post 14 of 30: invites

well the invites are officially in the mail!  and i could not be more happy with them.  here is a little sneak peek.  can't give the entire design away or i would ruin the surprise!

confession:  i LOVE washi tape!!!

Turquoise.

Recently interior designers around the world gathered at Market in High Point, North Carolina where they visited showrooms of all different types of manufacturers, from furniture to lighting to accessories and everything in between.  This year all signs pointed to turquoise.  Apparently the color of the season or maybe the year!  I am a huge fan of blue so this made me happy:)  I have found some turquoise inspiration to get this color into your lives and homes!

Everything about this room is totally perfect to me! The elegant curves of the bench and cocktail table are a perfect balance with the rigid black and white stripes on the sofa.  The pink chairs add the perfect "pop" of color.

Like pink, orange is a great color to pair with turquoise.  This bedroom has amazing turquoise paneled walls and the orange tray on the white bed is a great touch.

This turquoise chandelier is the epitomy of a focal point in this mostly all white bedroom.

I love the bohemian flare to this room.  The orange sofa with turquoise accents is amazing with the neutral tones that make up the "base" of this room.  Anybody notice how AMAZING this ceiling is?!?!?!

I WANT THIS OFFICE!  The black and white photo collage on the back wall was the perfect thing to do with a focal point wall that has a funky shape and all of the white furniture really grounds this mostly blue room and makes it modern yet very chic.  White paneled wall, I love you.

To get some turquoise spice in your life I turned to Global Views.

Office Facelift.

After 4 years of the same dull office day after day, I think it is finally time to MAKE A CHANGE.  When we moved into this office building in February of 2007 we were all given the oppurtunity to pick which office we wanted and what paint color we would like.  I am still SUPER happy with my paint color selection, gravel by Porter but I never did very much with the space past that point, so now it is time!  I decided to find some photos for inspiration!

I think this is SO COOL for an inspiration wall!

This picture is from Interior Design magazine, what a cool offce to work in everyday:)

This reminds me of my gray office with white furniture only cooler....

LOVE the yellow inspiration board.

pops of orange

How awesome is this desk?

Again with the yellow!

I LOVE white and this office is the coolest!

WOW what an amazing way to make use of a large wall.

love the chandelier wall decal!

I have white shelves like this in my office, maybe I need to brighten them up with some color!

photo courtesy of bright.bazaar

hmmm I think that I have an idea for this:)

Now that I have some inspiration to liven up my office and have a killer place to post inspirational photos, I think I need some new art in my life because the current peice is just not cutting it!  I found these peices on etsy!

photo courtesy of made by girl

I went ahead and took before pictures of my office and I will keep you posted on the work in progress and when it is all done, I will post Before and After photos of course!