{"id":4182,"date":"2015-04-02T08:52:35","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T13:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cushionsource.com\/?p=4182"},"modified":"2016-01-29T14:37:34","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T20:37:34","slug":"april-color-of-the-month-mimosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cushionsource.com\/blog\/design-ideas\/april-color-of-the-month-mimosa\/","title":{"rendered":"April Color of the Month: Mimosa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s finally April, which means the days are becoming longer, the weeks go on, and the weather is finally becoming enjoyable enough to spend time outside. For me, that means it\u2019s time to start heading up to the lake every weekend to soak up some sun.<\/p>\n<p>For April\u2019s color of the month I have chosen Pantone\u2019s Mimosa. Described as a warm, engaging yellow, it\u2019s perfect for this time of year. Yellow is such a bright and cheerful color, it can work in any part of your house.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Recently, I found an <a title=\"Decorating with Yellow: Walls, Accessories, and Accents\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bhg.com\/decorating\/color\/paint\/yellow-home-decorating-ideas\/?socsrc=bhgpin031714riseandshine&amp;crlt.pid=camp.dE21iVvA4BOi\" target=\"_blank\">awesome article<\/a> in <em>Better Homes and Gardens<\/em> about how to decorate with yellow. They showed many different shades of yellow in different areas of the house. For more decorating ideas, many people use Pinterest, but I have recently come to love <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houzz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Houzz<\/a> for home-related ideas. Check out this simple, but gorgeous kitchen I found through Houzz. I love how they used all of the neutrals with pops of yellow to add color.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houzz.com\/photos\/1357984\/Mill-Valley-Classic-Cottage-traditional-kitchen-san-francisco\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/st.houzz.com\/simgs\/a111d8a500241adb_8-5008\/traditional-kitchen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #444;\"><small><a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #444;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houzz.com\/photos\/traditional\/kitchen\">Traditional Kitchen<\/a> by <a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #444;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houzz.com\/professionals\/architect\/c\/Sausalito--CA\">Sausalito Architects &amp; Building Designers<\/a> <a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #444;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houzz.com\/pro\/leighah\/heydt-designs\">Heydt Designs<\/a><\/small><\/div>\n<p>On a recent photo shoot, we brought a set of lumbar pillows in Sunbrella Echo Citron that we ended up using so much more than we had originally planned. It was the perfect accent for everything! Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cushionsource.com\/fabrics.php#color=18\" target=\"_blank\">fabric gallery<\/a> has plenty of different options of yellow.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4183\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4183\" style=\"width: 559px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4183 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cushionsource.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/april-blog.jpg\" alt=\"april-blog\" width=\"559\" height=\"1134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cushionsource.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/april-blog.jpg 559w, https:\/\/www.cushionsource.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/april-blog-460x933.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Accent Pillow in Sunbrella Echo Citron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Whether you use yellow with pillows or cushions, decorating with furniture, painting your wall or door, or something as simple as having a bouquet of flowers, it is the perfect accent color to easily brighten up a room.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t forget that you can always check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/cushionsource\/color-of-the-month\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest board<\/a> for inspiration on how to use Mimosa in your home!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s finally April, which means the days are becoming longer, the weeks go on, and the weather is finally becoming enjoyable enough to spend time outside. For me, that means it\u2019s time to start heading up to the lake every weekend to soak up some sun. For April\u2019s color of the month I have chosen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cushionsource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cushionsource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cushionsource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cushionsource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cushionsource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4182"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.cushionsource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4520,"href":"https:\/\/www.cushionsource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182\/revisions\/4520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cushionsource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cushionsource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cushionsource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cushionsource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}