Start thinking about where, within your own home, Domino has influenced the your home design choices the most–whether it’s an entire room, or a corner where you’ve been able to make your decor dreams real. That includes design, layout, decor, and overall style choices you’ve made.
How did Domino inspire you to make true design dreams come to fruition with the budget you have right now?
This elegant robin’s egg blue front door belongs to the uber talented Miles Redd whose work was often showcased in Domino Magazine. The picture appeared in the November 2008 issue and ever since people have been blogging about blue doors and painting their doors blue. I think this color is a chic and sophisticated alternative to the ubiquitous red front door and black front door. In the Mediterranean region and north Africa, blue front doors are very popular because blue is thought to keep away evil spirits.
Miles Redd's Beautiful Door
Note also the centered doorknob and the silver hardware. Baldwin Hardware has a beautiful collection of door hardware in nickel finish that would be wonderful–but don’t feel that you need to change your door hardware if you have brass. This shade would be lovely with brass as well.
I tried to find out the exact paint he used, but was told it was custom mixed on site by Miles Redd himself. Some great colors close to this are:
Martha Stewart C25 Robins Egg Blue
Sherwin Williams SW6484 Meander Blue
Benjamin Moore HC-144 Palladian Blue
Farrow & Ball 22 Light Blue
The Tiffany Blue box is a somewhat deeper and stronger robin’s egg blue, but will always be a gorgeous and iconic color.
Here are two close matches to the Tiffany box:
Benjamin Moore 2048-50 Tropicana Cabana
Sherwin Williams SW6766 Mariner
This is my top project for my house this spring. Have any of you painted your door this color? I would love to see pictures! Just think, for the cost of a quart of paint, you’ll give your house a whole new look!
Thanks, Beth!
Icons of Style #1: Zebra Rugs
Icons of Style #2: Pink Walls
Icons of Style #3: Miles Redd Birdcage Bedroom
Nasa Image, Hubble Telescope: Monster Black Holes are Everywhere
The black hole that is magazine publishers has sucked in its biggest victim yet, Domino, and we are left to figure out what to do from here while somehow feeding our own need for a great design periodical. When I think about the hole left where Domino was, I am genuinely depressed. Si Newhouse, are you happy that you’ve made much of the design world go into mourning??? Ugh, it disgusts me.
Condé Nast CEO Chuck Townsend said in a statement that it was because “this economic market will not support our business expectations.”
A spokeswoman told The Observer that the economy forced an immediate decision. But it appeared to have all the signs of that old tale told throughout the ages at Condé Nast: Si Newhouse woke up and made a decision.
-Quoted from this New York Observer article
If you look at Conde Nast’s lineup, so much of it is filled with pretension. THREE golf magazines?? Stuffy Architectural Digest? This is the thing, titles like Domino, and even Cookie to a certain extent, are the new frontier of magazines, but their own poor decision making means that they won’t be moving forward into a new era–of people with disposable income who choose not to blow it on golf but rather design and not the AD type–but resting on their laurels as long as they can. Most of Conde Nast titles are for those who have boatloads of money, or aspire to. Which will continue to work for a while, as long as Si is still alive in fact, meaning little will change until someone else can take the helm.
Did any of you take that survey that Domino had pleaded with its email list to take? I’m a sucker for those, in a good way, so I took it. How could I not want to help out my beloved Domino? Did anyone else realize that it was focused on expensive travel and whether or not I planned to take any?
I don’t care, Mr. Newhouse, if Travel & Leisure is filled with beautiful photos of that great, reasonably priced at $150-a-night hotel in Morroco, because I can’t afford to get there in the first place! A girl can only do so much drooling before she wants to drool over the attainable and relevant to her own life, which is what Domino was. I would rather spend that money on a new sofa than a flight to Morroco if I have to choose one or the other. Although I’d go to Morocco if I could, life doesn’t work that way most of the time for most of America that they get to choose both.
Nasa Image, Hubble Telescope: A Sun-like star goes out in a blaze of glory
And don’t give me the line about advertisers not being plentiful enough. Sure, not all of the ones already working with Conde Nast can fill this new arena, but look at it as a new opportunity. There are tons of places I shop at and want to shop at that would fit the demographic of Domino readers (if you want a list, Si, I’d be happy to provide it), but it’s just truly mean to 850,000+ people to deprive us of Domino because your sales staff couldn’t figure it out and reach outside of their own usual contacts.
Before my blood boils further and I’m inclined to take out my rage on the poor, unsuspecting barrista at my coffeeshop or on my coworkers, I’m going to stop and get on asking you, my dear reader, what you are going to fill the void with:
I need options people, I had put almost all of my eggs in the Domino basket and don’t know where to go from here. Help me, my dear Domino lovers!
And because I can’t go without my eye candy, today’s images are from
Ask Dara:
From NASA, about the top picture on the mammoth black hole (and my own personal view of Si Newhouse right now, who is missing the fact that “black holes have an intimate relationship with their host galaxies”):
The hubs of most galaxies have a mammoth resident that loves to gobble up anything that wanders near it. This sleeping monster, Hubble observations confirmed, is a black hole with a mass millions to billions times that of our Sun. Not only are black holes everywhere, but they also have an intimate relationship with their host galaxies.
Hubble observations revealed that a tight relationship exists between the masses of the central black holes and those of the galactic bulges of old stars, gas, and dust that surround them. Monstrous galaxies, for example, have titanic black holes. This close relationship may be evidence that black holes grew with their galaxies, feasting on a measured diet of gas and stars swirling around the hearts of those galaxies.
This is my favorite photo from Domino. It captures everything I admired about Domino’s sense of style-elegant, sophisticated, modern, fresh, and achievable. Interior Designer Miles Redd did an amazing job with this room. I love the dramatic architectural bed, the Chinese wallpaper, the white linens, the bold use of vivid blue in the zigzag rug, lamps, and stools. He really did achieve turning the room into an indoor garden with the bed becoming a bird cage.
But it is also a room you could do yourself at many different price points. I bought a very similar bed at Pottery Barn Teen for $899. In fact, the wonderfully talented and charmingly irreverent Nick Olsen, former Deal Hunter on Domino’s Daily Dose, featured this bed as a well priced alternative to his boss Miles Redd’s choice. (Nick has not disappeared-he has started his own blog-Nick Olsen Style.)
Pottery Barn Teen Campaign Bed in queen size $899 (no longer available)
Anthropologie Italian Campaign Bed $1698 for queen size
Anthropologie has a great canopy bed like this also.
Here are some alternative, well-priced versions of the pieces used in this room; I’m sure you can find others.
Anthropologie Avian Apartment Wallpaper $88/roll
Ikea Lykta Lamp in Turquoise $12.99
Ikea Sveje Rug $12.99 for 3' x 5'-use several together to make a larger rug!
West Elm Zigzag Rug $183 for 5' x 8'
Madeline Weinrib Zigzag Rug-expensive but stunning!
Bamboo Stool-easily found online and in stores for about $25: spray paint a pair turquoise blue
The point is that, unlike magazines like Architectural Digest, Domino showed us great style that we could successfully achieve, not just dream about. Even the room size is a typical bedroom, not one you’d find in a mansion.
I will leave you with a great quote about having confidence in your own decorating abilities. The gorgeous townhouse of Julie and Luke Janklow is currently listed in Manhattan at $25 million. It has been featured many times in blogs and magazines. Here is a great quote by Julie about her mostly self designed townhouse:
So be fearless, take risks. Domino would be proud.
Thanks, Beth!
The excitement is growing because of what we’re brewing up here, and the hint we’re revealing this time has something to do with these pictures. Any guesses?
Domino brought pink rooms into the mainstream, not reserved for the nursery or girl’s bedroom. It showed us that pink is gorgeous in virtually any setting. These photos may inspire you to try it in a living room, a city apartment, a ceiling, a man’s apartment, an entryway, a dining room, a master bedroom, even a kitchen!
Pink is a great neutral and a very elegant choice.
I was inspired by Domino to use pink in my dressing room which is the last picture. I even took a shopping bag from Thomas Pink and had the paint store match the color.
Check out Icons of Style #1: Zebra Rugs here.
Thanks, Beth!
Do you remember your first issue of Domino? I don’t have to reach too far back into memory; you see, I’m a Domino newbie (gasp!) Its been less than a year that I’ve had the privilege of scouring the pages of the delightful magazine, and maybe that provides a different perspective on the loss of this wonderful resource.
You had me at hello – from that first June/July ’08 issue:
Have you ever heard the story of friends? I won’t go into all the details, but the take-away is this: friends enter our lives at certain times for a reason. They may leave us before we are ready, but more than likely, their friendship has served a purpose in our lives.
This yellow & gray combo inspired my family room redo:
Doesn’t everyone crave an all-white room at some point?
Despite my husband’s teasing, I consider Domino magazine a trusted friend. I remember seeing my first issue of the magazine (June/July ’08) and thinking – where have I been? There stood before me the most dynamic decor images I’d ever seen! The timing was especially pertinent, as I was feeling very out-of-sorts, wondering how I could do something with my love of all things decor, home renovation, and design. I can’t say Domino gave me a pathway, but it certainly reinforced the idea that you must follow your heart – do what you love.
Is it possible to have a dream laundry room? Domino thought so!
If I had to name one thing about Domino I love, it would be the very honest and down-to-earth approach it brought to design. Like a blissfully talented friend, Domino was confident enough in its abilities to share tips and resources – not merely the wonderful images.
And, nobody did the traditional/modern/rustic/glam mix better – and introduced me to a whole new perspective:
For most of us, our friendship with Domino has ended much too soon, but it has left an indelible mark on how we approach design, one that will benefit us long after our memories of our favorite dog-eared pages have faded. Thank you, Domino, for the short but inspiring friendship.
Here’s to You!
