Way Beyond White Wednesday
If you ever needed proof that being deprived of color will drive you crazy, here it is. Just look at what people will do to transform their white-on-white kitchens:
1. Cutting triangles out of black paper to create Inca patterns (PikkuVarpunen via Remodelista) – I can only think it must have been a long dark Winter in Finland:
Paper Patterns
2. This white kitchen is obliterated – a creative use of cut-price Warhol posters, and there’s even a “How To” here. Thanks, reader Kate, for bringing this one to my attention!
via Jonathon Fong Style
Totally Warhol
3. This is a true labor of love – via Elle Decor “Paris-based artists Dimonah and Mehmet Iksel hand-printed wallpaper with a dazzling interpretation of 16th-century Iznik tiles to transform their white kitchen into an Ottoman-style fantasy”:
Photo Miguel Flores-Vianna
Photo Simon Upton - Elle Decor
It is quite stunning, isn’t it? Wow, what dedication. In my fantasies of living in Paris, I don’t spend time painstakingly hand painting wallpaper for my kitchen. To be honest, I wouldn’t care if I even had a kitchen…
Please don’t do that! Claw off the decoration instead…
Forbid it, Almighty God! If I had a white kitchen, I would have a white kitchen. I would not add any of these designs to it. And I don’t actually want a white kitchen, but these, um, accouterments, are a whole bunch more than I could ever abide. I think if they were in my kitchen, I’d end up clawing my eyes out!
Hi Laurie – seems like we humans just need to add ornament, doesn’t it. But like you say, not too much, please!
Amazing tatoos – thanks Rich. I’d have thought they were Lap or Turkic designs if I hadn’t read Inca — a lot of similarity in tribal arts everywhere?
Creativity is the mother of invention. If I must, I would say any of those but in doses of moderation would be preferred. I am all about the subtleties in design.
The Finnish design of Incan triangles also reminds me of Polynesian tattoo patterns, very effective and striking to see such strong geometry on the canvas of human skin.
Example: http://bit.ly/din1mo