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“It’s a color that really lends an atmosphere to a space, like a period drama for your walls,” she says. Backdrop has even developed an accompanying playlist, which includes some Verdi, Rossini, Bizet and Hans Zimmer.Their warm-purple red called Lobby Scene was inspired by Wes Anderson’s movie “The Grand Budapest Hotel.” And a deep olive green is among the company’s most popular paints. Its name: Night on Earth.
New York-based writer Kim Cook covers design and decor topics regularly for The AP. Follow her on Instagram at @kimcookhome.For more AP stories on home decor, go to https://apnews.com/hub/home-decor.Instants that demand respect. Compostable pods. High-altitude blends. And a myriad of related home-brew goodies that lift the senses with the familiar fragrant waft of a humble roasted bean: coffee.
Coffee world can’t sit still, it seems — just askfounder and CEO Jim Munson.
“The coffee market’s shifted focus several times over the past 50 years,” he says.
“From the convenience-obsessed industry of the ‘60s and ’70s — think Mr. Coffee — to the ’single origin’ coffee and Italian espresso drinks in the ‘80s and ’90s, to a ‘third wave’ that began around 2000, of baristas working $20,000 espresso machines, precisely dialing their grinders and weighing each shot digitally,” Munson says.has a new collection of transparent, opaque, and reflective glass and metallic ornaments that give traditional holiday motifs a fresh twist. There are amber glass balls that look like bubbly champagne; a trio of modern pines in smoky hues; milky-white glass snowmen; stainless steel orbs; and mini presents in mirror-finished steel.
Artificial trees with a slim profile work well in apartments. Get one pre-lit so you don’t have to store bulky light strings.got a Norway Spruce, for instance, that comes with it’s own zippered storage bag. CB2 has a super-slim one in several different heights. You don’t have to load up a tree with ornaments, either.
“Use your walls and ceiling to get festive,” advises Carr. “Garlands are gorgeous draped on bookshelves or chandeliers. And wreaths aren’t just for the front door. Suspend a foraged pine branch over the dining table with some cup hooks and floral wire, and decorate it as you would a tree.“Or put a potted amaryllis in a hanging planter, and fill the base with evergreens for an uplighting, magical arrangement that takes up little space.”