A previous post, Beautiful Decay, shared images of how old decaying places can have an unexpected beauty. Here is an image of a grand, aged sun-splashed room made into an unusual bathroom:
But this place exists only in imagination and a jpg file. Visit the Olioboard moodboard to see the original image and what I added to make the room a bathroom fit for a villa that faced its best days hundreds of years ago.
My apologies. I should have offered you sunglasses for viewing the previous post. Not all colors in India are so bright. Some are more worn …
Via All Things Paint and Plasters (a beautiful post about peacock colors):
From photographer Tobias Harvey:
From HGTV, 12 Spaces Inspired by India:
Via Kris Kumar flickr, taken in Kochi:
From Rainbow – The Colours of India, in Bali but colors for India too:
John Robshaw Pichhwai pattern. Unfortunately, some of these seem to be not available any more (I sit here typing in a John Robshaw block print cotton voile robe!):
A vintage Indian textile from a One Kings Lane sale:
From the Danish company Day:
From My Sweet Savannah, the rug:
Found at paonote_room269:
I call this one “dingy turmeric.” I don’t think I’ve ever seen this color on walls before.
Beyond the occasional India color posts on this blog, I’m constantly pinning India Colors on Pinterest (800+ photos!). Visit there and follow along!
This blog has been quite “natural” for awhile. It’s time for another color post! A mood boost! The Colors of India always do it for me. Images below are just a peek of my Pinterest India Colors pins — follow that board to see all photos.
From The Selby:
From Country Living:
Found at Maison Marigold:
From Bollyinstyle, Tracy Reese?!?
The colors show up in nature, in my favorite flower, ranunculus. This photo is available from Etsy seller SweetEventide:
This room is in a shipping container home. It’s an amazing home. See the whole home at Whorange:
Shown at Sydney Harbour Paints:
Sydney Harbour paint color:
As you can see, not all of these images are from India. Thankfully, the vibrancy of these colors are shared worldwide.
Holi, by Indian Travel Photographer Jitendra Singh — see more images on Flickr:
Found on Pinterest:
From Amy Butler Design:
Via DaWanda:
Via Belle Maison:
Fort Cochin via TravelPod:
So, need a lift? Grab a paintbrush and pick a color … any color!
And follow along at my Pinterest India Colors Board — hundreds more images of colors are pinned there, like these:
Do you get along with your closet? You know, you want to spend time around it, you’re getting what you need out of the relationship. It’s working for you. My closet and I have never gotten along well. I’ve tried to fix the relationship. Originally, the storage “system” was just a few simple bars as the closet was once used by a young boy. I thought that was the problem, as the bars didn’t accommodate my wardrobe well. So I replaced them with the Elfa system from The Container Store, similar to this with lots of double rows of bars for hanging tops and pants:
With that, I thought the relationship problems would end. But we’re in troubled waters again. I’m on the verge of breaking up. I rarely visit the closet any more. My clothes are gravitating to a freestanding hanging rack, the ironing board, a chair …
How did it get to this?
My husband’s clothes fill our master bedroom walk-in closet. So I took over another bedroom’s closet. It’s a reach-in closet running along one wall, about 10-feet wide, with four sliding doors. The sliding doors are the problem.
Those doors make blood pressure rise! I swear, you can feel it. They cause many issues — you can only see a 2 1/2-foot slice of the closet at any time, and the rest is very dark. Often the outfits I want to put together are blocked by two different doors. I never was a fan of that game show where you have to guess what’s behind Door #1, 2 and 3, and I’m especially not now!
The doors have got to go. I don’t want the folding door look, it reminds me of the 1970s. So my imagination created another solution:
What about attaching fabric panels to barn door hardware?
What about it? Could it work? Barn door hardware could be attached above the closet. I’d need at least a 10-foot length of it …
A few styles found at Rustica Hardware:
Found at re-nest (see this link for a lot more barn door photos):
A DIY project by House*Tweaking:
Shown at Birch + Bird:
Here’s someone else using barn door hardware for closet doors, shown at re-nest:
From Architectural Digest, barn door hardware holding unique doors in Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne’s home:
The problem with my closet doors is not that they’re sliding, but that they’re solid and sliding. What if they were heavy fabric, edged with wood strips to attach to the barn door hardware? So when the fabric panels slide, they fold and I will be able to see the entire closet. Here’s a mock-up:
I won’t use green wood or fabric with huge writing on it, even though it looks interesting here — just chose a few elements quickly to demonstrate the vision. Here’s hopin’ this is the remedy to make the closet a pleasure to use!
Want to see more barn doors? I’m pinning many more interior and exterior doors at my Barn Door Pinterest Board – follow along:
