Best Pillow Colors to Pair With a Gray Sofa
My sister walked into my condo in December, looked at the gray sofa with its brand new blush pink pillows on it, picked one up, turned it over like she…
Which Vanity Color Goes With Beige Tile?
I get called out to look at a lot of bathrooms before anyone’s decided what they’re actually doing with them, and if I had to put a number on it,…
Wall Colors That Go With Light Wood Floors
My friend Dana stood in my hallway, still in her coat, staring at the wall I’d just painted a color called “Simply White” and said, “This looks exactly the same…
Choosing an Outdoor Bulb Color Without Making the Yard Look Harsh
My sister texted me a photo of her own house at 9pm on a Tuesday with the caption “why does my front yard look like a crime scene.” No context.…
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 LED Color: Warm, Cool or Somewhere in Between
I used to tell people that LED lights and bathrooms don’t belong in the same sentence, not if you want the room to feel like anything other than a dentist’s…
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…
Which Color Bulb Belongs in a Bathroom?
Okay so I need to talk about the time I bought sixteen amber light bulbs off a lighting trend I saw exactly one TikTok about, and put every single one…
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,…