The Color Marketing Group predicts that the trend towards environmental palettes will only boost the popularity of the classic bedroom combination of green and blue. Look for softer, more botanical greens paired with blues that reflect the colors of the sky and water. This elegant bedroom sitting room area designed by New York interior designer Jamie Drake (www.DrakeDesignAssociates.com) is the perfect balance of subtle lues and greens, accented with clean, crisp white trim. The wood floor has driftwood brown and mossy green tones, and the colors of nature are picked up in the muted Oriental rug.
"Blue has always been a soothing color because it's universally understood as cleansing and clarifying," says Leatrice Eiseman, director of the Pantone Color Institute, an interior design industry leader in forecasting the hottest color trends, which recently introduced a palette of water-inspired blues and blue-greens, Wellspring, for Pantone's 2008 color collection.
Photograph by Eric Striffler
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