My blog offers a fresh voice on the design scene, with ideas, inspiration and paint color advice focused on color for the built world. Updated regularly, discover current paint color trends and tried and true proven approaches to color design for your home, your business or your brand. It's all about the human response to color. Learn how to choose and apply color in a way that supports well-being and adds beauty and function to any environment. Whether interior or exterior, residential or commercial, smart color design makes the difference between a space that's hardly noticeable and one that makes you feel alive!
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Plum Noir Bedroom
For the better part of a decade, "safe" was the reigning strategy in whole-home color: greige everywhere, one accent wall if you were feeling brave, resale value treated as the highest design authority. That era is ending.
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White paint is often treated as the ultimate safe, neutral choice for modern interiors and historic renovations. Yet, it is one of the most complex, unforgiving colors in a designer’s toolkit.
Nothing undermines a carefully curated home faster than a white wall that suddenly appears dingy, murky, or yellowed under certain light.
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Whether you're hunting for the right color to paint a room or just scrolling through the vast array of interior design eye candy on Instagram or Pinterest it's easy to fall under the spell of colors seen online. The rooms in the photos seem perfect. The furnishings and decor are gorgeous and aspirational, every detail has been chosen to create an enviable environment. It's the home you wish you lived in but don't.
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Whole Home Paint Color Palette
The palettes cover the gamut from those that will evoke certain emotions, to those which are most appropriate for a certain kind of architecture and decor, to those based around a very popular paint color from Benjamin Moore or Sherwin-Williams.
Every color is carefully curated for hue family (undertone) compatibility and real-world livability so your home feels balanced and intentional, not accidental. This is not a simple list of paint colors. It is a complete, professionally developed system to guide your entire home.
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Architectural Color Consultants are also known as Paint Color Consultants, Exterior House Color Consultants and Interior Paint Color Consultants as well as numerous other terms. The best ones have been trained by a reputable school which teaches the principles of color theory and best practices for specifying color for interiors and exteriors.
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Horizontal Wood paneling
Stained or varnished and sealed wood trim has been a go-to decorating idea for more rustic homes and spaces for generations. Recently the use of horizontal wood and vertical paneling has been gaining traction speedily.
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Photo: Amy Krane
Living in the country it's impossible to ignore the variety of colorful barn exteriors around. But I'm often zipping by at speeds way too fast to stop and take a photo. Who doesn't love the iconic red barn with its endless variations of that red hue.
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Icy Blue has become a new thing. Apparently it's a millennial and Gen-Z color-love. With the emphasis in the past few years on warm colors like burgundy, maroon, oxblood, terra-cotta and brown it's hard to imagine where this came from.
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