Oh, red. It’s such a fabulously hard color to work with. The perfect red lip? Evasive. The perfect red dress? A challenge. But the perfect red paint? That may trump all. But, when it’s done right and all lacquered up… my, how good it is! Unfortunately I don’t have the guts to put this practice [...]
If this isn’t perfect in every way, I’m not sure what is. Dog included please. *via apartment therapy
Anonymous dreamy.
Anonymous Gosh, isn't that th life? 
Anonymous I'll take it!!
Anonymous Oh it absolutely is!
Anonymous That is a vacation for the eyes! I literally sighed when the picture came up. Though a little coffee would be nice now that I feel kind nap-ish. Sigh.
Anonymous You're right, totally perfect. The dog too!
Anonymous I couldn't agree more, it's perfect!
Anonymous Ah… That looks like a ridgeback. Just like my dog. They do make every room perfect!
Anonymous Eloquently said.
Anonymous We just were interviewed by the local dog rescue. We're adopting a dog. It went well. Maybe my future pictures will include the dog!
Anonymous I need a room filled with that much light. *sigh*
Anonymous I could could spoon him all day… ;P
Anonymous sweet!
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Anonymous the pop of blue is sweet. it's very low- and i like that
Anonymous That makes me smile…dog included, fo sho:)
Anonymous i want to live there. dog included in that too.
Anonymous bliss!
Anonymous I was just telling Nate how much I love shades of whites and cream with small pops of color! This is lovely 
Anonymous adorable – love it!
Anonymous So perfect. I think this look is perfect to replicate if one is a tight budget.
Anonymous So sweet. And dog included, yes please.
Anonymous that is really beautiful… love it
Anonymous such a beautiful space. it would certainly be hard to get out of bed in the morning.
Anonymous Simply relaxing. And I love that pop of blue and the coral pillows. So lovely.
Anonymous Oh my gosh I love this so much. All that white and tan and then BAM some bright blue and red. Love the doggy too.
I discovered the work of architecture group Piet Boon via Purple Area (always so full of inspiration!) and loved this interior from one of their modern beach houses…Of course, the use of green always makes this girl happy, but I really love the use of raw, natural materials and the simplicity of these rooms. The [...]
Anonymous love love love the first one!
Anonymous What I love is the black horizontal slats that were used as headboard. That is really beautiful.
Anonymous Usually beach houses have such feminine tones, but this one just screams "a man lives here, too!" in a really great way.
Anonymous The first one reminds me of a couple of places I stayed in Australia. Love it!
Anonymous I'd love for my beach house to be in the Hamptons. Swoon.
Anonymous I'm crazy about the low slab table in the top image!
Anonymous Mmmm, lovely! Of course, I love the green sofa at the top:)
Anonymous omg, vay-cay RIGHT NOW!
Anonymous I can't say Ive ever been to a beach house that looked like this…So inviting. I love the bedsheet from the bottom pic too!
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Anonymous How chic is this shack! Beach House, you've got to be kidding, it would look fabulous in any place. LOVE it.
Anonymous This is how I want my place to look when I give it all up and move permanently down to Playa del Carmen, Mexico!
Anonymous I love this.. Thank you for the inspiration!
Anonymous I want that netting! I am thinking of making one for my own bedroom from 3 sari panels in black and maroon. LOOOVE IT!
Anonymous That bed! That spread! That to-die-for black mosquito netted canopy! This is all so swoon-worthy.
Anonymous It's a really beautiful tastefully decorated space. Love the bedroom – the red & white coverlet is gorgeous.
Anonymous you can purchase piet boon furniture pieces at http://www.usonahome.com!
Anonymous Does anyone know where the red and white comforter is from?
Had such a lovely long weekend in Montana (minus the horrible traffic on the way home last night), where I got to meet the boy’s family for the first time. One of the many things I learned? Their current home was designed around the piano room, which reminded me of these two spaces I’ve been [...]
Anonymous the first living room is… perfection!
neither my husband or i play the piano – perhaps we’ll make the little one on the way learn so we too can enjoy the musical benefits.
Anonymous The house we live in was remodeled over seven times by the previous family. The neighbors claimed that for every child they brought through the door, another bedroom was constructed. The kids grew and piano classes followed. The single door became double, and it too was welcomed with it’s own room! No the facade of this house is so flat; every inch was expanded out to keep up the the expectations of that growing clan.
Anonymous I am in love love LOVE with the openness of the room in the first photo-very inspiring!
Anonymous So gorgeous.
Hope you had fun here in Montana! You got here just when everything got green and pretty.
Anonymous Oh My Goodness. I only like it when people actually use their piano. I have so many clients that have huge pianos and no real place in their house to put them an no one even plays it! It drives me nuts. Usually it makes me crazy because they are always trying to squeeze it in an odd corner.
The second image in dreamy though!
xoxo
Rebecca June
Anonymous it certainly doesn’t make sense to try and squeeze a piano into a room if nobody is going to play it!! goodness is right! they’re not just pretty to look at, after all
Anonymous I 100% want a baby grand piano in my future house …100%!!!! …love both of these living spaces.
Anonymous Oh, so glad that you had a good weekend! I do love the lines it adds to these room and I love how they mimicked the shape of the piano with the coffee table in the first room.
Anonymous My grandmother was a concert pianist, and we inherited her Steinway grand piano. Not only is it gorgeous, but I will always remember being a little girl and sitting next to her as she played. Pianos breathe life into a room. My mom tops our piano with silver-framed family portraits. And she needlepointed the bench cover… so, that’s what we do.
Anonymous i love that paulette so sweet! topping them with family photos seems perfect, especially in your case. thank you for sharing!
Anonymous Much nicer to configure a room around a musical instrument than say a television set. That first living room is simply gorgeous.
Anonymous I have enjoyed all the comments above – we don’t have any vintage or antique instruments in our home, but we do have a piano that has been with us since I was 8, and begun my lessons with Royal Conservatory. There’s something so magical about being able to create music, emotion, and feeling, simply by using one’s fingers. I still enjoy playing the piano from time to time, particularly when I have a great deal to do, or am very happy or sad. It takes my mind off of whatever is preoccupying my thoughts and lets me relax, if only for a few minutes. There’s something to be said for our connection to music~
Also, I have a true love for all white pianos…
Anonymous These are a great inspiration. My only problem is that I have an upright and seldom see well done rooms with them as a feature-or at least incoporated well.
Do you think you could help a girl out? Send a little inspiration my way?
Thanks again for the inspiring and very lovely music rooms.
Anonymous Love the white living room photo – I want that console
I’ve got a thing for grey stripes this spring (see previous post here!), which is why these rooms are callin’ my name… They can be soft and sweet like the stripes on the bedding in the all white bedroom nook (via esseegee) or bold (but not too loud!) like this wall featured in Domino. If [...]
Anonymous I love stripes! I’m actually painting some stripes on my dining room wall on friday.
Anonymous I want to find some upholstery fabric that is chunky grey and white stripes. If you find some, let me know! I know Eddie Ross has a tutorial on making some… but I want it to recover a sofa, so I would like it to be really durable. These pictures fan my flame! Love them!
Anonymous Great rooms! Love the striped wall.
Anonymous That’s such a great point! I love stripes in clothing and accents, but I’ve always found a wall of stripes overwhelming. Not so with the grey stripes! I love that Domino wall!
Anonymous fun, the curtains I’m getting made for my bedroom windows are striped. Do you think upholstering my headboard with the same fabric might be too much (the fabric is a neutral linen and the stripes are tiny).
Anonymous less is more: i will dig up some ideas if i can!
fancy: i don’t think it would be too much at all! while i don’t tend to go too matchy matchy, with small stripes i think it would be lovely.
Anonymous I am really loving grey these days.
I just painted a floor in Benjamin Moore’s Sidewalk grey. I really like the outcome, but I think it would have looked AMAZING if we had done it in a stripe pattern.
Anonymous Grey has taken over my usually colorful mind’s eye.. it’s the most interesting neutral as far as I’m concerned. Thanks for the inspiration!
Anonymous I don’t usually like stripes. But those striped walls? Heaven!
Anonymous I love grey, period. Add in these stripes and I’m hooked!
Anonymous i have white walls with silver stripes in my living room – love it!
Anonymous Adore the cream and grey pillows (large stripes and narrow stripes). Also, the duvet. Grey is a wonderful neutral color and goes well with most other accent colors (that is if in the correct nuances of shades/tints and etc.)
Anonymous There must be something in the air . . . I just ordered gray and white striped shams for the bedroom. And how great is that striped floor?!
Anonymous I am feeling those grey stripe pillows. Love it!
Anonymous Love me some stripes! They look fab in a home.
Just a week or two ago I was mentioning to a friend how I “don’t do” cowhide. Can’t stand it. It reminds me of bad kitchy country or attempts at mixing up ultra modern designs. Until this day, an interior containing cowhide has yet to grace the pages of coco+kelley. But… never say never my [...]
Anonymous This is definitley at the top of my never list but I too have to admit I love it in that first space too–I think perhaps it is because it doesn’t just jump out and scream cowhide! I also don’t think I can to anything involving trophy game!
Anonymous yeah, I’m learning to never say never… I’d say, for the moment I’m not fond of cowhide, even though I like your picks!
xoxo
Anonymous I have to say that I agree with you about questioning some of Kelly’s choices lately, but this room is simply luxe. I do like cowhide depending on the application, but my “never” would have to be formica!
Anonymous Oh, I love the bottom room. The red door and the lucite side table are beautiful
Anonymous You should check out Kyle Bunting. They give cowhide a whole new super luxurious meaning. I would take one of their pieces in less than a nano-second.
Anonymous I love cowhide! I can’t help it. My “never” is French Toile.
Anonymous love, love the chair!!
Anonymous Nothing is off limits for me! It all depends on the context. Sometimes the most exciting interiors/outfits are the ones where an unconventional and perhaps “unfashionable” object get reused in a fresh and contemporary way. I’m still lusting after a batshitcrazeee crab table I saw on 1st dibs, (http://www.dolce.1stdibs.com/itemdetails.php?id=273548) – obviously these pieces should be used VERY sparingly though!
Anonymous mimi, that is a never i can get behind! when possible, avoiding formica is a lovely answer
um, pieter, you mean THIS crab table?
http://cocokelley.blogspot.com/2008/04/ill-have-crab.html
ha ha ha.
Anonymous im actually liking it.. done tastefully the hide can look great! too much of something can make it look kitchy and distasteful.. but a little splash of it, like in the bottom pic can look great and elegant!
xo
lane
Anonymous yup, this definitely works. do i have a never? well, i’d probably never do black walls.
Anonymous lovin’ all your ‘nevers’ … may have to do blog post of them! keem ‘em coming darlings!
Anonymous I like these in photos, but the feel of cowhide makes me shudder, so I probably wouldn’t use them in my home!
Actually, I’m probably almost totally anti-taxidermy. Antlers are ok. Heads are a no. I don’t want anything watching me, especially if I get up in the middle of the night. Too creepy!
Maggie
Anonymous Mmm-hmmm – diggin’ it – but then again, I’m a Texas girl!
Anonymous But cowhide is cruel, right? Regardless whether you eat meat or not (ie vegan), I believe it’s bad energy in a home (think of the suffering that animal endured — there is NO such thing as humane killing in the mass slaughter meat/hide industry).
Anonymous a good point, francine! and it’s not exactly comfy is it? more of an aesthetic thing, and i’m not sure what that aesthetic is??
all i’m sayin’ is it’s interesting to see the things we’re turned off by done so well that we can’t help admitting to liking them in certain areas – whether that’s a certain pattern, material, or color!
Anonymous NEVER black leather/pleather sofas. Ick!
Anonymous Even though im all about eco-friendliness and against animal cruelty, im so tempted to get one! the thought of getting one from argentina next month has crossed my mind. i love to see them used fabulously in rooms.
Anonymous We’re opening a winery in Fort Worth, TX (AKA Cowtown), and I am struggling with a way to tastefully incorporate some cowhide. These are some good ideas! I was worried we would resort to something tacky, but I really like those first chairs- modern, yet vintage/country touch.
Anonymous YES!!!!! THAT crab table! Aaaah man, it’s so effing ugly, but SOOOO cool! I’ll keep it as far away from a beach theme as possible though, shit like that should not be themed! It reminds me of a crazy apartment of some or other baron or count in Paris where they had faux snails in the crown moulding (if i remember correctly) – it was freaky deaky, but the courage to do something like that is admirable.
Anonymous When it comes to never…I always have my art history teachers words in my head…” I do not want to hear you say that you do not like something or I hate this or that” Design is always someone else’s home, their likes or dislikes…and at home my client is my husband…hence the cow hide rug in the livingroom area of our condo, he just had to have it… my only “are you sure you what that?, is ‘pleather’…we should do top grain leather, you will thank me later…
Regards, CAM
Anonymous My god, I would kill for that room.
Anonymous be entertained
Anonymous Great post! I agree cow hide definitely has to be done right in order for it to look good for me. One thing that I still have never seen done that well is antlers or stuffed animal heads.
My sweet boyfriend is out traveling abroad, and while he’s been gone I’ve been popping into his place here and there to pick up his mail and keep house. When he left he joked that he’d come back to it fully redecorated (I told him to watch what he grants me permission to do…!). But, [...]
Anonymous this is so so gorgeous, the colours are dreamy & amazingly beautiful!!
Anonymous That bedroom picture in particular is gorgeous. I can’t say navy and terra cotta were a colour combination I thought would work, but it looks absolutely divine AND boy-friendly too. Go shopping! 
Anonymous And please ignore my terrible grammar…were a colour combination? Whoa! Coffee time
Anonymous Definitely yay! I’ve never thought of those colors together before, but they’re truly beautiful… and not in a girly sort of way either. I think any man would be happy to have that color scheme. You’ll have to show us the results.
Anonymous For sure!
Anonymous I really like this combination!
Anonymous Gorgeous palette! I love it!
Anonymous not too girly, not too boy-y! yes, i think it’s really nice.
Anonymous I think it’s lovely. I’m always trying to talk my business partner into redoing his place navy and chocolate–this is such a light and inviting palette, I can’t see he’d mind much, and worse case you’ll just take the terra cotta pieces home with you!
Anonymous Oh Cassandra! This color palette is absolutely gorgeous! Love it! YES! I think he won’t mind if you do a ‘little’ redecoration…
xoxo
Anonymous do it. it works and you know whatever you pick out will be fantastic. and really? do you think he’s going to tell you no. nope.
Anonymous love your blog, it is on my daily-reads list this palette is perfect i think… all-season, gender-neutral. yay for shopping!
Anonymous I think it’s a great color palette! It’s not too masucline or too feminine. Perfect compromise!
Anonymous This is the perfect color combo for a couple. Love the warmth.
Anonymous i want to move into that house. Will you come do mine!
Anonymous this is a fantastic color combo, and depending on your bf’s distaste of anything pink, he might go for it (i have to say, my bf and i have lived together for a while and i sneak pink in very small doses, like art prints).
Anonymous Navy and Grey with a POP of anything is always amazing, and that stands true for the POP of Terra Cotta. I am all in!
xoxo
Rebecca June
Anonymous Go shopping! that’s such a FUN color combination! But very guy-friendly!
Anonymous Yes chica, go for it! The navy/terra cotta is FAB.
p.s. Where is he travelling? just curious
Anonymous ha! i love that you’re all so encouraging, and you’re right ames, i really don’t think he’ll say no
oh, and carrie – he’s in thailand!
Anonymous Looks neutral to me, go for it. Beautiful!
Anonymous i vote yay! i don’t think this looks too girly at all, as long as you keep it strictly terra cotta and don’t let it head into pink territory. have fun shopping!
Anonymous terra cotta is a nice middle-ground kind of color, just enough pink but not clearly pink. i say go for it! especially if it’s in a pillow or blanket then it can really be your place in his apartment!
Anonymous Yay! Very refreshing!
Anonymous I think it’s beautiful. The color of the inside of that pretty dish you photographed is soooo pretty! It looks to me like a light terra cotta, I prefer that to a darker tc. Perfect for accessories!
Anonymous I love the color combo!! I vote Yay!
Anonymous I’m always wondering the same thing when I dream about moving into my new apartment. My husband is in Iraq and I don’t want him to come home to an overly girly apartment but I still want yummy colors and design!
Anonymous I say go for it, it’s a hot combo!
Anonymous big time yay! I love the eames chair in that dusty rose! unique and classic – perfect!
Anonymous ohhhh, i am LOVING these photos!
Anonymous these colours are so great together and the photos are beautiful.
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I love these photos. You can’t go wrong with red. I absolutely love sprinkling in red accents!
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I agree, the white combined with the red accents is very powerful! Love, especially the red bookcases.
I really like the red on the double doors. Doors with designs are so much more interesting than plain doors. Awesome.
I love red, and the examples you’ve included make my heart skip a beat….I do have a giant red apple in my kitchen. But, aside from that I can never seem to commit to anything bigger than a throw cushion, books, etc. This post makes me want glossy red shelves or a secretary/console. Excuse me now while I go see what I can paint .
I have just declared my undying love for Navy but I think you have turned me! The red bookshelves and wall are amazing!
Very tough color to work in, and I’ve had to do several rooms with a splash of red. Great photos here. Especially love that red dining table and the red trimmed pocket doors – genius.