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TUESDAY’S TIP: Feng Shui your front door

Adding an accent color to your front door is a fantastic way to add character, charm, warmth, and architectural interest to the exterior of your home. In feng shui, the design of your front door is crucial since it's the space where your home absorbs most of its Chi, or Universal energy nourishment.

Since ancient times the most auspicious direction for the front door - according to traditional feng shui - was considered to be South. This is why red is often admired as the best feng shui color for the main door, as red is the color of the South fire element. Interestingly enough, red is also a traditional and favorite front door color choice throughout European history.

Regardless if you choose red or any other color (I also like chocolate brown and black...all depending on the house and location of course), make sure you put up sample swatches before you commit to painting the whole door. I like to put at least three different tones of my selected color before I make a final decision....and don't forget, you can always request a custom mixture to get that perfect tone.

If you're in the mood for a little color, but are afraid to commit to an overall scheme that you may get bored of in a year, try adding splashes of colors in your accessories, artwork, throw pillows, and/or focal point furniture pieces. I designed our Sofia Chair just for this purpose. It's available in any lacquer color you can imagine and has been a loyal piece for me to bring character and architectural interest to an otherwise colorless and boring spaces.

Plush Home Sofia Chair

The color of our nail polish is a look into how we are feeling....elegant, playful, casual. Are you in the mood to make a statement or do you want to fly under the radar? Chances are your polish will reveal that answer.  

Certain polish colors only work with certain skin types, but whether you are iconically blonde or über-sensually brunette, the true diva follows only one color code...RED.

Now obviously you don't want to wear the same color everyday, and if you want to keep them guessing it's not a bad idea to mix up your shades. After all, there are 285 shades of visibly different red to the naked eye - that's a lot of options for any Diva.

from Italian Vogue...

Seven shop drawings and four prototypes later, here is an early look at the first item in Plush Home's Sofia line. I was inspired by the beautiful Moorish grates of Casabancla and wanted to fill a constant need that our interior designer clients seem to have on their projects - a comfortable, but elegant, wood back chair.

I had used a Benjamin Moore paint color named Moroccan Red for the front door of my showroom and loved the way it looked with the creme background on the building. So I opted to use the same color combination with the showroom model of this chair.  I used a faux-leather material on the seat because I am constantly being asked for "kid friendly" fabrics that don't look "kid friendly."

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