Give this comment a thumbs up if you're eager for Hannah and Joe to immerse us in their new home journey! We're not just wanting for a sprinkle; we want to be fully drenched! ☺️ Congratulations, Hannah and Joe!
How exciting! I have loved seeing your journey over the years, from apartment, to living with friends, getting married to Joe, to now becoming a mom. All your hard work has paid off. ❤
I've always read through the years that yellow should never be used for bedrooms. Too stimulating to the brain and subconsciously not restful. Just depends, I guess. Good luck! 😊
When you were talking about adding some green - specifically how any green items would fit in because you would have plants in the space and plants are green - it reminded me of something i think of often when thinking about my own colour palette preferences: "Green is nature's neutral." And then I realised! I'm pretty sure I first read that phrase in the comment section of a different video of yours, Hannah! So it was a funny little full circle moment for me. And if the commenter who originally left that comment is reading this I'd just like to say that reading that little phrase kind of changed my life, as a green enthusiast. I'll be out for a walk and admire some leaves and think to myself "see! nature's neutral!" and then feel better about how many green items of clothing I own.
@@oruga9737 I love green as well! It’s funny I like white if it’s the messy Parisian writers lived in apt! Ha but my mood now is cozy eclectic and dark I love how Hannah does the mood boards! This sure inspired me…to waist more hrs on Pinterest I’m a Virgo I research things to death before I make a decision!!
wow so true! that perfectly explains why green feels like such a safe but also slightly boring choice to me! at least 60% of my interior is green and i do like it that way but often wish i could be more adventurous. maybe a flower bouquet palette could work, with mostly yellow, red and pink and a few blues and purples... 🤔 definitely food for thought ❤
Had to come looking for this comment to upvote. Caroline & Paige both have great taste and I like that they incorporate stuff you can usually find secondhand. Will have to check out the other two recs
In addition to Ariel, also check out Caroline Winkler. Her video style and her design choices are different enough from Ariel’s that they complement without overlapping. Right up until you said “green,” I was worried that you weren’t going to have any. With all those warm colors, it’s nice to have a little contrast. So here’s some unsolicited advice: Since your whole house will be basically pale beige/warm white, and you’ll be able to see your color-drenched dining room from the living room, make sure you have at least one piece of living room furniture that is in the same family as the dining room paint, plus maybe a couple of accents that are a similar color, and get a pop of your green in there as well. If your living room doesn’t have anything that ties it to the dining room, the dining room may look out of place, like you had one great isolated idea. If the bedroom door is always closed, you’ll visually have only one colorful room. Can’t wait to see what you do! I’m 100% here for this! 🥰🥰🥰
hannah x caroline is a dream combo for sure ❤❤❤ and yes, i was literally sitting there staring at the empty space of the mood board going 'green. it's green. you need green in there. green is the missing link. go green' 🙏 and happy squealing at the beautiful reveal 😂
This is such a well-produced video! Both visually and narratively. Engaging, beautiful, thought-provoking, inspiring! And all my walls are egg white, so this excitement for wall colours doesn't come natural to me 😂
I read somewhere that coffee isn’t a beverage, it’s a state of being. Your videos always strike that same chord-whether you’re taking about wardrobe curation, conscious consumerism, poetry (super enjoying the book!), or now interior aesthetics, your videos create an inspired “state of being”, a launch toward intentionality in daily living that reminds me of Mary Oliver’s “what is that you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”. I’m certain your home will be the same! Congrats! P.S. Book suggestion for you: Matrescence by Lucy Jones
Hannah as a beauty/makeup guru- yes! Hannah as a fashion guru- yes! Hannah as a poet- yes! Hannah as an interior design guru- yes, yes, yes! This is content I didn't even realise I wanted until you gave it to us. You are so creative in how you visualise, articulate and then break it down for others. Can't wait to see how your home projects progress x
I love the way Katrina Zebrowska has shared her home reno! The way she approaches it feels very in line with your thinking (thoughtful, well-researched, intentional, etc.) Especially how she structure the videos. It's very much "this is everything I've been able to do since the last video because life." I'm very excited to watch your vision unfold 😍
I color drenched my bedroom 4 years ago and i still love it. Its a dark green, dark forest. It feels like a delicious cave and its great for day naps which are extremely important to me. Its perfect and correct.
My bedroom walls are dark green, which I love, but the ceiling is white. Something about the room just hasn’t been sitting well with me, and I think it’s the contrast between the white ceiling/white trim and dark walls. I’ve been considering if I should repaint the walls a lighter color or color drench in the dark green. The ceilings are somewhat low, so that concerned me. The dark green does feel both moody and so restful. I appreciate your comment. I think I might color drench! 🩷🦩🌺
Hannah, congrats on your new home! I am always so wowed with your thinking process and the presentation of anything! ❤ You could be talking about a broken boiler for two hours and I would be listening like it’s the most exciting topic ever 😊
Love the color drenching idea for you. One thought. If you love your tableware because of its boldness choosing a color too close to it will rob that effect. Something complimentary might suit your personalities better. The earthy tones might, indeed, be the best idea.
Yes I was thinking the same thing! I have a signature color in my kitchen too but the walls are painted white with one accent wall to allow all the decor to stand out instead of blending into the walls
When you said you were going to color drench…I immediately thought…she’s gonna pick orangey red. I think I have watched your channel for awhile. 😜 I totally love all your ideas. They feel very you. The white will also be a wonderful backdrop for all of your art. ❤ I can’t wait to watch the process.
@@melbygrace I’m trying to decide if If I want to hire a super cheap painter or do it myself! I do live on cape cod and sometimes I want a Scandi white blues taupes etc but I’ve always been a dark color gal ha there’s some Brit influencers I watch and I love how they really do up the powder room! Some had black wall paper with a botanical print and gold flusher with golden pipes up to the ceilings etc ha those people in England have some funky toilets!! 🚽
Nick Lewis is a lot of fun when it comes to interior design. He addresses all of these design styles that you are thinking about and I find him entertaining. If you haven’t found him yet, find him. Food for thought, if the walls are the same colors as your plates, etc, do the plates stand out or do they disappear? Paint is cheap and easy to change, so go for something fun for sure. You’ll figure something out and will be fine with what you create. It is yours. Also, kids ruin everything so don’t grow too attached to anything. Dishes will break, lots of ugly primary colored plastic makes an appearance. There is a high probability that those beautiful rust or ochre sheets will be cut with paper pinking shears or have permanent marker scribbles, or super glue on them so be prepared for dramatic change at a moment’s notice. Also, set aside money for water heaters, leaking roof, plumbers, electricians, carpenters, and exterminators. More money goes in to fixing and maintaining things than making them beautiful. Welcome to home ownership!!!
As a color strategist, I'm jumping up and down about your process and discoveries. And maybe to no surprise, your upper-right pink hue has so much in common with the Merit lipstick case color. Paint on--and remember you can paint closet interiors or even the interior door trim saturated colors like the watermelon. Congrats on flowing with all the changes.
@@emsilverman2 I would if I hadn't mixed it myself with a mistinted gallon of brown and the pinky whites cans left in the house by the previous owner. Sorry. I guess this is part of the blessing and curse of years of art. I have no trouble mixing paint but no way to share it for others to copy
When you were showing your mood board and saying this is &5 and there were two small gaps…I just thought a perfect addition would be green! It looks gorgeous
Thanks for sharing your thought process. I really like your pictures of your important existing possessions that you want to feature and enjoy in your new spaces. More of that, especially art, textiles and objeçt-finishes will help your mood board. I loved your proportional dots exercises. The continuity color that seems to be missing is the floor color and texture. If you decide not to go with continuous color drenching, door, window and trim color can also be continuity opportunities for visual flow as you move from room to room. The architecture in your pictures is gorgeous. The arches frame each "VIEW" into each room. Try to imagine each view from each room including natural daylight and night time electric lighting that you intend. Then look at the transition edges for each color change. A bedroom can be color drenched with a clear color edge at the door frame. Even if the door and frame are "drenched" there is a clear inside color and outside color, even when the door opens into the bedroom with the non- bedroom color. The trickier transitions will be deciding how to handle color changes at the arches that are plaster without wood trim. I am a big fan of only changing colors at inside corners or trim edges. One way of handling the all-plaster arches is to paint both sides of the arch wall the same color so it looks like a solid architectural element or mass. So, if you color-drenched the dining room, carry that color around the outside edges of the arches into the next room all the way into the inside corner of that arch-wall in the next room. That will visually make the size of the dining room seem larger because the space now includes both sides of the dining room walls. That might also make the dining room feel less like a pass,-through space and more like its own color-anchored space. If you are looking for inspiration, I think art museums are very good at handling color transitions, especially when they are displaying special traveling exhibits. I believe virtual tours of some museums are available online at museum websites or via "street view" on Google maps. BTW, it may be possible to think of your green as a neutral color in the same way that navy blue is sometimes considered neutral. Just a thought. Your outfit video where you talk about starting an outfit by picking practical shoes for your day's activities and weather influences me daily. I am wondering if you have identified what your "practical shoes" are for each of your rooms. What is the practical starting item for each room? Start with lighting? Start with chairs? I love your wardrobe videos and I look forward to enjoying your home decor videos. I love color.
Hi! I have to mention (and I'm so sorry if this panics you, hopefully it won't!) I can't help noticing that almost all of your inspo images are of high-ceilinged rooms with enormous windows and your circular swatches at the end all show areas of the rooms where lots of natural light is really evenly bouncing off walls and features. The colour drenching looks great in these images but will be more oppressive in the house you're moving into (even though it's a beautiful house!) where the ceilings are low, so the drenching won't look as casually elegant as it does in high-ceilinged rooms. Another thing to take into consideration is that it looks like there are multiple windows in each of the rooms of your new place but they are small, so the effect visible in the photos is that you have small patches of natural light punctuating otherwise moody, dim rooms. White will therefore not have quite the same effect as it does in the high ceiling rooms you are taking inspiration from as those have very big windows which fill the space with light so that white really shines. You may want to just look for some images of colour-drenched rooms with the same sort of ceiling height as yours before making any decisions to check that you like the effect... I personally think a low-ceilinged ochre-drenched bedroom would be gorgeous but you might not. I love the bathroom inspo images you're going for and I think you will rise to the low ceiling challenge really well with your taste. I just wanted to point it out and I hope it's helpful! Love the green accent pieces as well. The interior designer Beata Heumann has some very reassuring advice on how you always want one thing in a room that throws off the rest of the colour pallete just so that it doesn't look too 'designed' and your green items exemplify that perfectly! I really look forward to seeing more house updates, PLEASE do document the journey!
I have a BFA in Interior Design and I have to agree. But I also know with certainty you will create a phenomenally aesthetic home for your family 😊 if you do paint red, think of your priming paint as an undertone in a foundation. It will really help to get it to feel the way you want.
lovely aesthetic, the muted red you selected is soo inspiring. a suggestion though.. those ikea acrylic chairs are not the most comfortable. i think it's important for dining chairs to be comfy if you're using it for that purpose. xox
I painted my office in Joa's White. The pictures online make it seem like a much more tan/taupe neutral color - when on the wall in all light types it comes off very, very peachy and not even an off white as it's quite saturated. It does compliment your rusty terra cottas and your greens beautifully. No matter what colors you pick, don't worry as I swear just changing the lighting completely changes the color and ambiance of the room. Seriously just change the bulbs in your fixtures from warm to cool or to daylight and it completely changes the landscape of the room. That more of a hot pink dining room could become a much more muted "dirty" color that you sound like you might be seeking with lights that have amber shades and warm bulbs in them. And changing out a bulb is so much cheaper and easier than repainting the room. ;-) You're totally gonna smash it with whatever you choose. Congratulations on the new home!
Nick Lewis has a lot of good interior design content especially in relation to what types of furniture etc will last through trends and not look dated in a few years
My husband and I have a 1908 bungalow. Our hallway is very wide, and spans the entire length of the house- it is quite literally its own room. All of the rooms open from the hallway, but are also interconnected (Victorian “air conditioning”). I found a huge, beautiful Beaux Arts print, and picked a color out of it for the hallway. I then painted and designed each room to coordinate with the print and hallway. So much fun! We left our trim unpainted- it’s pristine and I would hate to cover up the wood, but to each their own. Btws, our dining room is a raspberry red. I love it 🙂💛
I've been following Terry Barber and I would love to see you make eyeshadow looks or lip looks or even blush looks based on your interior design mood board pictures!
I really like watching Ariel Bissett and her „Ariel builds her house“ (or similarly named series). And I am happy - besides the other chosen colors - to see the reds and greens. They will suit small people‘s sensory perciptivity for colors even better. You made intergenerational choices, Hannah 😊
I really enjoy (as I think I've seen a couple people say already) Ariel Bissett for house stuff as well as Caroline Winkler. Will also put out Rachel Maksy - though when she does house/decor stuff it's more on the side of cottage/fantasy vibes but I love her - highly chaotic.
Ariel Bassett definitely. I think she hits a good level of showing the work but it's also she's just really good company: a decor version of HLP shouldn't deprive is of listening to her
I loved this! So good to see all of the mental gymnastics that happens when you're planning out your space holistically. This is the kind of content I wanted to find when I was renovating my kitchen and bathroom. Everyone shows the construction and final finishes but not the hours and hours spent researching products and making decisions between what things to buy/what to put back, and aligning all your pieces to the vision you had at the start, without getting derailed by all the beautiful things and different directions to go! An architect I follow (undercover architect) describes projects in 4 steps; pre-design, design, pre-build, and build, could be good to follow that format for content creation so you cover all the stages? 😊
Last time you guys did a cross-country move, I did one as well! And funnily enough, I recently purchased a home so we are moving once more in the same time frame! Loving life’s little parallels :) take care
What a beauty palette! And I think that the vibrant watermelon red could easily live harmoniously in that space as a beautiful lamp or bowl or textile something. What a happy accident that green cupboard is. It’s such a joyful piece of furniture.
This is BY FAR the best decorating content I’ve ever seen on TH-cam, or maybe anywhere. For real. I love how your methodical approach makes the task of pulling together a cohesive look seem truly attainable and accessible. I’m inspired, and thinking about how to adapt the approach to a room that is already furnished and therefore has some constraints. I also love the iterative nature of the process - building the color palette based on your inspo photos and then reworking the proportions…going over the same ground. (I feel like there’s a poetry metaphor in here somewhere…the decorating version of a sestina?) Congrats on the house purchase and I look forward to seeing how it all develops! Finally, I’ll nth the recommendation others are making for Caroline Winkler’s channel. She had a video recently about how to make your home luxurious that was really great - an antidote to all the “how to make your home look expensive” content out there. I don’t care if my home looks expensive! I want it to be comfortable, attractive, functional, and meaningful…which is pretty much exactly her definition of luxury. Sorry for the novel, I don’t comment often but when the spirit does move me, well…
Such fantastic graphics at the end! Loved the breakdown. And over the MOON that the new house is a purchase for you guys! How absolutely incredible and congrats!
At this point in the video 19:29, looking at your board, I was thinking some forest green would tie everything together. Btw, can't stop staring at your hair, the makeup and the brown sweater!
my concern about paint is about sheen, to have enough sheen to be able to clean smudges, excessive dust, etc. I have always used eggshell (which is 50/50 flat and semi-gloss) but I am thinking of experimenting with 50/50 flat and eggshell. I also liek having my bed as close to the floor as possible - it gives the room the experience of being larger because the ceiling is higher.
Never Too Small has a compelling approach for showing spaces and explaining the thoughts that shaped them. The dining room color reminded me of How To Renovate a Château and their dining room. The evolution of your visuals from grid images & dots to the programmatic array of proportioned reference was rather inspiring. I look forward to seeing both what and how you will show this branch of your applied aesthetic explorations.
Risk it like a biscuit with any wall paint!! (dramatic or not, saturated or not). You can always paint over. I say this as a visual artist with artist friends who also sometimes work doing high end faux-finished interiors on Park Avenue. We tend to be risky with the paint, and it's worth it. You can always paint over. Quick anecdote re: the salmon color. Years ago, I went to a big dinner with a bunch of artists from my college. It was at the home of a couple of students (24-year-old married couple). The living room AND dining room were the terracotta/salmon just like your Pinterest pics. It turns out the wife had painted it herself the day before, without consulting her husband, so he was pretty surprised when he got home from work. The consensus around the table was that we all loved it. (Sorry this is so long but I seem to have a lot to say about color in the home). And Ok--I will add this--my advice is to be more emotional than cerebral about your color choices. My own bedroom is deep aqua green with rusty orange sheer curtains, white painted wood floor, white vintage chenille bedspread--because it evokes a room from my childhood. And I'm so happy with it.
Also, I’d suggest looking into Belgian/Flemish style interior decor! A lot of what you seem to be gravitating toward reminds me of the interiors from when I lived in Antwerp 😊
Sorry, follow up haha: The “Antwerp”/Central Europe style also fits super well with the lived in, imperfect vibe you’re trying to prepare for! They also love a mismatched gallery wall and bold paint drenching.
Sorry, I’m adding comments as I continue with the video: the shade of green that the IKEA item has is what my partner and I call “Antwerp green”!! They use that for wall colors and other accents allll the time. I was already going to suggest green for your palette before I got to this part lol
Speaking of showing the process, I really enjoy Kylie Flavell's Renovating a ruin series or American Viscountess and her little Italian house. Highly highly watchable.
I feel like the best format would be similar to that of your fashion content. Start with sharing a mood board for what you would like in the room and then follow up with the transformation with some explanation of your thought process. I'm excited to see what you do with the new space.
tbh, I would expect you to put the majority of the new home content primarily on patreon because it can be too intimate for everyone on yt to see. or maybe it's my fears talking) congratulations 💜
My favorite interior design vlog type youtuber is Ariel Bisset! I love the somewhat loose format but her explanations and talk-through her choices are always very captivating, not to mention she has really interesting tastes and doesn't shy away from color! More youthful in spirit but I just wanted to share my fav for inspiration if it strikes!
I love how you spend the entire video apologising and justifying the colours and I am absolutely planning to go a similar palette in my apartment. Just er, it will be a lot more intense due to space and I love it 😂
I like the muted terracota color. It's much tranquil and softer for the eye. Plus, it looks classy❤ The intense red is just to harsh and it looks more rustic/mexican western style (not that it's bad but it's more for an hacienda concept).
It may be that the white in the “airy yet moody” photo feels like it has more dimension because of the molding on the wall, which literally adds dimension 😁 (Luckily, it can be a relatively easy thing to add to a wall, if you so desire). Loving the interior design content you’ve been doing lately ❤
Congratulations on your new space! I think color drenching your dining room is definitely on the right track and I particularly love the Farrow and ball color that’s on your Pinterest board. I almost painted the wainscoting in my dining room that color. But I think what I would suggest for you instead of using the strong color of all of your dining pieces. What if you took the color of the edge of your beautiful dishware and color drench the room with that color? So that your beautiful pieces really stand out against that background. Also, just from my experience of painting, ceilings, different colors, you get a reflect off of that ceiling from the light that’s coming into the room so you will have a reddish halo of light during the day, which may not be as desirable as that cast during the evening. I wish you love and peace in your home and thank you for sharing the journey with us! I truly hope you found this helpful!
I love all of Ariel Bissett's home remodeling videos. At least from the outside it seems as though the production of her videos is not as intense as many other home remodeling channels iv seen. Her storytelling is great and her videos portray a realistic, un-rushed and inadvertently anti-consumerist way of sprucing up an entire house.
Painting color tip- take into consideration the window film and object colors from outside that will impact the color on your walls.Lisa Holt, here on TH-cam, talks about that and reflective qualities. Helped us a ton- our windows have grey, blue, and green tint (put on by previous owners through the years) and the outdoor shadows also play a role :-)
I have done color drenching before with the exception of the trim. Crown molding or wood trim is a commitment. You can paint over a wall, but you would have to strip the wood or replace the molding. The natural wood trim in your house would be beautiful. And a pop of green will be lovely! In my opinion! You do you! Have fun!
I painted my low ceiling family/dining room in my apartment a deep forest green called Duck from Farrow and Ball (thanks to you mentioning them when you moved into the place you’re about to leave). And as I was painting the room with my Dad he asked if I was sure because it was so so dark…fast forward, it’s been two years and I’ve loved it every day ;) so I say go for it!!!
I love Caroline Winkler and Paige Wassel! Caroline is so good at articulating problems with interiors and then solving those problems. Paige is very good at styling spaces and adding unique elements to her own style. Both have different styles than each other and you but if you don’t already watch them, check them out! I Love the mood board btw. We’ve been in our home for almost two years and I have yet to paint a wall. Also I think allowing a space to be flexible with kids’ toys and gear is also important. It has kept me grounded from unrealistic expectations of how my space ‘should’ look. Crayon on the walls will happen, and maybe it’s frustrating at the time but I know there will be a point in my life when I will cherish those messy characteristics.
Love your color scheme. It’s interesting but still serene. Love this kind of content because 1) it seems consistent with the rest of your content, which I always enjoy; and 2) color schemes make my heart beat faster. Especially F&B color schemes. We had a F&B color consultation for a flat in the UK and it was really useful. We generally knew what we wanted, as you do, but with different the different aspects of the rooms, different uses for rooms, different amounts of light, including a long dark hall, etc it was really excellent to have that consultation. Which white do you want in which room? Which color red will give you the effect you want? The colors they suggested have turned out to be perfect. The consultation wasn’t that expensive and might be interesting content.
My partner and I are also renovating right now and all the decisions are overwhelming. I also find that interior design (and interior design content) is extremely focused on buying everything new. It's been a long time since I've been so completely bombarded with with the message that I have to buy, buy, buy. Slow fashion has been a thing for a while, where is slow decorating? Because the challenges are somewhat different when everything "new" is bought second hand and I find it difficult to balance having a clear enough vision that the end result is somewhat cohesive, and at the same time fluid enough that the result is allowed to be decided in part by what we happen to find.
This is oddly similar to what I am doing with our space. We're in love with olive and deep chocolate browns like walnut and leather. I chose to add creams and soft blond woods to warm up the darker colors and add pops of black, bronze, and ambers/oranges/reds. We're renting, so it's all furniture, art, or decor. I made a mood board similar to how Lone Fox does his, so I can see how pieces we like/have come together. Soon as we get a place of our own, I will be color drenching myself!
First of all, congratulations on ALL the changes you’ve gone through lately. Baby, book, buying a house (and maybe others we don’t know about or that I’m missing). It is SO wonderful to see you going through all this gloriousness! Second.. girl, how do you not have more subscribers?? Your videos are very well thought out, edited, and put together, I really don’t get how your channel isn’t bigger than it is! Hope that will be the next big change coming your way, boom in viewership and subscriber count 🎉
I was JUST thinking about how earthy bold greens here and there throughout in glass and plants and curtains and pillows, lil pops of it, would go SO beautifully to tie it all together. And then I saw that the section I was on was called earthy greens lol. I feel like watching your videos for a couple years has taught me about your wonderful understanding of colours and designs
I loved your Visual final thoughts! Just the idea of sizing your colored circles and then switching them into the pictures. I am blown away how stunning it looks and how it switches up the classic moodboard. 🤯I will definetly use it for my next interior project. I hope your move will be as relaxed as your ‘just let it be’ approach at Ikea ☺️
All i can say is do what you want and love. My house as a whole is SUPER blue (like both dark navy ish and baby ish blue) almost everywhere started from kitchen and living room, and we took that with beige and grey through the entire house along with a lot of green in plants and decor. I also really loved dark, dark wood furniture and white furniture. I LOVE IT. Everyone told me not to do it, until they saw how it came together and it’s beautiful. Im still in love with it every day. Its this amazing mixture between new and old vibe, but old done well. So go for it. I’m sure you’ll do it well.
What a beautiful mood board. I’ll be interested to see how the house speaks to you once you are actually in it. There are so many factors of light and shadow and warmth that you can’t conceptualize without spending some time there in different seasons. And if it’s an old house, it might have its own logic you haven’t seen yet. So excited to follow along and see what you end up choosing!
I'm excited for you & your new house! I've always rented, so my wall colors were chosen for me, but I try to make up for it with my decor. I often dream of owning my own space & doing what I want to it without taking others into consideration. I'll be following your progress, living vicariously through your documented experience of making a house your home!
Hi Hannah-congrats and good luck! Regarding choosing colors, one thing I don’t think you mentioned is the amount/quality of light each room gets, which is critical in deciding how intense to go with the colors you choose, because it will affect the room’s atmosphere / how you feel in it at different times of day, etc. Since you love beautiful things, I think you might enjoy the book “Color Palettes” by Suzanne Butterfield - the rooms and the paint colors are gorgeous. I’m not sure if it’s still in print but a library may have it. She features Donald Kaufman paints (very pricey, like Farrow & Ball) but if you’re just looking for inspiration I don’t think that really matters.
You'll be happy with the green pieces! The interior walls of our house are varying shades of a light-mid-and deeper tone of a greenish gray ~ everyone who comes over asks us ~ what is that wonderful color? It makes the house more cohesive (IMO) and no matter what decor ~ furniture ~ accessories ~ art work ~ it goes with that greenish gray color.
So nice to hear your color thoughts. If you get any troll comments - ignore them. They don't live there. We have a similar home with the curved archways throughout. I agree with the curved furniture. I've been drawn in my choices to lots of curves - and it helps the space flow! Round mirrors. An old copper / brass oval tub for the wood. Found an amazing old mahogany wardrobe that reminds me in a way of Madame de la Grande Bouche. A variety of lamps with various curves. Even a bookshelf with curved edges on the shelves. I love the curved sofa idea. I get it. I was surprised that a floor-sample chesterfield-style sofa I found actually has curves in an unexpected way. It's 'bulbous' at the corners, and the rounded edges fit right into the aesthetic. Looking forward to hearing how this plays out! ENJOY!!!!!
Hi! I’ve really enjoyed Ariel Bisset’s content on interior design and home renovations. That is to say, slow, honest, for her tastes rather than resale value. I trust you though. I’m looking forward to it! I’ve always thought you have such a good eye for design, so I’d love to see how it splashes into your home. :)
I am also going to recommend Ariel Bissett's house series specifically because it is very grounded in reality and the time it takes to make things happen in a house reno. She's also not a professional interior designer and is really avoiding trends or tried and true design tips and just doing what her heart wants
Girl I am here for all of it! I don't have the same aesthetic as you BUT! We definitely are aligned in our theories of why we are doing what we are doing lol if that makes any sense haha. What I mean to say is that I am totally here for it. I want to see it cuz I'm doing similar (in different color ways) in my own home and your video is giving me so much encouragement and inspo. I am LOVING your content!
Give this comment a thumbs up if you're eager for Hannah and Joe to immerse us in their new home journey! We're not just wanting for a sprinkle; we want to be fully drenched! ☺️ Congratulations, Hannah and Joe!
Joe did you a huge favor. The green adds depth and sophistication.
How exciting! I have loved seeing your journey over the years, from apartment, to living with friends, getting married to Joe, to now becoming a mom. All your hard work has paid off. ❤
And an author ❤
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I've always read through the years that yellow should never be used for bedrooms. Too stimulating to the brain and subconsciously not restful. Just depends, I guess. Good luck! 😊
This is exciting! I went bold with color in my first place and loved it. I recommend both Caroline Winkler and Paige Wassel.
Oh Paige, she's a bit surly, in the positive way that I see it, to make me enjoy her videos immensely. Excellent choice
@@elizabethhannah6836 Haha --I have lived in NYC for 30 years so Chicago-level surly rolls like water off a duck's back :-)
When you were talking about adding some green - specifically how any green items would fit in because you would have plants in the space and plants are green - it reminded me of something i think of often when thinking about my own colour palette preferences: "Green is nature's neutral." And then I realised! I'm pretty sure I first read that phrase in the comment section of a different video of yours, Hannah! So it was a funny little full circle moment for me. And if the commenter who originally left that comment is reading this I'd just like to say that reading that little phrase kind of changed my life, as a green enthusiast. I'll be out for a walk and admire some leaves and think to myself "see! nature's neutral!" and then feel better about how many green items of clothing I own.
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my bedroom and kitchen/living area (tiny apartment) are drenched forest green. green is MY white.
@@oruga9737 I love green as well! It’s funny I like white if it’s the messy Parisian writers lived in apt! Ha but my mood now is cozy eclectic and dark I love how Hannah does the mood boards! This sure inspired me…to waist more hrs on Pinterest I’m a Virgo I research things to death before I make a decision!!
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wow so true! that perfectly explains why green feels like such a safe but also slightly boring choice to me! at least 60% of my interior is green and i do like it that way but often wish i could be more adventurous. maybe a flower bouquet palette could work, with mostly yellow, red and pink and a few blues and purples... 🤔 definitely food for thought ❤
My recommendations for content creators with great aesthetic taste are Arvin Olano, Paige Wassel, Caroline Winkler and Noah Daniel 😊
Had to come looking for this comment to upvote. Caroline & Paige both have great taste and I like that they incorporate stuff you can usually find secondhand. Will have to check out the other two recs
In addition to Ariel, also check out Caroline Winkler. Her video style and her design choices are different enough from Ariel’s that they complement without overlapping.
Right up until you said “green,” I was worried that you weren’t going to have any. With all those warm colors, it’s nice to have a little contrast.
So here’s some unsolicited advice: Since your whole house will be basically pale beige/warm white, and you’ll be able to see your color-drenched dining room from the living room, make sure you have at least one piece of living room furniture that is in the same family as the dining room paint, plus maybe a couple of accents that are a similar color, and get a pop of your green in there as well. If your living room doesn’t have anything that ties it to the dining room, the dining room may look out of place, like you had one great isolated idea. If the bedroom door is always closed, you’ll visually have only one colorful room.
Can’t wait to see what you do! I’m 100% here for this!
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LOVE Caroline!
This is an excellent idea! I loved the color pallette/story you chose, Hannah, I think it will end up looking amazing.
Also commented Caroline Winkler! I love to see the talk through at the end and Hannah has a similar way of explaining the thought process
hannah x caroline is a dream combo for sure ❤❤❤
and yes, i was literally sitting there staring at the empty space of the mood board going 'green. it's green. you need green in there. green is the missing link. go green' 🙏 and happy squealing at the beautiful reveal 😂
This is such a well-produced video! Both visually and narratively. Engaging, beautiful, thought-provoking, inspiring! And all my walls are egg white, so this excitement for wall colours doesn't come natural to me 😂
I read somewhere that coffee isn’t a beverage, it’s a state of being. Your videos always strike that same chord-whether you’re taking about wardrobe curation, conscious consumerism, poetry (super enjoying the book!), or now interior aesthetics, your videos create an inspired “state of being”, a launch toward intentionality in daily living that reminds me of Mary Oliver’s “what is that you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”. I’m certain your home will be the same! Congrats!
P.S. Book suggestion for you: Matrescence by Lucy Jones
Hannah as a beauty/makeup guru- yes! Hannah as a fashion guru- yes! Hannah as a poet- yes! Hannah as an interior design guru- yes, yes, yes! This is content I didn't even realise I wanted until you gave it to us. You are so creative in how you visualise, articulate and then break it down for others. Can't wait to see how your home projects progress x
I love the way Katrina Zebrowska has shared her home reno! The way she approaches it feels very in line with your thinking (thoughtful, well-researched, intentional, etc.) Especially how she structure the videos. It's very much "this is everything I've been able to do since the last video because life." I'm very excited to watch your vision unfold 😍
Love Karolina as well, she did such a great job with her flat!☺️🙌
I color drenched my bedroom 4 years ago and i still love it. Its a dark green, dark forest. It feels like a delicious cave and its great for day naps which are extremely important to me. Its perfect and correct.
My bedroom walls are dark green, which I love, but the ceiling is white. Something about the room just hasn’t been sitting well with me, and I think it’s the contrast between the white ceiling/white trim and dark walls. I’ve been considering if I should repaint the walls a lighter color or color drench in the dark green. The ceilings are somewhat low, so that concerned me. The dark green does feel both moody and so restful. I appreciate your comment. I think I might color drench! 🩷🦩🌺
@@TheFlamingoHouse Go for it!
Hannah, congrats on your new home!
I am always so wowed with your thinking process and the presentation of anything! ❤
You could be talking about a broken boiler for two hours and I would be listening like it’s the most exciting topic ever 😊
GO for it, it's only paint! It's always fixable or re-doable!
Love the color drenching idea for you. One thought. If you love your tableware because of its boldness choosing a color too close to it will rob that effect. Something complimentary might suit your personalities better. The earthy tones might, indeed, be the best idea.
Yes I was thinking the same thing! I have a signature color in my kitchen too but the walls are painted white with one accent wall to allow all the decor to stand out instead of blending into the walls
When you said you were going to color drench…I immediately thought…she’s gonna pick orangey red. I think I have watched your channel for awhile. 😜 I totally love all your ideas. They feel very you. The white will also be a wonderful backdrop for all of your art. ❤ I can’t wait to watch the process.
I love color drenching and am ALWAYS for painting ceilings to match. Creating a seamless background color is a glide for the eye.
It’s sooooo soothing! I find darker colors make room bigger but also make me feel cozy!
@@heavenj7I am painting our powder room floor to ceiling black green. Just waiting for summer and free time.
@@melbygrace I’m trying to decide if If I want to hire a super cheap painter or do it myself! I do live on cape cod and sometimes I want a Scandi white blues taupes etc but I’ve always been a dark color gal ha there’s some Brit influencers I watch and I love how they really do up the powder room! Some had black wall paper with a botanical print and gold flusher with golden pipes up to the ceilings etc ha those people in England have some funky toilets!! 🚽
Nick Lewis is a lot of fun when it comes to interior design. He addresses all of these design styles that you are thinking about and I find him entertaining. If you haven’t found him yet, find him. Food for thought, if the walls are the same colors as your plates, etc, do the plates stand out or do they disappear? Paint is cheap and easy to change, so go for something fun for sure. You’ll figure something out and will be fine with what you create. It is yours. Also, kids ruin everything so don’t grow too attached to anything. Dishes will break, lots of ugly primary colored plastic makes an appearance. There is a high probability that those beautiful rust or ochre sheets will be cut with paper pinking shears or have permanent marker scribbles, or super glue on them so be prepared for dramatic change at a moment’s notice. Also, set aside money for water heaters, leaking roof, plumbers, electricians, carpenters, and exterminators. More money goes in to fixing and maintaining things than making them beautiful. Welcome to home ownership!!!
As a color strategist, I'm jumping up and down about your process and discoveries. And maybe to no surprise, your upper-right pink hue has so much in common with the Merit lipstick case color. Paint on--and remember you can paint closet interiors or even the interior door trim saturated colors like the watermelon. Congrats on flowing with all the changes.
If Salmon and Chocolate had a baby, that would be the color of the heart of my home and I adore it
Rose taupe ❤
Like the color of her shirt?
lighter and less saturated but yes@@lilyawood
Would you share the paint name of this lovely color?
@@emsilverman2 I would if I hadn't mixed it myself with a mistinted gallon of brown and the pinky whites cans left in the house by the previous owner. Sorry. I guess this is part of the blessing and curse of years of art. I have no trouble mixing paint but no way to share it for others to copy
When you were showing your mood board and saying this is &5 and there were two small gaps…I just thought a perfect addition would be green! It looks gorgeous
Thanks for sharing your thought process. I really like your pictures of your important existing possessions that you want to feature and enjoy in your new spaces. More of that, especially art, textiles and objeçt-finishes will help your mood board. I loved your proportional dots exercises. The continuity color that seems to be missing is the floor color and texture. If you decide not to go with continuous color drenching, door, window and trim color can also be continuity opportunities for visual flow as you move from room to room.
The architecture in your pictures is gorgeous. The arches frame each "VIEW" into each room. Try to imagine each view from each room including natural daylight and night time electric lighting that you intend. Then look at the transition edges for each color change. A bedroom can be color drenched with a clear color edge at the door frame. Even if the door and frame are "drenched" there is a clear inside color and outside color, even when the door opens into the bedroom with the non- bedroom color.
The trickier transitions will be deciding how to handle color changes at the arches that are plaster without wood trim. I am a big fan of only changing colors at inside corners or trim edges. One way of handling the all-plaster arches is to paint both sides of the arch wall the same color so it looks like a solid architectural element or mass.
So, if you color-drenched the dining room, carry that color around the outside edges of the arches into the next room all the way into the inside corner of that arch-wall in the next room. That will visually make the size of the dining room seem larger because the space now includes both sides of the dining room walls. That might also make the dining room feel less like a pass,-through space and more like its own color-anchored space.
If you are looking for inspiration, I think art museums are very good at handling color transitions, especially when they are displaying special traveling exhibits. I believe virtual tours of some museums are available online at museum websites or via "street view" on Google maps.
BTW, it may be possible to think of your green as a neutral color in the same way that navy blue is sometimes considered neutral. Just a thought.
Your outfit video where you talk about starting an outfit by picking practical shoes for your day's activities and weather influences me daily. I am wondering if you have identified what your "practical shoes" are for each of your rooms. What is the practical starting item for each room? Start with lighting? Start with chairs?
I love your wardrobe videos and I look forward to enjoying your home decor videos. I love color.
When you got to the "And Then..." I was like: "It's going to be green" 🤣 I love it!!!
Hi! I have to mention (and I'm so sorry if this panics you, hopefully it won't!) I can't help noticing that almost all of your inspo images are of high-ceilinged rooms with enormous windows and your circular swatches at the end all show areas of the rooms where lots of natural light is really evenly bouncing off walls and features. The colour drenching looks great in these images but will be more oppressive in the house you're moving into (even though it's a beautiful house!) where the ceilings are low, so the drenching won't look as casually elegant as it does in high-ceilinged rooms. Another thing to take into consideration is that it looks like there are multiple windows in each of the rooms of your new place but they are small, so the effect visible in the photos is that you have small patches of natural light punctuating otherwise moody, dim rooms. White will therefore not have quite the same effect as it does in the high ceiling rooms you are taking inspiration from as those have very big windows which fill the space with light so that white really shines. You may want to just look for some images of colour-drenched rooms with the same sort of ceiling height as yours before making any decisions to check that you like the effect... I personally think a low-ceilinged ochre-drenched bedroom would be gorgeous but you might not. I love the bathroom inspo images you're going for and I think you will rise to the low ceiling challenge really well with your taste. I just wanted to point it out and I hope it's helpful! Love the green accent pieces as well. The interior designer Beata Heumann has some very reassuring advice on how you always want one thing in a room that throws off the rest of the colour pallete just so that it doesn't look too 'designed' and your green items exemplify that perfectly! I really look forward to seeing more house updates, PLEASE do document the journey!
I have a BFA in Interior Design and I have to agree. But I also know with certainty you will create a phenomenally aesthetic home for your family 😊 if you do paint red, think of your priming paint as an undertone in a foundation. It will really help to get it to feel the way you want.
Green is a beautiful decorating color because it doesn’t tend to clash with anything.
I have a dear friend who has painted the kitchen in each of the several homes she's owned over her lifetime, in a pumpkin orange. I LOVE it.
I like how Karolina Zebrowska showed the transformation of her apartment ❤
That green would be lovely color-drenching a nursery... very foresty and magical.
lovely aesthetic, the muted red you selected is soo inspiring. a suggestion though.. those ikea acrylic chairs are not the most comfortable. i think it's important for dining chairs to be comfy if you're using it for that purpose. xox
I painted my office in Joa's White. The pictures online make it seem like a much more tan/taupe neutral color - when on the wall in all light types it comes off very, very peachy and not even an off white as it's quite saturated. It does compliment your rusty terra cottas and your greens beautifully.
No matter what colors you pick, don't worry as I swear just changing the lighting completely changes the color and ambiance of the room. Seriously just change the bulbs in your fixtures from warm to cool or to daylight and it completely changes the landscape of the room. That more of a hot pink dining room could become a much more muted "dirty" color that you sound like you might be seeking with lights that have amber shades and warm bulbs in them. And changing out a bulb is so much cheaper and easier than repainting the room. ;-)
You're totally gonna smash it with whatever you choose. Congratulations on the new home!
great advice! thank you
Nick Lewis has a lot of good interior design content especially in relation to what types of furniture etc will last through trends and not look dated in a few years
My husband and I have a 1908 bungalow. Our hallway is very wide, and spans the entire length of the house- it is quite literally its own room. All of the rooms open from the hallway, but are also interconnected (Victorian “air conditioning”). I found a huge, beautiful Beaux Arts print, and picked a color out of it for the hallway. I then painted and designed each room to coordinate with the print and hallway. So much fun! We left our trim unpainted- it’s pristine and I would hate to cover up the wood, but to each their own. Btws, our dining room is a raspberry red. I love it 🙂💛
I've been following Terry Barber and I would love to see you make eyeshadow looks or lip looks or even blush looks based on your interior design mood board pictures!
Hannah has done a few Terry Barber videos. th-cam.com/video/IQAdo1W1WVI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=gb06misKYPF-u9yi
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I have had a terracotta room in our 2 last homes for the last 40 years! I love it so much! Go for it, girl!❤
I think I’m the only one anything peach to terracotta makes me think of Florida and golden girls ha! But hey everyone has a favorite!! 😍
I really like watching Ariel Bissett and her „Ariel builds her house“ (or similarly named series). And I am happy - besides the other chosen colors - to see the reds and greens. They will suit small people‘s sensory perciptivity for colors even better. You made intergenerational choices, Hannah 😊
I agree. Yes on Ariel. She’s big into color, and her before-during-after video work is well done.
I really enjoy (as I think I've seen a couple people say already) Ariel Bissett for house stuff as well as Caroline Winkler. Will also put out Rachel Maksy - though when she does house/decor stuff it's more on the side of cottage/fantasy vibes but I love her - highly chaotic.
Xo Macenna and Ariel Bassett have done great jobs at documenting home upgrades!
Ariel Bassett definitely. I think she hits a good level of showing the work but it's also she's just really good company: a decor version of HLP shouldn't deprive is of listening to her
i love ariel's series!
Hi all, love Ariel's series! Just a note, it's Bissett (just wrote it because I wouldn't want anyone to search for her and not find her videos!)
I loved this! So good to see all of the mental gymnastics that happens when you're planning out your space holistically. This is the kind of content I wanted to find when I was renovating my kitchen and bathroom. Everyone shows the construction and final finishes but not the hours and hours spent researching products and making decisions between what things to buy/what to put back, and aligning all your pieces to the vision you had at the start, without getting derailed by all the beautiful things and different directions to go!
An architect I follow (undercover architect) describes projects in 4 steps; pre-design, design, pre-build, and build, could be good to follow that format for content creation so you cover all the stages? 😊
The reds you chose for the dining room,are perfect,really warm,welcoming,grounded and sophisticated all at once!
Last time you guys did a cross-country move, I did one as well! And funnily enough, I recently purchased a home so we are moving once more in the same time frame! Loving life’s little parallels :) take care
but are you also AGONIZING OVER PAINT COLORS lol :)
Love this! Can't wait to see the house updates!
This palette and mood reminded me so much of streets with old buildings in Italy with half worn off Terracota and Ochre stucco... love it!
What a beauty palette! And I think that the vibrant watermelon red could easily live harmoniously in that space as a beautiful lamp or bowl or textile something. What a happy accident that green cupboard is. It’s such a joyful piece of furniture.
I love how you showcased the colour with the different sized circles! So aesthetic love the colour scheme!
This is BY FAR the best decorating content I’ve ever seen on TH-cam, or maybe anywhere. For real. I love how your methodical approach makes the task of pulling together a cohesive look seem truly attainable and accessible. I’m inspired, and thinking about how to adapt the approach to a room that is already furnished and therefore has some constraints. I also love the iterative nature of the process - building the color palette based on your inspo photos and then reworking the proportions…going over the same ground. (I feel like there’s a poetry metaphor in here somewhere…the decorating version of a sestina?)
Congrats on the house purchase and I look forward to seeing how it all develops!
Finally, I’ll nth the recommendation others are making for Caroline Winkler’s channel. She had a video recently about how to make your home luxurious that was really great - an antidote to all the “how to make your home look expensive” content out there. I don’t care if my home looks expensive! I want it to be comfortable, attractive, functional, and meaningful…which is pretty much exactly her definition of luxury.
Sorry for the novel, I don’t comment often but when the spirit does move me, well…
Such fantastic graphics at the end! Loved the breakdown. And over the MOON that the new house is a purchase for you guys! How absolutely incredible and congrats!
At this point in the video 19:29, looking at your board, I was thinking some forest green would tie everything together. Btw, can't stop staring at your hair, the makeup and the brown sweater!
so excited for interiors content!
my concern about paint is about sheen, to have enough sheen to be able to clean smudges, excessive dust, etc. I have always used eggshell (which is 50/50 flat and semi-gloss) but I am thinking of experimenting with 50/50 flat and eggshell. I also liek having my bed as close to the floor as possible - it gives the room the experience of being larger because the ceiling is higher.
Honestly, even though this isn’t what I showed up for, HLP moving/home reno content is my favorite
I want to see everything ♥️ I love love interiors content!!! I’m very excited!
Yesssss! You might enjoy the song ‘red room’ by hiatus kaiyote’ for vibes 🥰 very poetic too!
Never Too Small has a compelling approach for showing spaces and explaining the thoughts that shaped them.
The dining room color reminded me of How To Renovate a Château and their dining room.
The evolution of your visuals from grid images & dots to the programmatic array of proportioned reference was rather inspiring. I look forward to seeing both what and how you will show this branch of your applied aesthetic explorations.
So glad you’re my friend❤you make me laugh and smile
Risk it like a biscuit with any wall paint!! (dramatic or not, saturated or not). You can always paint over. I say this as a visual artist with artist friends who also sometimes work doing high end faux-finished interiors on Park Avenue. We tend to be risky with the paint, and it's worth it. You can always paint over. Quick anecdote re: the salmon color. Years ago, I went to a big dinner with a bunch of artists from my college. It was at the home of a couple of students (24-year-old married couple). The living room AND dining room were the terracotta/salmon just like your Pinterest pics. It turns out the wife had painted it herself the day before, without consulting her husband, so he was pretty surprised when he got home from work. The consensus around the table was that we all loved it. (Sorry this is so long but I seem to have a lot to say about color in the home). And Ok--I will add this--my advice is to be more emotional than cerebral about your color choices. My own bedroom is deep aqua green with rusty orange sheer curtains, white painted wood floor, white vintage chenille bedspread--because it evokes a room from my childhood. And I'm so happy with it.
I’m moving soon and looking at paint colors. Now I have so many more ideas to keep
in mind! Thank you!
Also, I’d suggest looking into Belgian/Flemish style interior decor! A lot of what you seem to be gravitating toward reminds me of the interiors from when I lived in Antwerp 😊
Sorry, follow up haha: The “Antwerp”/Central Europe style also fits super well with the lived in, imperfect vibe you’re trying to prepare for! They also love a mismatched gallery wall and bold paint drenching.
Sorry, I’m adding comments as I continue with the video: the shade of green that the IKEA item has is what my partner and I call “Antwerp green”!! They use that for wall colors and other accents allll the time. I was already going to suggest green for your palette before I got to this part lol
Lone Fox is an incredible designer and TH-camr and is drawn to similar warm colors and textures
Speaking of showing the process, I really enjoy Kylie Flavell's Renovating a ruin series or American Viscountess and her little Italian house. Highly highly watchable.
I feel like the best format would be similar to that of your fashion content. Start with sharing a mood board for what you would like in the room and then follow up with the transformation with some explanation of your thought process. I'm excited to see what you do with the new space.
tbh, I would expect you to put the majority of the new home content primarily on patreon because it can be too intimate for everyone on yt to see. or maybe it's my fears talking) congratulations 💜
My favorite interior design vlog type youtuber is Ariel Bisset! I love the somewhat loose format but her explanations and talk-through her choices are always very captivating, not to mention she has really interesting tastes and doesn't shy away from color! More youthful in spirit but I just wanted to share my fav for inspiration if it strikes!
I love how you spend the entire video apologising and justifying the colours and I am absolutely planning to go a similar palette in my apartment. Just er, it will be a lot more intense due to space and I love it 😂
I like the muted terracota color. It's much tranquil and softer for the eye. Plus, it looks classy❤ The intense red is just to harsh and it looks more rustic/mexican western style (not that it's bad but it's more for an hacienda concept).
I really enjoy Paige Wassel’s home updates. I also enjoy Caroline Winkler’s videos!
Second Paige Wassel for sure. A unique and down-to-earth yt creator. I think her spaces and the spaces she features have a very lived-in feel as well.
Caroline is great!
It may be that the white in the “airy yet moody” photo feels like it has more dimension because of the molding on the wall, which literally adds dimension 😁 (Luckily, it can be a relatively easy thing to add to a wall, if you so desire). Loving the interior design content you’ve been doing lately ❤
Congratulations on your new space! I think color drenching your dining room is definitely on the right track and I particularly love the Farrow and ball color that’s on your Pinterest board. I almost painted the wainscoting in my dining room that color. But I think what I would suggest for you instead of using the strong color of all of your dining pieces. What if you took the color of the edge of your beautiful dishware and color drench the room with that color? So that your beautiful pieces really stand out against that background. Also, just from my experience of painting, ceilings, different colors, you get a reflect off of that ceiling from the light that’s coming into the room so you will have a reddish halo of light during the day, which may not be as desirable as that cast during the evening. I wish you love and peace in your home and thank you for sharing the journey with us! I truly hope you found this helpful!
I have my ceiling painted the same color as the walls in every room of my house. One of the best decisions I made when painting.
I’m about to do mine a dark blue black or gray black I want to do the windows trimming as well but not sure if I should!!
words cannot describe how excited I am for the future career of your new home
I love all of Ariel Bissett's home remodeling videos. At least from the outside it seems as though the production of her videos is not as intense as many other home remodeling channels iv seen. Her storytelling is great and her videos portray a realistic, un-rushed and inadvertently anti-consumerist way of sprucing up an entire house.
My parents have a dining room in that shade of muted red/dark salmon and I’ve always thought it looks great!
"The Birthday Cabinet" is a short story I would read zealously
right before you told the IKEA story I was genuinely thinking to myself "IT NEEDS GREEN" 😂it really rounds off the color story!!! I'm obsessed!!!
Painting color tip- take into consideration the window film and object colors from outside that will impact the color on your walls.Lisa Holt, here on TH-cam, talks about that and reflective qualities. Helped us a ton- our windows have grey, blue, and green tint (put on by previous owners through the years) and the outdoor shadows also play a role :-)
I have done color drenching before with the exception of the trim. Crown molding or wood trim is a commitment. You can paint over a wall, but you would have to strip the wood or replace the molding. The natural wood trim in your house would be beautiful. And a pop of green will be lovely! In my opinion! You do you! Have fun!
I painted my low ceiling family/dining room in my apartment a deep forest green called Duck from Farrow and Ball (thanks to you mentioning them when you moved into the place you’re about to leave). And as I was painting the room with my Dad he asked if I was sure because it was so so dark…fast forward, it’s been two years and I’ve loved it every day ;) so I say go for it!!!
Also this video is high quality!!! Love the scaled circles with imagery in it
my sister's dining room is also F&B Duck Green and it's absolutely stunning!!!
I FUHREAKING LOVE how you intellectually and visually mapped your imagination this way! How. Stinkin. Cool?!
The last two blanks spots were showing in your grid and I said “you need green!” And then you chose green. Excellent!
Colour drench. It will look amazing. If you don't already 'The Great Outdoors' is an amazing interior decorating podcast.
This was a delight to watch! I have a terracotta living room and I absolutely love it, it really warms up the space
I love Caroline Winkler and Paige Wassel! Caroline is so good at articulating problems with interiors and then solving those problems. Paige is very good at styling spaces and adding unique elements to her own style. Both have different styles than each other and you but if you don’t already watch them, check them out! I Love the mood board btw. We’ve been in our home for almost two years and I have yet to paint a wall.
Also I think allowing a space to be flexible with kids’ toys and gear is also important. It has kept me grounded from unrealistic expectations of how my space ‘should’ look. Crayon on the walls will happen, and maybe it’s frustrating at the time but I know there will be a point in my life when I will cherish those messy characteristics.
Green is a neutral! And once your plants enter the chat, I love it w your board!
Love your color scheme. It’s interesting but still serene. Love this kind of content because 1) it seems consistent with the rest of your content, which I always enjoy; and 2) color schemes make my heart beat faster. Especially F&B color schemes.
We had a F&B color consultation for a flat in the UK and it was really useful. We generally knew what we wanted, as you do, but with different the different aspects of the rooms, different uses for rooms, different amounts of light, including a long dark hall, etc it was really excellent to have that consultation. Which white do you want in which room? Which color red will give you the effect you want? The colors they suggested have turned out to be perfect.
The consultation wasn’t that expensive and might be interesting content.
My partner and I are also renovating right now and all the decisions are overwhelming.
I also find that interior design (and interior design content) is extremely focused on buying everything new. It's been a long time since I've been so completely bombarded with with the message that I have to buy, buy, buy.
Slow fashion has been a thing for a while, where is slow decorating? Because the challenges are somewhat different when everything "new" is bought second hand and I find it difficult to balance having a clear enough vision that the end result is somewhat cohesive, and at the same time fluid enough that the result is allowed to be decided in part by what we happen to find.
I’m glad you stopped panicking, that green goes very well with the rusty terracotta
Congratulations on buying your first home, Hannah! What an exciting chapter :)
This is oddly similar to what I am doing with our space. We're in love with olive and deep chocolate browns like walnut and leather. I chose to add creams and soft blond woods to warm up the darker colors and add pops of black, bronze, and ambers/oranges/reds. We're renting, so it's all furniture, art, or decor. I made a mood board similar to how Lone Fox does his, so I can see how pieces we like/have come together. Soon as we get a place of our own, I will be color drenching myself!
First of all, congratulations on ALL the changes you’ve gone through lately. Baby, book, buying a house (and maybe others we don’t know about or that I’m missing). It is SO wonderful to see you going through all this gloriousness!
Second.. girl, how do you not have more subscribers?? Your videos are very well thought out, edited, and put together, I really don’t get how your channel isn’t bigger than it is! Hope that will be the next big change coming your way, boom in viewership and subscriber count 🎉
I was JUST thinking about how earthy bold greens here and there throughout in glass and plants and curtains and pillows, lil pops of it, would go SO beautifully to tie it all together. And then I saw that the section I was on was called earthy greens lol. I feel like watching your videos for a couple years has taught me about your wonderful understanding of colours and designs
I loved your Visual final thoughts! Just the idea of sizing your colored circles and then switching them into the pictures. I am blown away how stunning it looks and how it switches up the classic moodboard. 🤯I will definetly use it for my next interior project. I hope your move will be as relaxed as your ‘just let it be’ approach at Ikea ☺️
All i can say is do what you want and love. My house as a whole is SUPER blue (like both dark navy ish and baby ish blue) almost everywhere started from kitchen and living room, and we took that with beige and grey through the entire house along with a lot of green in plants and decor. I also really loved dark, dark wood furniture and white furniture. I LOVE IT. Everyone told me not to do it, until they saw how it came together and it’s beautiful. Im still in love with it every day. Its this amazing mixture between new and old vibe, but old done well. So go for it. I’m sure you’ll do it well.
What a beautiful mood board. I’ll be interested to see how the house speaks to you once you are actually in it. There are so many factors of light and shadow and warmth that you can’t conceptualize without spending some time there in different seasons. And if it’s an old house, it might have its own logic you haven’t seen yet. So excited to follow along and see what you end up choosing!
I'm excited for you & your new house! I've always rented, so my wall colors were chosen for me, but I try to make up for it with my decor. I often dream of owning my own space & doing what I want to it without taking others into consideration. I'll be following your progress, living vicariously through your documented experience of making a house your home!
Hi Hannah-congrats and good luck! Regarding choosing colors, one thing I don’t think you mentioned is the amount/quality of light each room gets, which is critical in deciding how intense to go with the colors you choose, because it will affect the room’s atmosphere / how you feel in it at different times of day, etc. Since you love beautiful things, I think you might enjoy the book “Color Palettes” by Suzanne Butterfield - the rooms and the paint colors are gorgeous. I’m not sure if it’s still in print but a library may have it. She features Donald Kaufman paints (very pricey, like Farrow & Ball) but if you’re just looking for inspiration I don’t think that really matters.
Congrats on your first home. Looking forward to seeing the transformation.
Congrats on the new home! I love your color palette💛💚❤
You'll be happy with the green pieces! The interior walls of our house are varying shades of a light-mid-and deeper tone of a greenish gray ~ everyone who comes over asks us ~ what is that wonderful color? It makes the house more cohesive (IMO) and no matter what decor ~ furniture ~ accessories ~ art work ~ it goes with that greenish gray color.
So nice to hear your color thoughts. If you get any troll comments - ignore them. They don't live there.
We have a similar home with the curved archways throughout. I agree with the curved furniture. I've been drawn in my choices to lots of curves - and it helps the space flow! Round mirrors. An old copper / brass oval tub for the wood. Found an amazing old mahogany wardrobe that reminds me in a way of Madame de la Grande Bouche. A variety of lamps with various curves. Even a bookshelf with curved edges on the shelves. I love the curved sofa idea. I get it. I was surprised that a floor-sample chesterfield-style sofa I found actually has curves in an unexpected way. It's 'bulbous' at the corners, and the rounded edges fit right into the aesthetic.
Looking forward to hearing how this plays out! ENJOY!!!!!
Hi! I’ve really enjoyed Ariel Bisset’s content on interior design and home renovations. That is to say, slow, honest, for her tastes rather than resale value. I trust you though. I’m looking forward to it! I’ve always thought you have such a good eye for design, so I’d love to see how it splashes into your home. :)
I am also going to recommend Ariel Bissett's house series specifically because it is very grounded in reality and the time it takes to make things happen in a house reno. She's also not a professional interior designer and is really avoiding trends or tried and true design tips and just doing what her heart wants
Girl I am here for all of it! I don't have the same aesthetic as you BUT! We definitely are aligned in our theories of why we are doing what we are doing lol if that makes any sense haha. What I mean to say is that I am totally here for it. I want to see it cuz I'm doing similar (in different color ways) in my own home and your video is giving me so much encouragement and inspo. I am LOVING your content!