| Interiors | Queen Anne Aerie | Dream Clinic | Phinney Ridge Condo | Pilates Studio | |
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Queen Anne Aerie I had the pleasure of working in a turn of the century house on the south slope of Queen Anne in Seattle that overlooks the Puget Sound. This job gave me an opportunity to work with yellow, one of the most difficult colors in the palette to get right. My clients wanted the top-floor gabled bedroom to be a soft yellow, and so they had chosen a soft yellow from the Benjamin Moore swatch, Hawthorne Yellow. But when Hawthorne yellow went up on the wall, it looked like we were spreading egg yolk! Going back to the Benjamin Moore color book we chose a color that on the swatch reads like a pale tan, Golden Straw. Once this started to cover a large area of wall, it was clearly the yellow we were looking for. Lesson: A little bit of yellow goes a long way! And for best results, "dull down" from your desired color on the paint swatches. The up-sweeping beams in the center of the room were originally intended to be natural wood, but the lightness of the space itself suggested that we carry the white trim color right up to the top of the 18-foot high ceiling. The crowning detail is a soft blur of pale blue in and around the boxed skylight also at the top. It literally looks like daylight flooding into the room. At night the blue becomes more apparent and provides a visual treat from bedside. The bath was painted in Prescott Green, also a Benjamin Moore color. |
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