Have a great Labor Day Weekend!  With this heat, here’s looking forward to fall.

(Image from: Owen Glidersleeve - beautiful cut paper leaves!)

We hope you have a wonderful weekend filled with friends, family, fireworks, barbeque, or at least a great time! 

If you’re looking for details to make your celebration extra special, check out these printable tags from Paper Crave.

While I wouldn’t say red, white, and blue is my favorite color palette, when used properly it can really make a statement!

(Image from Elle Decor)

Lauren

I hope you enjoyed some meat cooked by dear old dad this past weekend.  There’s been a lot of buzz about  grills and with the heat of the summer arriving, we couldn’t pass up this opportunity to share with you what we think are the best grills.

TOP 4 GRILLS OF THE SUMMER!

1. The Mac Daddy of All – Viking. Made for the grill master of the house. Each grill has plenty of storage and all the necessary gadgets to turn you into ”America’s Top Chef.”

2. Country Time – This steel fire bowl grill from Toast in the UK is for those men who loath the outdoors and enjoy making smores. Great for a camping trip or an early evening country cookout.

3. The Renaissance Man- This classic dome grill is suitable for cooking vegetables and roasting corn on the grill. The circular shape creates a continuous flow of heat so the juices stay inside the food.

4. Fashionista – A list wouldn’t be the same, if we didn’t have an option for the ladies. For all the women who like to grill, here is Ms. Piggy decked out in her pink ensemble, and ready for any outdoor party.

If you think your grill is the best let us know! In fact reply via twitter with a picture.

In preparation for this series, this edition inspired by House Beautiful’s feature,  I polled a few of my male friends; “what are your favorite colors? What interior colors do you feel most comfortable in?” I asked.

My Daddy’s favorite has always been a deep green- hunter green. However, Neutral colors were the resounding answer, browns, & warm greys especially.  Think the colors you may find in an old map or portrait- like Picasso’s Portrait of Dora Maar

We have found that men feel comfortable in interiors with schemes featuring the following hues:

Charcoal mixed with Classic Black (even better with stripes)

Camel

Cowboy Boot Brown

Burnt Orange- this also translates into Copper tones & marries well with medium to dark green tones

Slate Blue

The other colors men love could happen to do with their local sports team loyalties, as we’ve seen our fair share of requests for NC State/Carolina Hurricanes Red (shown in the “man cave” below)  

or Carolina Blue

What colors do the men in your life, love?

-Brittany

Hey Design Lines Readers,

We bring you these flowers from A Creative Mint blog in Los Angeles. Leslie is the photographer and writer behind this beautiful blog. I recently found her work on the design inspired decor 8 blog and immediately fell in love with her shots. Enjoy these lovely bouquets and we will see you next week.

Be on the look out for the April forecast and also a post on another current project.

Enjoy the amazing spring weather!

-The Design Lines Team

For us at Design Lines we like to think this day

is for people who just love designing a room in green! 

HAPPY ST. PATRICKS DAY!

(Image credit: 1.House Beautiful 2. Martha Stewart)

Happy Valentines Day from all the staff at Design Lines!

Do one thing for yourself today that you LOVE to do.

Wrapping paper (from Target) in a fresh color palette!

From all of us at Design Lines, have a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Warmly – Judy, Laurie, Molly, Ashley, Brittany, Lauren, and Hilaire

Martha Stewart Online has a plethora of pumpkin ideas:

For a playful addition of year-round holiday decor, we like the Mick chair from Atlanta-based Bradley-Hughes:

Tell us, how will you decorate for the holidays?

Happy Halloween!