Entryway Beauty

Good Morning!

Hope everyone's Holiday was filled with joy and family.  I know mine was and I feel extremely blessed.

We have entered into a new year and it got me thinking about entryways.

Your entryway is like the appetizer for your home - it makes you anticipate the main course.  It's one of the first areas where you can take risk and add interest to your space.

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Love the use of green here.  It is right on trend with Pantone's color of the year.

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Dramatic table

Eclectic Spaces design by Atlanta Interior Designer Julie Holloway

Wallpaper and green front door

Eclectic Entry design

Go bold!

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Small entry use a lucite console table and neutral colors to make the space appear larger but keeping the function.

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Organization with the wow factor..

So, what kind of entryway are you creating?  In your outlook on this brand new year? and in your home?

Fireplace Upgrade

Good Afternoon!

Have you ever tried to finish some last minute renovations before the Holidays? 

Well, that's what happened to me.  I couldn't live with this fireplace for another 4yrs.

 The fireplace surround and hearth was a green marble.  We tore that out when we first moved in.  It would be perfect now that Pantone named Emerald the color of 2013.  Oh, well!

Some people..I won't name names actually came to the house saying how much they loved the gray around the fireplace and what stone that was. Too funny! (yes, they were serious)

We enlisted our friend to help with this renovation.

The floor underneath was extremely uneven.  I wanted a concrete hearth.  I personally don't like tile pieces for the hearth but I love one solid piece be whatever it is made of.

 First step done..

 Coming back for final coat..

We used left over tile from when we put in our woodstove in our family room.

Then bad news..hearth was really weird!

Way too much troweling which caused it all to become uneven..so, here we go again.

 Tear parts of it out.

and now an even floor.

Here it is stained.

 I am so happy with it.

Now ready for Christmas decor : )

Pantone Color 2013: Emerald

Good Afternoon!

I was so excited to hear about Pantone's color choice for 2013!

It's not only beautiful but it speaks.  For me the color says wealth and something flourishing and being productive.  I don't know about you but I want that in my life : )

You'll see this color in fashion..

And interiors.  Now if you are not comfortable painting a room with this bold color..

(Anthropologie)

You can do it in doses.  

I love the headboards in this girls room.

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How about curtains as an accent to the deep grey walls..

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Love how Miss Tobi Fairley just used two lamps to give it the right amount of pop!

Eclectic Living Room design by New York Photographer Rikki Snyder

A stripe down the stairs in Emerald or even outlining picture frames.

Traditional Staircase design by Atlanta Photographer Erica George Dines Photography

So, many ideas.

Will you be incorporating it in your decor this year? or does it not even matter to you?

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend : )