Black and White with Wood

Kurt is worried that pairing wood floors and furniture with black painted doors and window sashes not to mention black chandeliers and other accents will look silly.  Personally, I really like the look when mixed with pops of soft colour and chalky white walls and millwork.  Black and white just looks too stylized for my taste - I'm a bit too rumpled and messy to really pull it off. And going with just wood everywhere is, well, boring.

Behold:

(Coco+Kelly via Plush Palette)

(Lili Diallo via Plush Palate)

(House Beautiful via Plush Palate)

((Marie Claire Maison via Plush Palette)

(The English Muse via Plush Palette)

(Velvet and Linen via Plush Palette)

(Design Sponge via Create Girl via Plush Palate)

(Ferm Living via Plush Palette)

(Darryl Carter via Elle Decor via Plush Palate)

(Domino via Pretty Lovely)


(Domino via Pretty Lovely)

I want to sit in one of these chairs and look out the window. While drinking tea, I think, and listening to music by one of the various Sarah's on my ipod.

Update:  Kurt liked it very much!  All I need to do is show photos and "no's" become "yes'" magically!

And after all that...

As I noted earlier, this weekend was spend splashing different white paints all over my second storey to see how the paints worked in our light.  Well, after much consideration, none of them worked.  I then took my swatch of tile, hardwood and selection of fabrics and whatnots and placed them up against the stairwell wainscoting, which is two thirds untinted white paint mixed with a 1/3 of my fave warm gray (BM OC-14), and it's perfect.  It was literally staring me in the face the entire time.

I've already warned my husband we'll likely be painting the first storey white as well after we finish the second storey...

More etsy finds...  I love these. They're from Drawings and Paintings by Yellena.  I am very excited to see what these will look like in person!

( Drawings and Paintings by Yellena)

( Drawings and Paintings by Yellena)