How easy it is to get uplifted and pick up some good vibrations from the universe with just a bucket of paint? It’s very easy and this is what is happening to me. This year, I have decided to restyle my home just with paint and colors. From room to room, slowly my home is changing face. This is my corridor.
My entire home is full of fantasy, it follows nobody’s trend or style. I live in colors, a lot of colors, they make me feel happy and energized. This corridor was a bit dark and always a tight space. After a paint job and a lot of gold bubbles, the space looks visually larger and illuminated.
Corridors usually divide rooms on the left and on the right, usually are built narrow and without windows to save space, but they are the places people go through often during the day. I never understood why people want to turn an already dark corridor even darker using the darkest colors, but that’s their prerogative. I want a corridor to lead me into light and fun. Here I see a lot of rhythms the exposed beams create with the stripes under the passageway to the corridor, the golden bubbles and the reflection in the mirror.
The home is an older house, I bought it for its character, I left all the details native to the house to keep the originality. I will never exchange it for a modern shoebox built today.
I painted this mural a few years ago and I still like it. I wanted to reproduce a fantasy Italianate-style building façade with some sign of life in a room and a couple kissing in the window. Italians are very expressive and are not stingy in love.
Life must not be serious, a bit of quirk in our days doesn’t hurt.
In my home we drink bubbles every day as a celebration of life, thus I thought of transferring that bubbly feeling onto the walls.
Call it weird, strange, unusual or whimsical, when I go through this corridor I feel happy vibrations. Ciao,
Valentina
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Valentina Cirasola is Italian-born, trained Interior and Fashion Designer. She loves to remodel homes and loves to create the unusual, as much as she likes to restyle people’s images. She is a storyteller and finds inspiration everywhere to write her stories. She needs your story to design your dream home or your dream look. She is the author of 6 books. Check out her books on
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Nov 17, 2021 @ 12:48:16
I think the home is lovely. Well done. I particularly like the door you painted and the comment about not being stingy with love.
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Nov 17, 2021 @ 18:44:41
Thank you Dan, I appreciate your visit and comment. The home is what we make of it, especially if it contains lots of love.
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Nov 17, 2021 @ 08:54:19
I love colour and you have chosen bright and warm tones. Paint really does make a difference. Have fun with your home.
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Nov 17, 2021 @ 18:42:31
As designers says “it’s only a bucket of paint”. I don’t think I will get tired of the bubbles any time soon. I really feel the energy. Thanks for the visit and the comment.
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Nov 17, 2021 @ 07:09:29
I love your corridor with life and light and joy. I used to have white walls until I discovered the brilliant and beauty of colour.
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Nov 17, 2021 @ 18:39:51
Thank you Rebecca for the visit. Colors and light to me are life, I cannot do without them.
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