Haint Blue Day

Sherwin Williams Atmospheric

 

My painters arrive shortly to do some exterior work at CCC. This will include painting the front entrance ceiling haint blue, the lanai ceiling haint blue, and a fresh coat of Alabaster on several doors.

Yellow & Chinoiserie

Mackenzie Page Interiors

 

This beautiful vignette features Scalamandre's Blossom Chinoiserie Mural and a wonderful tufted and scalloped curved settee with fringe trim.

Wicker & Tulipieres

Amanda Lindroth

How I love a great screened in porch - my lanai is a favorite space at CCC. I have a wall of sliders that open to the lanai and love to keep them open. This example above is so pretty with its Haint blue ceiling and painted wood floor. 

The Chinoiserie Sunroom

Melissa Rufty

 
This sunroom is stunning. Silver leaf chinoiserie wallpaper, a marble mantel, and a pair of bergère chairs in peridot from this vantage point.

The Blue and White Dining Room

Anna-Louise Wolfe

 

A stunning blue and white dining room in a beautiful blue and white palette. I love the bullion fringed skirted table. I have one on my breakfast room table. 

The Chinoiserie Bedroom

Ashley Hanley - Southern Home

 

Such a stunning space featuring Schumacher's Madame de Pompadour wallpaper, wicker, and a blue and white ginger jar. This is the master bedroom of a home on the James River in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Pastels

Matters of Style

 

I love these rooms and especially the color palette - the blues of the ceilings, fringed velvet sofa, and Chinese Chippendale chairs, the greens of the console table, chair, sofa pillows, and art, and the lovely coral and blue rug.

The Blue and White Chinoiserie Dining Room

Aerin Lauder

 

This dining room in Aerin Lauder's Hamptons home remains such a favorite of mine. I love a skirted dining table and have one in my breakfast room and another in my lanai - in blue and white of course. 

Paint Color Decisions

Sherwin Williams Alabaster 7008

After playing around with my Samplize paint samples, these are the colors I have decided on for the exterior of my home. Sherwin Williams Alabaster on the stucco, Sherwin Williams Extra White on the trim, and Benjamin Moore Glass Slipper for the ceilings in the entrance and lanai.

The Chinoiserie Dining Room

Shelley Johnstone

 

This is a fun dining room by Shelley Johnstone that combines chinoiserie and beachy/tropical elements. I love a round skirted table. Interesting that she combines rattan Chinese Chippendale chairs with grotto shellback chairs.

My Lanai Redo

Amanda Lindroth

 

As you may know, my last room to do at CCC is my lanai. My projects include -

1. Painting the ceiling Haint Blue - I have chosen Benjamin Moore Palladian Blue

2. A new ceiling fan 

3. New outdoor wicker furniture

4. A bar

5. New flooring

So, my painter broke his wrist and is all backed up on projects. Luckily I am in my new laid back Florida mode and it will happen when it happens. 

The flooring has been the Magical Mystery Tour. 

After looking at blue and white tile and choosing one, I started looking at porcelain tile and chose a marble lookalike, then still didn't love that and my flooring people have not been available to start yet anyway. I posted a while back before moving here about coral stone after seeing these Amanda Lindroth photos of her Bahamian home. In the photos, the floors and columns are coral stone. I did some preliminary research and did not find coral stone available locally and thought better of shipping in a ton of stone.

Then I was watching HGTV (I am an addict) and a Florida couple redid their home in shellstone. Eureka. I realized that it is a Florida stone and called shellstone here, not coral stone. As soon as I searched shellstone, I found local sources. It has half a dozen names actually including shell/shellstone marble, shell/shellstone travertine, and shell/shellstone limestone.

With my stunning limestone floors throughout the house, a beautiful natural stone is what needs to be in the lanai and entryway. Shellstone is like limestone and shares many characteristics, but is made of shells and coral. It is a natural sedimentary stone found right here in Florida. So today I am off to some stone places to get samples. I am crazy super excited.

Shell Stone

Amanda Lindroth - House Beautiful