Kaleidoscope: Modern Homes in Every Colour

Journalist Wong encourages readers to embrace color in their homes in her dazzling debut. Photos of 18 houses accompany interviews with the designers who decorated them in which they expound on their approaches to using color. For example, Stine Goya, founder of a Copenhagen fashion label, combines lilac walls, light blue ceilings, and mint green furniture in her home, and she notes that hanging art on a colored wall “accentuates accents in the piece [and] makes it stand out.” Interior designer Regan Baker took a “go hard or go home” philosophy on using color in a San Francisco home, painting the spiral staircase bright yellow and hanging curtains that feature vibrant flowers of pink and green. Among the more practical recommendations are exhortations to limit the palette of a room to three or four colors and match the hues of throw pillows, vases, and accessories to wall art. Other suggestions are more freewheeling, such as when product designers Daniel To and Emma Aiston encourage readers to “have fun” and “don’t worry about what your family or friends might think.” The eye-popping photos are well complemented by the revealing interviews, offering up a variety of perspectives that are sure to spur creativity. This will inspire readers to get bold in their own decorating. (May)