Were you to visit my Pinterest board dedicated to anything and everything home related, you may just think that Lilly Pulitzer herself spilled a colorful cocktail everywhere. Every shade of pink you can imagines, vivid blues, oranges, and oh, all those glorious greens. I don't believe my inner interior decorator is familiar with the term neutral. When it comes to color, I'm a firm subscriber to the theory that more is more.

I've always been iffy on the color black, either in my wardrobe and most certain never in my home decor. I have lots of friends with black furniture and well, it just never really looks good. Frankly, a lot of it looks just, well, unpleasant. However, upon cleaning up my home decor Pinterest board, I  noticed I had a number of pins that had black prominently displayed. Much to my surprise...I'm really loving it: