No color is a “bad” color, says Crystal Reeves, an interior designer and owner of CLR Design Services, Inc. But finesse is needed to use colors in a harmonious way that meshes with all of your home décor. Reeves loves experimenting with colors, and especially bold ones. Choosing the right color for an area can make it pop. Still, “there’s a lot of troubleshooting that comes with selecting colors,” she says. Online color tools are helpful, though there are nuances that can’t be deciphered online. That’s why in-person color selection with a professional is always best.
“Personally, I can’t get enough of bold colors,” Reeves says, “but there’s definitely an art to balancing them. A bold color can be your showstopper, but it needs to tie in other places to balance out properly.”
Reeves advises never to pick colors on a rainy day – they’ll skew blue or green and won’t look right in daylight. If you’re interested in bold colors, but don’t want to commit to paint or wallpaper, great options include a bold-colored kitchen island mixed with interesting accessories, bold powder mirrors, accent pillows or bold “found” accessories like a bowl of colored glass bobbles found while traveling overseas.
“If you like to change things up quite often, these can easily be changed out season to season without a huge commitment to your calendar or pocketbook,” she says.
For fall color trends, Reeves has her eye on clearer colors. Think honeycomb yellow instead of bumblebee. Also true cyan instead of its muddy cousin teal. For hardware and plumbing, gold is still king.
She also loves large-scale geometric wallpaper paired with light-colored, simple furnishings for bedrooms. Add pillows with a sculptural pattern and small geometrics, bling like metallic cording and metallic lamps. But always seek professional help because, “bold color is not for the faint of heart.”
For more information on Reeves and her company, visit clrdesignservices.com or Instagram @CLRdesignservices.