The white stuff
Whether you get your flowers from a local market, a florist or your own backyard, these whites are winners:
1. Ranunculus: Just as lovely in bud as in bloom, these beauties enjoy a long vase life. Known as buttercups for their yellow centres, they resonate with a feathery smooth lushness.
2. Hydrangeas: Large flower heads make hydrangeas versatile cut flowers; stunning as singles or grouped together for an elegantly bouncy bouquet.
3. Peonies: Old-fashioned favourites, these top-heavy stunners put on a splendid show as their fragrant flowers unfurl. Tie stems together below the waterline, or cut blooms and display in a small cup.
4. Lilacs: This quintessential country flower with its tiny multiple blooms are a great offset to bold single blossoms.
5. Sweet peas: Dangling, fragile-looking blooms add movement to any arrangement.
6. Hyacinth: A florist staple, their single, dense, fragrant spikes are bold companions to round, tight blooms.
The paint palette
The Essentials: How to Create your own Cottage Style Studio Space
1. Ensure there's lots of light; use spare window coverings, paint walls white, open doors
2. Spark your creativity by surrounding yourself with tools of the trade: papers, paints, artists' brushes, etc.
3. Indulge in a comfy seating area for visitors (or you!)
4. Keep existing elements. The wagon wheel suspended from the ceiling here is now a chandelier for votive candles
5. Go reclaimed with storage. Use old china pots, enamelware shelves, picture frames, etc.
6. Make the setting fit the job. A drafting board is the work area here, but it could easily be a potting bench, a sewing table or a writing desk.
The best whites ever!
Sherwin Williams, snowbound
Sherwin Williams, cloud white
Benjamin Moore, basic white
Glidden, sweet nothing
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