10 Sensational Renovations That Aren’t Shy With Color
These vibrant homes prove that daring paint shades and creative details can go a long way when updating your space.
These vibrant homes prove that daring paint shades and creative details can go a long way when updating your space.
Color can play an important role in conveying information, impacting moods, and even influencing decisions. It can also significantly alter the atmosphere within a space. Bright colors, for example, have the ability to make a cramped area feel more expansive, while dark and warm shades often create a more intimate environment. From San Francisco to Sydney, these whimsical homes use bold colors to amplify the interior experience.
A Fresh Dose of Color Livens Up This Midcentury Los Angeles Home
Filmmaker Laura Purdy worked with architect Linda Taalman and landscape designer Laura Cooper on the renovation of her family home in Los Angeles (with input from Purdy’s husband, Juan Devis, and Taalman’s husband and former codirector at Taalman Koch Architecture, Alan Koch). The resulting design incorporates an eclectic collection of art and personal artifacts, as well as jungly plantings that evoke the tropical atmosphere of Devis’s native Latin America. In the living room, pink-and-yellow stucco walls painted with Benjamin Moore’s American Cheese and Blushing Bride colors were inspired by architect Luis Barragán’s Mexican modernism.
Photo: Lisa Romerein
The eponymous founder and principal of Michael K. Chen Architecture resuscitated a four-story, 3,600-square-foot home in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill neighborhood had been abandoned for 20 years. The newest owners of the home—which was originally built in 1895—were inspired by the playful color palette that was still apparent underneath the grime and decay. "We had epic color palette meetings, looking at deck after deck for paint colors that spoke to us or provoked a particular sensation," says Chen. "You don’t look at the color, you inhabit it."
Photo by Alan Tansey
San Francisco couple Jim and Noriko hired acclaimed architect Anne Fougeron, founder of the eponymous local firm, to reimagine their 1901 row house in Noe Valley while remaining within the confines of historical preservation mandates. The architect tied the three levels of the 1,540-square-foot dwelling together with a perforated-steel staircase in Benjamin Moore’s Flame color. The geometric, tomato-red stairs emphasize the home’s verticality and open up what had previously been a dark interior with low ceilings.
Photo: Joe Fletcher
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