A front door painted in Benjamin Moore’s Gypsy Pink pops against the Satin Black exterior of photographer Thayer Gowdy’s San Francisco home.
A girl’s room boasts orange and pink wallpaper in toile. “Mixing things up makes a space more authentic and beautiful,’ says designer Benjamin Dhong of the five-bedroom home he designed for a San Francisco family. The old brings gravitas to the new, and the new brings a certain freshness to the old.” It’s a pairing that brings out the beauty in both.
Brightly hued drapes made from a Robert Allen fabric, frame a corner of a guest bedroom in designer Campion Platt’s Hamptons Bungalow.
In the foyer of this Connecticut Colonial, designed by Allison Hennessy, walls were treated with a graphic, large scale fretwork paper-backed linen. The entryway serves as a passthrough to several other rooms, and green lamps and a velvet pink covered bench give a taste of what’s to come in the spaces beyond.
A smattering of vibrant paint colors ties each room of Cricket Burns’s Carnegie Hill apartment together. The ceiling in daugher India’s room pops with Benjamin Moore’s Hot Lips, almost a fuchsia, which is reigned in with Calypso Orange on the crown molding
Bath linens in a soft shade of pink compliment the marble vanity in the master bathroom of architect David Howell’s Gramercy Park apartment.
A girls’ room bookcase in the Fairfield County farmhouse designed by Gilles Clement is painted in Sherwin Williams’ Jaipur Pink. Drape and roman shade fabrics are Duralee.
The modern SoMa home of designer Eche Martinez, is not your typical “white box.” A club chair from Coup d’État is covered in magenta velvet. The acrylic side table is through Donghia. Art above the mantel is by Lisa Bartleson.
A pink toile bedspread brings a pop of color to fashion executive Jaqui Lividini Carnegie Hill apartment. The apartment’s furniture is a seamless integration of antiques and reproductions, all tastefully assembled for modern family life.
Butterflies adorn an adjacent hallway wall, painted in Benjamin Moore’s Pretty in Pink, of the living room West Chin designed for the 2nd Annual Holiday House Hamptons.
‘Brady Bunch–meets–Hollywood Regency is how designer Kathy Prounis describes her Bridgehampton Cape. In the living room, for example, a bright pink rug anchors a pair of vintage 1950s sofas, a black velvet porter’s chair, a black leather mirror, and a fluffy white pouf.
When in need of a dose of color, add an arrangement of hot pink peonies. Designer Sam Allen outfitted the living room of this Connecticut home with otherwise neutral furnishings in varying tones and textures.
A tiny powder room lacks not when it comes to style thanks to a pomegranate and grapevine wallpaper from Osborne &. Little. The downtown artist’s loft designed by Tilton Fenwick is filled with striking colors and bold statements.
Brunschwig & Fils’s Tavistock Stripe in the window plays foil to a pair of tufted slipper chairs covered in Sunbrella’s Canvas Coral in the young girl’s bedroom of an East Hampton home.
