Room for Color 2010

Great!

now this is what i'm talking about! thank you for entering. your studio is fantastic!

wonderful, fun&cozy :)

Great vibrant colors. Love how the different colors on each wall breaks the room up to make it look and feel so much bigger.

Wow, love it

Wow, talk about fearless. I love it.

Love it!

What fun colors and such a variety! This is an awesome room.

This is really BEAUTIFUL! Would you please come hook a sister up????

Whooaaaa!! Okay, now we've got some COLOR! Love it -- love the boldness and the lightheartedness.

What, no grey?

Kidding! This room definitely evokes the spirit of the contest. Kudos to you.

totally cute. i could absolutely live here

Not a whole lot of money, not unrealistic, this is great eye candy. I get tired of places so edited that no real person could live there.

This is the BEST use of bright, bold colours I've EVER seen. Seriously, this definitely has to make it at least to the finals. It's insanely colourful and yet not irritating or ugly or chintzy. It takes a good eye, great imagination, and a very brave soul to try this and to pull it off successfully. Definitely added to my favourites.

Cacophony Corner. My friend whose favorite color is "too many" would LOVE this room.

Wow! Now that's what the contest is about. I love it. Can I move in, please?

If only my husband could see the beauty in this, my whole house would look like this! How could you not wake up in the best mood ever everyday. So beautiful!

Love these colors! How could one not stop smiling while enjoying time in these rooms! Wonderful, bright colors! This IS a winner!

This is my absolute favorite entry so far. Congratulations on a job well done.

love it! agree w/ sauceycat above...def the best use of bright, bold colors i've seen!

Wow it is like Alice in Wonderland. It is awesome kinda reminds me of my apartment, no neutrals for us!

wow! so much color! very brave indeed...i am also kinda digging the duvet and the dressing table in the bedroom. sources? very cute!

OK. Wow. Bright colors. Fun to look at. Well done - Janelle knows what she's doing so hats off! This takes a lot of skill! As for me, I wouldn't be able to relax for a second. That's why they make a zillion paint colors :)

this room has soo much personality and life!!

Though I love the colors it is a bit busy for my taste, but fits exactly what this contest is all about. Great job Janelle.

Thanks for the comments, people! I do love my place. It's bright, fun, and certainly cheerful. The duvet is from West Elm, dresser is a diaper changing table from Overstock that I switched out the knobs for mercurial class ones from Anthropologie, and I chose the more neutral furniture b/c who knows what colors I might want to paint the room when I get bored of these? =) Thanks for the support and I hope to see you at the "nationals" hahaha

Awesome! It made me smile.

Wow! The colors are amazing, and I love how they're used to designate different areas. I would be so happy living there.

Great color choices and demonstration of how color can really define a space.

I actually like the understated furniture in this one, because it's flexible--as Janelle herself says-- and it doesn't clash or compete with all the colours. If she were to do some crazy, colourful furniture, then I just don't think it would work so well. You have to have something neutral to ground the room, I think.

I just love this!

My walls are looking very pale right now. Your place looks awesome!

Wow, this blows me away!

Very cool how the spots of sunlight relate to the bedding.

What I cannot get over is the sense of rightness I feel when one color changes to another! Also, whoever did the actual painting did a flawless job. Amazing. And yes, the rug is beautiful - an example of "rightness of colors combining"; and, yes again, the quiet, solid, quality furniture is like "having a stamp of approval" on your fun. Finally, I was happy to note that the bedroom is all one lovely color, with such a rich yet calm duvet, pillows, wooden dresser (with stars for knobs) and a moonshine vanity/desk. Great job! And, how wise you are to say "I don't know what I might love next".

Well, that's the GREAT one - love it :)

This is so you, Janelle, colorful! Love it and you!

OKAY, THIS is what the contest is about. Not drab brown rooms with only one speck of color! What's amazing is that you used so many BRIGHT colors and actually made it look pretty! Great job!

Sweet, so girlish!

Absolutely love the colors. It's so you Janelle! Christine took great photos too.

In the wrong hands, such a wild palette could have looked juvenile, but it is surprisingly sophisticated. Great work!

Thanks for letting me crash at the Casa de Hu!

This is my favorite entry thus far. Awesome job, I LOVE how all the colors flow! This is a dream of mine, if I could only get my husband to see things my way.

I hope this wins in a landslide! The colors, the layout, everything about this is amazing. I'm getting ready to paint my apartment and I picked out colors very similar to the blue and purple you used, but in the past few days I've wondered if I should tone them down a bit. Seeing this room convinces me to go ahead with my choices because bright and bold can look so good!

I hope you can win, Janelle. These colors are fascinatingly beautiful, vibrant and happy. I might change my mind now to use more bold colors when I paint my house, hopefully, by next year.

We love it! What a big, fearless, and bold statement! Hope you win by a landslide!

One of the best posts ever, I would love to do this at my home! The colors are fantastic, total style!

I have to log on and look at this room every day, it is so cool and makes me happy! I seriously hope you win!

Hanging out in Janelle's apartment is like getting hugged by a rainbow.

LOVE the colors! And everything is so well put together. Definitely THE winner! Awesome job, Janelle!

WOW!!! Love the bright & bold colors!!
You go girl!!!

If this doesn't win, I don't know what will. Love it!

I suppose there are a few benefits of being single. I can chose any color(s) of the rainbow I want to live in (and hug with)! heh heh heh. In all seriousness, I’m so thankful for my friends who taught me how to paint and leant me more than a few helping hands! @joco, you definitely have my vote for bold colors! @colleen2009, you’re hilarious – too bad you can’t vote every time you log in! hahhaha Thanks for all the favoritos!

Your place is warm and cozy and absolutely a joy!! Good luck with the competition!

Wow, takes a lot of guts to even decide to try something like this. I would not want it myself but I definitely think it works.

Janelle, I know I wish I could keep voting for you! (( just had to look again))

I love how happy this looks. It just radiates FUN! I would looove to see the closet. I can see a peek but I bet it's even cooler close up ;)
Great room!

Wow, you Go Girl!

Dislike! Sorry, this way too much of a good thing if you ask me. This space actually disgusts me.

It reminds me of a Lisa Frank folder.

Was this your inspiration?

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Bright! Bold and super Funky!

This space definitely is cheery. I love the bedroom the most!

And @AngieBang, what is your problem? You clearly don't like the room but there's no need to be mean about it (and comment 3 times about it too).

This makes me smile. I don't think anybody could be depressed in a space like this. My husband would never go for it but I do love it! :)

yeah AngieBang, you aren't very nice.

No really, I'm an extremely nice person. I just had a very strong and passionate reaction to these colors.

AngieBang / Design Police: you are an extremely nice person with double account disorder. At least log in the right one next time you want to insult somebody.

Each colour is beautiful, I'm not entirely sure about them all working together in such a small space, but I applaud your boldness! Very refreshing and uplifting.

For the sheer madness of this apartment I had to vote for it.

Crazy stuff and it seems to work really well.

This is great. I love to see colour in a room. Cheerful and pretty, it made me smile.

I wish I was this brave. I love it.

When a place is yours, it should be YOURS! I could not help but be energized and overjoyed to come home to this every day, especially in a dreary DC winter. Applause!

great job actually I am going to vote for you it's so bold, cheery and dary wow .... It took me a while to decide for i don't think the furniture works with this piece of colored art.
I also had a problem looking from the kitchen to the windows with that huge wall painted that color a tad too much?
All the other views look great so you're the winner congrats and have a great week end!

LOVE IT! This entire place captures J's personality PERFECTLY! Bright, sunny, cheerful, beautiful...and NOT BORING! It's so femme! Me can't wait to see!

you have really pulled off an incredibly bold mix of colors well. a great example of how paint can completely change a room.

I LOOOOOVE THIS!!!! Like a previous comment I wish I could get my other half to like this too.

I love color but a little to intentional for me.

liking it totally.

Looks pretty incredible... you usually don't see these many colors used in an area, but they blend really, really well.

Great job, Behr!

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