Pantone's COLOR of the YEAR: Radiant Orchid #18-3224 Home Decorating Ideas

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Oh my goodness - I cannot tell you how much I love color. It probably stems from growing up in a family business that's primary job was to attach color & style to the identity of a business. We had a sign business that designed and produced electric and architectural signs and awnings.

One of my VERY favorite items in our entire building was the Pantone Booklet. Ahhhh - SO.MANY.COLORS! The next best thing were the  felt pens by Letraset in Pantone Colors. That is where you could begin applying your color in swirly doodling designs.

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For 2014 Pantone has decided upon RADIANT ORCHID for their color of the year. I am delighted with their choice. If you would like to learn more about how they decide hop on over and check it out: http://www.pantoneview.com/pantone-color-of-the-year-2014

Purple has always been one of my very favorite colors, especially on the gray end of the spectrum. In high school we had remodeled our home and I was able to design it myself. It had a loft with a waterbed {oh, yeah!} AND the color scheme was mauve, 2 shades of gray and white. It really was spectacular. Looking back I would still love to have this room - it had white walls with graphic stripes of charcoal gray, light gray and mauve with a fantabulous mauve carpet in the perfect pile. Pantone would have been proud! 

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The chosen color for this year is taking me back in time to a place where I was just beginning to understand how color brings different moods and physical reactions. Colors can contribute to making you feel cold, warm, cozy or active. Color has a lot to do with how you feel in a room.

 

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The fun things about purple is it can be warm or cool depending on which way it tilts. If it is on the red side it is warm, if it is on the blue side it is cool. 

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I love the way bringing in different textures can totally shift the feel of a room too. This room has the potential to be pretty cold, but the white fur bench makes you want to snuggle in and read a good book.

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I probably wouldn't choose this bathroom color for myself but that being said I still adore it. It is a bold choice indeed. I really like the chandelier over the footed tub.

I am excited to plunge into the other areas where we can discover #18-3224 - like food, fashion, creation and just plain fun! 

-Simply Sublime

More Mason Jar Makovers.... ORGANIZING

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Let's get organized!

So I am going to be honest with you. I have SEVERAL areas that lack in organization. I think my nature is to be extremely particular, everything lined up, color coordinated, etc., etc. - 

Problem is I LOVE setting up the system but get so excited about my next project the idea of following through all the tedious steps to keeping the previous, now out of my sight, lost all enthusiasm for it, has been, project in order. I need my organizational projects to look so FAB-TABULOUS ... (YES, I meant to say FAB-Tabulous) which means my eyes glued to them, I can't quit admiring them, WOW. Therefore forcing me to keep my eye on their beauty and staying organized. Great idea right?

So now the key is to find some things I 

L.O.V.E.  

Ah - not so difficult to come up with one of my current loves - Grandma's mason jars. Christmas is over, time to pack up my DIY Christmas mason jar projects I posted earlier. These treasures will be packed up leaving me masonless for a year. 

UNLESS....

I find more ways to use them.

Found this great DIY project as I was stumbling around for bathroom ideas. Gina and Lindsey over at Vanilla & Velvet do a fabulous job of giving step by step instructions on how to make this little pretty yourself. I have linked the blog to this photo. A simple click and you can have this done and ready to go in a blink of an eye. And won't your bathroom just love you for it?

Bathroom Organizer

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Here is another incredible idea I spotted on Pinterest! Can't wait to try this with other materials as well. L O V E it!


Cotton Ball & QTips Organizer

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and more...


Yarn / Twine -
Baker's Twine Organizer

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Etched Glass Storage Jars

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Craft Stash Organizer

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love the copper color band on these with the old weathered barn boards
Mason Jar Herb Organizer

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If I created all of these DIY delightfuls I would be on a bit of jar overload (although I easily have enough jars to do them) So I am going to ponder on a few contributing factors as I make my decision:

1. Where do I need organization most?
2. How practical is it with kiddos?
3. Will it have a love life with me for longer then 6 months or is it something I would tire of quickly?

Afterall - as I mentioned earlier - I need to be so in love with this system it will keep me re-stocking, organizing, using it routinely. It can't be just another pretty face without a purpose after all. 

Hopefully whatever I end up choosing I will capture in snapshots along the way and blog a tutorial of the project with before and after pics. 

If you have other projects you think are to die for -or- you would like to vote on which project you think I should create & why...post a comment below! 

p.s. There may even be a prize for one of you in it!

(think earrings with African Paper Beads)

-Simply Sublime