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Ombre Cake Colors for Your Home
Delicious color gradations work as well in interiors as they do on today's most stylish confections
As the ombre color trend caught on, cakes were the first things that caught my eye. In the past year, the trend has spread like wildfire: ombre dresses, ombre hair, and ombre in interior design. These pieces and rooms play with light and dark in a new way, one that reflects nature — especially the sky — and invites you in to stay awhile.
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Everything about this ombre cake from Maggie Austin Cakes is tempting. It's like a crescendo, pulling your attention in and focusing it on the smaller top piece. This attention-directing feature of ombre makes it an excellent choice to use in home design.
Click on for some home decorating ideas inspired by this delicious gradation in color.
Click on for some home decorating ideas inspired by this delicious gradation in color.
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Plum and gray meet ombre in a dramatic way in this rug. It definitely pulls the eye to its center and would look as great on a wall as it would on the floor.
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I love how this ombre vase with its earthy base tone looks like the earth the flowers came from. The effect was created by dipping the vase in a purple glaze.
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The ombre color on the pillow makes the center of the chair the focal point and helps to combine the warm interior colors with the cool blue seeming in from outside.
The ombre tile in this bathroom gives the room such a soothing feel, as if you were floating just beneath the surface of the ocean.
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The blues and greens in this ombre shower curtain capture the feeling of rain falling on you and pooling at your feet perfectly. It also extends any color palette you might consider for the space.
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by Amoroso Design
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| The kitchen tiling uses light to create an ombre effect and create a spectrum of color rather than a single solid one. It certainly lights up the backsplash, which is so often overlooked in a kitchen. |
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The ombre design aesthetic is a classic on cookware, adding some color and design to whatever delicious food might be inside.
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This painting is a favorite. Depending on how you hang it, it could easily remind you of two different things: the depths of the sea, or the move from brightness on earth to the darkness in space. I'd go for the latter feel.
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Ombre works equally well between shades of a similar color as it does between a single color and white. This confection in its peaches and yellows (also from Maggie Austin Cakes) warms the entire room.
See how you can get the same effect in a room, next.
See how you can get the same effect in a room, next.
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The effect can be achieved with light and paint, creating a smooth transition from one room to the next, even if they're different colors. Here, a yellow-to-off-white gradation gives the stairway some extra emphasis and draws you on to explore the home.
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This ombre window curtain is reminiscent of the morning sunrise or a gorgeous evening sunset. The darker color on the bottom adds some weight to the room while still letting the light pour in through the lighter portion.
Do you have a great ombre example at home? Please share it with us below!
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Confident Color: When to Use Warm and Cool Tones
Do you have a great ombre example at home? Please share it with us below!
More:
Confident Color: When to Use Warm and Cool Tones
Ideabook published on Oct. 24, 2011.
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