Every month this year our collage-artist-laureate Mel Kolstad is creating a new assemblage that helps us to celebrate the houses that we’re in. (That’s a house pendant she also created – click on it to go to her etsy.com shop.) An open thread to go with this month’s red-headed muse: Do you use the color red in your house? Where is it working well? Tips for other readers?
John says
Hi Pam,
My accent color in kitchen is red. My TV room has red walls ala Martha Stewart paint colors. My livingroom curtains also have red in them.
John
Maria Stahl says
Pam, sure, I’d be honored!
Julie, come visit! A red kitchen is a happy kitchen. We can make cookies, and, um, margaritas.
Kathy, the lights all came from Rejuvenation. They were hand painted, though not by me. The big lights are the Rose City schoolhouse fixtures and I forget what the smaller ones are called.
Gavin, thanks. 🙂
Joe says
Our front door and two opposing walls in our bedroom.
CindyD says
I love the way red Gerbera daisies look on our mantel against the honey-stained paneling above the fireplace. This is also my favorite spot for Christmas vignettes. Our living room is not large, so a little red goes a long way. This summer we painted our front door Heritage red, which looks great with the Craftsman green vertical siding and painted brick with crisp white trim.
I, too, love the red Marmoleum – took my breath away when I first saw it. My husband loves it, too (surprise! mr. neutral is slowly coming around to color) and we’re trying to find a spot for it when our renovation gets underway.
Thanks to those above who shared their photos – wow! How many times am I allowed to use ‘love’ in this post?!?
gavin hastings says
Maria Stahl-
Fantastic….and gloss no less!
Elaine says
Oh, now how could I forget my beautiful red porch chairs? Just because I haven’t seen them for months… I’m hoping this picture will work:
http://app2.sellersourcebook.com/users/5272/dscn2315.jpg
CouldBeVeronica says
After years of living in white apartments, I bought my first house in my early 30’s–an 800 sq foot 1940’s bungalow with knob and tube wiring–and immediately painted the small living room–all four walls–a hot, hot red. The color was PPG’s Calypso Berry, and my house glowed into the street at night, even with the blinds closed! I loved it. It changed my outlook and lifted my mood in a remarkable way. When I got married and moved 700 miles away into a 1990 tract house (boo, hoo), I painted two of the walls in my new living room another shade of red–a more true red, this time. I have a rug with multiple shades of red, orange, and fuschia hanging on the wall (which is 12 ft high at the apex), and at one time had one red and one orange sofa. I’ve now got a nice salt and pepper tweed sofa which tames things down a bit. I’m actually planning to paint the walls a sort of leaf green, but I’ll still have plenty of red in my life–sheets, towels, etc, and like another poster, my beloved KitchenAid mixer!
Kathy says
Marie,
I love the red beadboard ceiling!!! Tell me more about your lights – did you mean you painted them? Or if not, where did you get them?
Kathy
Elle says
I just painted my cabinets Turquoise and I am using red as the accent color, which was the wall color in my last house. So I have a lot of items I am still able to use in the new kitchen.
I am very happy that I am able to bring red back in, because I really do love it.
Julie Rogers says
I want to live in Maria’s kitchen!!!!! Adopt me! 🙂
We haven’t renovated the kitchen yet, but for now, red features big in the living room (couch, love seat and accessories) and in the accessories in the kitchen (gorgeous red dishes, toaster and everything else I can get my hands on).