Bold, Bright Colors Transformed This James Island, South Carolina Ranch

First, Ralph rounded up the family's collection of fishing-tournament awards—all saturated aquatic paintings—to create a gallery feeling in the den. Then she covered the walls and sofa in a shade pulled straight from the large piece of artwork in the center. Benjamin Moore's Summer Nights (777) coats the walls. The sofa's fabric is an indoor/outdoor velvet by Halsey & Spruce. Matching the sofa to the wall color was the key to preventing it from overwhelming the room. "I knew the sofa would take up a lot of space because we wanted a nice, deep spot for the whole family to pile on," Ralph explains. "I broke up the monotony of blue by pulling in patterns in different shades. I think you can be a little less reverent about the color combination if the scale is right."