Top 4 Color Blocking Combos That Always Work

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1:58We'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 at Alice Lane we sell this bed called the kit bed we make it in a terra fomo you can picture this kind of being a terracotta color we also make it in this icy blue color we call capri capri italian blue yeah 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 Keene 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 to warm up to as you're getting into this color stories drenching or you know color blocking or anything because I have never I've 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 Sue Hall did your bathroom in jade I know and actually my court site it's 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 it's that beautiful sort of cinnamon shade and those three working together is such a gorgeous it's a trifecta 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 it was fire was lit a match was put in my bedroom and everything looks even better than it did yes 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.

5:12There's a whole range of colors, but we'd call it maroon in the nineties. 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's kind of bringing in 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 called chartreuse has 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 we're 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 a lot of it and we're 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 so those are what Pinterest has been kind of queuing us up for what are 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 and you'll notice a lot of these colors if you look at them on a color wheel they do kind of neighbor on complimentary.

7:31So when you do, we're 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 complement each other because they're complementary 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 gonna gold's gonna 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 we'll have the rug we'll have the sofa but we'll have all the big players.

8:26It'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. Yeah. But they needed the jewelry. They needed the gold. Yeah. So in a tree. In a tree. Yeah. That too. Anyway, we're going to talk about reds and blues. I think we also do even dip into that kind of oxblood Merlot color that they're calling 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.

9:00Okay, 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, but 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 plum noir, her khaki, and then her navy.

9:42Really beautiful. And in this middle slide, you can see that mustard turtleneck 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 on this red scarf and it's everything. Yeah. So, and again, here on this last slide, you have that kind of camel-y color again that kind of brings in the gold, the yellow, right?

10:16It's complimentary 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.

10:50And then you can use that as a gateway into solving for your room. Here's some just additional examples of different tones of blue, from dark navy to periwinkle, Italian blues, and same with the reds, from orange or 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 our 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.

11:26Those are things that 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-red realm, right? And so here are a couple of images where we have employed, again, this color scheme. Jess, do 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.

12:02And 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 Lover's 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.

12:46And doesn't it just feel so fresh? It does. I want to say that this little, that rose tarlo lamp right there, that's a dark green. Oh, it looks navy here. Yeah. You do see these kind of neighboring shades of, again, depths of blue, depths of 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 example, this one is from our Desert Oaks project in Odessa, Texas. And we have a bright red door, wainscoting.

13:21And this is in their pool baths, powder bath too, off of a club room. And we started with this Gucci wallpaper that kind of had all these colors in it. It had the golds. It had the reds. It had the blues. but last minute we went red on the door and red on all the wainscoting because we can and we should we 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 gloss gold lacquer on the ceiling or the icy blue.

13:58We 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. In 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 because the majority of it's red but she had bought this fashion scarf this armist scarf and anyway when she's like 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 Again, we didn't add blue necessarily to the ceiling or to the upholstery.

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15:34I 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. You know, it's that North Carolina blue. What's that sports team? UNC. Yeah. Yeah. That's where Michael Jordan started. 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 and women agree on it yeah so I'm so glad 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're we add like a little bit of orange just to not make it look so serious but 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.

16:43She just wanted 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 framed really neat. So you have the gold, you have the red, you have the two-tone blue. And I love it. And this is colorful. Yeah, it's a great outfit, but it's just so in your, you can't help but stare at this piece.

17:15It just grabs me 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. And 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 liquor, but also for watches and all the things.

17:51It'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, pungent color. And so every time you open up any of 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.

18:25And 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 when it'll be completed. And this color combination does not quit.

18:59it always feels cool and fresh and everlasting I think when you're asking for terrible interiors and you're afraid of color you're not your color combinations that have stood the test of time red and blue red and orange with that blue so so dynamic so I love you brought that up 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 and combination here are a couple other behind the scenes things that are just sitting on my iphone uh-huh 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 and played this trick with the color blocking.

19:57And again, in this laundry room, I think is one of mine and Jess are very favorites that we've ever done. And we have this really great blue tree. 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 and 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 the one at the 64 this was the 64 palette 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 this a william morris zach and fox zach and fox on the walls painted trim um 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.

20:55And 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 elevation 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 finished so again that kind of warmth those goals happening and contributing to the space and then we open up the doors you see that red again so i know you we just showed you two current projects but this is something i remember even going to market and there was gosh 10 15 years ago and there was a line when you'd open up the drawer and it'd be bright red and you were not expecting that yeah but it was the biggest party yeah I will tell you what 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 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.

22:14I remember pink and green. My mom had a bathroom, I want to say in the early 90s, late 80s, that was pink and green. Pauly, so cool. Yeah. Actually, do you know what? It was peach and green. 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 80s inspired. I dig it. I'm so into it. Yeah. Even when I was going to school back in 2001 to 2005 even then i was speaking we could always suzanne always use pink and green every single project by suzanne do you mean suzanne cassler or do you mean suzanne i mean me i'm speaking about myself in third person that suzanne always uses pink and green i love it you know what she wasn't wrong until do it yeah yeah let's show them some spaces and how we use pink and green okay speaking of suzanne anyway speaking of good person Suzanne shut up Suzanne um 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 just I think it might go like brown I think I 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 corally 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 my 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 they're both kind of just off of 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 so glad 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 a cool outfit for your space really easily which is fun okay all right another pink and green that we love this.

24:29Yes, this is Capitol Heights. This is their powder bath, the Gucci Herons. We probably did this in 2021. Finished? Yeah, I think so. This is the green Gucci Herons. 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 And the pink is kind of more powdery pink. More dusty. Uh-huh. The combination just feels so fashionable. I love how this space turned out. I remember when we picked this out, it wasn't literal. You may have been able to find it in some of the tones of the feathering or things like that, but it wasn't one of the literal.

25:08We could have done red. We could have done, you know, some of these dark inkier colors. But it wasn't the main color on the wallpaper. It was definitely this thread that we had to kind of pull out. Which I think Cori is onto something. Because with color blocking, I do think you want it 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 using even going to the color that you think you'd 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.

25:50Yeah. I'll sample it out. And the fun thing about this is that you're in a classical white paneled entry and then you peekaboo into the hidden door. You don't even know the panel leads to Alice in Wonderland's 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 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 a wallpaper it's incorporating colors from there just in really special ways this first one is one in San Francisco Hillsboro 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 put 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 gretz 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 bring it out bring out your favorite assets out of that wallpaper.

27:11It'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. 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.

27:47Are we? What was this project? We're just like, that was in St. George. They went into a black hole, but they're so beautiful. And 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 oh so so good okay now let's go to blue and green which i think this color combination every 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 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 yeah exactly I think Mari was a green person yeah love you Mari okay okay so let's go so when 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 is our Manchester and again we did a blue high gloss lacquered finish on the cabinetry and just color dredge 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 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 it is 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 oh you probably feel the same way because you did your living room and your office and hang gloss yeah i don't think i can go back i know i love living in just a big bucket of water i freak it's so good it's so good yeah i feel it feels cleaner yeah everything stuff was too dry for too long yeah 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 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 Deitra doesn't know that right now it's the glazed donut.

30:21It'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, Deitra, 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. Like, 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.

30:56Things 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 a little wet. And so, yeah, it's kind of everything in the arts is moving that way, which is fun to see. It's cool. I know. It's a fresh coat of paint. A clear coat. Just glosses, schlocking it up. Love it. So, again, I don't know if we said all the words. in this blue closet we did these two little drip sconces with these chart we did our own little fabric and we sent to the mill to make these great shades that are again that kind of acidic wasabi green is that what they call it yeah anyway and it's everything that contrast is everything 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 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 two shades i have four shades exactly 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 oaks so this is out in odessa and they 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 i want to make it almost black it's this really tall space but we had to throw in some shots of again a little acid everywhere and so we did these amazing chairs for just a 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 we 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 out.

32:40Like, 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. Yeah. 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 green. We did, again, these blue dressers with, we did a green on the doors. And on all the casework with this really amazing horsehair wallpaper on the walls that kind of screams. I know, right? We all have a crush on your walls, buddy. But it's just such a handsome, and 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.

33:25They'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 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 gonna 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 you've us to talk about this space, I'm sure.

33:59But 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 Cole and Sons stripe. And it's a variated stripe. And it just moves over all the pitches in this space so beautifully and makes it feel tented. And then we did this really great ochre-y yellow area rug at one end of the attic where there's a window and created kind of a set of drawers and valet 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 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.

34:53But 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. 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, a back behind the scenes from our Manchester project in the office.

35:26We 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 pearl, add the gold to a color and you'll get that same effect, which is really fun. Or instead of the wood, add brass. Exactly. Right. Add it in a material. Yeah. So good. This next one I love. This is in our Capitol Heights project. This is in a little boy's bedroom. And this is just a beautiful combination of light blue in the wallpaper.

35:59We'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 again behind the scenes this is this living room in that samest george again the covet 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 plum 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 kind of pulling the pink out of that leather I have to say I have a yellow mohair chair from the same company as this one it's from Oli Studio and I swear to you you put a 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 and yellow mohair.

37:08These 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 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 where 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 sea kelp wallpaper that has these gold fractures in it 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 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 ironness our last one for you is our plum 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 gonna really bring this pop off it's gonna pop off and And it's purple and yellow sit opposite on the color wheel.

39:00So they're going to give you 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 sort of Merlot family. And so getting able to use that more in projects throughout the years has been super fun, reactionary, super exotic.