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Inspiring Interior Colour Palette Combinations

Audenza — Thu, 05 May 2022 16:20:59 +0000

Oh so many beautiful colours to choose from, so many exciting colour combinations. Which to choose, which combination do we desire? Amelia moved house last year and this is her favourite activity – drooling over interior colour palette combinations, so we thought we would bring you a selection of her favourite combo’s just to whet your appetite.

Yellow & Black

Epoca Restaurant. Image credit: Vogue

Image credit: @cloud_nine_interiors

First up is yellow and black. A daring duo but if done well it’s a clean, refreshing mix that’s sophisticated and elegant. Mainly black and white with splashes of yellow for zing, and gold accessories to contrast the black and add sparkle.

Pink and Green

Image credit and wallpaper: Woodchip & Magnolia

Amelia’s Bathroom Renovation (Audenza co-founder)

You can’t possibly go wrong with pink and green. It’s a timeless colour combo that is restful and harmonious, and always feels like you are bringing the outside in. One of my favourites for that very reason. Soft and subtle, or full on colour saturation, it’s always going to work.

Red, Black & Green

Image credit: Hotel Particulier Montmartre

Gianna Neon Art | Tiered Console Table | Red Velvet Armchair | All home accessories available from Audenza

I always think of a red, black and green colour combination as being grown up, and it reminds me of studies or snugs. Warm, cosy end enveloping, but also dignified and distinguished.

Pink, Yellow & Grey

Image credit: Yvonne Wilhelmsen

Pink and grey together can be quite sombre and with a vintage vibe, but with a touch of the romantic. But add that dazzle of yellow and you have a striking and modern colour combo that can’t be ignored.

Teal, Mustard Yellow & Fuschia

Gold Sunburst Pendant Light | Flamingo Table Lamp | Orange Zebra Plate | Queen of Diamonds Print

A striking ‘look at me’ colour combo that can’t be ignored. This is Amelia’s sitting room in her previous house and still a favourite. It’s essential pink and green with a dash of mustard yellow. Can’t go wrong!

Black, Pink & White

Image credit and wallpaper: Cole & Son

Image credit: @lustliving

Black and white, with the addition of pink is a restful harmonious scheme that never fails. If pink is your favourite colour but you don’t want it to look too feminine, then the black and white sharpens it up for a more considered design.

Green & Mustard Yellow

Links Console Table | Gatsby Velvet Armchair | Deco Style Canvas Art | All home accessories available from Audenza

Green and mustard yellow has the same inside outside feel as pink and green, but a sharper less feminine combination. Always harmonious whether you go light or dark.

Pink & Teal

71 Oyster Bar. Image credit: Reuben Ortiz

Pink and teal is essentially a swankier version of pink and green – more chic shall we say. Less soft and more snappy. Perfect for this swish bar.

Pink, green and yellow has always been one of my favourite interior colour palette combinations. I’ve tried to deviate over the years and broaden my horizons but in my latest home revamp I’ve reverted to type and feel so much more in tune with my home. Do you have a favourite interior colour combination you find you are drawn to time and again, despite all the choices out there? Plenty to choose from there – what do you think?

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Autumnal Colour Inspiration for your Home

Audenza — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 17:54:10 +0000

Celebrate the changing season and bring the colours of the outdoors in with our autumnal colour inspiration mood boards and pics. Ochres, greens and russets create a warmth and vibrancy, with a textural scrumptiousness in velvet, wool and fur, for that essential tactile experience. Rejoice as we settle into the delights of autumn and hunker down for the end of the year in a blaze of colour. So, here is our roundup, showcasing the beauty of an autumnal colour palette for your home.

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I will admit to being very sniffy about autumn and feeling down about the long slow slide into winter – ugh. I’m not actually allowed to say that out loud as the daughters accuse me of being depressing, and tell me to shut up. But, no longer will I moan about autumn, I am now going to celebrate the amazing colours in the garden. I appreciate them for their richness, so now I’m going to bring the colours indoors, light the lamps and the candles, delight in the glow, and last but not least, get my jim-jams on early. Ah, what bliss.

Shop the look: autumnal interiors

I don’t know about you but it makes me want to snuggle up on the sofa with a rug, get the box set out and crack open the popcorn and wine. Maybe all I needed to beat the winter blues was autumnal colour inspiration!

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Amelia’s Maximalist Teal Living Room Scheme Reveal

Audenza — Fri, 03 May 2019 17:04:10 +0000

I’m a maximalist through and through. So, you can imagine how hard it is for me, surrounded by all the lovely Audenza products, to pin down what I actually want in my new home. It’s a small Victorian terrace so I’m limited by the size of the rooms, but it has good bones. I wanted to start with the front living room so we have somewhere welcoming and cosy to come home to that feels like us (I should, possibly, say me, as all my boyfriend really cares about is the size of the TV, but that’s good as I have very strong opinions on what I like!). I’m going to start by showing the mood board for my Maximalist Teal Living Room Scheme Reveal, because the ‘before’ photo is rather uninspiring!

[This post contains some gifted items]

It was a completely blank canvas being solely magnolia floor to ceiling, with a pine mantelpiece and fire surround, built in pine meter cupboard and laminate wood effect flooring. Where to start though in my maximalist living room scheme? Well, last year we shared 3 new season mood board ideas which I designed, and I loved the ‘Fearless Opulence’ mood board, so the design is really an extension of that. As you can tell l am passionate about rich colours, pattern, texture and gold, gold, gold, but obviously in such a small room there are limits – just!

As you can see, there’s a lot to change to create my maximalist living room scheme – luxe living with a quirky edge is how I like to describe it. The sofa is in place now though, the walls are painted in Serpentine by Zoffany* and the accessories are creeping in! The piece de resistance though has to be this amazing fabric, Cheetah by Mathew Williamson for Osborne & Little* in a startling cerise colour, which I fell in love with when researching for the blog on animal print fabrics. It’s a blend of viscose and cotton velvet with a lovely textured pile and I can’t wait to see it as roman blinds in my big bay window. It’s away being made up as we speak – oh so exciting!

What do you think to my maximalist living room mood board? Do you make up mood boards when planning a room? It’s a great way to get a feel for the whole look and to get an idea of how the colours sit together. Keep watching this space for the full room reveal to come – soon, I hope!

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*Gifted – the Cheetah print fabric by Osborne & Little and the Serpentine paint by Zoffany have very kindly been gifted for this project.

**Part-gifted – the Faunacation Velvet Fabric by Divine Savages has very kindly been part-gifted for this project (we received the item at a discount).

3 New Season Mood Board Ideas for a Super Stylish Home

Audenza — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 11:17:53 +0000

Want a new look for the new season? We’ve put together 3 interior mood board ideas to show how our products can be used in very different schemes for a super stylish home. Also, a sneaky peek look at some of our new AW18 products! Some people have a very defined style that encapsulates their whole house, but I’m a bit of a magpie at acquiring goodies and like different looks for different rooms, in order to give a space the vibe I want. My bedroom is palest pink and gold, which I like for its sense of calm and femininity, my sitting room is dark and moody with lots of splashes of colour and, of course, gold, the garden room (opening onto the garden, obvs), is a green oasis filled with plants and exotic animal touches for a jungle feel. So, whatever your taste try experimenting with different styles for different rooms.

The Daring Explorer

The daring explorer is a fun way to add an exotic element to your interior space. Large and lush tropical plants set the scene for a decidedly avant-garde look. Daringly dark green lends an intimacy to this scene, but the addition of gold creates a lightness of touch that uplifts and bedazzles. With animal imagery on the furnishings such as lamp shades and cushions you get a feel for the jungle, and make sure to add in some animal print for a really bold and on-trend safari style update, such as a zebra cowhide rug for the ultimate animal vibe. For a contrast in colour, mustard velvet works well to a colour scheme like this and adds some luxury texture, along with velvet cushions.

Fearless Opulence

Fearless opulence for the fabulous and fearless amongst you. Dare you? With the trend for rich velvets and exciting colourways this is an easy one to pull off. With plum and teal and forest green as the main components of the colour scheme you only need throw in some gold for a truly lush décor. All of these jewel tones work so beautifully together, so don’t be afraid to use the colour palette to it’s fullest here to really make the room sing. Again, a strong Hollywood Deco vibe to this interior scheme with the richness of colours, but adding in plenty of unusual quirky accessories brings it bang up to date. Such as the ‘rock on’ hand and pink neon heart light bring an uber cool and contemporary vibe to this scheme.

Iconic Elegance

Pink and gold décor is deliciously feminine and elegant. In other worlds it can be shocking or dreary or sickly, but in the Audenza world it is a gloriously glamorous and feminine haven that exudes elegance. Palest pink needs oomph adding to it to lift it up from the ordinary, and what better way than lashings of gold. Seductive and sensuous gold, of course! The tall sinuous palm tree floor lamp creates drama, and a touch of the exotic, whilst retaining a calmness. For colour contrast, teal is the perfect partner that sharpens up the scheme, and it’s important to layer up the textures for a feminine space that speaks of softness and warmth. All in all, there is a definite Hollywood vibe here, so play up the luxury for an elegant and feminine interior that is never dull (or sickly sweet).

Whether you’re looking for a complete revamp or just a tweak here and there we have plenty to tempt you with. Just throwing down a rug, scattering a few new cushions and changing the wall art can make a room look so different. But if you’re looking for a complete change, we dare you to push your own boundaries a little and step outside your comfort zone. That’s where the magic happens! We hope we’ve inspired you to try something a little different – which of our 3 interior mood board ideas tempt you?

Jacqui x

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2 Perfect Pink Interior Colour Palettes

Audenza — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 11:27:06 +0000

Today we have 2 perfect pink interior colour palettes for you to drool over, just in case you missed the previous post about pink! And if you did, check it out here: Dreamy Pink Décor Ideas, for further inspiration. Pink is my go to colour if I want some warmth and glow to my décor, from softest baby pink to full on hot pink, there has to be pink in my life and I know many of you out there feel the same, although some of you are still in the closet, or shy about admitting a fondness for this supposed feminine colour. I read an article the other day called ‘Pink Wasn’t Always Girly’ that goes into depth about the history of pink and its gender connotations that makes for an interesting read if you want some background detail.

Blush Hygeia Vase

Pantone, the global colour forecasters, launched Rose Quartz as their 2016 colour of the year (along with serenity blue) and it has been gaining momentum as a strong trend in interiors that is set to continue. Suffice to say I love the colour and think it has a place in interiors whatever your gender. Karen Haller, one of the UK’s best known Applied Colour Psychology experts has this to say about the trend for pink,

‘For whatever reason, the Millennials are a generation who care far less about what people think. They don’t see pink as being weak or needy or ‘girly’ – they see it as a vibrant colour and one amongst many they use to express themselves. They’re not entrenched with the stereotypical beliefs that go along with pink.’

So, there you have it from the experts! Check out Karen’s full post here.

Tropical Leaf Melamine Tray | Flamingo Salt & Pepper Shakers

Partnered with green it really is reminiscent of a lush spring day in all its verdant glory, and what an easy way to cheer up your interior décor, and life, come to that. The wall colour is Button, by Little Greene Paint, which is best described as a sort of beigey pink (to my mind anyway) and, although it looks slightly boring on the colour card, gives a lovely warmth to a room.

Brass Flamingo Leg Table Lamp | Mustard Glass Vase | Brass Flamingo Table Lamp | Tall Peacock Vase

If bold and fearless colour combos is your thing then Dark Lovage, by Conran Paints, makes a great contrast against hot pink accessories. By keeping to small quantities of the hottest hue you enliven a space without overpowering the room. And quantities of gold add the luxe for a really vibrant décor.

Well that’s me finished with my eulogy to the colour pink – although I’m sure I’ve not finished on the subject for good, not until you dissenters have seen the light anyway!

Jacqui x

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3 Sumptuous Colour Palette Ideas for your Home

Audenza — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 14:37:57 +0000

Daylight, glorious daylight – it’s such a transforming feeling to have more hours of daylight that it makes me start to think of my home, and my garden, in a new light and to feel ready for a change and a refresh. And the obvious place to start is with these 3 sumptuous colour palette ideas for your home. We are all drawn to certain colours but it’s not always easy to visualise how to use them in a room scheme or what colours to accent with, or even how to achieve the effect we want, be it moody, colourful, spring like or even dramatic, so Amelia has put together 3 colour palettes to give you ideas, and a reminder of this fab book we reviewed on the blog that helps you to see how colours work together.

Midnight Forest

Faux Areca Palm Tree | Lush Fern Framed Print | Gold Tripod Side Table

Midnight Forest is warm and encompassing with the strong blue walls (Plimsoll, by Paint & Paper Library) whilst being fresh and zingy at the same time with a striking green velvet chair and lots of lush greenery. Greenery, as I’m sure we all know, is the Pantone Colour of the Year (and has always been a favourite of mine) and there is always a hue of green that will work in a colour scheme to enliven and refresh. Faux plants are a really easy easy way to add green to a scheme- no green fingers required.

Pastel Lustre

Mirrored Drinks Stand | Gold Ants | Gold Tripod Side Table | Monty Dog Watering Can Vase | Gold Pineapple Tray

Pastel Lustre is such a beautiful light, airy colour combo that it’s hard to resist if you’re a pastel kind of girl. The main picture is Calamine by Farrow & Ball which is a lovely soft pink and the smaller pics are Button, by Little Greene which is a warm, almost beige hue. Add a bit of black if you want to make it more grown up and serious or a touch of gold if you want to go the glam way. Or throw it all into the mix for something a bit different.

Green with Envy

Pour Over Coffee Drip Brewer | Gold Milk Jug | Glass Coffee Cup and Saucer

Green with envy is Amelia’s take on this colour scheme, and my personal favourite, although I’ve yet to use it in my own home but it’s under consideration as we speak!! The wall colour is Dark Lovage by Conran and is one of those elusive colours that change quite dramatically depending on the light. Nothing says grown up glamour like this strong green/blue colour paired with gold accessories and touches of marble. Certainly not for the faint hearted but oh so dramatic!

So tell me, do you feel inspired? I’m redoing my garden room soon, and I think I’m swaying towards ‘Green With Envy’ as a starting point for the scheme. I’d love to know which colour palette idea is your favourite?

Jacqui x

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