The annual Music Matters Instrument drive is on now at Coles Fine Flooring! It has been said that playing a musical instrument is great for your overall health. It’s a great thing for your brain and makes you feel happy. It even is said to prolong your life. Unfortunately, many of our children are unable to learn how to develop their musical abilities due to budget cuts in education. Coles is proud to help out any way we can by collecting your gently used instruments for the Music Matters Program. The Music Matters Program will donate all of the collected instruments to local schools in order to keep the music programs alive. At Coles Fine Flooring, Music Matters. Stop by one of our seven locations and donate your gently used instruments to help keep music in schools!
Warm Colors – Warm colors can range from the very lightest of yellows to the very darkest of reds. When choosing a warm color we think of oranges, reds, and yellows . When applying these types of color choices to a carpet, the warm colors translate into browns and rusts. The darker medium browns and rusts will anchor your room and these darker warmer shades will make the room intimate, especially if you continue on the warmer theme on the walls as well.
Neutral Colors- Neural colors can be warm or cool. When we think of warm neutrals we think of beige’s and tans and when we think of cool colors we immediately think of gray. Both of these color families, tans and grays, are excellent carpet color selections. For those of us who would rather consider these choices safe or boring, by selecting a subtle pattern or an obvious textures we can step up the look for a bold and fresh look. The majority of carpet selections fall within the neutral color palette but this does not mean the room’s interior would or could be any less exciting or interesting depending on what we pair with our neutral carpet; we are just using our carpet as an canvas.
Cool Colors – Cool colors also run the gamut from light to dark. In choosing a carpet color in the cool family you will need to consider the lightness or darkness of the color as well. The obvious choices in the cool family are the blues and greens. Choosing a darker shade of blue or green will still provide you with a cool feeling but the darker the shade, the more grounded your room will feel. The Lighter the green color, the more open and airy the space will appear. Cool trends also are represented in more neutral tones. Adding gray to a shade of green will still produce a cool color, but it will be less green and for some people a color that is more usable.
Bold Colors- Bold color choices are made by those of us who know what we are doing or perhaps just think we know what we are doing. At least we know what we like! Applying a bold color choice to a carpet selection may man a bright red but could also mean choosing a stark white carpet in a darkly painted room. Success is pairing bold colors with the most suitable of partners when it comes to your total combination of carpet, paint, fabric, and accessories. Availability for bold carpet colors may appear narrow in comparison with neutral carpet colors, but bold color offerings are highly researched to be as close to trend colors as possible.
Stop by one of our seven showrooms for a full selection of the latest fashion statements for your home.
Warm neutrals can also be achieved be graying down the oranges and the browns. The grayer the warm color, the more neutral it becomes. Warm beige’s are achieved by lightening the brown and adding gray. These warm neutral carpets are the most versatile.
Save the date of December 2, 2010 because that’s when Coles will be hosting the annual Angels Among Us fundraiser for the YMCA. Last year Coles helped raise over $30,000 to support Youth and Family Services programs; and this year we hope to raise even more! This year we will be having a huge silent auction with extensive prizes, a raffle for a chance to win a designer rug, delicious food and drinks, along with carolers to bring in the holiday spirit. Remember, the event will take place on December 2, 2010 from 5:30pm until 8:30pm at Coles Fine Flooring (1170 West Morena Blvd. San Diego, 92110). For information call us at (619) 276-5140. To make your reservation, RSVP to Tina Williams at twilliams1@ymca.org or call (858) 292-9622. Thank you for continuing to help Coles support our local youth and families!
Music Matters has been a five-year duet between Coles Fine Flooring and Jazz 88.3 radio collecting over 200 instruments this year in order to benefit students of San Diego and inspire future generations of musicians. Throughout May and June, Jazz 88.3 FM and Coles Fine Flooring collaborated on their sixth annual Music Matters drive to collect musical instruments. Flutes, violins and other instruments are refurbished and repaired by the Community Council for Music in the Schools (CCMS), a nonprofit organization. CCMS places the instruments with music teachers in San Diego Unified School District (including elementary, middle and high schools) for loan to students in school music classes, bands and orchestras.
Every year, San Diegans are encouraged to dig into their closets, attics, garage, or under the bed, to find their old musical instruments that may be just collecting dust awaiting its next musical maestro. Donating is as easy as bringing a musical instrument to one of Cole’s seven stores and showrooms across San Diego County. Coles is proud to do its part and collected more than 200 instruments this year!
’Music Matters’ is simply another way that we are able to give back to the San Diego Community as well as further music education for young people, said Mark DeBoskey Station Manager for KSDS. “The goal of this program is to provide instruments to children who want to play music, yet might not have the financial means to buy their own.”
Look for Coles and Jazz 88.3 in May 2011 to donate instruments for next year’s drive. THANK YOU SAN DIEGO for your incredible support of this worthy cause!
Feeling good is what it’s all about, according to recent fashion predictions by Pantone for the Summer of 2009. People will be most attracted to colors that reflect individuality and personality, colors that make people feel good about who they are. Color will be more than just a shade, but the very mood and style we wear to face the world.
Color is the essential ingredient in design and style, the very flavor that brings out the mood of design. Fashion and home furnishings are flavored with color, bringing out emotions and style. Color sets the mood like smell reminds a memory, as suggestive as a dream or the scents of the wind itself.
The Pantone Color Forecast features a string of “isms,” each designed with a personality that’s knows what it wants. Since personality comes in all styles of faces, there’s sure to be something this year that lights up your mood, whatever you are feeling in the moment. Step out on summer with designs that play with your personality. Dance the colors that suit your mood.
In an classical arts style that just seems to find its way naturally into any art opening, Classic-ism is nearly colorless save for a medium stripe of blue that suggests restraint and a polite calming grace. It’s subtle yet stylish, perfect for understating the obvious. Classically intoned, this color is sure to bring tradition into fashion and design.
Striking out more boldly, Today-ism steps into brightness with a proper balance of deep red hues and a somber brown, creating a playful dance to attract the eye. It screams right now, lighting up color with an immediacy that brings out a room.
On the experimental side, Fetish-ism experiments with carnal desire, seducing freedom with deliciousness. It’s boldly suggestive, yet subtly coy, like a wink in the bright lights of the night. It’s perfect for when you are feeling dangerously playful, ready to turn heads that follow you everywhere around the room.
Stepping into a stranger mood, Surreal-ism playfully creates the unexpected in a play of creativity. It plays with your imagination with all the brightness of a jewel, dancing and shimmering like moonlight on the water. It’s imaginatively artistic, yet dreamingly suggestive. Shining like a wine glass in the hues of the moonlight, this color dances creativity in the dreamy lights of the dance floor.
Turning absurdity upside down, Absurd-ism frees color from the binds of conformity and rationality, creating a playful twist on the disproportionate. Bending the rules of color in an innovative twist, it breaks out of boring with a playfulness that laughs at the color brown. It’s the kind of color that’s willing to stand on its head, tell a joke in a library, dance even when there’s no music playing.
Independent-ism strikes out on its own with a boldness that’s unique enough to turn heads. Why look like anyone else when style can be as bold as we can be? It’s the color we wear when we want to be ourselves, sure of who we are. It’s like stepping into a room and knowing what you want.
Female-ism celebrates the woman and everything that makes her beautiful. With medium pastels, it celebrates the female being with positivity, a dash of medium color with just a touch of retro glamor hues.
Each of these colors suggest a personality and a mood, a way of making style our own. Design plays on the emotions, changing like moods with the dress, the drapes and the color of the cake. It’s a dance that depends on the playful or the serious, the bold or the subtle. Design and color mean more than just occasion and circumstance, but the very mood and style we wish to step into for the moment.
Coles Fine Flooring is now San Diego County’s only dealer of Ralph Lauren carpeting. Luxurious and stylish, Coles is proud to be the exclusive source for this carpet, and the only flooring company to offer you the finest in Ralph Lauren styles.
Coles Fine Flooring is a proud member of both the National Wood Flooring Association (NWFA) and the World Floor Covering Association (WFCA). As a member, we are committed to living up to the standards of both organizations- to maintain a commitment to profesionalism, honesty & integrity, and to abide by all laws, regulations & statutes regarding our business.
As San Diego County’s only Stainmaster Flooring Center, we are the only dealers who can offer you Stainmaster Ultra Life carpets. Ultra Life is luxury you can see and feel, and gives you the most comprehensive warranty package in the industry.
Our Stainmaster Flooring Center features one of the widest selections of Stainmaster carpets in this area.
Coles can now install your carpet without the use of a carpet iron, meaning no emissions are released from carpet adhesive, while maintaining the same efficiency and durability. Ask for green installation!
Save the date of December 2, 2010 because that’s when Coles will be hosting the annual Angels Among Us fundraiser for the YMCA. Last year Coles helped raise over $30,000 to support Youth and Family Services programs; and this year we hope to raise even more! This year we will be having a huge silent auction with extensive prizes, a raffle for a chance to win a designer rug, delicious food and drinks, along with carolers to bring in the holiday spirit. Remember, the event will take place on December 2, 2010 from 5:30pm until 8:30pm at Coles Fine Flooring (1170 West Morena Blvd. San Diego, 92110). For information call us at (619) 276-5140. To make your reservation, RSVP to Tina Williams at 
