All the elements of a classic, unrenovated loft are here: tin ceiling, pipes and sprinklers snaking across the ceiling and down a wall, big old iron radiators, electrical boxes showing, a door that had been painted a million times… Fashion Designer Betsy Johnson totally transformed it by painting walls and ceiling a daring LOUD pink.…
Read Morethe pleasures of ‘dirty pink’ in home decor
“Paint one wall in your bedroom pink”, Maria Robledo advised during the course of the Laboratory’s renovation. My generous friend with a brilliant eye for color had become my ad hoc paint color advisor. “But have it be a dirty pink, and paint it glossy” she went on, “not a bright loud pink.” Then she helped me pick…
Read Morepainted miracle: pink-washed plywood
We are completely smitten with the pink-washed walls in this photo from the Milan Furniture Fair. It looks like plywood to us (or we imagine it as that) color-washed with an incredible shade of pink…(though it may also be a surface unevenly painted in close shades of flat pink paint) It made us start thinking…
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