10 Beautiful Rooms

dark walls and plants in the home of cowboykate.co.uk

Starting off with a couple of stunning dark rooms this week. These belong to Cowboy Kate, purveyor of fabulous sheepskins – the sort of thing you want to drape over your kitchen chairs during the winter in that Scandinavian Hygge-ish kind of way. We are going to take a full tour of her house soon but she’s been having internet problems (comes to us all) so for now we’re going to content ourselves with these two rooms.

black walls and stripy stairs by cowboykate

If you like this then check her out on instagram where she has set up a hashtag called #styleitdark. Plenty to inspire you there… like this by Nadia, who co-hosts the hashtag and has also painted her house dark. Look how beautiful it is with the dark green sofa.

dark walls by nadia

Another great person to follow for inspiration is Theo-Bert Pot whose website The Nice Stuff Collector is in Dutch but includes lots of pictures of his gorgeous home and he helpfully tells you all the colours he has used. So below is studio green by Farrow and Ball, although I am currently staring at a patch of that on my bathroom wall and I can tell you that when not exposed to a camera it’s a lot darker than this.

studio green walls by farrow and ball image by theo bert pot

I also love this room which is painted in peach blossom by Little Greene together with Farrow & Ball’s off black. If you want more precise details you might have to run it through google translate.

pink walls and black fire by theo bert pot

Finally for the instagram inspiration, have a look at Kerry Lockwood, who found this fabulous picture (if you know who to credit it to then let me know). I would never have thought of smoked green glass but it looks amazing in this image.

green glass pendant light

Next up we’re turning to hotels for our weekly dose of inspiration. As I’ve said before hotels often have to cram a lot into a small space and often an awkward space so they can be good places to look for ideas. My current favourite is the Hotel Providence in Paris.

house of hackney wallpaper in the hotel providence in Paris

Sticking with the green accents – I’m telling you navy blue is still big and blue is the colour of the year for 2017 but green is coming. Get in now and you’ll be ahead of the curve. This is the House of Hackney wallpaper with a sumptuous green throw on the bed.

navy blue bedroom in the hotel providence in Paris

Or that blue. It could be Hague Blue by Farrow & Ball or it could be Basalt by Little Greene. It’s probably something entirely different but it’s gorgeous isn’t it. If you’re into navy blue then keep an eye on the Mad House over the next week or so as I shall be making a little announcement…

black anaglypta wallpaper in the hotel providence in Paris image via remodelista

And no I can’t tell you just yet but I will tell you that it’s navy blue and you can buy it/them/one… And with that I just want you to look at this gorgeous Anaglypta wallpaper above. Some of you are terrified of this wallpaper regarding it as the stuff of student house nightmares and Granny’s attic but when you paint it in a dark colour it takes on a very modern aspect that is rather cool. Don’t rule it out.

image by Greg Cox for Elle Decoration South Africa

I’ll leave you with this – a monochrome scheme with a splash of green and some vintage wood. What a great colour combination. And there you have this week’s 10 Beautiful Rooms with hopefully some inspiration for your own beautiful rooms and perhaps some new people to inspire you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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