A bold and beautiful kitchen reno

I wanted to share an email and some photos with you all from a DTI reader: "I am Dana from Romania, one of your avid readers for some time now, and I have to tell you that desiretoinspire.net helped me with a lot of inspiration for my new apartment :) When I saw your post about Daniel and Helene Gauthier's kitchen in acid green, I was awed by the resemblance with my new kitchen furniture, so I waited to finish it completely, and then I just had to show you how it turned out :). I wanted to use this vivid color in my kitchen for a very long time, but my former kitchen was to small, and I was afraid it will look crowded. Now I have a larger kitchen (I transformed one bedroom into kitchen), so I could play with colors easily! I used white on walls and floor and chairs (Panton), but I needed more color so I added a pink fridge and a pink KitchenAid and some more pink details." What a gorgeous kitchen Dana has created - the pink and green is fabulous together and it looks like such a fun space to hang out and cook in. The random green tile in the backsplash is such a cute touch and she is SOOO lucky to have a pink Smeg fridge! I love it all! To see more of her kitchen and her new apartment check out her blog here and here. (Thank you for sharing with us Dana!)

Green with envy

Peggy, our blogging friend, emailed with a request. "I was wondering if you guys had any pictures of all green rooms? By that I mean the color green. I keep searching and only finding sustainable (I guess green is the adjective for this) rooms. I've only recently fell in love with orange, and even more recently fell in love with yellow. Green is a color I don't like much and don't use very often, so I wonder if there is a possibility I could fall in love with it to if I saw it in some beautiful rooms." Now how could you not already love green? I am a huge fan of bright green, like kelly green or chartreuse, and if the following photos don't change your mind Peggy, then you're hopeless...and Jo won't send you her charteuse dresser you've been begging for.

Sunset	Carla Lane
Finola Inger	Homes & Gardens
Minh Wass	Better Homes and Gardens
Elle Deco	Area Interior Design
Mary McDonald	Adrienne Labelle
Elle Decor	Apartment Therapy
Kemble Interiors	Met Home
New York Magazine	Zownir Locations
Living Etc.	Sköna hem
House and Garden	Fawn Galli

The new must have - greenery

Paul Whicheloe

Have you noticed that house plants are back? Not just your designer orchid but potted plants. Even bunches of flowers are being replaced by leaves and branches. I haven't seen this much greenery inside since the 80s and it's a trend I'd love to see continue. I'm currently tending three maiden hair ferns in my bathroom and all four of us are loving the group showers. OK too much information.

Caldwell-Beebe	Aimee Herring
Steven Randazzo	Arbogast Design
Arbogast Design	Annie Schlecter
Kim Cornelison	Steven Randazzo
Sacha Dunn	Cindy Ray
Tria Giovan	John Gruen

Alexandra Rowley

P.S. Why this post now? I came home to find that my body corporate had cut down a 60 year old tree that overshadowed my courtyard. Why? Because we are suffering a very serious drought here and the tree roots had found their way into the pipes. Sad that the cheapest option was chosen. It's an ugly scar now. Bye bye tree.

More green

My twin sister moved into her first home about six months ago and to my horror painted most of her main floor white. She finally came to her senses and decided the space needed colour. She thought green would work best with her furniture, and had a particular green in mind.

She loved the green in Nick Olsen's apartment pictured above. According to Nick, it's high-gloss Oregano by Benjamin Moore. My sister went with semi-gloss, and the results are fabulous. So fabulous I had to post about it. She wants to get some accents in yellow, and I told her she should try and find a zebra print rug because Nick's looks AMAZING. I also suggested she paint out the baseboards in the wall colour or even black because the white stands out too much against the green and the floors. The space has alot of potential now that there's some colour going on. Below are some before and after photos of her living/dining area.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

The title of this post is a phrase composed by Noam Chomsky that essentially means nothing. It does however have the word "green" in it, and this post is about rooms with lovely green walls, because the other day a reader left a comment that photos of green rooms were hard to come by. I had a few stashed away...

Civility Design	Civility Design
Elle Deco	Billiani 1911
PointClickHome	Domino
Better Homes and Gardens	Adrienne Labelle
Scott Sanders	Greg Natale
Marie Claire Maison	Casamance