Great Colors in Bedroom Design

I was flipping through a magazine in a doctor's office and saw this beautiful photo of a bedroom. Although I would never use these colors in my bedroom (I like red, but not this much), I thought that the combination of the colors was really, really nice. Depending on the the client, I can see using these colors in a website.

What I love so much about the color combination is the very pale white and beige background colors, which gives the picture a very clean, fresh, bright look. This room looks so clean, it looks antiseptic.

I really love the bright red comforter with the yellow dots on it. This adds excitement to the photo. It breaks up the pure white with a burst of energy. I probably would not use this color subtly, like an icon before a link, but I might use red as an H1 or H2 tag, or put this big splash of color in the logo or header part to make a statement.

Then sparingly in the design I'd use a touch of yellow and blue. Even the pattern in the bed sheet (if you can see it) is very subtle and nice. Although I like to use solid background colors, I can see using this kind of pattern on the sheet (I think it's called cross hatch - it looks like graph paper). The colors are white on eggshell white.

Even the little orange thing on the dresser ads a nice touch of color, and so does the pale blue bench at the foot of the bed .

These colors would make a great website.

Beautiful, Clean Website with Great Photos for learnaboutwine.com

I bookmarked this site a long time ago for its' nice design, and every time I design a new website, I check out all my bookmarked sites for inspiration. This is a beautiful website. Although a lot of my sites have colored backgrounds, a white background is very dramatic. This is a striking website where all the soft colors work. I like the border around the site and the colored buttons of country blue. I'm not crazy about the page indicator color of bright yellow, but the pale yellow under the top nav bar is very nice.

The photos in this website are great and are the most important part of the visual beauty of this site. The bold, dark burgandys, greens, browns, golds, purples, and blues anchored to the left in the excellent feathered photos give this site an authoritative and polished look.

There's not much content on the pages - maybe they were trying to keep it short for the neat look - but the site would work even if the pages were longer.

Happy New Year everybody! One of my New Year's resolutions is to blog more often about great designs. If you've visited a website that you thought was really nice, send me an email at risa-at-rb3webdesign.com for consideration. Or if you've designed a site and want feedback, with some usability and SEO advice tossed in, send it to me, as well.

I wish everyone a great 2007.