Thoughts on Color

When we started to think about how we would like to differentiate our rooms from one another, we immediately thought to use color as the basis. Oftentimes in wine country bed and breakfasts, you find that the rooms are named by varietal--Chardonnay, Zinfandel, Cabernet. Appropriate as this may be, to us it seems hokey. Really. We know most people come to drink the wine, but must the room names reflect this? It's been done before. Clearly rooms based on colors has been done before too, but this somehow seems more straight-forward and less cliché. Also, it provides a sensible basis on which to decorate the rooms. How do you decorate a Chardonnay room versus a Zinfandel room?

On the Design*Sponge website (again) I found two mini trends that could provide inspiration for how two of the rooms could be color-themed. One was "bright white" and the other "delft blue". Although I have concern that a bright white room could easily become a dull white (or worse, dirty white) room, it could be very beautiful and serene. I also like the clean sophistication implied by delft blue. Some other thoughts we had were to use J. Crew-type color names that could provide both visual and color decor cues, like Sage or Lemon.