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Transitional Los Angeles Home With Beachy Blues and Red Accents

From: Alison Kandler

California cool describes this chic and cheerful home, where shades of the sea share space with poppy red accessories and playful patterns. When cottage style goes coastal, the results are utterly magical and a lot of fun.

Blue Kitchen With Red Sconces

Photo: Mark Lohman. From: Alison Kandler

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Open Plan Blue Kitchen With Red Sconces

Luxury times two! This kitchen was designed to be comfortable for two cooks. Appliances are chef grade, including double SubZero refrigerators, a Lacanche range and seating for a crew of family and friends.

Blue Kitchen With Red Sconces

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Blue Country Kitchen With Red Sconces

This chef kitchen feels plenty fresh and modern, but it also plays with old-fashioned farmhouse style in a fun way. A quartet of barn red sconces shed light over the island. And an 'X' marks the island's end in another country nod.

Kitchen With Blue Range

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Cottage Kitchen With Blue Range

The wall behind the range is full of inviting color. Waterworks concrete tiles make up the backsplash, chosen to bring a wave-like feeling to the kitchen. The range itself is by Lacanche with a custom stainless steel and brass hood. Cabinet knobs are also brass.

Blue Kitchen Backsplash

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Blue Kitchen Backsplash and Range

The jaunty aqua tile that cheers up this kitchen backsplash is cement. Designers paired it with a crisp white floating shelf and accessories for contrast.

Living Room With Green Curtains

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Transitional Living Room With Green Curtains

Glossy white paint on the walls of this family room give off a pretty glow. The overall design aesthetic is casual and beachy, with durable fabrics and an easy flow out to the backyard.

Transitional Living Room With Red Bench

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Transitional Living Room With Green Curtains

The furniture and curtains do the colorful work in this bright, happy living room. So the designer used a neutral, natural fiber rug and coffee table as sedate companions. A series of matching pendants provide lighting.

Blue Country Dining Room

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Blue Country Dining Room With Red Chair

This attractive dining room mixes homey general store charm with a refined sense of style. Patterns are paired with ease, from the wallpaper's floral to the armchairs' geometric print. Curlicue chandeliers make lovely lighting.

Blue Bedroom With Red Lamps

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Blue Transitional Main Bedroom With Red Lamps

Floor-to-ceiling blue bathes this bedroom in soft serenity. A simple canopy bed plays with the shape of the vaulted ceiling. And fire engine red table lamps are bright sparks for bedside reading.

Bedside Dresser and Red Lamp

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Patterned Dresser and Red Lamp

An inlaid dresser is this bedroom's dazzling nightstand; there's a matching one on the other side of the bed. The fire engine red table lamp completes the zippy look.

Cottage Bathroom With Pink Tub

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Cottage Bathroom With Pink Tub

A gorgeous, huge window lets light filter softly into this bathroom and over the peachy pink soaking tub.

Bird Wallpaper

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Bird Wallpaper and Bench

A rainbow of colors and whimsical birds cover this magical wallpaper, an instant spark of joy in any room. Here, it enchants a closet.

Shabby Chic Laundry Room

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Shabby Chic Laundry Room With Blue Knobs

The turquoise knobs perk this friendly laundry room right up. They're a fresh, slightly modern twist on the room's farmhouse look...and an easy upgrade to make in any room.

Laundry Room With Blue Towel

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Cottage Laundry Room With Blue Towel

A dreary laundry room? Banish the thought! This one has lots of light, storage and fun style and colors.

Home Office With Blue Chaise

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Transitional Home Office With Blue Chaise

Working from home is by far the best deal when your home office is this lovely. A pretty print brightens up the windows and French doors. And a blue chaise angled in one corner is the perfect place for a brainstorming break (or power nap).

Bookshelf With Blue Wallpaper

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Bookshelf With Blue Wallpaper

Cover the rear interior of a bookshelf with bold-patterned wallpaper, and watch how it brings books and artwork to life.

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