Sharp Light White

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This colour recipe is light and bright with yellow green grey and white undertones, intended to brighten and widen a room. Use bold patterns, repetition and structure within the choices of materials with a fine ballance of light and bright colours. Try out a colour recipe tool for yourself.

Saffron Grey

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 Derived from the dried stigmas of the purple saffron crocus, it takes anything from 70,000 to 250,000 flowers to make one pound of saffron. Moreover, the flowers have to be individually hand-picked in the autumn when fully open. These are the main reasons why it is the most expensive spice in the world. Anyway, if we return back to this particular colour recipe it is important to mention a fine balance of warm blues and browns when accessorising. Material choices require a modern approach with a level of handmade metal work detailing. Young professionals with plenty of space to juggle around would enjoy this particular colour recipe. Try out a colour recipe tool for yourself.

Cookeina Peacemaker

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Cookeina is a genus of cup fungi in the family Sarcoscyphaceae, members of which may be found in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. This colour recipe is intended to create a light, relaxed, but colourful atmosphere. It is in fact created for a kitchen for an elderly couple and an ongoing project. Incorporate traditional elements with modern details and use quality finishes to achieve this Cookeina peacemaker look. Try out a colour recipe tool for yourself.

Curious, practical brown

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This recipe turned out really nice and I'm very happy to be able to use it in a real life situation. This has actually been created for a friend who's recently moved house with my new personal colour recipe® creator tool. It is inspired from the answers provided in a questionnaire. I can't wait to see the finished room will keep you updated... 

                                            

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New Scandi

This is a great pallet of colours influenced by a combination of events and moods in my life prior to creating it. It goes perfectly well with a new trend developing of a city x countryside and vice versa combination way of living. A good dose of masculine finishes and shapes highlighted with metallic bright blue/red/green colours. On the other hand the finishing touches of modern textiles or arwork is what makes this Scandinavian pallet tic. You can view this recipe on the online magazine here.

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Blue who?

July is one of these months to visit flax and lavender fields. Those two blue shades are one of the most beautiful and naturally come with a gorgeous combination of brown and green around them. As it is usually seen in lavender and flax fields I have created colour recipes rich with blues together with these beautiful complimentary colours. Combine natural materials, calming fragrances and soft shapes in interiors where you unwind and relax. You can view this recipe on the online magazine here.

Two recipes for rooms with different function. The top one is a more active colour combination to achieve a country look and the lower one has a modern feel to it with slightly darker and softer colours next to each other.

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Like Green

Green Lakes are just off the central Vilnius in a National Park. These two beautiful lakes exude a bright green colour, which is due to the large amount of carbonates in the groundwater. They formed due to erosion of melting glacier water approximately 18 thousand years ago. An area of 27km square is full of plants that are listed in rare and endangered species book. This colour recipe has been purely inspired by taking pictures when visiting this park on rainy summer evenings to check out if wild orchids are in bloom yet, taking a boat ride around the lakes to find a remote corner to have a refreshing swim in this emerald water. You can view this recipe on the online magazine here.

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Mine Pine

This is a very solid nature inspired colour recipe. Add lots of natural surfaces, patterns and make sure not to forget small sensual accessories. I absolutely love pine trees and Baltic amber it is like a new gold these days, therefore a light breeze of light blue seaside wind is a key element here in this recipe. Add as many shades of brown as you want you can not over do here just make sure there is some amber and black. You can view this recipe on the online magazine here.

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New feature

Hej, check a smashingly fantastic new feature the mighty www has enabled me to provide to all of you readers of this blog. These are the magazines for every post I compose for you to use, print out or share them with your friends. I have taken away the links in the text, but have added in a lot more, all the image material and the videos that inspired me to create these colour recipes. This option will allow you and give more things to juggle with when working with a recipe. Please feel free to jazz things up interpret your own way in your own spaces and homes and share them with me. I would love to see them all! Enjoy

Flamingo domingo

The wonderful Flamingo bird that its colour pigment depends on the amount of Carotene obtained from their food supply it is also a monogamous bird that does stick with one partner for life. Well, not the case when we look at the pinkish Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec paintings that are famous for Parisian nightclub cabaret dancers and singers of the 19th century he painted and slept with. Use juxtaposition of blues and blacks against the tints of pink in this colour recipe to freshen up dull spaces.

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Mustard life on Mars

If there only was life on Mars! Two polar opposites in colour range and plenty of nature influenced material in this recipe. When creating spaces with this colour recipe take into account the subtlety of the opposites and how they merge with bright accessories. Everything has to be in a perfect balance just like it is on Mars.
 

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Something New

Camille Pissarro, The Louvre under the snow 1902 @ National Gallery. Being a father figure to all Impressionists this is one of my favourite impressionistas too. I have been inspired to create this recipe by a warm but wet London streets this time of the year, the mood is optimistically melancholic. Use soft and rough contrasts to make your space atmospheric and calm.
 

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Velykij Emerald City

 "The next morning, as soon as the sun was up, the travelling friends started on their way, and soon saw a beautiful green glow in the sky just before them. “That must be the Emerald City,”
One of my favourite and the first American fairytale of the 1900 I have never read in any of its original publications as a child. Instead I was very familiar with the Alexander Melentyevich Volkov's adaptation for the soviet union block. I still love the Leonid Wladimirski illustrations better than any others.Why? The simplicity and a slight naive flair, on the other hand very clear differences in materials: soft 'n hard is what drives this colour recipe forward. You can view this recipe on the online magazine here.

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Sage beige for a rainy day

End of the World Cinema in Egyptian desert couldn't have been a better topic to inspire this lovely colour recipe for anyone who loves film, Aztec art and soft peach, beige and sage tints. I would like to enter this room on a cold rainy day somewhere north in Scandinavia. You can view this recipe on the online magazine here.

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Tic toc... reflecting morning evening

Swinging on a tyre in a blue sky no matter of the hour, I add teal and steel to this recipe to enhance the beauty of this baroque Corpus Christi Church @ Kaunas. Loops and circles we are surrounded by starting our morning with pouched egg and ending the day with lemon sunset in a beautiful place Trakai. Use it with pride of the morning and the evening glory. You can view this recipe on the online magazine here.

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Children bunch of grown ups

It's my pleasure to present this Fox glove purple and Turmeric inspired optimistic recipe for life long children bunch of grown ups. I have to admit I am one of them and I have included everything I dearly love. Natural hot streams  and amazing Fox gloves (Digitalis Purpurea) that every part of the plat is poisonous, Turmeric (Curcuma longa) the powerful medicine and the healthiest spice in the world and avocado also known as an alligator pear I have recently managed to grow from seed. You can view this recipe on the online magazine here.

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South East influence

Torch Ginger the stems of these herb flowers are chopped up and added to curries or soups with rice noodles in South East Asia, Malesia and Australasia. This Eden project and fresh lake water inspired enhanced with a colour combination that is perfect for people loving minimalism in interior and yet enjoying a touch of some eclectic silver lining. You can view this recipe on the online magazine here.

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Classic yet very edgy

This is  a "feel good" combination of colours very well suited in spaces where you have to work or sleep. Kalihi in Hawaiian translates "the edge" it is not a coincidence the merge of a new beginning and this free butterfly like orchid (psychopsis kalihi) has been chosen. Pick this colour recipe and you never fail to impress. You can view this recipe on the online magazine here.

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