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International Klein Blue, the ultramarine hue favored by mid-century artist Yves Klein, begins as a notoriously fickle pigment that’s hard to work with. Without getting too into the nitty-gritty, it needs a binder to become paint, and with the wrong kind, it dulls—and quickly. But if you get it just right, it’s the kind of color that is naturally enveloping, striking, and grounding all at once. 

Its development was happening around the same time that I.M. Pei and Associates’ Society Hill Towers were being built in the Philadelphia neighborhood of the same name. The concrete trio, constructed in the early 1960s, was a central figure in the urban renewal taking place in Washington Square East at the time. But while the towers often get all the attention, even today, it’s the 37 brick-clad townhomes that anchor the buildings to the rest of the historic area. Each unit rises three stories with a centrally located staircase and is punctuated by arched doorways and clerestory windows, plus a private courtyard and small steel balconies. 

When an empty-nest couple approached Brooklyn-based design firm TBo about helping them renovate one, principals Bretaigne Walliser and Thom Dalmas jumped at the chance.

The owners, who were relocating from nearby Wilmington, Delaware, wanted a home that would feel bright and welcoming and intimate enough for when it was just the two of them, but could flex to accommodate their grown children and grandchildren. Structurally, the townhouse was sound, but the internal systems needed updating and the finishes and layout required a complete overhaul. Original Formica, small ceramic tile, and vinyl were everywhere, deteriorating and worse for wear. The kitchen was narrow, and the bathrooms smaller than what’s preferable these days. One choice Pei made that Walliser wanted to retain, though, was increased privacy as you head upstairs. “The primary idea that he had was that there was social space below on the first two floors, and then it would be increasingly more intimate on the upper floor,” she explains.

Working together with local Hivemind Construction, TBo recast the space in 2023 in a way that honored Pei’s initial vision while adding contemporary, earthy touches that drew on the homeowners’ time living in northern Europe and interest in art. 

First, they removed walls to create easier circulation around the staircase and integrated cabinets with flush doors, which the owners use for pantry goods, cookbooks, wineglasses, and more. After refinishing the original oak flooring (it was, says Walliser, “a crazy orange”), the team took cues from Pei’s choice of material to inform the custom white oak millwork by Loubier Design. Given the smaller scale of mid-century dwellings, this allowed the designer to maximize storage that kept things tidy and navigable, but not too hidden, in the galley kitchen. 

Across the way, Walliser reveals that they tried and tried to cast the concrete countertops and sink in that elusive Yves Klein Blue. “It can’t withstand any heat,” she says, acknowledging its limited alkali resistance. “So when you’re casting concrete, there’s a lot of heat generated from the chemical reaction. If it kills that blue, the pigment just dies and turns gray.” After giving it a few shots, they ended up with cobalt blue, a much stronger and more stable pigment. Then they proceeded to paint the curved base in Benjamin Moore’s Watertown to create one cohesive wow-factor piece. (Bonus: The end caps are cabinets that actually open.) The couple passes a good portion of their time seated nearby, where there are views of their garden through the patio doors.

“One of the challenges we faced was what to do with the stair railing,” the homeowner says. “We had to replace the railing to code, and [had] tried any number of designs when Thom came up with this beautiful, simple metal railing that fits perfectly.” It’s a subtle statement, employing metal and geometry like Pei did, that doesn’t abandon functionality—it’s easy for them to grab as they descend the stairs.

Up those stairs, the primary bedroom is complemented by custom oak wardrobes and vintage light fixtures, like a Murano pendant lamp and Swedish table lamps. The space merges with a small library, where an oak dk3 Royal System hangs opposite an original brick fireplace. Dutch maps, art books, and other vintage ephemera mingle with a Flos kelvin lamp and Mies van der Rohe MR rattan side chair. They are both connected to a primary bath, which is in the darker core of the home. 

Pei’s use of transom-style windows inspired Walliser to employ the technique to bring more light in. “That was a way of borrowing from his language that he had established in the houses and sort of manifesting it in a new way for the owners,” she says. For the bathroom floors, the designers took a page from Bauhaus artist Anni Albers; the cement tile placement is inspired by her work. “We studied her sketches and weavings, along with traditional and modern quilting, and created a series of ‘woven’ tile schemes,” Walliser explains. The idea is mirrored in the other two bathrooms, with patchwork tile in combinations of pink and green and variations on blue. 

From the Scandinavian furnishings and oak wood to Albers textiles, TBo’s thoughtful renovation kept true to the building’s modernist roots without staying stuck in the past. “It’s just very airy; the scale is wonderful,” Walliser says of the new interiors. And that stunning blue makes the homeowners happy every time they see it.

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In a world where interior trends change quicker than the weather in Iceland, some styles inevitably rise to the top of the pile each season. Speaking of, Houzz just released its Summer Trends report, which shines some light on one particular vibe people are feeling right now: moody living rooms. According to the data, searches for “moody living room” have more than doubled compared to 2023. And The New York Times agrees—the publication recently spoke to decorators about how deep and moody hues can often achieve a calming effect in a living space. 

So how do you nail a perfectly chic moody living room without veering too far into doom and gloom? We’ve pulled together four examples of spaces that get the balance right to get your brain grooving.

Don’t Be Afraid to Go Monochrome

Here’s an idea: If you look around and only see white walls, consider splashing them with a rich color. Use this London home as a guide—the inky blue game room is a very direct contrast to the light and bright rooms throughout the rest of the house. Couches in the same color family push the moodiness even further, and a set of rail shelves allows the homeowners to tell a story through art and tchotchkes. 

Play Around With Plaster

Sometimes one (big) decision will fill your moody quota. The warm texture of the plaster walls in this L.A. home brings an innate intimacy to the space, while the furniture and decor lean on the darker side of earthy. Together there’s a perfect balance of lived-in and meditative—did you see that tree nestled into the end of the long, raw-edge bench? On that note, the seating’s wavy finish balances the angles of the rest of the room.

Channel the Charm of an Italian Summer

Sometimes daydreams can manifest themselves at home. Take couple Caitlin Cavagnolo and Tyler Randall’s Jersey City apartment as inspiration—the entire living room revolves around a single (massive) tapestry. To keep the drama high, all the powder blue doors have a little trompe l’oeil magic trick going on: A darker hue lines the interior of the molding to make them seem deeper than they really are. The space is small, and the hard work of layering texture and pattern pays off in moodiness.

Pair Limewash With an Unexpected Pop of Color

Artists Cristina Martinez and Al-baseer Holly went all in on dusty pink for their Seattle home’s living room walls. The combination of limewash texture and unexpected hues (dusty eggplant and deep sage green) achieve a dramatic effect only intensified by the art collection on the walls. The color palette pops in other places around the home (like the split-color staircase), showing how you can carry calm and moody vibes from room to room.

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When my husband and I moved into our first house last year, I imagined sitcomlike weekends spent painting the rooms together, complete with boom box and cute overalls. Then I got pregnant unexpectedly. All bets were off. I could barely stand to eat a meal let alone hard labor (because if you’ve ever painted something, you know it’s work). I just wanted the task checked off so I could go back to bed-rotting in peace. In an act of desperation, I used Thumbtack to hire a crew of local painters and got in touch with cult-favorite Backdrop to figure out colors. (Full transparency: Backdrop gifted me some, but I also bought $500 worth on my own and would do it again.) The plan was to get the whole house done in one go and I’d never have to think about it again. Of course, things never go entirely as planned—see: surprise pregnancy. Here are four things I didn’t consider that you probably should, plus one decision I’m still benefiting from today.

You’ll Go Overboard on Samples No Matter What

You’d probably expect more from a design editor; however, I went into this without a clear direction. I wanted to browse a bunch of paint shades, see what called to me, then build a complementary palette from my favorites. One appeal of Backdrop is its curated 82 hues, which you can filter by color and sort light to dark on its site; I figured I’d be able to narrow down my choices pretty easily. Well, reader, I ended up ordering 20 swatches. But imagine if I was faced with the thousands of shades available at the hardware store! Luckily, Backdrop does stickers. Rather than a heavy box of sample pots, I received a slim envelope, plus there were no drips or brush cleaning to worry about. 

One Swatch Is Never Enough

My ultimate cast of colors: a taupe-y neutral in the living room and hallways, a soft blue in the dining room, vibrant green in the sunroom, and Backdrop’s purest white on the majority of the molding and ceilings. (Not shown in this story but equally lovely: moody teal in the powder room, a soothing sage green in our bedroom, a more saturated version on the wainscoting in our single full bath, and a cool gray in the guest room.)

After a full day of checking in at various times to see how the sample stickers looked in different light, I had a couple top contenders for each space. The hard part was choosing a winner from there—I craved the ability to see how the colors would look on every wall at once, or against the white trim and in the center of a windowless stretch. Turns out, all that was required was a pair of scissors. I simply cut each swatch into quarters and scattered them around the room. Highly recommend!

Check in With Your Painters

After I walked the painters through how I wanted each color applied—green everywhere (even the ceiling!) in the sunroom, turquoise on just the trim in the dining room, etc.—I was so confident that I left the house only to return when they were finished the following day (pregnancy and paint fumes aren’t a good mix). I texted back and forth with the painters a few times from my parents’ place, but I honestly never thought to ask for progress pics. If I had, I would’ve caught simple misunderstandings over things like matching the dining room door to the now-blue molding. They were easy fixes, but noticing those issues so late required the painters to come back a third day for a few hours.

There’s a Right and a Wrong Paint Finish for Bathrooms

Although a bathroom is indeed an interior space, standard interior paint isn’t going to cut it. I learned this the hard way, when the ceiling above our shower started peeling a few months in. Backdrop rightly recommends its semigloss finish for bathrooms, which better stands up to constant moisture and humidity…I just didn’t read the fine print. Blame it on pregnancy brain.

What I Got Right: Saving Leftover Paint

I followed the sage advice to keep any extra paint in case we needed to make touch-ups down the road. But I’ve found the leftovers more helpful for on-a-whim DIY projects, from zhuzhing up a thrift store picture frame to updating a Facebook Marketplace desk (just make sure you use a water-based sealer on top). I’m saving the couple bucks I’d have to spend on a sample pot, plus I only need to venture down to the basement versus driving to the hardware store. A full year after our big paint project, the same Backdrop colors are still in rotation. I just shake the cans to remix and they’re good as new. 

Drive-Thru Safari Paint, Backdrop (starting from $49)

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Morning Ritual Paint, Backdrop (starting from $49)

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News flash: Your desk doesn’t have to be boring. When we saw how Athena Calderone used console tables as workstations in her Brooklyn office, and that Shay Mitchell went with an oversize Gianfranco Frattini piece in her L.A. headquarters, we started to really question the standard black-legs–veneer-top combo. And it turns out, users on Pinterest are looking for something brighter, too.

According to Pinterest’s new summer trends report, dopamine decor is in. Specifically, searches for pastel desks are up +8995% compared to this same time last year. Seeing as everyone wants to put a little pep into their WFH routine, we scoured the Internet for five colorful desks that have so much personality you’ll feel like you’ve gained a new favorite coworker.  

The Lightweight Lavender One

Morgane Metal Base Writing Desk, Wayfair ($89 was $170)

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Coming in at a mere 30 pounds, this purple metal writing desk lets you fight the midday slump by picking up your workspace and moving it to a totally different room. 

The Butter Yellow Baughman-Inspired One

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This superpale shade is still having a moment (Shea McGee recently said it was her favorite color), and it really shines in lacquered form.  

The Kids One That Adults Can Use, Too

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We found this light blue looker in the kids’ section, but don’t let it fool you. The desk’s knee-clearance height is just 1 inch shy of the standard 28 inches, making it ideal for grown-ups looking to make the most of a small space. 

The One That’s Technically a Dining Table 

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Leave it to Meghan Markle to remind us that a dining table can absolutely be a desk (remember her rustic setup?). So we opened up our search to larger tables and unearthed this 72-inch-long piece that’s giving strong strawberry ice cream energy.

The Sage Standing One 

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Branch’s Duo desk now comes in a delightful shade of green that’s not exactly pastel, but it is certainly soothing. The piece still features all the things we’ve loved about it since its launch, including a discreet lever control that allows you to quickly go from sitting to standing and the ability to tack on a desk drawer or sleek cable organizer.

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Sometimes it’s what’s on the outside that counts. In “Front of House,” we dig into all the elements that give a home “stop the car!” kind of curb appeal, from main character mailboxes to much–welcome yard transformations.

If you can only make one change to the outside of your house, choose to paint the front door. Hands. Down. Not only is a strong pop of color effectively a message to the rest of the neighborhood that you’re bold and proud of it, but it’s one of the most affordable upgrades you can make to an exterior. Just buy a gallon of paint, a roll of high-quality painter’s tape, a few different size brushes—and you’re in business. Really want to take that first impression to the next level? Paint the interior side of the door, too. There’s a whole rainbow out there begging for a spot at your front steps. Check out our 16 favorite front door ideas, below. 

The Pinks

This L.A. home essentially only uses two colors inside: pink and green. So to prepare guests for the journey they’re about to embark on, designer Lizzie Green offered a clue with a fuchsia front door. Between the perky hue and the scale of the double door, you’d think you were stepping inside a mod Palm Springs house. 

Melissa Johnson of Best Friends for Frosting had one condition when she was designing this Sacramento Airbnb: It had to be Instagrammable. We’d say this pale pink front door—complete with a pineapple bell—checks that box. 

Love the old-world charm of your current door? No one said you had to cover up the entire thing. A Pair and a Spare blogger Geneva Vanderzeil opted for the best of both worlds with this arc design. 

You used to be able to spot sad glue marks in between the molding on Cara Irwin’s front door. Now all you see is the sweetest shade of pink—whether you’re standing outside or sitting on the sofa.

The Blues

When Melissa Johnson renovated the exterior of her family home, she chose a burst of turquoise to introduce a sense of playfulness to the serious quality of the stark mid-century modern roofline and charcoal siding. 

Don’t let a doorframe with a complicated design deter you from a paint job. For one that requires more attention to detail, like designer Andrea Van Soest’s glass-panel number, stick with a small, 2.5-inch brush. 

A soft gray-blue is the perfect partner for a white brick facade. This traditional Tudor home by Studio McGee stands out for the very fact that it stays true to its character. 

The Yellows

Yet another reason to paint the door of a mid-century ranch an unexpected hue. Between the zesty lemon color and the giant globe light, the outside of this restored home by Veneer Designs’s Natalie Myers is absolutely glowing. 

An extra-wide door deserves an extra-vibrant finish. Up close, Michelle Nadar’s canary yellow entrance evokes major jungle vibes thanks to the potted tree. 

The Greens

If you really want your front door to stand out, explore the side of the color wheel that contains shades most others would call “ugly.” This swampy green front door (the color is called Madras by New Zealand–based paint company Resene) is all the confirmation you need to know that it will actually turn out chic. 

When Kay Volmar and her husband bought a run-down home in Mount Dora, Florida, she wanted to send a message to her new neighbors ASAP by making over the front porch. “I needed something that said to other people, this is going to be nice,” she explains. Right away, she centered the new door and painted it a happy, tropical hue called Warm Springs by Benjamin Moore in a satin finish.

While there’s no shortage of color inspiration in Dabito’s vibrant New Orleans home, we’ve got our eye on the Kelly green door. Even better: It’s double the fun. The other side is painted a bright yellow.  

The Reds

When you picture a red front door, you probably imagine a shade of vermilion set against a white house. But the scene doesn’t have to be so high-contrast. At Mae House in the Hudson Valley, a merlot-colored door exudes just as much calm as the sage green siding. We like to think that a combo of Farrow & Ball’s Preference Red and Benjamin Moore’s Silver Sage could accomplish the same level of zen. 

The only thing more classic than a Dutch door is one that’s painted candy apple red. Los Angeles designers Jason and Laura O’Dell accentuated the fairy-tale feel of their Silver Lake Colonial with the dramatic hue. 

Just because you live in a high-rise doesn’t mean you can’t take part in this type of paint project. Lori Paranjape covered her Chicago client’s elevator entrance in a shade of red inspired by the Cubs’s colors, then added a shiny lacquered finish. 

The Whites

Painting a front door white doesn’t sound very interesting, but when the rest of the facade is jet black, the result is breathtaking. Rudy Judy founder Julia O’Rourke’s Maine cabin is a lesson in the power of high contrast.

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Nate Berkus has a question for all his Instagram followers out there: “Why does everyone think I don’t like color?” the interior designer asked in a recent Instagram Reel.

The misconception likely lies in the fact that in any one of his projects, you’re bound to find a creamy linen sofa, a light gray seagrass wallpaper, or a slab of Carrara marble. Berkus admits there are so many other designers out there who work wonders with bright colors, and he isn’t one of those people. But he’s ready to set the record straight. “I do like color,” Berkus confirms in the video, “and I’m going to give you a color right now that is one of my all-time favorites.” He has our undivided attention. 

When the designer reaches for a non-neutral color, he goes for something that he describes as “muddy, like a non-color, a little bit softer, a little bit deeper, maybe even a little bit moodier.” This isn’t the first time Berkus has explained his love of muddy colors, at least to us. When he and his husband, Jeremiah Brent, made over a family’s living room for The Jennifer Hudson Show, they landed on a Behr color called Tranquil Gray, which Berkus told us has undertones of putty and taupe in it. But that’s not the hue he’s obsessing over right now. “For me, regardless of what anyone else says, the color of the moment is Nitty Gritty by Portola,” Berkus reveals in his Reel. 

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He isn’t just using this dark green in client projects—it has appeared in his own homes, too. Specifically, he swathed the kitchen cabinets in his family’s Manhattan townhouse in the paint color. “There’s something about it for me that reads really elevated. I just think it’s beautiful,” he says. Want to up the moodiness of this color even more? Opt for the textured Roman Clay treatment instead.

Nitty Gritty (Ultra Flat), Portola ($70 per gallon)

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When Leah Ring selected Benjamin Moore’s Summer Blue for Katie Szymanski’s Los Angeles kitchen, she didn’t do it because she thought the hue was on trend. It was more so a psychological experiment. The interior designer behind Another Human fully believes that color has the power to affect us emotionally. This swatch felt like one that would make her client, a therapist and entrepreneur, feel happy and energized every day (and it did!). But she didn’t know then what we know now: The periwinkle shade is popping up in heaps of other kitchens, too.

Swift Direct Blinds, a U.K.-based window-treatment supplier, recently looked at Google search data and found that periwinkle kitchen cabinets are rising in popularity, with a year-on-year increase of almost 400 percent. Just don’t get that confused with the actual most popular cabinet colors: White, unsurprisingly, is the top choice for kitchens, followed by black and blue. We suspect periwinkle’s surge is an offshoot of the latter. Over the past year, we’ve started to see shades of baby blue and cornflower blue pop up in more and more kitchens, so it only makes sense that slight variations in the color—like one with stronger notes of violet—are starting to capture people’s curiosity. 

From the handful of periwinkle-hued kitchens we’ve seen, including the Stockholm apartment designed by Westblom Krasse Arkitektkontor (pictured above), the purplish blue color pairs perfectly with pale yellow (in both wall paint and backsplash tile form). Plus, as with most up-and-coming design trends we feel a little skeptical about at first, if we see the Swedes are doing it, then we know it’s worth trying. 

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Periwinkle, Behr

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Whatever you’re wearing right now will end up in your home four years from now—and we don’t just mean it’ll still be hanging in your closet. Fashion trends always find a way to inspire interior design trends, even if it happens to take a few years for us to realize it. Example A: In 2019, we reported on the #StickOfButter aesthetic, a term coined by writer Harling Ross. Devotees using the hashtag were dressing in warm neutrals with some pops of ultra-pale yellow thrown into the mix. We loved the idea of using the same creamy golden hues in, say, a living room, too. So we’re happy that the butter trend has officially shifted from the runway to the home, and we are delighted to learn that interior designer Shea McGee is here for it. 

“Butter yellow is such a good shade, landing somewhere between beige and yellow-yellow,” says McGee. “I love how sunny and relaxed it is without going full force into lemon territory.” She’s been leaning into the mood-boosting shade in both her McGee & Co. furniture collections (peep the Giulietta hand-knotted Rug and Mark Making print on canvas), as well as projects like the Studio McGee spec home (pictured above). “I love seeing butter yellow on soft textiles such as rugs, pillows, and lampshades, but I also think it’s neutral enough and classic enough to incorporate in longer-lasting parts of your home like wallpaper,” explains the designer. Unsurprisingly, chefs are digging the food-inspired hue, too. Just take a look at Molly Baz’s full-on butter yellow kitchen in Altadena, California. (We’ll save you the time: Her cabinets are painted Benjamin Moore’s Good Vibrations.)

Here are some small (and big!) ways to finally embrace butter yellow at home. 

Pair It With Earthy Colors

So what other colors go well with pale-pale yellow? Look to nature, suggests McGee. “If done right, butter yellow can act as a neutral and pair with almost anything in the muted family, but two of my favorites are a light greenish gray and a deeper earthy blue,” says the designer.

Lean Into Soft Goods, Beyond Pillows

Because it’s such a cozy color, butter yellow happens to look best on cozy things. That includes billowy curtains or, in the case of jewelry maker Sara Burns’s Queens, New York, apartment, fabric panels that hide pantry staples. Burns’s home is also a reminder that butter yellow is ideal for tiny spaces: It will bring add a bright and big look.

Single It Out

Butter yellow might be on the subtler side of the color wheel, but that doesn’t mean it can’t stand out in the right setting. Consider applying the color to a super-utilitarian object or singular piece of furniture, like Nick Poe did with this basic metal dining chair. 

Meet Friends at the Front Door

Take a page from this Kazakhstan apartment and paint your entire entryway butter yellow. If you think about it, it’s the perfect place for the shade: It greets your guests with a warm hug, even when you haven’t yet made it to the door yourself.

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When Brynn Whitfield was living in her cozy one-bedroom Manhattan apartment, getting dressed was sort of like going to one of her Barry’s Bootcamp classes. Anytime she wanted a pair of heels, she’d have to scale up a ladder leading to the lofted storage space over her bedroom door. If she wanted a sweater? She’d probably have to crawl underneath the bed and sift through a few bins (or potentially trek to her Manhattan Mini Storage unit). Those days are gone. Because, in case you missed it, The Real Housewives of New York star recently moved into a much larger space, one outfitted with a walk-in closet that can actually hold her stuff. 

But before she could fill up her new closet with her wardrobe, Whitfield had an important upgrade to make: paint. “My journey to get to the color was bumpy, to say the least,” she tells Domino. First, she had the built-ins painted in an orange lacquer finish. The idea was that the space would read as Hermès inspired, but in reality “it looked like a pumpkin patch,” she admits. She quickly pivoted to a Prada-esque mint green, but that turned out to be a hot mess, too. “At this point, I hired a painter off Craigslist and went huffing and puffing to Farrow & Ball on 22nd Street,” she recalls. 

Whitfield is no stranger to the British brand’s colors. She painted both the kitchen in her old apartment and the bedroom in her new place Sulking Room Pink. As she browsed the fan deck, she found herself drawn to a color she had seen her friend Jason Saft recently use: Brinjal, a reddish eggplant hue. “I thought I’d give it a shot, too, because his came out beautifully. Also at Starbucks, they usually misspell my name as ‘Brin,’ so I thought it was meant to be,” she says with a laugh. 

Brinjal, Farrow & Ball

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Once the color was decided, Whitfield was strategic about which finishes she used where. On the wood cabinets, ceiling, and trim, she opted for the company’s Full Gloss treatment. Meanwhile, she had the walls done in a Dead Flat (or matte) finish. “The most surprising and delightful thing about Brinjal is how the color looks so different between the two finishes,” she shares. “It still looks beautiful and matches but [there are] more reddish undertones in Full Gloss and more deep purple on the Dead Flat.”

More Recent Brinjal Sightings

Whitfield isn’t the only one who has become smitten with the moody hue. Lately, we’ve been spotting it in all types of projects. Marie Cloud, the Charlotte, North Carolina–based interior designer behind Indigo Pruitt, drenched a whole home movie theater in Brinjal for the 2023 Southeastern Designer Showhouse in Atlanta. The merlot-tinged color made sense in a space she envisioned people gathering with a glass of wine. Plus “when you use jewel tones, it adds a sense of ease to your body,” she says. 

The paint color is also DIY-friendly. Ryia Jose showed us as much when she renovated the bathroom in her Houston home and swathed the chair-rail molding in the color. At first, she was nervous the dark shade would make the tight, windowless space feel smaller, but in reality it added depth. 

It only seems like yesterday that Farrow & Ball’s Dead Salmon was everywhere: in laundry rooms, kitchens, playrooms. Oh, how the color wheel has turned.

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