The Cultivated Home

We have stumbled upon one of the best secrets in green living – Green Depot! Green Depot is one of the leading suppliers of environmentally friendly products, whether it is building supplies, home products and services, or even home design. They carry products ranging from cleaning supplies, to lighting solutions, to baby nurseries, and even building supplies. Best of all, you don’t have to look far to find it! Not only does Green Depot have an amazing website, they also have many stores across the east coast, in many major cities.

Renters, rejoice! Finally, a wallpaper as removable as it is beautiful. Sherwin Williams now carries Easy Change peel-and-stick wallpaper for roughly $29.25 a roll that can be applied without sticky glue and removed without damaging surfaces. Now you can cover the wall behind your bed without fearing the landlord’s wrath on move-out day! A must-buy for renters everywhere, find them here

Have you even wondered why you are more attracted to the color blue over red, or purple over orange? Have you walked into a museum and were drawn to the green landscape, where as another person might gravitate towards something that is a more yellow hue? Our new book obsession “Colorstrology” might give you the answers.

Written by astrologer Michele Bernhardt in collaboration with the artists at Pantone this book is a mixture of astrology, numerology, and color theory that helps to shape our views on our lives and the relationship we have in it. With the 366 “birthday colors” it help you to better understand and enhance your life though the colors you are drawn to and even helps you understand why you are drawn to them though your birthday place in the stars.

This interesting book is one that everyone should check out, if not for curiosity of color, then for inspiration and maybe even to understand yourself and the people around you even more.

Don’t have time to grab the book. Check out the great “Colorstrology” website and find your place in the color stars today.

Inspiration is everywhere; especially color inspirations. Have you ever seen a brilliantly colored flower or a dress in that perfect shade of blue you have wanted for your kitchen, but can never find the exact color at the paint store? Fret no long for our problem has been solved!

One of our favorite paint companies Benjamin Moore has teamed up with Apple to create fabulous app called ben Color Capture App for the iPhone or iPod Touch and we have nothing but amazing things to say about it. Just take a photo of your inspiration and the app pulls together the closest color in the Benjamin Moore line. Once you have found the right color just shake the phone/ipod and it will bring up coordinating colors as well. After you have chosen the perfect hue for your space the app will even pull together a list of the closest BM retailers. How ingenious is that?

Think it can’t get any better? This app is free! So hurry up and download ben Color Capture and start getting inspired.

When you want to transform a room into an entirely different animal, change the color.” – Billy Baldwin, renowned interior designer

You can decorate and accessorize all you want, but the life and spirit of a room is determined by its paint.  We know that when bored, it can be tempting to overhaul a room’s color completely.  But before you spend a whole day with paintbrush in hand, consider these different and downsized applications that will reinvent and reinvigorate your space using half the paint! Continue Reading