Let's chat about color crushes today, I get them bad! I'm currently crushing on the color orange in a major way! It's one of those vibrant colors I've totally ignored ignored using in my home until recently. Now I'm totally smitten with it and looking for ways to layer in a bit of orange in our living room. I love how well it goes with shades of aquas and chartreuse. I rounded up seven ways to add the color in your own space.

1. Add a pair of fun bright lamps to perk up a room 2. Frame a large abstract print or frame a photograph highlighting the color orange, I love this image of Chinese Lanterns in San Francisco art via Etsy. 3. Add a punch or color with a Diamond Lumbar pillow via Serena & Lily, this the name fabric I plan on recovering our mudroom bench with. 4. Pretty orange lanterns are always a happy addition and better they're currently on sale from World Market. 5. These orange throws are another happy colorful addition, in a living room place them in baskets for a burst of color, or hung over a back or a sofa or the arm of a sofa added the perfect amount of color via Serena & Lily and West Elm, also check Marshall's for the same look for less 6. Dress up a coffee table or bookcase with a bright orange tray via CB2 7. A stack of orange decorative boxes look perfect on a bookcase or side table, boxes via Gramercy & Co.

Completely in crushing on the way orange is used in the rooms below. Using the orange in sprinkles and in blod ways.

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Are you totally crushing on the color orange? What's your current color crush?

For me fences + borders = perfection! Right now the fence around of backyard is super open, which I like but I prefer the look of fences with a layer of vines and then flowers. Here's a current backyard with our fence. Pretty vines and shrubs mixed with flowering shrubs help make a suburban backyard feel more private and special, at least in my mind that's how it works.

The back our of fence is in really good shape and I totally want to keep it that way. My plan is to tackle a small section of fence line at a time with a mixture of freestanding privacy screens, wood planters and large flowering shrubs. I love the idea of building large wood planters connected to a modern trellis for vines.

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I also love the idea of growing tress, espalier style which means to train a tree to grow flat. Which would be an excellent source of additional privacy and such a lovely addition in to our backyard.

A more affordable option for our backyard fence line is to build modern trellises. I'm so in love with the ones below!! That look so elegant and honestly pretty simple to build, I think the most difficult part of the project would be digging holes for the post (unless we rented a post hold digger)