SOMA Living March 2023

HOME DESIGN DON’T BE DOWN ON BROWN

the room look any bigger. Dark wall colors tend to recede making the room actually look larger.” “It doesn’t feel tight in here,” she agreed. “Well with the white ceiling, white trim and white doors that tends to break things up, so you don’t feel like you’re just in a dark box,” I explained. “It is a pretty color,” Kim admitted. “I love it!”, I responded. “It’s so luxurious. Like the best dark chocolate bar ever… it makes you want to take a bite out of the wall!”. “So is that today’s lesson?”, she asked with a sigh. “Yup!”, I beamed. “Don’t get down on brown!”

‘Chocolate’, asked my Real Estate partner Kim Kelly. “Mink,” I answered. “You’re painting the walls Chocolate”, she reiterated. “Mink,” I corrected. “Still, that’s really brown… and dark,’ she argued. ”We were standing in a small bedroom in ‘Ava’ (For those of you that know me, you know that I name all the whole house renovations that I do. The name helps me create a story and mood for the whole-house design. This “Ava” is named for Ava Gardner: sophisticated, elegant, with a gorgeous, glamourous aesthetic). “Aren’t you afraid that the dark walls will make the room look smaller?”, Kim asked. “No,” I responded. “You see it’s a misconception that dark walls shrink a room. Dark wall colors don’t necessarily make a room look any smaller, just like a light color won’t make

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