Home Tones: Dry Rose

Loft apartment with Dry Rose recesses and armchairscredit

I’ve just discovered something called, ‘Colorstrology’. It’s like astrology… but instead of it being your star sign, it’s your colour. You can read all about it in Michele Bernhardt’s book, Colorstrology: What Your Birthday Color Says About You. Apparently, if you’re born on my birthday – November 24th – your colour is Pantone’s ‘Dry Rose’. You’re also meant to be, “Profound | Exotic | Committed”. Justin’s colour – 14th of April – is ‘Hibiscus‘. It goes on to describe me further…

Pantone 'Dry Rose' colour swatchYou have a giving nature and at times you may feel like you are not appreciated. Try to remember that you are loved and that not everyone knows how to or has the capacity to go the distance the way you do. You are highly creative and understanding. Many people will come to you for support. Your personal color protects your energy. Wearing, meditating or surrounding yourself with Dry Rose supports the compassionate side of you, but doesn’t allow responsibilities to run you down.

I don’t know if I believe in Colorstrology… any more than I believe in horoscopes. Although the favourite colour of a Sagittarius is meant to be purple, we love to travel and we sometimes speak before we think – all correct facts about me!

My favourite shade of purple is violet, but this Dry Rose has grown on me whilst writing this post. I’ve chosen images below of a few homes where the colour’s been used very successfully.

Bathroom sink console with dry rose coloured towelscredit

Wall stencilled in Dry Rose shades of pinkcredit

Purple painted house exteriorcredit

Modern kitchen with purple painted walls and matching Kitchenaid food processorcredit

Corridor with purple painted feature wallcredit

Bedroom with purple painted wallscredit

Modern kitchen with Dry Rose painted splash backscredit

We’re Nine!

Scrabble nine

H is for Home is nine years old today – doesn’t time fly? We buy, we sell, we blog – the months and years drift by. Having said that, it does seem a long time ago that we gathered in our little home office and pressed the button for our first ever post to go live.

It’s been a very enjoyable journey since that day. A sincere thanks to all our shop customers and blog readers & commenters, our Twitter and Pinterest followers – for all the likes on Facebook and competition entrants – there’d be no H is for Home birthdays without all of you!

To mark the occasion we’re having a blog redesign – it’s almost done – let us know what you think.

Vintage birthday

'Vintage birthday' blog post banner

selection of vintage 1950s/60s children's birthday cards | H is for Home

These colourful vintage birthday cards brightened up a grey day as we wandered around the Thursday flea market stalls in Todmorden this week.

vintage '9 today' children's birthday card

They’re all unused and look to date from the 1950s. Each card features a different animal with a little rhyme inside. They’re all very cute!

interior view of 5 years old vintage birthday card

We’ll probably put them into the shop priced individually, but if you fancy buying them as a collection, just drop us a line.