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55 Fun Holiday Decor Ideas With Non-Traditional Color Schemes
Tijana Moraca/Shutterstock Haven’t started decorating for the holidays? Feeling like red and green are too … boring (why are those two Christmas colors anyway)? According to Farmers’ Almanac, during the Ancient Roman period, citizens decorated their homes with evergreen trees and holly for the winter festival celebration, and eventually, the green leaves and red berries became synonymous with Christmas. While it is a 1000-year-old tradition, some traditions aren’t meant to be followed by everyone, especially if you’re not a fan of green and red. However, this doesn’t mean your home won’t be as festive with other color schemes. Nowadays, there are all sorts of non-traditional holiday aesthetics to choose from,…
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Blue and gray bathroom ideas: 11 calming schemes to inspire
Blue and gray bathroom ideas are a popular choice and it’s easy to see why. Cool, calming and synonymous watery landscapes, blue and gray make a perfect paring for a wash space color scheme. With both blue and gray offering a huge spectrum of shades, from fresh sky blues and light pebble tones, to deep indigo and powder grays, the two shades provide huge scope for creating all sorts of exciting bathroom color ideas and interior looks. Whether you’re looking for a gray bathroom with blue accents, a blue bathroom with hints of gray, or a perfectly balanced scheme, we’ve gathered a host of blue and gray bathroom ideas and…
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Bold color schemes bring original features to life in this historic home
Looking for a way to update their historic home in Newton Center, Massachusetts, the owners decided a glamorous, sexy and elegant look would be the way to go. They wanted to restore and enhance the property’s many original features, and a sympathetic interior décor, with added 2020s sass has transformed this into one of the world’s best homes. Before they could even begin to consider the fine design details, however, there were some major obstacles to overcome – namely stripping away the not very complimentary architectural elements that had been added to the house in the 1940s, 80s and 90s. The main culprit and biggest challenge was the old 1980s…
