Sitting area. On the opposite side of the bedroom, the sitting area emphasizes the home’s contemporary aesthetic, which consists of a limited color palette accented by greenery and modern art.Chairs: Younger Furniture; ottoman: leather ottoman-pouf, CB2; rug: Peas, Hay; lighting: oversized Equator pendant light, CB2
Another option, Ott says, is to select one or two colors and then use variations of it. If the main color is blue, you might select a gray-blue, a pure blue and a navy paint as you move from room to room. The same concept can be used for decorative accessories.For wall paint, you can ask the paint store to create a “tint” of a particular color, perhaps knocking down the main color by 50 percent, which the mixer will do by adding white. “They can create a lighter or darker version of it,” Ott says. “That’s a good way to unite without putting the same color everywhere.”“I also tell people if they’re going to do their wall in this color, go two or three shades lighter for your ceiling so it doesn’t look like a sore thumb because you painted it white,” says Keith Wardlaw of Plus Modern Design in Kansas City, Missouri. Paint decks can also be a good inspiration source for finding colors that work well together. The Right Way to Test Paint Colors
Photos by Jacob Harr of Harr CreativeHouse at a GlanceWho lives here: Designer Carly Visser and her husbandLocation: Grand Rapids, MichiganSize: About 4,000 square feet (about 372 square meters) During the 18-month renovation, Visser touched nearly every surface of the house, demolishing the kitchen and bathrooms, swapping out a sea of tile for wood floors, painting all the walls and furnishing the new spaces with plenty of vintage finds from Grand Rapids thrift shops.
On the other side of the game room is a wall of salvaged barn wood with matching doors that can slide to conceal the TV. The homeowners plan to make this house their forever home one day and therefore wanted it to include several green building features, including a solar panel array on the roof, geothermal heating and an EnergyStar certification. “This is a mountain-modern home that will eventually, as the couple gets closer to retirement, become much more than a getaway,” McPherson says.More home tours: Apartments | Small Homes | Colorful Homes | Contemporary Homes | Eclectic Homes | Farmhouses | Midcentury Homes | Modern Homes | Ranch Homes | Traditional Homes | Transitional Homes | All
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