Wall Colors for Rooms With Light Brown Carpet
I painted my own living room the wrong color first, which is embarrassing to admit given I make furniture for a living and you’d think that means I know how…
Are Light Gray Kitchen Cabinets Still a Good Call?
My sister walked into my kitchen in the spring of 2019, took her coat off slower than she needed to, and said, “So we’re doing this now, are we.” That…
Lampshade Colors That Go With Brass
Brass has a reputation for being fussy. Ask around and people will tell you it only works with white shades, maybe black if you’re feeling brave, and that anything else…
Bathroom Light Color: What Flatters and What Doesnt
I currently own fourteen bathroom bulbs. Not fourteen fixtures, fourteen individual bulbs, sitting in a kitchen drawer in various states of packaging, because at some point in the last two…
Bedroom Light Color: What Helps You Wind Down
I check the color temperature stamped on a lightbulb box more than I check anything else in a hardware aisle, and I’ve done that job long enough that I should…
Bedroom Bulb Colors, Lamp by Lamp
The lamp was gorgeous. I want that on record before I tell you what I did to it. A brass table lamp, 1930s if the seller was telling the truth,…
Warm Bedroom Lighting That Still Lets You See
I have changed the bulb in my nightstand lamp four times in the past two years, and not one of those changes happened because the old bulb burned out. Every…
Where Bathroom Lighting Color Goes Wrong
I was standing at the bathroom sink at 7:12 on a Tuesday, one eye done, one eye looking distinctly unwell, and I remember thinking, quite calmly, that I looked like…
What Should Bedroom Lighting Color Actually Do?
Casey walked into my room at eleven at night, stopped in the doorway, and went “why does your room look like a Cinnabon.” Which, fair. I had a salt lamp…
The Best Light Color for Showing Off Pictures
I was standing on a dining chair at nine on a Tuesday night with a framed photo of my grandmother’s kitchen table in one hand and a level in the…