Color
After gorging myself on as many color and style ideas as I could, narrowing them down by my new apartment building’s own style (art deco, pale yellow/eggshell walls and pale green shutters) and my own tastes, yesterday I decided on a color scheme for the bedroom and living room. Pale blue like the tray photographed here for the bedroom, and a pale green similar to the shutters, but a bit lighter and more subdued for the living room. Habitat had some outdoor dishes that will match wonderfully.
The bedroom is going to be a real indulgence for me. I plan to use my favorite colors, pink and purple, as accents, so when I found this bowl in a secondhand store today, I grabbed it! Even better, it looks to be a real chawan: its bottom is signed and the sides have a motif different from the inner bowl. To my astonishment, it was priced at only two euros… less than the two glass candleholders beside it, which were three euros each! (They are made of nice, thick glass. But clearly the store owners had no idea what the chawan was.) The inner motif is of cherry trees in full blossom, with a few maple leaves in the wind. The sides show just maple leaves. Cherry blossoms, sakura, are a spring motif; maple leaves are an autumn motif. I’d never really seen sakura done in purple before.
The glass candleholders will be home to some plain stones and air plants, an idea borrowed directly from that link. Tillandsia, also called epiphytes, don’t have roots like other plants. They gather moisture and nutrients from the air, and so do well in humid places such as bathrooms.
April 5th, 2008 at 06:34
That definitely looks like a chawan to me, too… and I’ve seen hundreds!
Wonderful find - congratulations :-)
April 5th, 2008 at 15:40
I was hoping to see you! :) Cool, glad to hear you see it’s a chawan too, I’m more convinced now. (I’ve only seen and held a very few in real life.)