Color Crush: Seaglass
June 16, 2010
Lately, I’ve been crushing on the colors in seaglass – those watery, ethereal blues and greens that bring to mind the colors of the many oceans, and the relaxation that seems to accompany spaces decorated in these shades.
I love to collect seaglass, and these days I find myself drawn to all sorts of decorative glass objects in these vivid greens and blues – they just mix so beautifully together and always look fresh.
Here’s a few of my favorite designer spaces combining all the beautiful colors found in seaglass . . .
Manny Rodriguez Photography
Jamie Drake/Drake Design Associates
Coastal Living/Waterleaf Interiors
Kelly Wearstler
Candice Olson
Aren’t all those blues and greens so fantastic together ?
Seaglass is my latest color crush – what’s yours ?
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Tags: color inspiration, seaglass
I love, love sea glass and these pictures are so yummy! thanks for sharing.
Yes, such a peaceful and soothing color.
yes, yes, and oh mylanta yes!!! i’ve just been thinking for about 6 months now how to introduce my man to that color in our house. i have it in some retro dishes i picked up but i dyingly (new word!) want a piece of furniture or wall in one of those colors!
def going to “star” this post in google reader for future inspiration!
lauren@mylifeandmyloves
Great photos – I love green and just posted about pink and turquoise, together (for my daughters’ room). thanks!
I have ALWAYS loved those colors! In fact, I’ve already got one of those same pics on my blog this week that I’ve been swooning over !
My color crush just became seaglass! I’ve always been partial to blue & green – put them together, and they turn into something even more beautiful!
I am SOOOOO into these colors right now! I recently bought a duplex that I moved into and I’m wanting to go with these colors. Thank you for posting this….it’s been great inspiration!
What a great collection of photos showing this color combination working so well…but what really caught my eye was the kitchen in House Beautiful!! It makes me want to stop work, reverse and make this color scheme work in my kitchen!! Janell
I must have scrolled through these pictures 7 times — loveee. Now I’m trying to figure out which room in my house is going to be redecorated with these colours. Lovely post :)
I love it, too, and all these rooms are gorgeous!
Always loved these colors too. Especially this time of year. My oh my, would you look at those round cribs. And 3 of them! And so many wonderful light fixtures too. Lots of great inspiration.
You always do a great job of putting together inspiration photos…I always leave inspired too. :) LOVE the Candice Olson room. Looks like she did a good job in a narrow space. :)
I LOVE LOVE LOVE those colors. But how would they look in the fall & winter?
I have a major crush on seaglass too. I just feel so relaxed and calm and beachy when I look at them, and I want to make my whole house feel that way. Pair the shades with crisp white and dark hardwoods and I’m in heaven.
Our house is largely undecorated…still… but I did pick up a rug with those colors that I’m absolutely in love with. The goal is to pull colors from it to decorate our living and dining room. Well, eventually!
Nice timing. I love love love the sea-glass color combination and I’m ready to redo my bedroom with those colors. I’ve been looking. The problem is, I’m restricted to textiles because we’re in a rental and can’t paint. And finding affordable textiles in these colors in stores (even looking online) rather than just in magazine spreads has so far been an exercise in futility. Inspiration posts are lovely but also kind of frustrating when there’s no real-life way to actually DO anything about it.
So beautiful and soothing!
I LOVE these colors. Any hue of blue or watery green have alwas been my weaknesses but lately I’ve been stemming towards nutty looking yellows, olivey greens & hues of brown & black. I’ve been trying to redecorate my kitchen w/ an olive theme & those are the colors I’ve been playing with the most.
you’ve read my mind…I’ve been looking for a watery blue-green for my bathroom. So far everything I’ve brought home has been too pastel-ish or too minty.
Wasn’t surprises to find my favorite to be the Candace Olsen room, love her designs!
Thanks for this post. I’d love to do my home office in this color scheme. I could quite happily curl up with my laptop and spend the day working in that last photo.
You’ve read my mind, as I’m about to go buy pale green and blue linen for my room – it’ll make perfect drapes and bedskirt- so restful!! Love the tween bedroom from Sarah Richardson!!!
Yum, yum, yum, yum and yum!!!
Nature has a way of getting it right everytime! I love the colors of sea glass…and the sea. I just modeled my new kitchen from sea glass inspiration, down to the blue glass subway tiles I used as a backsplash! Beautiful rooms you posted…thanks for the “aaaaaahhhhhh” moment. :)
I love this color combination!! I am working to do something like this in our guest bedroom… these pics provide great inspiration! Thanks!!
I just redid our master room and have LOTS of this color of glass. I can’t get enough!
http://www.decorchick.com/paint/master-bedroom-redo/
I LOVE these color combos. Especially with the bright white. I am getting ready to move and even though I love the colors in my current house I am excited to try some new combinations. I am always torn between bright colors and a calm monochromatic white/ ivory/ cream room. HMMM.
I love your sight. You are so inspirational and have a great sense of taste.
Ammmmmazing photos as always!! Oh how I heart Candice Olsen’s decorating…and house beautiful…oh and Coastal Living (just ordered my subscription…happy dance!). I might bring in some of these blues and greens into my bedroom to lighten it up a little and add a beachy vibe! Oh and I DEFINITELY need one of those turquoise garden stools as a bedside table…just saying! :)
Living at the shore, I am also so into that look. If you wanted to start off small, decorate a miror frame with the blues and green glass, as I have. It certainly makes a big beachy impact. You can purchase the beach glass online, in a host of shore colors. You can glue them onto an old vase to give it life. Have fun with it.
Thanks for the pics! When we move in less than 2 weeks, my aim is to have a base of neutral colours with accents of blue and green! I love the natural feel of it – blue waters, mossy rocks… For a while now, those have been my fave colours…I also love ice blue and chocolate, though…but that would require a major revamp of many decorative objects, etc!!
The dominant accent color in my house is red…and now I want to change it all. SIGH.
This is completely the color scheme that I’m loving right now too. My living room and bathroom have already gone the route!
My latest color crush is blue in general. It might have something to do with the warm, summer weather approaching or my long craving for the ocean but I can’t seem to get it off my mind. I love the color combo of the many shades of blues and greens and how they all seem to blend well with one another. I am assuming, for those who don’t live on the coast, that sea glass can be purchased. I sure hope so because I might take the plunge and paint my master bath blue and use blue and green accents and the sea glass would look fantastic in some jars on my shelves.
Thanks for always being a wealth of information as well as inspiration.
Seaglass is always my color crush, I can’t get enough!
Jennifer
I’m right there with you on the sea glass. I NEVER tire of blue and green! It can be serene, funky, anything! Lately I love jewel tone teal-blue and brown. I cannot get enough of teal!
I love that 6th pic down ~ the more muted colors are SO restful!!
Every time you do one of these posts I think now THAT’S my favorite color, only to change my mind the next time you post a color blog.
Love, love, love these color combinations. Our AC is not working the greatest lately and anything refreshing is a relief- even if it’s daydreaming! :)
I love the nursery as well as the living/family room by Candice Olsen- but I’ve always been a fan of hers! :)
This post makes me want to be outside on the beach or something. I love these color schemes!
Hi Kate-
I would love to find a few glass japanese fishing net floats/globes in all different sizes of blues, greens, and purple. I just read an article that they stilll wash up on the beaches in Oregon in November. I would love to find just one, but I live on the east coast. It would be the a great find and something I would treasure forever.
Diane
We’re doing our kitchen and bedroom in those colors! I love them!
I am really into blues and greens right now too! I am doing my laundry room in those colors, but it doesn’t look as good as these designer homes.
love, love, love these color palettes. great round-up!
xo,
cristin
completely in love with the beds tucked into the wall!!
These colors remind me of summer and the beach. Anything blue is my favorite! :)
Trying to slowly add blues and green into my home…I fell in love with the reds and browns that seemed to be “in” a couple of years ago. I am loving all the crisp white, cottage classic style popping up everywhere. Taking it slowly is what is hard!
LOVE! I just finished re-accessorizing my living room in these colors. I’ve been a lover of sea glass since I found my first piece at the age of 12.
So pretty and tranquil! Love those colors.
Those are my favorite colors, by far. I love that first room. And is that a nursery for triplets?? Lord, I can’t even imagine…
Oh wow, that color combination is yummy! Makes me want to re-do my entire house!!!
Gosh! I love the nursery with the 3 round cribs!! Sooo cute! Blue and green are such complementary colors. I love a little teal and green myself!