Never Underestimate the Power of Great Natural Beauty

"Never underestimate the power of great natural beauty to bring you inspiration, peace of mind, and clarity of thought.
In nature, you find yourself."  Wayne Dyer

Wishing you a Happy Weekend 

Top 2 photos Eric Piasecki, Bottom Left unknown, Bottom Right Kjersti Berg

Patricia Gray writes about emerging trends, her inspirations, "What's HOT" in the world of Design, as well as sneak peaks of her work. 

Beige is Magic - Albert Hadley

"Beige is atmosphere. It's bisque, it's ivory, it's cream, it's stone, it's toast, it's cappuccino. It's, well, it's magic." Albert Hadley

Enjoy the slide show!!

 

 

 

Patricia Gray writes about 'WHAT'S HOT 'in the world of Interior Design, new and emerging trends, modern design,
architecture, and travel, as well as how your surroundings can influence the world around you.
© Patricia Gray Interior Design Blog, 2009

 

Queen Elizabeth Woven Cotton Bedspread for Your Interior Design

This Queen Elizabeth Woven Cotton Bedspread is incredibly luxurious bedding for your home's interior design, yet completely easy care. Wonderfully thick, and deeply textured with a center medallion and knotted fringed trim for a classic finish. Available Colors: (01) Beige (shown), (00) White, (72) Silver Green, (60) Sky Blue, (52) Lilac, (77) Woodland Green, (65) Colonial Blueor (47) Brick 100% cotton Machine wash and dry Imported. You can get it easily in this shop.

You can get easy the Queen Elizabeth Woven Cotton Bedspread in this shop, not only that special edition of interior design, in this shop, you can find about 94,788 matches of many bedding, waw...and its really easy, because you can shop online from your home directly.

When you shopping the bedding for your home interior design in this shop, you'll find great deals on all the products they're famous for and thousands of items available for in-store pickup. It's easy to shop at this shop.

With shopping the the bedding for your home interior design which online in this shop that offers lots of benefits that you won't find shopping in a store or by mail. The Internet is always open — seven days a week, 24 hours a day — and bargains can be numerous online. With a click of a mouse, you can buy anything to satisfy your hobby and your needs.You can buy anything to make your home more beautiful and luxurious, Its all available here, and it's really easy and fast. Wont waste your time.

In this shop you can buy not only bedding for your home interior design, because shop.com offer products like clothing too ( women's, men's, boy's, girl's, and accessories ), shoes, electronic, home, beauty, and many more products, you will enjoy your time for shopping in shop.com. Trust me, its really satisfying.
And, in this chance, I will share about the precious information from shop.com,...Guess, whats that?! Yess, there is a big sale, especially in Home Interior Products...WOW

Queen Elizabeth Woven Cotton Bedspread for Your Interior Design

This Queen Elizabeth Woven Cotton Bedspread is incredibly luxurious bedding for your home's interior design, yet completely easy care. Wonderfully thick, and deeply textured with a center medallion and knotted fringed trim for a classic finish. Available Colors: (01) Beige (shown), (00) White, (72) Silver Green, (60) Sky Blue, (52) Lilac, (77) Woodland Green, (65) Colonial Blueor (47) Brick 100% cotton Machine wash and dry Imported. You can get it easily in this shop.

You can get easy the Queen Elizabeth Woven Cotton Bedspread in this shop, not only that special edition of interior design, in this shop, you can find about 94,788 matches of many bedding, waw...and its really easy, because you can shop online from your home directly.

When you shopping the bedding for your home interior design in this shop, you'll find great deals on all the products they're famous for and thousands of items available for in-store pickup. It's easy to shop at this shop.

With shopping the the bedding for your home interior design which online in this shop that offers lots of benefits that you won't find shopping in a store or by mail. The Internet is always open — seven days a week, 24 hours a day — and bargains can be numerous online. With a click of a mouse, you can buy anything to satisfy your hobby and your needs.You can buy anything to make your home more beautiful and luxurious, Its all available here, and it's really easy and fast. Wont waste your time.

In this shop you can buy not only bedding for your home interior design, because shop.com offer products like clothing too ( women's, men's, boy's, girl's, and accessories ), shoes, electronic, home, beauty, and many more products, you will enjoy your time for shopping in shop.com. Trust me, its really satisfying.
And, in this chance, I will share about the precious information from shop.com,...Guess, whats that?! Yess, there is a big sale, especially in Home Interior Products...WOW

Shopping Decorative Accents for Your Home's Interior Design

In this time, I will introduce you the Wall Pops for your Home Interior Design. Its really easy, new way to wake up your walls! These colorful, peel-and-stick graphic elements are totally repositionable and removable, and won't leave sticky residue on the wall. Choose from a 5-pack of circles, a 5-pack of squares or a wall border to mix or match. Pssst, you can get it easily in shop.com.

About Wall Pops, you can easily cut them to the desired size and shape with scissors to fit the space or express your creativity. Its really perfect idea to make your interior design more modern and up to date!

• Vinyl on paper with adhesive backing.
• Available color/pattern: (35) Totally Orange, (52) Purple Perk, (73) Stylin' Green,
  (69) Rainy Day Navy, (42) Bubble Gum Pink, (04) Lots of Dots Pink, (06) Lots of Dots Blue,
  (05) Ribbon Candy Purple, (03) Go Retro Pink or (13) Go Retro Orange
• Wipe-clean
• USA

You can get easy the Wall Pops in this shop, not only that special edition of interior design, in shop.com, you can find about 272,490 matches of many decorative accents, waw...and its really easy, because you can shop online from your home directly.

When you shopping the decorative accents for your home interior design in shop.com, you'll find great deals on all the products they're famous for and thousands of items available for in-store pickup. It's easy to shop at shop.com.

With shopping the the decorative accents for your home interior design which online in this shop that offers lots of benefits that you won't find shopping in a store or by mail. The Internet is always open — seven days a week, 24 hours a day — and bargains can be numerous online. With a click of a mouse, you can buy anything to satisfy your hobby and your needs.You can buy anything to make your home more beautiful and luxurious, Its all available here, and it's really easy and fast. Wont waste your time.

In this shop you can buy not only Wall Pops for your home interior design, because shop.com offer products like clothing too ( women's, men's, boy's, girl's, and accessories ), shoes, electronic, home, beauty, and many more products, you will enjoy your time for shopping in shop.com. Trust me, its really satisfying.
And, in this chance, I will share about the precious information from shop.com,...Guess, whats that?! Yess, there is a big sale, especially in Home Interior Products...WOW

Shopping Decorative Accents for Your Home's Interior Design

In this time, I will introduce you the Wall Pops for your Home Interior Design. Its really easy, new way to wake up your walls! These colorful, peel-and-stick graphic elements are totally repositionable and removable, and won't leave sticky residue on the wall. Choose from a 5-pack of circles, a 5-pack of squares or a wall border to mix or match. Pssst, you can get it easily in shop.com.

About Wall Pops, you can easily cut them to the desired size and shape with scissors to fit the space or express your creativity. Its really perfect idea to make your interior design more modern and up to date!

• Vinyl on paper with adhesive backing.
• Available color/pattern: (35) Totally Orange, (52) Purple Perk, (73) Stylin' Green,
  (69) Rainy Day Navy, (42) Bubble Gum Pink, (04) Lots of Dots Pink, (06) Lots of Dots Blue,
  (05) Ribbon Candy Purple, (03) Go Retro Pink or (13) Go Retro Orange
• Wipe-clean
• USA

You can get easy the Wall Pops in this shop, not only that special edition of interior design, in shop.com, you can find about 272,490 matches of many decorative accents, waw...and its really easy, because you can shop online from your home directly.

When you shopping the decorative accents for your home interior design in shop.com, you'll find great deals on all the products they're famous for and thousands of items available for in-store pickup. It's easy to shop at shop.com.

With shopping the the decorative accents for your home interior design which online in this shop that offers lots of benefits that you won't find shopping in a store or by mail. The Internet is always open — seven days a week, 24 hours a day — and bargains can be numerous online. With a click of a mouse, you can buy anything to satisfy your hobby and your needs.You can buy anything to make your home more beautiful and luxurious, Its all available here, and it's really easy and fast. Wont waste your time.

In this shop you can buy not only Wall Pops for your home interior design, because shop.com offer products like clothing too ( women's, men's, boy's, girl's, and accessories ), shoes, electronic, home, beauty, and many more products, you will enjoy your time for shopping in shop.com. Trust me, its really satisfying.
And, in this chance, I will share about the precious information from shop.com,...Guess, whats that?! Yess, there is a big sale, especially in Home Interior Products...WOW

Yellow - Mimosa's Debut?

Yellow tulips speak to me of Spring and the promise of sunshine.
What could be more optimistic than that?

Pantone, the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industry has selected 'Mimosa', a warm, engaging yellow, as the Color of the Year for 2009. It was selected for the view that the world is in a time of economic and political change and for the fact that yellow more than any other color represents optimism, hope and reassurance.

"The color yellow exemplifies the warmth and nurturing quality of the sun, properties we as humans are naturally drawn to for reassurance," explains Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute®. "Mimosa also speaks to enlightenment, as it is a hue that sparks imagination and innovation."

While all the above testaments to the effects of yellow on the psyche are so true, yellow is a color that is a tried and true favourite and has been used abundantly throughout the annals of time. Although I don't subscribe to the fickle market trends of color ......thank-you very much Pantone for your re-packaging and re-marketing of the color Yellow and for giving it it's year of fame!!

Sunset in Morocco taken by my girlfriend Ann on her desert safari expedition 2007.

Yellow lanterns on the Island of Giudecca for the famous Rendentore fireworks celebration 2008

Albert Hadley was using yellow in his designs in the 80's

David Hicks (left) used yellow in the 70's

Conran has introduced a yellow velvet for this sofa (left) just in time to catch the yellow wave.
A yellow ottoman at the showroom of Dennis & Leen in Los Angeles that I was attracted to on a visit in 2008 (right)

Yellow tufted ottomans (left Nate Berkus, right KWID)

Yellow toss cushions and trim on draperies add a lively spark to these rooms. EKB Interiors

Jeffery Bilhuber's famous library using the iconic yellow of the National Geographic magazines

Yellow in large scale abstract artwork

House Beautiful Nov 2007

Yellow wall coverings KWID

Framed wall paper panels by the fabulous Maison 21

Bold & graphic yellow stripes in this bathroom

Yellow for draperies

Fabric and trim from my files for a Master Bedroom I designed in the 90's

Clarence House Silk draperies

Yellow Bedding

Yellow paint for walls. Benjamin Moore's St Elmo's Fire is a great yellow with just a touch of green in it.

Yellow slipcovered dining chairs Vicente Wolf

Yellow lamps were starting to show up in abundance in 2008

Jan Showers lamp (left) Michael Devine fabric (right)

One of my favourite pieces of artwork by Kenton Nelson

View as a slide show below............

What do you think? Is yellow a color you will want to introduce into your home in 2009, or will you be content to let others use it?

Click here to read a post I did on the color Yellow February 2008

Patricia Gray writes about emerging trends, her inspirations, and "What's HOT" in the world of Design, as well as sneak peaks of her work..
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Weekend in Vancouver

 
Brockton Point Light House at Stanley Park

It's days like this that I really appreciate living in my beautiful city of Vancouver.  For those of you that have never been here we are surrounded by the majestic Rocky Mountains and the Pacific ocean.  When it is not raining and the sun shines everyone is out and about, and Stanley Park is a favourite destination of mine on sunny weekends.  I hope you enjoy the pictures.

View of Lions Gate Bridge towards the North Shore

    
Third Beach at Stanley Park looking towards West Vancouver

 

Nicole walking on the beach and chasing Sea Gulls

Sea Foam

Some of my favourite rocks

  

View towards Horseshoe Bay and North to Whistler

  

Sunset over English Bay

Even though the sun was shining it was a cold day and Nicole is glad to be back in the car with the heater turned on full blast for the ride home.

Coal Harbour view towards North Vancouver

 

Patricia Gray writes about emerging trends, her inspirations, and "What's HOT" in the world of Design, as well as sneak peaks of her work.. 
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