Grey: The Perfect Playmate

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Grey is the perfect playmate to pair with an array of colors; yellow, orange, green and brown to name a few. Greys can have undertones of red, blue, green of purple which gives grey the ability to play well with others. Grey is a complex color and even a little mysterious. Grey has grown in popularity because consumers crave grown-up hues that lend sophistication to a room. The sublime color isn’t just for living rooms and bedrooms anymore, grey has shown a dramatic increase in popularity in the kitchen and bath. Grey is the new neutral that has taken the place of beige.

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About Leslie Hendrix Wood

Leslie Hendrix Wood is the founding editor of the luxury lifestyle and design blog, Hadley Court and an interior decorator with Chancellor Interiors in Midland, Texas.

Leslie received her undergraduate degree in business. She worked briefly in banking and returned to school to earn her MBA.

Upon graduation, she moved to Washington D.C. to work on a Presidential campaign and received a Presidential appointment to a position in International Trade.

At the end of the administration, Leslie returned to her hometown and joined the family oil and gas business, although her first passion has always been, after raising her children with her husband, business and interior design.

When she saw her children were closer to leaving home, she decided to start the blog, Hadley Court. in 2012, which won the Design Bloggers Conference Hall of Fame award for Best New Design Blog in 2013 - a prestigious honor granted by her peers.

In 2014, she is, in addition to blogging, beginning to build the family friendly luxury lifestyle brand: HADLEY COURT, based on her values of Gracious Living, Timeless Design and Family Traditions.