Apricot

Apricot

My favorite fruit is the apricot and I love the color apricot. A pinky peach, it is a softer version of coral and orange. It is an incredibly flattering color to paint your walls - everyone looks good against an apricot backdrop. Pantone's Color of the Year for 2023 is Magenta. I am personally not a fan of magenta. I think I'll ignore it and make Apricot my Chinoiserie Chic Color of the Year. 

2014

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and is getting ready to say goodbye to 2013. I thought 2013 was sort of a dysfunctional year for this country, but I have high hopes for 2014. Onward and upward, right?

This next week here at Chinoiserie Chic we have a fun week planned to close out the year with style.

*A look back at my 2013 New Year's Interior Decorating Resolutions - how did I fare?
*My 2014 New Year's Interior Decorating Resolutions
*The reveal of Chinoiserie Chic's Color of the Year 2014
*New Year's Eve Decorating and Entertaining Ideas
*Chinoiserie Trends for 2014

2014 Color of the Year?

I have posted several times lately about how I am seeing more and more shades of purple used in interior design and how beautifully purple combines with Chinoiserie. I especially like lilacs and lavenders and soft purples with gray or blue undertones. I have a Pinterest board on the subject here. I remember being at a Farrow & Ball party a few years ago and asking one of the F&B executives why there was not lavender or lilac in their color range. The response was, "We don't do pretty colors." Farrow and Ball has now added a lavender gray I love called Calluna that they describe as "a much requested pretty heather colour." I guess they changed their minds.

Above is another wonderful example of combining purple and Chinoiserie - Nicolette Horn's master bedroom in Oslo in violet. I suspect that we are about to see colors in the purple family named as hot colors for 2014 and perhaps even as color of the year by someone. We shall see. For lots more inspiration on combining purple and Chinoiserie, don't miss my September Houzz Ideabook here.

Farrow & Ball Calluna