Identifying Color Relationships

The blog's been on hiatus for the past week but we've got some great content to share with you this week. Today's post comes in the form of a video featuring Josef Albers in which he discusses color relationships. It's a really interesting and educating video, something everyone can probably take something away from about mixing and matching up colors. We definitely took a few tips.

The video was shot by dwell magazine (no relation, but we're definitely inspired by dwell). Take a look below and let us know if this was helpful!

The Full Spectrum for Dwell | Josef Albers from gary nadeau on Vimeo.

Wake up to a Modern Bath

Here's the scenario: You wake up in the morning to get ready for work. Your bathroom is drab. It's dark, it's pink, and it's uninspiring. It looks like this:



Okay, you probably don't have a bag over your toilet...
This is just the beginning of your day. You start off uninspired as soon as you leave bed. When you walk into this bathroom, you might feel those dark, drab feelings come up and let them affect how you feel about your job. You go to work and still cease to be inspired. You might say "Am I really going to get much inspiration from a bathroom?" And you have a point. Your home bathroom probably won't inspire you to do great work. But at the same time, aesthetics do have an impact on your psyche.  Just maybe not to this extreme.

Let's replay the scenario. You wake up. Good morning.



Done. Promoted. Happy about everything. All because of your morning routine and the style of your bathroom.

Okay, okay. I may have gone off the deep end here, but there are times when one becomes psychologically happier because they appreciate and approve of the look, feel, and comfort of their surroundings. Modern baths can help!

8 Great Bathroom Color Combos

We've seen a lot of color schemes in both bathrooms and kitchens lately that are heavily doused in white, usually with a little splash of color. Frankly, we love this look, but there are also other color combinations you can use to make your bathroom stand out.



Green, white and black.




Lavender, silver and white.



This one might be my favorite (I have a thing for browns). Dark Brown and Yellow.



Pink and gray.



Turquoise and yellow.



Red and white. The White Stripes favorite scheme.



Brown, white and pink.



Turquoise, white, and natural wood.

5 Gray Bathrooms for Post Long-Weekend Woes

Three day weekends are a thing of great joy and wonderment. The Tuesday after a beloved three days off is the cause of great misery and remorse. And for that, we've got the color gray! I bet you feel better already!



But Color Expert defines gray besides the cloudy gray gloom and doom we might be used to:

"Gray is timeless, practical, and solid. A longstanding favorite suit color, gray can mix well with any color."



But Color Expert then unloads the common conception:

"Although well like and often worn, people rarely name gray as a favorite color possibly because Gray also is associated with loss or depression."

So where's this all going? Well, when it comes to your home, in pretty much every case, gray will be the timeless, practical, and solid color you're looking for. It's one of those neutral colors that are the easiest to match up with. And to show us how to pull it off, we've got 5 gray bathrooms that make a gray statement, but aren't associated with loss or depression!

Some of these kind of kick the old gloomy gray stereotype out the window by involving a lot of white and a lot of light, like the one above, which uses gray walls to define the blinding white of the rest of the room.