Top 4 Color Blocking Combos That Always Work

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Yes we were well on our way into 2026. Feels good. Daffodils are starting to wash them out of the ground. All of it. Color is back. Color is back. It's coming in. Yes. Everywhere. And we don't want anybody to be afraid of this. And so we said let's do a whole episode about color blocking. In particular. We're seeing it on runway. Runway shows just happened about a month ago. And I feel like all the coolest looks are not just using color but they're color blocking. And I feel like this trend is, I shouldn't even call it a trend. It's a design principle. It's so easy to do. It's just combining a couple of colors. And what you get is this really fashionable reaction. And so as you guys are trying to incorporate more color into your homes. We wanted to share a couple of our favorite color combinations with you. We've been playing around with them in our own homes. We've been seeing them like we said on runway. And so we have some really fun slides to show you. If you're tuning in I would recommend Spotify or YouTube. So that you can really see these examples. But we'll try and describe for you what we're, what we're, I'm going to show you today. One of the things that Pinterest was saying, a couple of favorite colors. That are really bubbling up to the top for 2026. Is this icy blue color? I love so much. You just did this in your office. I did. Yeah. And it is so, and we've always kind of referred to this. I feel like for the last five, even pre 2020, we'd call Italian blue. And I don't feel like that ever left our brains. But I'm so glad it's getting attention right now. Because it is so fresh, especially when you color block with it. Especially funny thing. And I'll say, and we sell this bed called the kit bed. We make it in a Terra FOMO. You can picture this kind of being a Terra Cotta color. We also make it in this icy blue color. We call Capri Italian blue. All of a sudden last year, Capri kit beds took off like a rocket. And it's been one of those things that we cannot believe the amount of Capri. FOMO beds that we're making. Yep. Everyone's feeling it. Particularly, I mean, we're making a ton in King, which means these are probably going in primary bedrooms. Yeah. So this has been a color that we've been feeling under our skin for a year now. And all of a sudden, 2026, we're just seeing this as a massive movement. We're seeing it on runway, like we said. And I don't think it's going anywhere. I don't think so either. And I'm excited when you said it was in King. Because that's for sure in a primary bedroom or a guest bedroom. Primary bedrooms, I think historically have been, we're going to stay neutral. We're going to do something fun in the guest bedroom or in our kids' bedrooms. But go, you guys, that are buying the blue bed for you. Blue is a really good one. So warm up too, as you're getting into this color stories. drenching or color block or anything. Because I have never met a couple, a family, anybody that we've designed for over the last 20 years that doesn't like blue. Yeah. Everybody can get along on the blue train. Okay. So moving on from that icy Italian blue is Jade. Yes. Yes. I love. No surprise here. Suh-haw did your bathroom in Jade. I know. And actually, my court site is called the Jade Court Site. Okay. Do you know? No, I didn't know. Yeah. I know. Like me and Pinterest. The reaction that has to your walnut burl, the warm chocolatey brown is so fantastic. And if you look in your mirror, you can see your bedroom color happening in the mirror. And that's that beautiful sort of cinnamon shade. And those three working together is such a gorgeous. It's a tri-secta, y'all. Color box situation. Which is so good. Which is so fun because you, color drenching is really fun. And it's relatively easy because you're dealing within one color train, right? But then when you start to add other colors, it makes, if you get it right, it makes the other colors, it makes everything come alive. Yeah. Because fire was, a match was put in my bedroom and everything looks even better than it did. Yes. Just with the Jade. So good. So good. Okay. Other base colors that Pinterest is loving is one called Plum Noir. So this is that really deep, dark purple that has that black in it. So sophisticated. Sometimes we call this oxblood. Sometimes there's Merlot. Sometimes there's a little more red to the purple. There's a whole range of colors, but we'd call it maroon in the 90s. This is a little bit more purple and black than the typical maroon. But I think anything in that spectrum is sort of where they're hovering. And this has been something really hot and super fun to play with in color blocking. And gets along with so many other colors. Yes. I will say that this gets along with majority with greens with blues with yellows, golds. And it pairs really well. That sophisticated thread. That just makes it feel expensive. It's your handbag. It's your shoes. Instead of adding black, you're adding this to add depth to your outfit and to your spaces. So I love this. Next up is Wasabi Green. I'm here. Yes. Last year, what did we call this? It's called Chartreuse. It's kind of been a covering thing over the last several years that we've introduced into a couple of projects in small ways. I think even Brat Green was referred to for a second, but this is Wasabi. It is unapologetically green. Acid green. It's so good. That's so great. And so yeah, I think even in small little moments, we just were actually just doing a presentation for a client and we just did a welt in this on a blue stripe sofa. It's everything. It highlights that whole profile makes it look so high fashion. Love it. And where the fifth one? Persimmon. Yes. And Persimmon was kind of known as a color of last year when people looked back at 25, they were like, orange was the color. Persimmon is kind of that younger sister to red that definitely makes the space feel younger, fashionable, almost more athletic. And it feels really original because not everybody's going to dare do it. I'm going to give credit to Marty Supreme on this one. And Timothy Chalamet for marking the hell out of that movie because I feel like that also has had an influx on orange in fashion. And I think there's been a play, chicken and egg. I don't know who started it, but it's reactive. It's really good. So those are what Pinterest has been kind of queuing us up for one of the hottest trends in color or those five. And then we just kind of want to talk a little bit about color blocking. And again, a couple of the different combinations that we found successful in the work that we do and our eyes are completely drawn to and our clients love also. Yeah. Great. So anyway, you'll notice a lot of these colors, if you look at them on a color well, they do kind of neighbor on complimentary. So when you do, we are going to show you some like red and blue in their base color, different variations of that, but they do. Again, they play with each other on opposite ends of the color wheel, which is why they look so great together. They compliment each other because they're complimentary colors. Another one that we're going to show you is a little bit more of an analogous where we have blues and greens and golds. I will say golds look good with everything across the board. Gold is just again the highlighter in any of these color blocking stories. So we have that and then. And I feel if you add gold to maybe a fast fashion outfit to find jewelry or something, it's going to gold's going to rich in the story and make everything around it look more expensive in a fast fashion environment. And I feel your beautiful lamps and some of your accessories are going to make your scene look richer. Yeah. I will say that when we're pulling together furniture vignettes or anything for clients, while the rug will have the sofa will have all the big players. It's not hitting yet. It's not clicking. Someone print off some lamps or something. What's the next layer? Print off that. And then we'll see. And then all of a sudden all those decisions were successful. But they needed the jewelry. They needed the gold. Yeah. So in a tree. In a tree. That too. Anyway, these are we're going to talk about reds and blues. I think we also do even dip into that kind of that oxblood or low color that they're calling that that noir. What is it called? Plum noir. Plum noir. Thank you. Okay. Anyway, so let's get into it. We're inspired by fashion and then how that incorporates into our spaces. Okay. Blue and red. I think this is when I was going through images of projects that we have shot professionally and projects that are hiding in our iPhones. This one, I think took the cake as far as quantity. And so we're seeing this. We're seeing it not only in Prada on 2026. They had a lot of the blue and red introduced and just across the runway. I think blue and red as a third color for the color blocking, adding in yellow. These are your primary colors, you guys. This combination, obviously doing it in offshoots of the main shades. You can see in this first outfit, she's using this icy powder blue glove, not your American flag blue with her plumb noir, her khaki, and then her navy. Really beautiful. And then in this middle slide, you can see that mustard turtle neck in the mix with the oxblood and the icy blue. And so using those, your primary colors in different offshoots is always successful. It's really good. If you want to just use the two, the blue and the red are so, so good. And then you see it over here too, just again, the different shades of blues in combination with the suit, the pants, the black bag. And then you throw in this red scarf and it's everything. Yeah. So and again, here on this last slide, you have that kind of camo-y color again, that kind of brings in the gold, the yellow, right? This complementary with, you know, the actual red and the navies and those deep colors. So anyway, just the mix. I think that's the fun thing about fashion is the mix. The more creative you're here, it translates the same to a room. It's the mix that's so successful. Yeah. If you're stumbling to know what colors to combine, this is why we're showing you fashion right now because this is an easy thing for you to pull to get inspired on as you're trying to think about, you know, your bigger, broader room, which can feel intimidating at times as you're thinking about how do I incorporate color. Fashion sometimes can be an easy cue to tell your brain what you're liking. And then you can use that as a gateway into solving for your room. Here are some just additional examples of different tones of blue from Dark Navy to Periwinkle, Italian blues, and same with the reds from Orange Ear, Persimmon Reds to the Oxbloods to that Plum Noir all across the board, how well they work. And it is, I love how you said that. We all get dressed in the morning. We can all look into our closet and see what are common denominators, what are the things that we're continually drawn to. Those are huge takeaways, not only for you, but your partner, your kids to look at what they feel pretty in and what stays in your closet long term and what you're excited about. Those are things you should be looking at and taking cues for your spaces as you're getting ready to switch things up. So we're in our blue red, our blue reds realm, right? And so here are a couple of images where we have employed again this color scheme. Just you want to take us through? Yes, definitely. So in our portfolio on our Grand Tour Estate project in the dining room, we have an icy blue rug with a really beautiful botanical print woven into it. And we've got red chairs with white frames. And I think this combination of the icy blue paired with the red is just so striking. You don't expect this combination. And so it just feels, it just feels so fresh. I think you'd expect to see a brown leather in the mix, maybe a wood frame. So it gets along with the table. But by doing these unexpected things and sort of isolating that red with a white frame, made this feel really fashionable, interesting, energetic. And then another favorite example of mine, this is in our Lovers Lane project in his office. The room is this really beautiful icy blue. And then we did this red, orange sort of club sofa in here. And the reaction between the blue and the red feels so young and energetic and just never boring. And then for the primary trifecta, he's got a Burlwood side table. And it's giving that shade of yellow we talked about. And doesn't it just feel so fresh? Yes. I want to say that this little, that rose tarla lamp right there, that's a dark green. So again, it looks navy here. Yeah. You do see these kind of neighboring shades of, I get in depths of blue, depths of, you know, green. And then, but it all works together. And this is color blocking. Yeah. At a primary level, just going back to the very basics, I love that we started with red and blue and red, yellow and blue. You can just see how fresh this feels today. Our next examples, this one is from our Desert Oaks project in Odessa, Texas. And we have a bright red door, Wayne Scotie. And this is in their pool baths, powder bath two off of a clubroom. And we started with this Gucci wallpaper that kind of had all these colors. And it had the golds. It had the reds. It had the blues. But last minute we went red on the door and read on all the Wayne Scotie because we can. And we should, it should be a little bit more energetic. And then when it came time to pick out what do we do for the ceiling? Blue. That makes complete sense. We could have done it red, but the color blocking anytime you can do that, I think on a ceiling is a really fun way to color block. I think in all of our Pinterest boards, we've all had the co-ceiling with the high glass gold lacquer on the ceiling or the icy blue. We keep seeing being drawn to the ceiling. And oftentimes you can pull something that's kind of out of left field and have it be a big hero. If you throw it up onto your ceiling or the color blocking. I love that. And this next picture, this is in our Capitol Heights. And we did that very swanky red library. It's the red library. I love that this is iconically our red library. Yeah. Is in our Capitol Heights. And this is, I think a part of the room that not many people see is the majority of it's red. But she had bought this fashion scarf, this Hermes scarf. And anyway, when she's, do you think this one could work? These amazing tones from Navy to periwinkle to some of those brighter reds that completely makes the space feel so young. We framed the scarf, put it on that wall. And it's just the most fun surprise when you wrap that corner to see that on the wall. It's incredible. Yeah. A really easy way to color block too. Yeah. And that's just, again, we didn't add blue necessarily to the ceiling or to the upholstery. We did it with our art. You know what I love about this color combination of primary colors or even red and blue? I feel men love it. I mean, do you love this? Oh yeah. Men love it and women love it. And sometimes in interior design or working on a home for a couple, they both need to love it. And this is one of those palettes that anybody can get along with. I mean, as long as they like red or blue, but it doesn't lean too feminine or too masculine. And even though this blue is periwinkle or a lighter blue, men love it. They love it just as much. Yeah. It's that North Carolina blue. Yeah. What's that sports team? UNC. UNC, yeah. Michael Jordan. That's where Michael Jordan started. Yeah. So I feel like men have this affinity toward it. And it's just, it's a color palette that never, you never lose with it. And everyone looks good in it. Everyone looks great in it. Everyone looks great in it. And women agree on it. Yeah. I'm so glad I brought that into the picture. Sometimes we do, we did the red library and that went like true red, really, really dark crimson. A lot of time, just like a lipstick, we add like a little bit of orange just to not make it look so serious. I'll make it look a little bit more playful. And so that's why probably more of our examples have that. Here's just a couple more in our Highland Manor project that's just here around the corner in Utah. We did the theater and we did it in these tones of blue. She just wanted it to everybody to feel comfortable. Her husband, her kids, their friends. And so we did this two tone blue finish work treatment on all the walls. But then when it came time to add art, this would be really fun to add some pungent contrast with different colors. And so this is one of my favorite shots of these Japanese vintage stamps that have been blown up into these large scale pieces of art. And frame really neat. So you have the gold, you have the red, you have the two tone blue. And I love it. And this is color blocking. Yeah, it's a great outfit. But it's just so in your ear. You can't help but stare at this piece. It just grabs you every time. And there's other pieces of art, but for some reason those colors sitting next to each other just pull me in every single time. Totally agree. It's fantastic. Okay. And then this next slide is one I'm really excited about. This is our Boston Brownstone on this next slide. And this is in his office. And he wanted it to be really dramatic. A little bit Annabelle's London. And so we have a lot of fun. You know, we have this high gloss blue crock happening on the ceiling. We have this blue that's saturated on all the paneling on all the walls. We have hidden doors. We have hidden cubbies for, you know, for liquor, but also for watches and all the things. It'd be so much fun when you open these doors. If they were plastered in this, not a true red, but something a little bit more, you know, not on the nose. And so we did go with more of this kind of orangey, funget color. And so every time you open up, I need these doors. This is the color that you're hit with. You guys, those of you that are tuning in and you're able to see this slide, this is not on the portfolio yet. So this is a project in progress. We should be installing this in another month or so. So it's just fun to get a peek on a cell phone image of something that's in the works. And if you're not able to see, this is a wall that's completely paneled in finish work. And within some of the panels, you can pop open the doors and there's hidden shelves in there so that he can treat this like a bar. And inside of the wall, the blue paneled wall is this beautiful reddish persimmon color. And it is so handsome and exciting and fashionable and British. It's so fun. So I just had to say how fun to see a sneak peek of a project before it's even finished. But this is one where the project we just showed you before the theater, we probably completed that closer to 2020. And this one on the right is, you know, 2026. So it'll be completed and this color combination does not quit. It always feels cool and fresh and everlasting. I know. So when you're asking for a Termus Interiors and you're afraid of color, you're not. The color combinations that have stood the test of time, red and blue, red and orange, with that blue is so, so dynamic. So I love that. Love it. Love it. Five years between and still so current. Okay. Here's another picture of just again, all these other color combinations. This is that theater for our Highland Manor project. And she grabs me and this one grabs me again, where you see the strong color blocks happening. And then we also did this color combination of the red, the blue, the pinks happening on the ceiling treatment on a wallpaper. So again, successful color blocking in combination. Here are a couple other behind the scenes things that are just sitting on my iPhone. This next one is from our Manchester. We do have this on our portfolio, but this is just one that was like, what other projects have we done this employed this trick with the color blocking? And again, in this laundry room, I think is one of my adjusts, our very favorites that we've ever done. And we have this really great blue trick again, British inspired. So color was not the client was from England. And she wanted to really use all the British wallpapers and all the bold colors. And I think that's what's so fun about British in English design is they're not afraid to use these colors. And this was probably 2021 and two and three during this project. And it felt really fun to get to pull out the full, the big box of coloring crayons. Remember when you had the little one from kindergarten and then you graduated to the one at the 64. This was the 64 pallet and wallpaper. And so this was fun. This is a laundry room with a dog bath in it. And we've got a really beautiful, the wallpaper is a Sir William Morris. Zach and Fox. Oh, Zach and Fox on the walls, painted trim. That's another trick that you guys can always try is painting your window casings and grids. If you've got them, your cabinetry is another one. And then the ceiling plane is definitely one to pull in. And I think a lot of the portfolio pictures that you'll see on the website for Manchester don't show the ceiling really well. So that's why I know we did something really fun and it is. It's so, this is one of the client's favorite spaces in the whole house. So I love how that turned out. And again, speaking of projects that aren't completed, this is actually in construction here in Utah. And this was a bar for a client. Again, employing that beautiful, this is an elevator. So this isn't even real life shot. This is our drawing and a little bit of AI help. But again, this bar that has, again, it's all this really amazing blue. You have that Burl Island finish. So again, that kind of warrant those goals happening and contributing to the space. And then when you open up the doors, you see that red again. So I know we just showed you two current projects, but this is something I remember even going to market. And there were 10, 15 years ago, and there was a line when you'd open up the door and it would be bright red. And you were not expecting that. But it was the biggest party. Yeah. I will tell you what. Both when you first discovered the Louboutin shoe in the 2010s, and when somebody picked up their foot and there was red on the bottom of it, what a statement that was. You're so cool. Yeah. It just never quits, you know. It's so good. Yeah. Okay. So that's one that we'll have, you'll look forward to. I'm really excited about this bar space. Pink and green. I remember pink and green. My mom had a bathroom. I want to say in the early nineties, late eighties, that was pink and green. Polly, so cool. Yeah. Actually, do you know what? It was peach and green. But that was, I bet it's called harvest peach. There's something about that combination that feels, I mean, right now we've got runway pulled up. It just feels preppy. It feels fresh. It feels kind of eighties inspired. I dig it. I'm so into it. Yeah. I was going to school back in 2001 to 2005. I was peeking. We could always, Suzanne always use pink and green with every single project. By Suzanne, do you mean Suzanne Castler or do you mean Suzanne York Hall? I mean me. I'm speaking about myself and third person. That Suzanne always uses pink and green. I love it. You know what? She wasn't wrong. And I can tell you, she'll do it. Yeah. Yeah. It's so good. Let's show them some spaces and how we use pink and green. Okay. Speaking of Suzanne. Speaking of third person, Suzanne. Shut up, Suzanne. When it came time to do my bathroom, I did it in this amazing mint green. It looks like the melting chocolates. And I was just so in love. I found the tile, all these things. And then when it came time to do my bedroom, I remember like showing Jess, I think it might go like brown. I think it might go brown, but it kind of, it shows off pink. And then I did pink draperies and I did a pink ceiling in this Coraly door. And it is, oh, it's like a magnet. Like I cannot wait to get home at night. Yeah. And I cannot wait to wake up in the morning to be like, there you are again. You're so beautiful. So good. But the combination of experiencing both of these colors back to back is such a fantastic move. So it's that same opposite on the color wheel thing of red and green, but pink is obviously more secondary. It's secondary to it. They're both kind of just off of, yeah. So it's able to sort of play that color blocking trick. Yep. And the gold too. If I didn't have the gold in there, it would have been fine, but it takes it next level. It makes it feel so expensive and otherworldly. And then the wood tones between the gold and the wood tones, that's a really natural way to start even color blocking with things that are probably already in your home, you know, just by painting your walls and then adding some of your pieces that you've had in there, incorporating a few new ones. You can come up with something or cool outfit for your space really easily, which is fun. Okay. All right. Another pink and green that we love. This. Capital Heights. Yes. This is Capital Heights. This is their powder bath, the Gucci Harons. We probably did this in 2021. Finished. Yeah, I think so. This is the green Gucci Harons. And then we used pink as our trim color and our door color. And this is around the windows, the crown and the ceiling. And pink and green just feels so fresh. It's like fresh grass or like an herb. And then the pink is kind of more powdery. A little dusty. The combination just feels so fashionable. I love how this space turned out. I remember when we picked this out, it wasn't in literal, you may have been able to find it in some of the tones of the feathering or things that, but it wasn't one of the little, we could have done red. We could have done, you know, some of these dark, inky colors, but it wasn't the main color on the wallpaper. It was definitely this thread that we had to kind of pull out. I think Cori is on to something because with color blocking, I do think you wanted to feel a little bit unexpected and not so formulaic. And the more that the secondary color is, the more special it feels and original it feels. And back to the red, blue, yellow thing, the more tweaked the color, the shades that you're using are, the more original it's going to feel. Not using the American flag red, using the more orangey red, right? Even going to the color that you think you pick and then going down the ring or going up the ring and be like, oh, that makes me a little scared. Okay, I'll try it. I'll sample it out. And the fun thing about this is that you are in a classical white paneled entry and then you peek a boo into the hidden door. You don't even know the panel leads to awesome wonderland fancy little powder room. And then you open up to this and you're like, who are these people? This is the coolest thing. That's the experience that you get to have every day and that your friends and family get to have every day. So much fun. Powerful design. It is so powerful. It is. And I'm alive. I'm young. I'm happy. I would never change this. Yeah. Ever. I love it so much. A couple more examples of pink, greens. These are a couple other projects that haven't, they're not in our portfolio. These all just live secretly on our iPhones. But it's just again, it's wallpaper. It's incorporating colors from there just in really special ways. This first one is one in San Francisco, Hillsborough area. And again, it was for a little girl and this wallpaper was just like so beautiful. But then just to really pull out the pink was magic. Yeah. It almost feels corally. It is. Yeah. That tone of pink. Yeah. I fed up with some coral. Yes. Who said that? Rachel Zoe. And it was her, right? It was on the Rachel Zoe show. It might have been Brad Gretzky. Yes, it was. Yes. Oh my gosh. And they were trying to put together an alpha for somebody. He was like, let's eff it up with some coral. And I don't know if they use the coral necklace or what, but sometimes you do just need to eff it up with some coral. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Bring it out. Bring out your favorite assets out of that wallpaper. It's rad to see all these. I've never seen these. So if you're listening to this, definitely at some point, watch it on YouTube or Spotify. Maybe even one day we should just do an episode where it's like we're cracking open Susan's phone and going through all the cool photos. The X-Files. Yeah. Exactly. Oh man. Good luck. Okay. And then this next one, this is a home that we did down in St. George. And we also haven't photographed yet. I've told Jess this is a goal. 2026. You guys, COVID was a real blackout because there was so much work to be had and done. And we've been so busy since we haven't had time to go back and shoot these projects. Are we? What was this project? I know. We're just like, that was in St. George. They went into a black hole, but they're so beautiful. I'm glad that we have cell phone images to share today. Yeah. So this is just a laundry room again, hitting that fifth wall with a wallpaper, but then color drenching the cabinets, the walls with this green is so much fun. Amazing. That was so, so good. Okay. Now let's go to blue and green, which I think this color combination, I feel like everybody can sign up for. It is the colors outside your window. Like it is the color of grass, the color of the sky. Easy to sign up for. These live in harmony so beautifully. And I love that you added and a bit of yellow gold. I know. Yeah. So again, just that like a little bit of acid into the green, you know. Yeah. Spice it up a little bit. It also bring the green people and the blue people together. Right. Yeah. Because Mari's a blue or a green person. I'm a blue person. So yeah, this is where we meet in the middle. Yeah. All right. Yeah. Exactly. Penny Moomar was a green person. Yeah. Love you, Mari. Okay. Okay. So let's go. So when, oh, I know we've used chartreuse in some projects. And this is one of the first where we really introduced a little bit of that wasabi. And this was our Manchester. And again, we did a blue high glass lacquer finish on the cabinetry and just color drenched the space. This is in her closet for those of you that can't see it. You would be comfortable here though if he had to. 100%. To squish. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Yes. There's nothing too feminine about these shades. And I love that the blue leans a little bit more slate, if you will. It's got a real calming sort of aura about it. And then sharpen that thing up with some wasabi. And you're like, whoa, this is really beautiful. And we're high gloss, which is really fun because this project was, you know, started in 2020 or 2021. And we weren't quite glossing everything yet. And it's just, she's our British client. And it does just feel like such beautiful English design. You probably feel the same way because you did your living room in your office and hang gloss. I don't think I can go back. I know. I love living in just a big bucket of water. I feel it. It's so good. It's so good. Yeah. I feel it feels cleaner. Yeah. Is everything going? Yeah. Stuff was too dry for too long. You know what's interesting, you guys? This is a total tangent. But I know all of our friends here are going to be with us on this journey. But I don't think my mother-in-law listens to the podcast. So I'm just going to go ahead and say, she said to Adam, make sure and tell Jesse that, and don't tell her I told her, just don't tell her it was me that said it. We're just sharing it with you guys though. So to powder her face because it's too shiny on camera. So right now, if you're watching me, this is too shiny. I was like, Detroit doesn't know that right now it's the glazed donut. It's dewy. It's the glossy. Yeah. It's the dewy skin effect. It's the glossy lip glosses. Look younger. Yeah. You look fresher. The wall looks so good glossy. I totally have been powdering my nose more just so you know, Detroit, if you're tuning in, you can totally tell me this stuff. But I just want to say though, we're in a glossy era for skincare and makeup for clothing. We have more sheen. Our walls have more sheen. This is the space that we're in right now. Even music. Oh, interesting. They use wet and dry a lot. And so wet is adding reverb to it. And it's yeah. And then dry is obviously a really dry vocal with no effect on it. Things have been dry for a long time with the folky type of, you know, and now it's getting a little bit more sleek and little wet. And so yeah, it's kind of everything is on the arts is moving that way, which is fun to see. It's cool. That's amazing. I know it's a fresh coat of paint. Clear coat. Just glosses, shlaking it up. Love it. So on again, I don't know if we said all the words in this blue closet, we did these two little drips sconces with these sharp. We did our own little fabric and we sent it to the mill to make these great shades. They're again, that kind of acidic wasabi green. Is that what they call it? Yeah. Anyway, and it's everything. That contrast is everything in space. The designers, those custom shades are such a power move, especially now that high decorating is in. You're going to want to find your custom shade people. Go into it. It's hero on hero. And I think that's awesome because not only are you getting the payoff of, you know, the entire room being remarkable, but then you have these little points that you can remark on as well. You guys, two shades. I have four shades. Exactly. We all agree. Yeah. Lucky. For the same cost. I know. Value guys. Girl, math. Okay. Here's a couple other ones. This first one is from our desert oak. So this is out in Odessa. And they are again in this house, you're in the middle of the desert. Not a whole lot happening, but they wanted it to be such an experience. And in his office, again, he just wanted, he's making almost black. It's this really tall space. We had to throw in some shots of again, a little acid everywhere. And so we did these amazing chairs for just the small little game table behind the main sitting area. And we chose to do it in this really acidic green. And it's everything and the way that it speaks to this art, this got this piece on first dibs, these jaguars with all this grassy green and the color combination of the gold, the green with the contrast of that deep inky wall. And then those chairs reaching us, like when you see it live and you walk into it, like it is just like vibrating. It is so good. It's breathtaking. It's so good. Okay. And then so that's a little bit of just again, like seeing like that dark, deep, inky color with that green. And then in their son's room, again, everyone can sign up for blue and green. We did again, these blue dressers with, we did a green on the doors and on all the case work with this really amazing horsehair wallpaper on the walls that kind of screams, I know, right? We all have a crash on your wall, buddy. But it's just such a handsome, we did it. And I don't even think I put it in here, but in the boys room where we have the green bed on the blue walls, I get more comments on that specifically from moms looking to redo their kids room. They're just like, I love what you did in the boys room because that's something, it's so long lasting. So that's a compliment because especially for kids, they are, they like Paw Patrol, then they like Spider-Man, then they like this and then they like Peppa Pig, whatever. So to find something that is uniform, that still has that speaks some magic to them, I think is the goal. That is the goal. And so anyway, blue and green, y'all. Blue and green. Okay. Again, now we're going to hit a little bit of like blue, green, but like a little bit more with the green and yellow to Tan Francis closet. Yeah. So good. I've heard us talk about this space, I'm sure, but we took an attic and we transitioned this into a closet for him. This is in his last home and we use this really great colon suns stripe and it's a very aided stripe and it just moves over all the pitches in this space so beautifully. It makes it feel tented. And then we did this really great ochery yellow area rug at one end of the attic where there's a window and created kind of a set of drawers and ballet for him for all of his accessories and socks and, you know, all of the things that you'd want to tuck into drawers for him, a green, um, triangular shaped Ottoman and just so handsome, so him, so British. And yeah, I think his favorite color was green, which was a starting point. And I just love how this space turned out. One of the reasons why I thought that this was like an important one to put in here is that we talk about color blocking a lot when you're like looking at solid colors. So like green, solid green to solid red to the orange sofa to the blue walls, but it's fun also. Like if you're a pattern person, you can kind of do color blocking with pattern. So you have a green stripe. You have this again, traditional rug that's hand knotted and gooey and gold and all those tones again reacting to that green and they start to sing as solids, you know, these two families like having a good party. So and pattern on pattern is a real play right now. And so the more you do it, the better you'll get at it. And this is the direction that the market is definitely in right now, which is so fun. This is again, the back behind the scenes from our Manchester project in the office. We did green walls, but with the actual wood, I just want to show that the wood does shine like a golden tone, like a yellow. That warmth still does that blocking that the literal color would do. So if you're not wanting to go full yellow, add wood, add the girl, add the gold to a color and you'll get that same effect, which is really fun. Or instead of the wood, add brass, add it in a material. Yeah, so good. This next one I love. So cute. This is in our capital heights project. This is in a little boys bedroom. And this is just a beautiful combination of light blue in the wallpaper. We've got a beautiful green mohair chair with yellow welts. And then we paired it with a little yellow ottoman with horse hoofs on it. This is just so handsome. It feels young. It kind of feels primary, but still fresh. And I could see him being a teenager and still loving this and identifying with it. Yeah, great color combo. And behind the scenes, this is this living room in that same St. George. Again, the COVID project, right? We had this like incredible green like pastoral, like you feel like you're in a orchard almost on the wallpaper, but this yellow chair sitting on top of that green with that deep almost that plumb noir sofa is just so it's so good, that combination. So again, other good color blocking inspo for you. I feel like you get the green and pink in that chair. I kind of holding the pink out of that leather. I have a yellow mohair chair from the same company as this one. It's from Oli Studio. And I swear to you, you play yellow mohair chair in any scene and it will instantly come alive. There's something about the shade of yellow. We have a pair of not a pair. We have a set of yellow dining chairs that are going to be coming out in yellow mohair. These are scene makers. They are absolutely going to change your space and you'll feel like you're color blocking. I have one yellow mohair chair in my peacock living room and it's doing all the work just reacting to the peacock color. One chair. It's everything. I'm telling you, if you need to change something about your scene, you might want to consider yellow. Yep. Yeah. It really does. It totally lights it on fire. So the next couple of slides, again, these are from our lovers lane project and she client loves green. And so with adding the golds and everything with her lighting, and we naturally start to get some of this color blocking happening in their kitchen, your green cabinetry. But as I was searching, I'm like, that really does something. Or you do have that gold happening up on all these light fixtures hitting with the green. And it's just, again, I think they're just natural, easy choices, but they're so dynamic. So I love that in their kitchen. And then the powder room is just one of our favorites. This is a little angle that not many people see of this powder room where we do have this, again, I call it the seek help wallpaper that has these gold fractures and like Japanese pottery. They're all hand painted gold leaf. We have gold lighting. But what we did on their little Roman was this like chartreuse silk linen happening on it. And it is so gosh, why didn't we get a better angle when we shot this project? But I just had to call some attention to that combination when you feel that trim color with that fabric, it's everything. It's just this little peekaboo. You don't see it when you first look in there, but you turn the corner and just snap. These cats are so good at what they do. Not me, the client. They're so good at what they do in the ironess. Our last one for you is our plumb noir. That's that oxblood Merlot color that's so beautiful. We love combining purple or oxblood with red and we love it also with itself lavender, a lighter shade, and then again, yellow, it's going to really bring this pop off. It's going to pop off and it's purple and yellow opposite on the color wheel. So they're going to give you that, that sort of chemical reaction to one another. So this first space we're going to show you is a dining room from House of Harrington. You can see how great these Merlot walls look with brass popping off on the hardware on the sideboard, on the lamp with the candlesticks. It's just all so rich. And in the foreground, you can see this really beautiful, I think, Schumacher cut velvet on the dining chair that has snakes in it. It all just feels so exotic and expensive and lovely. Obviously Calcutta Viola being a real hero of the Merlot family. And so getting able to use that more in projects throughout the years has been super fun, reactionary, super exotic. Fun too because this was a lighter purple on this. So this was kind of that purple and purple. In different tones that was reacting really beautifully. Okay, this is again, this is another one of the projects that we're working on. This is our Boston Brownstone. And this is the bathroom that we're all freaking out over. That tub. That tub. It's a custom color that they matched it to. And again, we wanted to kind of pull off that like deep plum rich color happening in the viola tiles. And we did it and it feels any feel classical about it. But then it's also just like this. Don't know a little jab to the gut. What just happened to me. It's so good. So handsome. So, so, so good. It's like an electric shock. I know. Wakes you up. Exactly. Also in that project is her project room, which is lacquered in this against kind of this plum raspberry color. And it is kind of attached. I'm really excited to show you what we're putting on top of it. It's a little bit more stained in that purple on purple with lavender's happening. That's where she kind of want to stay in her project room because there's going to be all sorts of other things happening. But again, I couldn't not show you that high gloss. Sheen. We went there. I can smell it still. It's amazing. So, so, so good. And then our very last slide is actually from one of our designers. Yeah. Our Maddie Stewart, one of our senior designers here, she painted her powder bath in this beautiful Merlot color and we used our new Lodz scones in red on top of the oxblood. And I just have to say this combination of oxblood, Merlot, Plum Noir, whatever you want to call it with red is so shocking and unexpected and looks so good. Great. And then we put art in here with the yellow, sort of sharpening that up a really beautiful orange red stacked with it. And I just think this feels so young and intentional and just on the nose designer, smallest little pocket of a space, but really powerful with color. So anyway, those are a few of our color combinations that we're using right now and color blocking in interior design. And I would say to you, pick a color, pick your North Star. You all probably have a favorite and then figure out what's opposite from it on the color wheel and then start to mess with shades of that and experiment with color blocking in your house. I think you're going to see things come alive for you. There's so many great examples on here and it's energizing. I just love this work. Thanks so much for listening today, you guys. Our home furnishing design program is a complimentary design program. We've got real designers on standby that are going to be able to take your project in and work with it in AutoCAD to get you the right size rug, furniture, whatever you're working with in your project. They speak shorthand, all things Alice Lane, and it's such a fun way to work on your project. I've asked them who's the best candidate for this and they say when somebody's ready, when they're ready to do new furniture, they're in the market, that's the best time to come. So this is a really special little zone of time that we're in right now. 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