Like many of us in the past decade, Leslie Corona, senior home editor at Real Simple magazine, has generally avoided using color in her home. White walls, after all, can look better on Instagram. “But then I bought a condo,” she says, “and I thought, ‘I don’t want to have a boring white box.’ ” So she painted her bedroom walls and ceiling in De Nimes, a blue by Farrow & Ball. She chose spruce-green chairs for the dining area, and she hung navy grass-cloth wallpaper in the office.
Corona is right on trend, according to Libby Rawes, owner of Sharp and Grey Interiors in Philadelphia, who is seeing less white and gray and more olive, rust, ocher, mustard, beige and other “nice, warm colors” in furniture and accessories.
If you’re also ready to add more color, warmth and life to your home, here are some tips on how to do it.
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