me thinking about this room that I’ve loved for a while:
At first glance, wouldn’t you say this room was yellow and gray? But looking closely, the gray looks more taupe like in the hotel terrace photos, doesn’t it?
So what I learned from this little exercise is that I think I like yellow and taupe as much as yellow and gray. For you color experts out there: what do you call that color that’s in between gray and taupe?
Writing this post gave me a headache. I hope it didn’t give you one reading it!
(Photos: 1.via Haystack Needle 2.Decorpad 3-5.crappy iphone photos by alek 6.Dwell Studio 7.via Desire to Inspire)
On the heels of Friday’s post, I’m really loving gray with white right now.
It seems to work well in any setting.
I used to associate gray with fall and winter as in gray flannel and wool.
But I’m realizing that it doesn’t have to be heavy.
And when it’s paired with white, the effect is actually quite light.
I think it really is my favorite neutral.
What’s your favorite neutral?
(Photos: 1.via Delikatissen 2.Livingetc. 3.via Bo med barn 4&5.Marie Claire Maison 6.via Head Over Heels)
I’m a white wall devotee but I can’t get all the gray walls I’m seeing lately out of my mind.
Is it just me or is everyone really into gray right now? See what everyone else is into today at Julia’s weekly blog party.
Today’s also the end of my week as a visiting blogger week ofifteen. Head over today if you’d like to see what hotel I want to stay in next. (It’s a good one!)
Happy weekend, everyone! See you Monday.
(Photo: 1.Paul Massey 2.Decor Pad 3.Houzz 4.Martin Morell 5.via A Life More Fabulous 6.Unknown)
