Easy Elegance - Classic Style Decorating

Yesterday I showed how Modern Hues refelect the season's sparkle by choosing colors like green & blue. Keeping the look light with translucent glass pieces and staging it all on creamy stoneware and Natural Wood.

Today, it's Easy Elegance... Bring your party to life with smart use of color. Begin with a neutral palette of chocolate and gray, then introduce deep green with the Terrace Accent Plates and Verde Pottery. Complete your tablescape by choosing linens and flowers in royalpurple, balancing the vibrant green and adding interest and richness.

Easy Elegance [Fall Catalog 18-25, 58-63]
The Easy Elegance Style Story is a trend-forward taking on a classic style for fall 2010.

1. COLOR
Classic becomes contemporary when neutral grays and browns are accented with jewel tones like rich greens and purples. See how these colors play off each other:

Items in the Easy Elegance Color Family:
- Jewel tones: Terrace Accent Plates (Fall Catalog, 18)
- Jewel tones: Prism Glass Ornaments (Fall Catalog, 58, 59)
- Jewel tones: Verde Collection (Fall Catalog, 24, 25)
- Neutrals: Bradford Lattice Lanterns (Fall Catalog, 61)
- Neutrals: Eclipse Serving Platter (Fall Catalog, 59,63)

Neutral items accented with Easy Elegance Colors:
- Purple flowers “wake up” the Entertaining Bucket and Tray (Fall Catalog, 19)
- Linens and rosemary spring add color to the Eclipse Serving Platter (Fall Catalog, 59)
- Green candles add warmth to Bradford Lattice Lanterns (Fall Catalog, 61)
- Purple posey adds brightness to the Belle Meade Collection (Fall Catalog, 22,23)
- Ribbon adds style to the Dress-Me-Up Glass Platter (Fall Catalog, 63)
- Prism Ornaments add interest to the Vintage Spiral Stand (Fall Catalog, 62)

2. TEXTURE
Neutral backgrounds allow for subtle texture combination to stand out and add interest.

See these examples:
- Patterned linens and bright flowers pop against the Belle Meade Canisters (Fall Catalog, 23)
- Refined flower balls and Prism ornaments contrast rustic branches (Fall Catalog, 58)
- Bradford Lattice Lanterns and Marisol Clock offset Prism Glass Ornaments (Fall Catalog, 61)

3. STYLE
The secret to the standout style of Easy Elegance is incorporating repetition, a design trick that implies luxury by displaying multiples of one or similar items together.

Take a look at these examples:
- Prism Glass Ornaments hanging from branches (Fall Catalog, 58, 59)
- Prism Glass Ornaments in the Eclipse platter (Fall Catalog, 59)
- Tall and Petite Glass Domes grouped together (Fall Catalog, 58, 59)
- Devonshire Lidded Trifle with the Hawthorne Hurricane (Fall Catalog, 59)