99+ of the Most Inspiring Colorful Interiors We've Ever Seen
I’ve always thought that one of the best jobs in the world is naming paints. That yellow is just like a No. 2 pencil. This blue is exactly the color of a July sky. Splashing one of these onto the walls of your home is like prepping the canvas of your life. “There’s a reason we don’t see the world in black and white,” beloved designer Celerie Kemble once told HB. Wistful pastels, electric leafy greens, pigment-rich reds and blues, even inky blacks and blinding whites: The outdoors would be a very sorry place without them, so why would we settle for any less in our homes?
House Beautiful: Live Colorfully, our new book (!) from Abrams, is a testament to the fact that so many designers agree. We spent years compiling the nearly 100 inspiring home featured in its pages. Each one is awash in color, just flip through its pages to find your dream palette.
All credit to the designers, of course. As anyone who’s wielded a paintbrush knows, it’s not very easy to whip up a vibrant and yet truly livable color palette. The experts employ infinite tricks: fabrics with a thousand dyes in the weave, trim defining the edge of a piece of upholstery, and (of course) very carefully selected paints.
When you hear the word color, what do you feel? Thrill or trepidation; it’s rarely something in between. But using it doesn’t mean you have to paint all the walls chartreuse. So-called neutral tones can be appetizing: cream, cinnamon, coffee, nutmeg, almond. Gemstone tints, from emerald to ruby to amethyst, are rich and seductive but very much mined from the natural world. Or maybe you’d like to live in a watercolor painting? Pastels! Whichever palette suits your personality, the beauty of living colorfully is that whichever combination you choose, it will be completely unique.
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