Last week, I participated in a Challenge on Facebook Live. It’s all about the benefits a business can draw from doing live videos from that platform. I decided to dedicate my fifth-day video to the story of your home. Does a home have a story? Yes, absolutely. In Italy, my native country, we believe that the first person walking by when the foundation of a home is laid out is the person that leaves his/her spirit in the house. Chinese people believe the entry door must be set toward the East, where the sun rises, to give a positive and lucky feeling to the house. These might be superstitions, but I can tell you that every time I went into a house I was buying, a sensation in my stomach and on my skin told me if I was welcomed there or not. If the feeling was positive and I felt good about the house, I started the process of buying and thinking of the décor.
Yesterday, someone made a comment after she saw this video below, on how to transition from Mediterranean style into a coastal style when she will move to a different house and was kind of worried all her expensive Mediterranean style furniture was not going to fit in the coastal style.
My first approach to that would be to think of colors first. Second, even furniture in good condition, beautiful and expensive go out of style and need to be updated.
Coastal colors are not only made of light blue, white and light green. Looking at the colors of my shell collection and my underwater flora/fauna photo, it comes apparent the Sea colors come from algae, coral reef, fish, rocks and sand. In coastal colors is easy to find yellow, orange, red, purple, greens in all shades, beiges, muted colors, greys, and even black.
My shell collection
Underwater life and colors
In the ’90s it was the rage the have at least a kitchen, if not the entire home in Tuscan/Mediterranean style. Everybody went with beiges, browns and dark burgundy as if there wasn’t anything else in the market. I had the impression people had lost fantasy and couldn’t imagine anything else. Mediterranean colors and style are beautiful and very colorful, the interpretation was wrong. The Mediterranean basin is a sunny, very warm area of the world, it is colorful and cheerful, reflecting the weather.
I am not sure why in the US, the Mediterranean style was interpreted with beiges, dark burgundy and browns, so very gloomy! I am glad that the fad is gone.
In my gallery, I am showing the correct colors of the Mediterranean style for those who want to do it right. It is still a good style for a home.
Photo Source: Romeo Cuomo FB – https://www.facebook.com/romeo.cuomo
Now, go on, find your color palette and start your story.
In my video, I tell just about all, however, I am here ready and prompt to help. It is easy to rock the boat together.
thanks for watching. Ciao,
Valentina
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Valentina Cirasola is an Italian Interior Designer working in the USA and Europe since 1990, specializing in interior and exterior, color analysis, kitchen, bath, wine cellar, and outdoor kitchen designs. Often people describe her as “the colorist” as she loves to color her clients’ world and loves to create the unusual. “Vogue” magazine and many prominent publications in California featured Valentina’s work. She also was seen on RAI – Italian National TV and has made four appearances on T.V. Comcast Channel 15. Author of three published books, the latest ©RED – A Voyage Into Colors is on the subject of colors.
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