Color Trends 2010

The Color Marketing Group (CMG) recently gathered to discuss color trends for 2010. Larson-Juhl, maker of high-end framing materials used by professional framers, including MirrorMate, participated in the CMG meeting.  Their North American Color Marketing Group representative, Sherran Arthur shared some interesting insights on color coming out of the meeting: 

• There are two major influences to the 2010 color palette.  The first being environment, and the second, economy.  
• "Coastal-inspired colors are incorporated to respect the environment and bring a bit of the outdoors in."
• "Happy colors are incorporated to move out of a downward economy"

Particularly of note with regard to the increasing popularity of gold tones in framing, "gold is influencing metallics as cool metals are slightly touched by yellow.  White nickel and toned down subtle gold reflect elegance."

Sherran also notes the following shifts in colors:

- Reds: Shifting to a truer red with blue influences

- Oranges:   More organic, cross cultural, global infusion

- Yellows:  Moving to lighter sunny tones with a hint of natural green, very happy

- Greens:  Fresher, regenerated, evoking a sense of renewal; Think Earth

- Blues:  Calming blue tones, inspired by the sky and sea

- Purples: Ranging from orchid to deep eggplant 

- Browns:  Nature inspired hybrid neutrals; chameleon tones

Golden Rules

Kitchen & Bath Business today featured an article, "A Warm Front in the Bathroom," on the increasing popularity of gold, brass and bronze finishes.  They note the trend, particularly for oil-rubbed bronze, in everything from faucets to sinks.  We wanted to share some frame options that can complete the look.  The new Bellemeade frame in Champagne has a golden hue, while there's the traditional Old World Gold in Permaquid Slim and Permaquid, and Antique Gold in the Naples style.  And for bronze, try the Bronze Wave in the Venetian style or the Grandezza frame in Bronze.  They're all styles that will add warmth to the bath.

Pemaquid in Old World Gold

MirrorMate Featured on Canada's City Line Talk Show

Designer Jackie Glass of J. Glass & Associates in Ontario is a regular on Canada's national talk show, City Line. She's also a fan of MirrorMate. On Thursday, she took viewers through a demo of how a MirrorMate frame is assembled and some of the range of finishes for the frames. The entire show is online for viewing and featured home improvement ideas throughout - so it is fun to watch. The MirrorMate segment is about 25 minutes in too if you want to skip right through! Enjoy! http://video.citytv.com/video/detail/260879096001.000000/CityLine-July-29-2010-Home-Day/

MirrorMate's New Styles: Providence, Cherokee Slim & Bellemeade

MirrorMate has added eight new frame options to the line.  There are now more than 45 styles to choose from, ensuring there is a frame for every style and decor!   

The Providence frame is a traditional style full of detail, including beading, ribbing and the ever-classic egg and dart pattern.  This frame is available in both bronze and silver.

The Cherokee Slim line adds four rich finishes for deliciously different looks, including nougat, dark chocolate, licorice and cherry chocolate. These looks are simple and can go from modern in the dark, and currently offered chrome styles, to downright beachy in the vanilla nougat color. These styles are value-priced, too.

Finally, the Bellemeade line now features a new design with bead and scroll edges in either champagne or cherry finishes, for a rich look in a classic frame.  Silver will also be coming soon in this ever-popular line.  

We’re seeing growing interest from customers in slimmer, simpler styles.  Cherokee Slim has widths of just two inches and are an excellent choice for the commercial sector, including hotels and condos.

Metallic and rich wood finishes are also extremely popular. We’re adding more metallic options with the Providence line and deep, warm tones with Bellemeade and Cherokee Slim.  

And coming this fall...Casco Bay. More info to come!

"Say Goodby to the '90s"

A great new high-gloss, heavy stock, home remodeling magazine for Cape Cod, Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard and the South Coast of Massachusetts called "home remodeling," included MirrorMate in the "Just In" section of their Summer 2010 issue.  If you can get a copy, I promise you'll LOVE perusing all the pretty photos and info on New England home remodels.  Who knew an outdoor shower could be so pretty!  In the meantime, here's the MirrorMate snip it from page 14 of the issue...

Infarrantly Creative Gets Creative with a MirrorMate Makeover

Beckie at Infarrantly Creative recently made over her bare bathroom mirror with a MirrorMate frame in Venetian Silver Wave and shared it on her blog at http://infarrantlycreative.blogspot.com/2010/06/mirrormate-frame.html

You can see a quick preview of the beautiful end result below - but don't miss all the details on just how she did it at Infarrantly Creative! Great work Beckie!

An Inch of Gray Blog Bathroom Makeover

An Inch of Gray completed her bathroom makeover with a MirrorMate frame in Acadia White. Lisa helped to select the frame featured in the makeover.  Check out the before and after images, courtesy of an Inch of Gray, and for the full makeover visit http://aninchofgray.blogspot.com/2010/05/you-complete-me.html