Beauty In Simplicity

"The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely."  Louisa May Alcott 

Just a simple cotton curtain freshly ironed with a bit of lace trim.  Simple and beautiful. 

Since this is white I'm participating in White Wednesday at Faded Charm.

We are having a bit of sunshine here. Hope you are too.

Rhondi xo

First White Wednesday

        

Welcome to my first White Wednesday!

 If you have visited me very often you will know that I love color, so you may be wondering why I would chose to host a "white" day.  Well, recently I've been admiring many of your all white interiors,appreciating the clean, calm look of it and thinking how it might be fun to change my whole color sheme to white.  However, I know that it wouldn't be long before I'd be sneaking color back into my home!  So rather than redo my whole house white I thought I would get it out of my system by hosting White Wednesday, where we can all enjoy  the color white.

This is going to be a challenge for me but I'm up to it.  Are any of you color lovers out there going to take up the challenge with me? 

Encouraged by all your advice I went ahead and painted my studio table and chairs white and I'm very happy with how it turned out.  See how well it highlights the pattern  in the back.

Here is my white chair against the white cabinets.  White furniture, white walls. 

A white wicker vase filled with fake flowers looks good against the white chair.

My white ceramic rooster looks good against the white chair too!

They also look good on my white wicker desk in my studio.

If I had a house like this I definitely could be persuaded to go all white.  Isn't this room fabulous? 

Country Living

This room is gorgeous too, especially with all the light coming in the windows.  The word DREAM on the wall says it all!

Many homes in Norway and Sweden are decorated in all white.  I think it's because it brightens their rooms during the long dark winter days.

One blog I love to visit that is filled with scrumptious white is Anette's Hus . Anette lives in Norway and you'll love seeing all the lovely white she has in her home.  I told her you might stop by!

If you want to join us for White Wednesday, please see the instructions below.

Rhondi xo

Publish your post.  Please include use my White Wednesday button in it.

After you have published your post, click on the title of that post and use that URL to sign up with Mr Linky.  That way it will always link to the White Wednesday post rather than just your current post.

Then leave a comment telling me you signed up.

If you have any questions, just leave a comment or email me.

White Wednesday

My favorite color combination is blue and white. I love bright colors and have lots of red and yellow in my home. Lots of dots, stripes, checks and other patterns.

Sometimes I daydream about changing it all and I wonder what it would be like to go to an all white pallette. White is so fresh and clean, so calming. When I see homes that are different shades of white I am drawn to them.

So in an effort to appease my desire for a house filled with white, I am starting a White Wednesday post. Every Wednesday I will post photos of things that are white. It can indulge my yearning for white online and not redo my entire color scheme!

There are a few things in my home that are white: this beautiful Wedgwood tea cup, in the conway pattern which was the same as we had when I was growing up.

Some white gerbera daisies sitting on my wicker desk.

In my virtual white house my living room might look like this!

Would you be interested in joining me for White Wednesdays?  It's probably too short notice for you to post today, but if you want to, just let me know and I'll link to you.  Otherwise I'll have the link up next

Wednesday for you.

You can use the "White Wednesday" photo.  Can someone please tell me how to make a button for it?

I hope you have a wonderful day today!

Rhondi xo