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When Selling Your Home, Are Neutral Colors like Builder Beige Too Boring?

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

Although black is the most stylish color of every year, it’s conventional wisdom to use neutral colors like builder beige, gray and taupe when putting your home on the market. However, some people (myself included) actually like these colors apart from resale factors. These light colors don’t compete with the view.

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10 Inspiring Work-from-Home Office Setups

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

Ali Dunlap — Parent’s Basement, Raleigh, NC “My father joked about him setting up a workspace for me and when I got home this is what he showed me. My love of color and eclectic sense of style challenges me to balance contemporary pieces with antiques. Snapped a pic, then got myself back upstairs to set up at a desk.”.

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Trends in Window Treatments

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

“Clean and simple is one of the biggest trends in window treatments, like pairing treatments for coverage with simple side panels just to give that pop of color and texture to make a statement in the room,” says Shane Aidala, Marketing Director at Gotcha Covered. Regarding colors, Aidala says brown remains a staple color for treatments.

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Butterfly in Flight: Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Synchromism

Margaret Almon Mosaics

We discovered the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, which reveals more delight around each partial wall, a maze to enjoy rather than get lost in. 1 by Stanton Macdonald-Wright caught my eye right away with the blocks of color and the spiral shape. He imagined a scale of colors, which could be orchestrated like musical notes.

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Rock Star Artist Sean Yseult Unveils New Line of Wallpaper Designs

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

Strong start in the arts Hailing from Raleigh, N.C., All the kids had their pictures of the cute grey mouse on the wall, except for one, which was painted in every color imaginable. She created scarves in the style she had always favored — colorful, nature-influenced and psychedelic patterns.

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SnapCaps makes stair nose installation a breeze

Floor Covering News

David Requa and Cory Bodette, co-owners of Snaptech Solutions and operators of a flooring retail store in Raleigh, N.C., Once we send them back, they’ll get together with their product management team and decide what SKUs they want to go with based on their most popular colors. recalled how the idea behind SnapCaps was born.

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Decorator On Demand: Mirrors Need Love Too.

Decorator on Demand

Obviously color and accessories are no brainers for quick changes but have you considered what you can do to your mirrors? Windows Raleigh NC. My client's foyer was definitely lacking some color, interest and well even some love. decided on a spa blue color and went from there. Living in Color with Sonu.