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Inspiration: White, Gray and Orange Apartment

Reminiscent of a sunset on a slightly overcast day (most days in our neighborhood), this color combination is one we've long adored...
 
 

And this staged apartment from Alvhem gets the mix just right. Using orange sparingly as an accent color adds some warmth to to the chic atmosphere, and the dark gray, orange and white patterned wallpaper in the kitchen really ties everything together. We'd love to see a similar combination using a muted gray-lavender in place of the pale gray for an even stronger sunset feel.

See more images from this apartment here.

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I think the colors are beautiful together - I wish I was daring (or had the money to refurnish) enough to do this.

posted by ChrisGal on March 18th 2009 at 8:01pm
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gorgeous - but can you make it easier to access the images? having to load a new page to view each new image larger size is time consuming and inconvenient

love your stuff, fixing this would make the blog really perfect

posted by Jeff Flemings on March 18th 2009 at 8:09pm
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My thoughts exactly Jeff

posted by chickiegirl21 on March 18th 2009 at 8:18pm
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Jeff and chickiegirl 21 get an "amen" from me.

posted by susang on March 18th 2009 at 8:25pm
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Great apartment- I love the colors!

posted by kimmiller on March 18th 2009 at 8:27pm
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Wow, purdy! :)

posted by oakland on March 18th 2009 at 8:55pm
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gray, white and orange are my favorite colors... i've used white and gray all over my house... with spots of orange.

i love the brightness of the rooms and the tall ceilings!

posted by berkeley.loves.grey on March 18th 2009 at 9:01pm
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Very nice! Love how the colors work so well together.

posted by suzy8track on March 18th 2009 at 9:02pm
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GORGEOUS. I love grey with any bright color.

posted by hollygolighty06 on March 18th 2009 at 9:19pm
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Actually I think it's the little bursts of green that make this apartment work. Take away the greenery from the living room, for example, and it suddenly looks very sterile.

posted by Blandwagon on March 18th 2009 at 9:41pm
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needs more orange

posted by sunan on March 18th 2009 at 9:50pm
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Who makes that sofa?

posted by Jesikka on March 18th 2009 at 10:06pm
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Lovely!!

posted by Botany on March 19th 2009 at 1:27am
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it looks great.......but keeping all that white fabric clean would be a challenge

posted by sousa609 on March 19th 2009 at 1:33am
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Great use of that IKEA rug, which I love but have been puzzling over how to use.

posted by Cheryl on March 19th 2009 at 7:05am
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I like it, but at the same time it slightly reminds me of my old university's library, which was stuck in the 70s. . .

posted by Zhahira on March 19th 2009 at 8:50am
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The wallpaper moves the look up a notch.

posted by SherryBinNH on March 19th 2009 at 9:10am
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Oooh, I like! Actually, the living room looks a lot like my apartment's living room (although mine isn't quite as spacious), so this is very inspirational. I have white walls and wood floors....I'd love a light sectional like this, but have been wondering if the whole room would seem too washed out.

This just seems light and airy, so maybe I'll look into it!

posted by highsociety on March 19th 2009 at 9:15am
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ditto sunan!

i just painted my living room in African Tulip from ICI/Dulux and the morning sun coming in there makes it look like the sunrise exploded in my house! i LOVE it!

posted by rouquinne on March 19th 2009 at 9:49am
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will you look at the gorgeous bones of this apartment!

posted by Caroline K on March 19th 2009 at 9:57am
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Aaahh, gorgeous Swedish apartments...

posted by gryt on March 19th 2009 at 11:49am
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Yeah.. I agree with Jeff.
I find clicking the thumbnails extremely annoying with new page loading for a single image
Could someone please fix this? pretty please?

posted by Fuzzyummy on March 19th 2009 at 12:12pm
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Jesikka -

The sofa is Ikea - they discontinued it though.

posted by f.in.eur on March 19th 2009 at 5:07pm
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I just KNEW it was a Scandinavian home. Gotta love those windows.

posted by Lilli K. on March 20th 2009 at 5:05pm
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Neat home.

And to jump on the images bandwagon -- an awful lot of visitors have been saying this for a long time now. This way of presenting images is a real pain -- if you're trying to avoid Flash (I'm guessing that's why the current method is used?), then why don't you use the same setup as for home tours? It's still loading a new page, yes, but at least it's not the SAME page (apart from the image) and thus you could add descriptions for each image, as is done for homes.

posted by fraise on March 22nd 2009 at 5:01am
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