Color in Architecture

This is the most amazing door I have ever seen ... colored slides with pantone colors...just lovely.  I found this on the Design Sponge blog (Design Sponge). the photograph was taken by Ingrid Heiss.  It is from the house of Armin Blasbichlerin in South Tyrol in Northern Italy.

Armin Blasbichlerin is an architect in Germany- http://www.arminblasbichler.com/

Of course, as I started thinking about the light coming through the door - I realized that light is about color and color changes with the quality of light.

More to come..

Cardinal Red

This is a flat-bed scan of a male cardinal that met its demise on the side of the road.  My husband found the bird, took it to his office and scanned it.  The colors of this beautiful bird are amazing and ethereal. Would you choose a palette based on these colors?

Below are the actual colors from the bird that I extracted from the photograph using Photoshop's eyedropper tool.

And below are some colors from Benjamin Moore that are similar to the bird's colors.

Ivy League

Vintage Wine

Nightfall

Sweet Rosy Brown

Note that these colors are not what you would think to see on a bright red cardinal but Ivy League is the color of the cardinal's leg and the other's are from the underside of his feathers.

Anniversary Roses

These are some of the petals left from a beautiful selection of roses my husband bought me for our 23rd anniversary in late June.  I loved the various color especially the top larger batch which had a range of colors from pale yellow to a dark peach.

I feel that all colors of roses are harmonious and can work together easily in an arrangement. These colors would not work well together in an interior color palette however. They are too intense and all from the warm side of the color wheel.

  Here is a palette that might work well in a room however 
(bathroom or girl's bedroom, perhaps)

Top color: Bubble Bath

or even...

top color: Victorian Purple

(both palettes found on www.benjaminmoore.com